I'm so old I've...

[Nella]

...I just thought of that L'Eggs commercial this week...

Remember when the L'eggs panty hose came in the little plastic eggs (usually one pair per egg) and there was a craze for awhile to save them up, decorate them and use them at Easter?

[Tenngal]

yes, the hot pants were in the early 70's. They were pretty modest by today's standards. Mid-thigh shorts really.

[Mrs-M]

As I mentioned on another thread today, most secondary school children here wear uniforms - at least until the Sixth Form (17-18). Interestingly, they mostly seem to wear a self-imposed uniform at that age, too, ie they all wear the same thing!

So true.

Originally posted by Nella.
everything old is new again...

Yes! A wonderful thing. As far as the eggs go, I sure do remember.

Originally posted by Tenngal.
yes, the hot pants were in the early 70's. They were pretty modest by today's standards. Mid-thigh shorts really.

That's what I remember, too.

[Mrs-M]

I'm so old I've lived through the days of gauchos! Anyone else remember gaucho pants?

[WorldFoodie]

I recall that when I was young some one had an older barn that they didn't want, so they ran an ad in the local paper offering the wood free to any one who would tear the barn down. Boy, those days are history, except for the occasional architectural salvager.
Oh, and the Amish would go have a barn raising (completed in a day) for those who lost a barn in tornadoes, etc. Ahh community!

[Mrs-M]

I miss community closeness and support too, WF. It's that sort of close-knitted goodness that ensures there's never a rainy day.

[LionGail]

I recall when at the supermarket checkout there was another person packing my groceries for me instead of nowadays where the checkout operator does both. I also recall the days before plastic bags for everything; my Mum used to get her groceries packed into boxes. (I also remember the days before supermarkets).

Bread was delivered to our farm and it was unsliced and wrapped in tissue paper. The milkman and his beautiful Clydesdale draught horse would come trotting past before sunrise delivering milk in pint bottles and he would whistle to slow the horse down so he could catch up.

Gail

[goldensmom]

I recall when at the supermarket checkout there was another person packing my groceries for me instead of nowadays where the checkout operator does both. I also recall the days before plastic bags for everything; my Mum used to get her groceries packed into boxes. (I also remember the days before supermarkets).

Bread was delivered to our farm and it was unsliced and wrapped in tissue paper. The milkman and his beautiful Clydesdale draught horse would come trotting past before sunrise delivering milk in pint bottles and he would whistle to slow the horse down so he could catch up.

Gail

I must live in a time warp as our local grocer still has one checkout person and one packer. Another local grocer uses boxes, no bags plastic or paper. Our cream laden milk was delivered by dad from the milking parlor on foot. No Clydedales but one time he did saddle the milk bottles to the back of our Saint Bernard to deliver to the house while he was busy elsewhere.

[iris lily]

I'm so old I've lived through the days of gauchos! Anyone else remember gaucho pants?

Oh, those are modern! ha ha. Anyone remember Elephant pants? They came and went in about 7 months, I think in 1973. They had huge legs, the wider, the better.

[leslieann]

I was thinking Elephant Pants when I read Mrs. M's post about gauchos. Yeah, I do remember both. And I guess "shorts" before Hot Pants were knee length. Elephant pants were cool when my friends and I were all learning to sew, and those pants were really simple to make.