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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
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 Posted - Jun 08 2004 : 5:37:33 PM
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Hello all,
Just thought I'd pass on this source for everything "old fashioned" or tried and true. My summer catalog arrived today and there's always something interesting that catches my eye. For you younger generation, there may be some things in there you've never heard of, and for me, I stop and say, "Oh yeah, I remember that!!"
Here's a link to the cool tie bandanas we were discussing recently: http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/prdSell.asp?ProdGroupID=14935
They are offered at a decent price of 2 for $12.50.
And new to me is this Tangee lipstick. Have any of you gals heard of this before? It's orange in the tube, but it turns the perfect shade to compliment your skin tones. I may have to try it, as I'm a less-is-more kind of makeup girl. http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/prdSell.asp?ProdGroupID=23316&DeptID=-1&XSellSrc=14935
~Clare
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jun 09 2004 : 05:58:38 AM
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Clare, I remember Tangee lipstick! I was twelve and mom said I could use it, but nothing darker! It did change color on the mouth, but mine turned orangeish....not real good for my coloring. I have pale skin, but orange is not my color. :)
I get the Vermont Country Store Catalogue too, and love to see things that cannot be gotten anywhere else I know of - like plastic bowl covers, the ones that look like shower caps. My mom had those in several colors, and never used saran wrap or foil to cover her bowls in the fridge.
They also have the wooden laundry racks that Maryjane likes, too. I have two of those that we use camping and for drying towels and rags that we use outside.
Nothing like a catalogue of country things to curl up and look through. Just like Maryjane's magazines!
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
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cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Jun 09 2004 : 10:45:11 AM
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Clare, I am also a fan of Vt. Co.Store catalog, but I find I can seldom order any kind of clothes from them, even though the dresses look lovely (they don't come in petites). The apothecary and home products are fine (but they couldn't find my Satina!). Also try the website for Lehmans hardware (www.lehman.com); they are an old time hardware store in Ohio and feature many items for homesteading; they supply the Amish population with many non-electric goods.
 Cecelia (finally got sunny weather here)
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 2:11:23 PM
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And new to me is this Tangee lipstick. Have any of you gals heard of this before? It's orange in the tube, but it turns the perfect shade to compliment your skin tones. I may have to try it, as I'm a less-is-more kind of makeup girl. http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/prdSell.asp?ProdGroupID=23316&DeptID=-1&XSellSrc=14935
~Clare [/blue][/font=Comic Sans MS]
Oh my goodness, Clare! "Tangee Natural" was the only lipstick I was allowed to wear as a young teenager in the late 50s, early 60s. Sounds like Vermont Country Store has the same thing. Oddly enough, it's not the color-changing factor I remember (which, on me, became a brutal shade of red) as much as the indescribably heavenly scent. If it's the same formula, it's worth buying just for that. Be prepared to use lip gloss or Vaseline over it, because it's a little drying, if I recall -- or maybe I was just gnawing my lips over that adorable boy in second period French class and got myself all chapped. I note with sorrow that the price has gone up rather a lot since The Days of My Erstwhile Youth, like everything else except electronic gadgets -- but we didn't have them then anyway, come to think of it, so who cares? Tangee Natural used to cost about a dollar, and came in a small gold metal tube, with a teeny-weeny slider on the inside that raised and lowered the lipstick, if you were lucky. I hope they've improved on that. Aw gee. I'm gonna go get some. It's kind of a cool idea all over again, don't you think so?
I also love that they have that gawd-awful Evening in Paris perfume. Every woman over the age of 50-ish must remember those dark blue and silver bottles from her home town five-and-dime, on a shelf up over the hair nets and little milk-glass jars of Mum, presumably to keep us little kids from sampling the stuff too much and wrecking the display. Actually, it smelled pretty good! (Hey, I was a child of ingenuity: it was just a matter of pushing a carton of yarn over from Aisle 6 and using it for a stepladder, until Mrs. Gallagher and her terrible frown came out from behind the soda fountain, headed my way.)
Ah, but ingenious girls grow up, if they are lucky enough to live through their confrontations with the Mrs. Gallaghers of the world, and as a grown-up, I discovered another nice hard-to-find oldie that they have at VCS: 4711 cologne. I used it faithfully in college. So did my roommate, though she probably thinks to this day that I didn't know. That's okay. I borrowed her Rudi Gernreich bra one time and lost it. Long story.
