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Post by althea on Jun 29, 2019 13:50:56 GMT
Looking at the wartime fashions,reminded me of my mother telling me she unpicked an old jumper and knitted a sort of bib that went round her neck. When she wore a suit jacket it looked like she was wearing a jumper underneath it. Once ,when my father invited her to the pictures,she decided to dye her shabby shoes to smarten them up. In those days,shoe dye stank and took a long time to dry. Mother's shoes weren't dry in time ,but she wore them anyway. There was an awful chemical smell from them which spread through the cinema. When the film ended mother couldn't stand up because her shoes had stuck together. Father had to rip them apart which rather ruined the attempt to smarten them up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 14:00:08 GMT
Looking at the wartime fashions,reminded me of my mother telling me she unpicked an old jumper and knitted a sort of bib that went round her neck. When she wore a suit jacket it looked like she was wearing a jumper underneath it. Once ,when my father invited her to the pictures,she decided to dye her shabby shoes to smarten them up. In those days,shoe dye stank and took a long time to dry. Mother's shoes weren't dry in time ,but she wore them anyway. There was an awful chemical smell from them which spread through the cinema. When the film ended mother couldn't stand up because her shoes had stuck together. Father had to rip them apart which rather ruined the attempt to smarten them up. That made me smile. I remember my cousins running some sort of pencil along the middle back of their legs to make out they had stockings on As to ripping out jumpers etc, once the elbows had gone then it either became a pullover or a multi coloured new jumper made with assorted wool from other ripped out woollens Similarly any other worn out clothes would be ripped up and made into a rag rug Recycling, people today don't know the half of it
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Post by maywalk on Jun 29, 2019 15:16:18 GMT
Thanks folks for getting back to me.
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Post by maywalk on Jun 29, 2019 15:38:57 GMT
Yes during WW2 we had to re-wind and use the wool again from old knitted cardigans and waistcoats. Even when I got married in 1949 I was still doing that because clothes had not long come off coupons but there was still a shortage of many things and yarn was one of them.This photo below is one of my son aged 6months in 1950 and I knitted the cardigan he has on from an old pullover. As it was a maroon colour I put the bit of white in it to brighten it up.He will be 69yrs old in October. I have also made ragrugs from sugar sacks because way back then sugar was scooped out of the sacks into blue bags. The colorful rugs were meant to help make VERY stark dark rooms into homes because there was no wall to wall carpeting then or central heating. I cant see the youngsters of today doing that.
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Post by althea on Jun 30, 2019 11:32:46 GMT
I can remember helping my nan pegging some rugs.Old curtains,tablecloths,pillow cases, coats,in fact everything went into those rugs.Ah,happy days despite the lack of consumer goods.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 12:17:04 GMT
I can remember helping my nan pegging some rugs.Old curtains,tablecloths,pillow cases, coats,in fact everything went into those rugs.Ah,happy days despite the lack of consumer goods. We progressed from that. Once engaged my fiancée and I bought a kit (think it was called Redicut), a sort of gauze type backing and bundles of wool. With a special tool each we threaded bits of wool through the backing, and knotted them until the rug was complete. That rug, scarlet, gave many years service and was always a favourite for the dog to lie on How we lived in those days .
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Post by maywalk on Jun 30, 2019 13:19:15 GMT
We were more contented with life then than they are now. Everyone seems out now to outdo each other. So much for progress.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 14:37:21 GMT
We were more contented with life then than they are now. Everyone seems out now to outdo each other. So much for progress. I think we appreciated what we had because we worked hard to get it, and we had respect
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Post by maywalk on Jun 30, 2019 14:54:48 GMT
Yes I cant argue with that Jimmy.
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Post by aubrey on Jun 30, 2019 16:49:38 GMT
I can remember helping my nan pegging some rugs.Old curtains,tablecloths,pillow cases, coats,in fact everything went into those rugs.Ah,happy days despite the lack of consumer goods. We progressed from that. Once engaged my fiancée and I bought a kit (think it was called Redicut), a sort of gauze type backing and bundles of wool. With a special tool each we threaded bits of wool through the backing, and knotted them until the rug was complete. That rug, scarlet, gave many years service and was always a favourite for the dog to lie on How we lived in those days .
I knew a boy who got a rug making tool stuck to his eyelid. I don't know what he was doing with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 17:01:43 GMT
We progressed from that. Once engaged my fiancée and I bought a kit (think it was called Redicut), a sort of gauze type backing and bundles of wool. With a special tool each we threaded bits of wool through the backing, and knotted them until the rug was complete. That rug, scarlet, gave many years service and was always a favourite for the dog to lie on How we lived in those days .
I knew a boy who got a rug making tool stuck to his eyelid. I don't know what he was doing with it.
How on earth did he do that
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Post by aubrey on Jun 30, 2019 21:59:53 GMT
Well, you know - kids. He was probably 8 or 9.
It was one of those though - I was wondering if I'd got the wrong thing.
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