Bed jackets, and other bygone clothes!

[Gemini]

I don't know why but bed jackets came into my mind yesterday! I'm sure it was on the recommended hospital list when I had DD1.
I remember them being a thing ladies wore in bed in hospital and at home.
As I child I wore a liberty bodice in winter (I think we have talked about these before!)
My mum wore a girdle until a fairly advanced age. A slim lady, she felt you HAD to wear one of these! I bought into it as a teenager as she wanted me to wear one but soon ditched it.

Can you think of any other outdated garments that you or your parents wore?

[Daisy]

Gem, I remember when my mum was rushed into hospital after collapsing in a shop, I got her two bed jackets from BHS because she didn't have any. This was 1989, and I certainly thought she would need them.

Before tights we all wore suspender belts or girdles/roll ons etc to keep our nylons up. Oh how I hated them!

A friend's mother wore something she called a spencer. I've no idea what it was, but she got very frustrated as they became harder to find!

I can remember men wearing suspenders/garters to keep their socks up. Also, 'bracelets' to keep their shirt sleeves in place (I think I've seen men wearing these on Peaky blinders!) I thought they had a proper name, but can't remember it.

[Oma]

Daisy you can still get the shirt bracelets in some men's outfitters , more popular now with Peaky Blinders ,

I remember my Dad having Bicycle clips and a Khaki haversack like those they used in the Army , they were still popular right into the 80's I think ,
I remember in the 60/70s school boys using them and painting the flap with Bulls eyes or their favourite bands etc

Do you remember wearing chiffon scarfs over your hairdo , or those hair nets ,
I remember having what they called a petal do and on a night putting one over my hair it had little beads on it .

Full length under slips , I actually still have one I use under some dresses so i get a smooth line , especially thinner dresses .

[Plantaholic]

Half slips, full sips, roll-on, suspenders. You needed roll-ons and suspenders to keep your stockings up. Stockings were quite expensive so I used to get mine repaired.

[Gemini]

My dad had bicycle clips as he cycled to work every day in his suit! He had those silvery stretchy bands to keep his sleeves up at work. I've not seen Peaky Blinders, but I imagine these are what you mean.

[Daisy]

I remember my dad having a donkey jacket for the winter. I'm sure the same one lasted for years.

Oma - you needed the chiffon scarf over your beehive to stop the rock solid hairpray from going gooey in the pea-souper fogs we had in industrial towns.

Plant - I've got a waist slip somewhere.

[Gemini]

Swimming caps!
I had one that I actually loved as it had white petals all over it. I thought I looked gorgeous in it. Who I thought would be admiring my headwear in the local swimming baths I don't know

[Lizzie48]

I remember my elder brother had those sleeve garters and "wings" in his collars.

I used to hate the stocking with suspenders, always the bare leg, especially when it was freezing cold!

[Gemini]

Lizzie, when I was in the first year at grammar school aged 11 I LONGED for stockings and suspender belt! I got them, but I think the novelty soon wore off
By the second year tights were universally worn so no more stockings.

[Daisy]

Gem - I remember the first time I went to stay with my pen friend in the south of France we went to a huge outdoor swimming pool, and my friend asked where my swimming cap was, (I didn't have one) and I had to borrow her sister's because you weren't allowed in the pool without one! You didn't need them in our local outdoor pool! When we were in the fifth form at school we went on strike to be allowed to wear nylons instead of ankle socks. Eventually the head gave in - and within a month we were all back in ankle socks because it was too expensive buying nylons all the time.

Lizzie - how I hated the cold bare bit at the tops of your legs!

[Nanto2girls]

Well ladies, i think you have everything covered.
I can remember all the items mentioned and used to wear some of them.
Roll ons,suspenders,girdles and liberty bodices.
My dad also had a donkey jacket for work.
One thing i loved when i was younger was the net underskirts.
In our area,we called them can can underskirts.
We used to soak them in water with sugar in,to make them stiffer.

[Grauntie Mag]

At the risk of being indiscrete how about those ghastly sanitary belts with a hook back and front!
Oma, you have reminded me of the beaded hairnets, we called them ‘dazzling dandruff’ in our salon. 😆
Pointed cup bras, they looked more like dangerous weapons than anything else.

[Daisy]

Grauntie - I had totally forgotten about those truly awful sanitary belts with the huge cotton wool-like pads! Pointed cup bras, too, with circular stitching all round. I used to stuff a bit of cotton wool in the pointy bits to hide my shortcomings in that department!

I loved the can can petticoats Nanto, and would wear several at once, plus the stiff nylon ones as well!

Men's trilby hats!

Not something to wear, but does anyone remember the parking lights you used to clip on the door windows of your car when you parked at night!

[Sunshine]

I had a ‘bone’ in the hem of my first communion dress to make the skirt sit out.
I also wore garters to keep my knee length socks up.
My bottle green school knickers had a little pocket in. I don’t know what you were supposed to put I it though. (Perhaps a condom.) Ha ha

[Gemini]

Sanitary towels with sanitary belts, and the awful incinerator in the toilets!