I think I'll treat myself to a bottle of the 4711, while I'm at it. Beats facing up to turning off the computer and getting home before sundown to transplant my clothesline farther away from the kitchen garden. (Well...don't want all my laundry smelling like basil and beans if I'm paying good money for store-bought cologne, right?)
Anyway, Clare, thanks for throwing me off-budget for the month (grrr)!
Cheers,
Rosemary
(new here -- hello, all)
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 6:28:17 PM
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Welcome Rosemary...I remember Evening in Paris...I remember saving up to get it for my mom for Christmas. I don't think she really liked it, just to please us she wore it though.
You have a way with words by the way, Rosemary!!!
Jenny in Utah
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 8:07:40 PM
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Rosemary, Welcome!! I surmise you are a baby boomer! I love to wax nostalgic here too. I ordered the Tangee lipstick and the Evening in Paris for my Mom. She loved them. I also crave that fragrance of Tangee lipstick. It is so good I could eat it! It turns my lips a yukky orangey pink though. But the smell of it is worth the ugliness of the color. So many memories of buying tangee at my local Ben Franklin as a junior high kid! You mentioned jars of Mum... Cannot recall this, what was it? I remember buying artificial fingernails, jars of Noxema, ten o six lotion by Bonne Bell and Nestle Hair Hi Lights. Every mothers nightmare at that time! Any way, back to the Evening in Paris... Mom said it did not smell the way she remembered. I have thought about ordering Tatiana perfume. From the disco era... I love looking at Vermont County Store catalog too. I am still waiting for them to offer " Bobbie Brooks" brand clothing. I loved those cotton blouses. Glad you found this site! You will love it. Jenny from Kansas
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 10:20:03 PM
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I spent all the money from my first job on Bobby Brooks clothes!!
Jenny in Utah
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 11:52:36 AM
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[quote]Originally posted by Aunt Jenny
Welcome Rosemary...I remember Evening in Paris...I remember saving up to get it for my mom for Christmas. I don't think she really liked it, just to please us she wore it though.
You have a way with words by the way, Rosemary!!!
"Aw shucks," she muttered, digging the toe of her shoe into the carpeting.
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
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Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 12:21:19 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by MeadowLark
Rosemary, Welcome!! I surmise you are a baby boomer!
BUSTED! (Well, but only lately. Back in the day, I stuffed my $1.98 circle-stitched cotton 32AA bras with nylon socks to fill out my Bobbie Brooks blouses.)
<snipped for focus on the following> You mentioned jars of Mum... Cannot recall this, what was it?
Ha! And you call yourself a baby boomer. Oh, wait. You called ME a baby boomer. Well, then, plop that cushion down on the floor at my feet for yourself, dearie, and let me tell you how it was back in <swirly music, misty filters> Mum was a cream deodorant that came in the afore-mentioned little white milk-glass jars. You had to smear your fingers in it and wipe the stuff all over your underarms, then wash your goopy fingers before touching anything else, by which time, if you were lucky, it would have dried enough not to stick to your clothes, which felt like the "all grown up in 7th grade" equivalent of your Mom plastering your flannel nightgown to your chest with Vicks Vaporub. It made us tougher. The kids today have it too soft!
...I remember buying artificial fingernails,
HUSSY!
...jars of Noxema,
You know, the real glass jars are selling on eBay for a small fortune now. Who knew?
...ten o six lotion by Bonne Bell
Ooh, I loved it. Another great smell, by the way, no?
...and Nestle Hair Hi Lights. Every mothers nightmare at that time!
Oh yeah. I remember bending over the utility sink in the laundry room, pouring that stuff over my hair from a saucepan-- and using another saucepan to catch the runoff so I could manage several "applications." I guess it was diluted henna or something, right? My mother didn't object to it because she'd used it herself when younger. It made your hair shiny, I think.
...Any way, back to the Evening in Paris... Mom said it did not smell the way she remembered.
She's probably right. I know Caron came out with an anniversary edition of Fleurs de Rocaille that was nothing like the original. I found a sealed bottle of the original on eBay about a year ago, in its original (gorgeous) packaging and all. That was my "killer date" fragrance back in the day. Happily, my husband loves it. Wasn't Evening in Paris just basically rosewater? I remember it was very very sweet.
...I have thought about ordering Tatiana perfume. From the disco era...
Oh dear, the Disco Era! We have much to answer for, I'm afraid, we baby boomers. Tatiana rings a bell, but I can't remember the fragrance. It blends in my feeble memory with the odor of sweaty polyester and Dr. Scholl's blister pads. Ugh!
