Hey Linda
I remember the garters and garter belts and the stockings with the seams up the back so horrible,but do you remember the PRETTY POLLY'S stockings you pulled on with tight elastic at the top, they stayed up by themselves. So tight they stopped the blood circulation, I think that is why I have fat thighs today. lol Then of course the fun with the first panty hose that looked like they could fit your doll.
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Glo ~ I can remember buying nylons at Reitmans, and I even remember the colour that I wore - amber!! I also remember those bloody nylons like you mentioned, and I recall that they used to work their way down your thigh so you were forever hauling them up. I remember thinking the pantyhose were the best thing since sliced bread, and if you got a run in one leg you cut that leg off and kept the whole pair in case next pair had a run in the other leg, then you wore 2 pairs together = one for the right leg + one for the left leg. Sure put the kybosh on any hanky pankie those Verdun guys might want to engage in .
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ReplyDeleteNice picture Arbutus Linda... Remember Tangee lipstick. which went on clear but turned "your"colour. The bloomer thingies for gym class that got purple fuzzies all over the undies. I remember my mother buying a rubber girdle (for herself. ) Bathing caps with flowers on them. (Aaaargh) Still have issues with those things !
ReplyDeleteBlue shivering kids at the Natatorium with bobby pins on their noses. When I think of it I cringe because we used to have a game of diving off the green fountain in the middle of the pool, and seeing who could stand on their heads at the bottom of the pool the longest. I remember I wanted to win so I would aim for the metal grate at the bottom and hold on to it. NOW you hear of kids dying because of the suction etc. Oooh the dangers. Suede jackets with fringes. The smell of Toni's pizza around the corner. They were big and square and just tomato sauce covered. Oh were they good. Can you remember LINDA there was a handicapped fellow in Ville Emard I would see every day when walking to Connaught. He was on a light blue platform thingie with wheels and zoomed around using his hands on the sidewalk. This horrified me. I don't remember if he had no legs I just remember this person with half a body. I think I have drained my memory bank - time for a coffee
May I please throw in my two-cents worth on the topic of 'garter belts, etc'? I don't know how old any of you are but I remember wearing the garter belt which was bad enough and caused my fat little legs to rub together and get chaffed really badly....BUT....when we became "women" and started having to deal with "the Curse" every month, we had to wear a sanitary belt besides the garter belt. What a time that was....you felt just like a sling shot ready to take off sometimes. Thank gawd for pantyhose and the sticky thing on the backs of pads.....methinks it's time to get off THAT topic....sorry. Back to nylons for a minute......I remember in Grade 6 at St Willibrord's when the weather started getting pretty warm at the end of May and we had to wear those damned nylons....I had a brilliant (???) idea. I smeared makeup on my legs from ankles to knees and took an eyebrow pencil and made a line up the back of my leg for a seam. We used to wear bobby socks over the nylons so it looked like I was actually wearing 'nylons'. I also remember the nuns standing at the bottom of the stairs as we walked up to our classrooms and they were looking at the backs of our legs to make sure that we were all wearing nylons...weird memories huh??? Just finished shovelling out the double driveway in the front and the steps in the back for the dogs...whew! Now I think it's supposed to rain later on today and then tonight it's supposed to go down to 15º below....but it's only 14 days till March 1st !!! Have a great day y'all. judy in NB p.s. Dianne - it was so nice to hear from you.....will get back to you soon.
ReplyDeleteREMEMBER: Crinolines - painfully itchy and uncomfortable. Sleeping with those &*#^ curlers to look good the next day. Saddle shoes Hankies - thank goodness for Kleenex Pinky Stamps Weren't they great. We used to get good stuff with those. Dick and Jane Books Wringer washers and getting things stuck in the rollers.
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Linda What a great way to start my morning laughing, I thought I was the only one to cut off one leg and wear two pair of panty hose, now the secret is reveiled. And crinolins, one time I was going to a semi formal dance at the YMCA and the elastic broke in my crinolin and it fell off on Lasalle Blvd. I promply stepped out of it and through it in the next available trash can, a little red in the face. lol. The memories are flooding back, maybe they weren't the good old days after all. Now I can wear anything I want and get away with it. Glo
ReplyDeletePanty hose hmmmm. Let me tell you of my first experience with them thar thingies !!!!!! I was in grade 8 on my first day of high school and I had a pair that were too short for me. Nevertheless I walked to the bus and they were slipping down, got off the bus, slipping down even more even after numerous unsuccessful attempts to pull them up. By the time I got to the school as a 13 year old - on her first day at a new school - new people. They had lost all elasticity and were mid thigh. getting lower and lower I was laughed at hysterically. I remember this as if it were yesterday. I didn't know where the bathrooms were to get out of these contraptions. I was sobbing and just mortified at my plight and not too sure what to do and old Miss Bradwell came to my rescue. She got me a pair of someones dirty old knee socks out of lost and found.
