anoraks from the sixties

I take your point breeze
We all know about 'anorak' train spotters

Apologies if you think it's a term only used as slang. It's actually a recognised 'insult'! if you like, as it's described now as not only a coat, but a 'studious or obsessive person with unfashionable interests'! One of life's little cruelties, that it hijacks (my word of the day) a perfectly good word to describe a coat and turns it into an insult.

I know. Just trying to make the point that although separate names back then (I had an anorak as a child, then a parka later and I still love a parka), now the name has been hijacked for a not so nice purpose, anoraks are usually called parkas. It's rare you'll find someone say 'I'm off to buy an anorak'. Hope that's clear.

breeze back in the late '60s parkas and anoraks were very different items and in my understanding still are.
Parkas were usually green had fur around the hood and for want of a better description a tail at the back.
An anorak was a short quilted jacket that came in various colours and had no fur on the hood. Not the same as a parka at all.

Oh, I did that to a child at school. I was mortified.I can still remember his name.

No one calls them anoraks anymore, since the word was hijacked and used to describe someone dull. Parka is more 'hip, cool and Glastonbury'! My ex husband once told me, as a child, his anorak was put on and he started to cry. His mother clumped him and said 'it's cold, keep it on'. Realised on the way to the shops, and he hadn't stopped snivelling, she'd zipped his neck up in it!

My anorak was purple with a purple and white design vertically around the zip, the hood had a bit of white fleece around it.I wore it with jeans on holidays and for walking, as DH liked Swiss holidays with loads of walking ( oh for those super fit days.)

Just as an aside, because this thread prompted the memory: I recall reading of a woman who was taking her two little girls shopping because Anna, the elder one, had to have a new anorak. The younger one promptly piped up "Can I have a new Lucyrak?"

I had a scooter, but I never had a parka - I had a long, bright green kagoul instead!

My favourite was my afghan , suede with faux fur around the whole thing, smelt awful if damp, and wasn't allowed to hang it with the rest of the families coats .

I remember Mod girls in great big puffy anoraks - have these been replaced by Puffa Jackets?

Do you mean a parka carer ? You can still get those anywhere. I was an art student, so duffle coat or pea jacket for me then.

Mrsmopp asked why in AIBU, sorry i didn't realise what that stood for!!!!!! lol

You can still by parka style coats. My son bought one last year.
Anoraks were completely different. Bum length and quilted. I remember my brother had a brown one in his teens.

My first anorak was green with a little red design woven into the fabric. I felt I was the height of fashion. I loved mine too, it was much warmer than the horrible navy gaberdine that I wore for school, and much more modern than the wool coat I had for Sundays and best.

Lots of my friends had parkas they were all green with fur trimmed hood, I and my best friend had brown suede 3/4 length coats hers had leather collar , I loved that coat so much but I never wore a parka,

Do you mean parkas? All the mods wore them on their scooters. Oh those were the days. Heading down to Brighton, especially on Bank Holidays. Riding on the back of a scooter was so exciting and being with all the other mods having a laugh. My mum would have had a fit if she knew where I was but I'd told her I was at a friend's house. Goodness I haven't thought about those days for ages but it really was an amazing time to live through.

What was yours like careof123? I adored mine - it was short, rounded collar and burnt orange - fab with jeans- and I had very tight stretch corduroy ski trousers (and a small perfect bum in those days)... A friend tried to buy it off me time and again- I finally gave it to her 20 years later (as she had kept her figure and i didn't)...

Why is this in the AIBU forum?

I had a duffle coat!

all the mods wore them (i was a rocker lol) you might be lucky enough to find one in a vintage clothes shop.