...I love looking at Vermont County Store catalog too. I am still waiting for them to offer " Bobbie Brooks" brand clothing. I loved those cotton blouses. Glad you found this site! You will love it. Jenny from Kansas
Thank you, Jenny. I already do.
Rosemary
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 12:58:08 PM
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Rosemary, '56 vintage here... I love your style of writing! This forum has jarred long deep buried memories of my misspent youth like nothing I have ever run across. I loved those glass deoderant jars as a kid! My fav was the little Ice Blue Secret jar with little daisies on the label. I was a 5 year old girl clammoring for jars of deoderant. My Mom must have been mortified or wondered if I had a cleanliness issue. I carried my little treasure in a black velvet evening purse everywhere. Nothing like being prepared!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
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Eileen
USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 7:38:44 PM
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I was a White Shoulders girl myself! Mum, who knew. It made all of the underarm parts of my blouses turn sort of yellow after a while.
My sister had the Evening in Paris. We were always at such sixes and nines with each other that I did not want to smell like her too so I chose the White Shoulders. Used to buy my poor father bottles of Old Spice for every birthday and christmas. he must have had a dozen bottles of it stashed away in his closet. The thing that I remember from back then was the hair pomade that the barber always used on my dads hair after a haircut and a shave. It smelled so good I could have spent my day following him around sniffing in his wonderful scent. Wish I knew what it was called.
Eileen
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 11:18:47 AM
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OMG! I had totally forgotten about Tangee lipstick and Evening in Paris!! I'm a born in '52 baby boomer and these two items were staples for a teenage girl in the 60's. I was a freshman in high school when my mom let me get Tangee lipstick -- major orange lips. I got mine at the Ben Franklin Dime Store in Virden, IL. I used to love to go there and look at all the makeup.
I'm ordering some Tangee so I can show my daughters!
Anyone remember when Maybelline came out with the black liquid eyeliner? Painting on that thick black line and then the stuff would flake off about after 2 hours. My mom wouldn't let me wear it so I took it to school and put it on. Only problem was that I forgot to wash it off one day before I came home! Needless to say my mom wasn't too happy!
Kay
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 12:00:25 PM
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I love Vermont Country store and one of my favorite things I ever bought from them was the flannel grandfather nightshirts! They wear like iron are really comfy and warm and the fabric just gets softer and softer!
Now for a trip down memory lane for all you teeny boppers from the 70's!
SeaBreeze skin lotion, Bonnie Bell Lipsmackers, Love's Baby Soft and Lemon scents, blue eye shadow, frosted nail polish, Farrah Fawcett hairdos with big combs in your back pocket, "designer" jeans, concert T shirts , platform sandals, fair isle sweaters, straight leg jeans( East Coast thing I'm told), wild printed Hukapoo quiana knit shirts,
and the demise of civilization with the advent of DISCO!I was 16 in 1976 and it was not an attractive era, clothes were UGLY! And... every boy that took you out smelled like he had bathed in Aramis or Canoe colognes!
I also remember my father making fun of Evening in Paris perfume. He used to say "Evening in Paris? More like midnight in The Meadowlands!"
The Meadowlands was an enormous landfill that was just hideous and I think alot of the bad rep NJ got was from it's existence! Luckily we lived no where near it!
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 12:24:26 PM
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Mum, Noxema, Clearasil, White Shoulders, Evening in Paris....all names that bring back a visual of exactly where they were kept in our house growing up! We had one bathroom, so we all had our "boxes of stuff" that we took into the bathroom with us. No one could keep their actual things in there except daddy and with his shaving stuff (which was Gillette). Mom always used a deodorant called Hi and Dri. Remember that one? It was the only one that her skin sould tolerate. I have not seen that one in Vermont Country Store!
Of course, Mom had her perfume tray (oval with ornate trim sitting on a doily on her dresser) and that is where the White Shoulders and her body powder Le Air Du Temps (spelling?) lived.
Kay, Virden was just a little ride from my home town - Springfield.
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 3:20:00 PM
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I still wear White Shoulders and L'Air du Temps! My first grown-up cologne was from my mother and it was L'Air du Temps when I turned 16 in 1972. Does anyone remember the old Avon fragrances like Topaz and Here's My Heart? Those were a staple on my mother's dresser. I also loved Shalimar. I bought the new Light Shalimar, it is more subtle. Bramble I remember I had to have that feather hairdo like Farah Fawcett in 76. I looked like a hooker then. All that poly and glitter and those horrible platform shoes. No wonder I have weak ankles now. I will never know how I could run across my college campus to class in those things. Oh and I wore my jeans so tight I had to lay down to put them on, then tucked them in the knee high leather boots. I also had a pair of Frye boots when I was in to the hippie, earthgirl look, and a pair of those wierd earth shoes too. One day I would be hippe mama, the next day a disco diva! I was confused back then...