ReplyDeleteHi everybody......Catching up on all the great posts...... and speaking about pantyhose....Oprah has mentioned more than once on her show that she would cut one leg off her pantyhose if she had a run or snag and here is something else she would do, she would cut both feet off the pantyhose so that she could wear them under slacks but have bare feet so she could wear sandles because as we all know (thanks to Oprah) we must never wear pantyhose with sandles. And last week the show featured women who started their own businesses and made it big......this one lady invented / created footless pantyhose and they look really good but I don't remember what they were called or if we can get them in Canada as of yet. Even Oprah with all her millions was/is frugal with her money!! Dianne
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful that the garter belt days of one sort or another are a torture of the past....that's how I see it!!! LMAO!!!! Dianne
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ReplyDeleteLaurie. If I had have been there, I would have helped you to pull your panty hose up!!!!! And I would have closed my eyes....if you wanted me to!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteSeeing pictures of the garter belt wasn't to bad, maybe even enjoyable......but please lets not see one on the san****y belt!!!!! Thanks!!!!
ReplyDeleteHear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. I agree with you on that Winston. Laurie
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ReplyDeleteWell. Someone on here was talking about 2 pairs of panty hose to thwart the hot Verdun guys!!!! Those Verdun girls sure knew how to fights some of the guys off! Who wudda thunk...2 pairs of panty hose...instead of a chastity belt!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteLaurie. You are causing me a lot of problems. The tears from all the laughing are going all over the key board, and I can hardly see anything because of all the tears in my eyes. Keep 'em comin'. Are we havin' a good time or what?????
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One thing I do know. We couldn't afford shin guards, and would use magazines or newspapers to protect our shins and knees when we played street hockey. BUT....Those things were used in the stove also. SO...when we didn't have any of those, we would use those"pads" that our mother's use to buy in the plain brown wrapper packages that were a big secret, as knee pads. We would tie them in the back of our knees real tight. It was great. When we fell down they protected our knees. What a great country!!!!!! Who would have thunk to make something like that for us kids to use!!!!!! Also thanks for the horses that the milkmen us to drive. No pucks? No problem!!!! Along came a horse, atomatic frozen horse buns....Once again, what a great country... It never stops. Necessity being the mother of invention!!!!! And Budsy Bordeau in net...no problem!!!!!
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First you wanted to fix Gloworms panty hose and now mine. The unstoppable Winston !!!!
OMG sometimes I wonder where I have stumbled upon instead of VC . What I laugh I am having at these message boards....sanitary pads for hockey knee pads ? Horse patties as pucks ? This sure is an entertaining site , no complaints from me .D
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ReplyDeleteDonna. Those pad by the way..were referred by my brother Hartland(Bumpy) and I as hockey equipment,\.
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And I am sure they are alot cheaper than what hockey equiptment goes for these days . But tell me , did they have adhesive or were they the belted ones ? D
ReplyDeleteMy mom used the san***ry pads to shine her shoes and brass buttons. Both she and my dad were in the Air Force, and shoes and uniform buttons had to be lickety split shiney.
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ReplyDeleteHey you guys!!!! Remember when they started advertising all that sanitary stuff on TV? My dad would get up and leave the room and my mom would go..."tsk" and my brothers would giggle. We've come a long way baby!!! Dianne
ReplyDeleteIdle hands is the devil's work!!!! But aren't we having fun? Dianne
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ReplyDeleteI am so thankful I am past all that......my mother use to say 'and even this shall pass". I wondered what she meant but I know now!! Dianne
ReplyDeleteRead the description on this one: seems like it can be worn 'under or over undergarments'.....begs the question....why would you wear one over your undergarments?
ReplyDeletecorrection: it can be worn over OR under garments...that makes it even funnier. Imagine walking down the street with one of these things over our garments????
ReplyDeleteRemember how paranoid we were in those days before all the ads were put on TV about the curse and all these contraptions that we girls had to endure? Remember it was the last thing we wanted any males that were in our lives to know that we had the 'curse'? So I cannot imagine wearing that over my garments and walking down Angers or any other street for that matter!!!! This is so funny!!! Dianne
ReplyDeleteBesides Arbutus...where are all the men tonight? Winston are you out there? And how come Les hasn't joined in on ths topic? dianne
ReplyDeleteThis would be a good topic don't ya think. Good old jock straps. This way the guys could contribute. ????