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
497 Posts
cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 4:18:18 PM
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I remember reading about those colognes but I never had the money to buy them - my aunt always gave us Avon for Christmas though. After college the white go-go boots were in style, so I bought a pair to go out with my girlfriends - believe it or not, wigs were also in style then (early '70's); we all went out wearing out boots (I had a purple pantsuit, being too shy to wear those mini shorts with the knee hi boots), wearing out wigs. I was so afraid it would blow off (no chance there, it was like wearing a cap 2 sizes too small). I still have Earth shoes, and I think I'm sometimes not sure whether I'm a hippie mama, farmgirl or just me!
Cecelia
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 9:01:50 PM
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I guess my birkenstocks and clogs have taken the place of my earth shoes! I too had knee high lace up boots ! What were we thinking?
As for Avon: what about "Field Flowers"? That will forever remind me of my Gram because she gave it to all of us old and young. Shalimar reminds me of the first yucky boyfriend I ever had! He bought it and insisted I wear that scent! It wasn't too long before I insisted he take it and wear it himself! I still have a bottle of L'Air du temps because I love it but have to be in the right frame of mind to wear it! I like light and flowery but hardly ever wear scent because it bothers alot of the children with asthma at school.
Here's another blast from the past: Dippity Doo and Brill Creme (a little dab will do ya!) Heaven help us ! We are in a product time warp!
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 9:23:34 PM
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I still have my oval mirrored dresser tray with the gold filigree edge!!! Of course it doesn't hold any Evening in Paris - YET!!
I'm so excited that someone knows where Virden, IL is!
Kay
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 10:34:44 PM
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I still love White Shoulders cologne. My grandma used to get it for me every year for my birthday until she died. Now my husband gets it for me at Christmas.
I wear birkenstocks now (when I am not in my trusty Nike's) but was not into them in high school. I remember wearing my Dittos pants so tight that I had to lay on the bed to zip them, with bobby brooks sweaters and platform shoes. And I had the feathered Farrah Fawcett hair in my Senior picture. Oh brother!
Jenny in Utah
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
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USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 06:40:20 AM
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I broke down and bought some rubber garden clogs called Sloggers. They were half off and reminded me of Earth shoes, and very comfortable. The trouble with them is when they get moisture in them I sound like I am passing wind when I walk in them. I could probably scare the birds away when I am wearing them!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 08:36:34 AM
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Ahh Meadowlark... I'm glad I'm not the only one to experience this phenomenon. It happens in my garden clogs, and most recently I got a pair of birkenstock type sandals with a good arch support.... well I have high arches already and this makes continual contact and thus the sound effects.... I can't wear them at work without socks!!!! Embarrasing walking down the hall! Jeepers..!!
****Gardener, Stitcher, Spiritual Explorer and Appreciator of all Things Natural****
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 09:45:03 AM
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I have very high arches too Clare!!! If I wear them in public I will wear the footlet socks. When I am "slogging" in my garden, only the birds and bugs will hear and they don't count!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 10:55:36 AM
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My garden clogs do the same sound. My kids think it is hilarious. I have had the same old pair of blue Birkenstock garden clogs for 10 years now. They really last..but do have awful sound effects! I usually just wear socks and that solves the problem. On hot days though, who wants to wear socks???????
Jenny in Utah
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psouper
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 12:03:07 PM
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Bramble,
I am a girl of the 70s too - I had totally forgotton about 10-0-6!! I used that after I scrubbed the heck out of my face with Listerex Scrub.
My first deoderant was called Tussy.
Girls used to wear that sort of stick blusher that changed colors on your face, but it all looked rather orange.
Does anyone remember shoes called Yo Yo's? They were a kind of platform sole with a hole in the heel. I had 2 pairs.
Now wearing my birkies,
Polly
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 6:03:03 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by MeadowLark
I broke down and bought some rubber garden clogs called Sloggers. They were half off and reminded me of Earth shoes, and very comfortable. The trouble with them is when they get moisture in them I sound like I am passing wind when I walk in them. I could probably scare the birds away when I am wearing them!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html
Meadowlark -- my garden clogs "pass wind" too!!! Thanks for a good laugh.
Kay
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