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ReplyDeleteExcellent topic......okay guys, it's your turn! Dianne
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ReplyDeleteDry seaweed....that must have been itchy.....and how would you know, winston? Please do tell!!! Dianne
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ReplyDeleteDianne ~ he probably saw all the ladies wearing these over their garments, lol
ReplyDeleteDried Seaweed. Eeewe ! My mother used to talk about collecting sphagnum moss when she was young. (spelling ?)
ReplyDeleteJockstrap.....medicine.....cures kidney stones???? who wudda thought!
ReplyDeleteWhat do you do with it. Rub it on or swallow it. I am scared to ask.
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ReplyDeleteEnd of paragraph says: they are cooler to wear. I wonder if they are referring to wearing them over or under their garments? lol lol lol
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ReplyDeleteDianne. I am here. Making my opinion heard!!!!
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ReplyDeleteGary. NO NO NO!!!!!!!! Never worn anything....and you know what...got hit so many times, it affected my memory.....and was almost thinking of changing my name to With-non...from Winston!!!
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ReplyDeleteWell Donna. You know us Verdun people. We never throw anything away...We just go rummaging thru the drawers(!!!!!) and see what is there. Sometimes we get surprised!!!!
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ReplyDeleteDonna. We just tied them in the back, behind our knees. But we had to stop every so often to hike them up!!!!
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ReplyDeleteDianne. My hands have not been idle!!!!!
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when my Dads ship would be in Halifax. She went to meet the ship and had
rented a room for their time together. She was given a little Christmas tree ,
but with no Decorations she tore apart a pad stuck the pieces on the tree as
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I sure it didn"t matter as long as she could be in
the arms of her sailor. The folk from Verdun could make good use out of
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ReplyDeleteLaurie ~ guys are such sissies aren't they? I would hope that the machines are heated, you know......shrinkage.... lmao
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ReplyDeleteThe sadistic sick person who invented the mamogram boob crushing machine must hate women!!! And I could never figure out why the technician says ' hold your breath and don't move' As if we could walk off with this damn thing clamped on!!! Dianne
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ReplyDeleteCompress it. You gals are getting bad!!!!!! What is it? Payback time?
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Hi y'all, Guess this subject has deviated from the original "Garters" subject matter. We should probably stop this subject dead in its tracks. Here's hoping others may agree. MHO only. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteLinda I agree too...I think we said all we can and had tons of laughs but you know the old saying about beating a dead horse...well, I guess we beat this one around enough!!! Dianne
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ReplyDeleteWell I didn't see where anything other than a member deleting her own msg's which a lot of people seem to do..but that's their call,....... as for posts being frowned upon???????????? I don't see much of that either, although I know some are prone to feeling persecuted,..(usually for no reason) and as far as I see, things generally have continued on inspite of some bumps,.and again ,I wouldn't read too much into anything ,.as the site continues on,.and almost always tries to aide anyone when they have questions,.So I don't see any problems,.and I don't really think it's even an issue,we've accomodated everyone icluding some who didn't want to stay,cause of their own problems in managing incoming stuff,...........as for Laurie I never saw any problems,.... and would certainl not like to see any develop ,for whatever reason,.most people seem to enjoy being on here,.when they don't they can check out as easily as they checked in.......... There's a million sites out there ,some successful,some not,...some things are not for everyone,.So if they try one and don't like it,.that's Ok,......... and no need to over read things into anything, seems every so often there's some blip on the radar...........So What......... After many years of building a site that Welcomes Many ,..I think there's no problem's .........We'll stay focused and hope to make a lot of Verdun Connections..............................................................
ReplyDeleteLaurie ~~ I agree with Sandy ... your posts added a bit of spice to an otherwise dull subject.....garters....lol. I in no way meant that we should delete what had gone before, but just that things were starting to take on a raunchy theme. I was thinking about the post from a female who said she was getting 700+ messages in her email and it was stuff she just didn't want to see or read and she just ceased her membership. We have to remember that what is fun on this board isn't fun to some who don't participate. I guess there's no way to satisfy all members ..soooo .....where's the mink willie warmers?
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ReplyDeleteSandy ~~ funny part is both Les_F and MaggieMcK showed her how to change her settings, and she just said it was too much trouble. But I notice she posted a message about 1 nano-second before ceasing her membership.....go figure.
ReplyDeleteLaurie when I made my comment I was thinking of some of the more refined people, especially the gentlemen on this site who might be totally put off from our joking around about unmentionables. Now I suppose I've opened a can of warms!!! Geeez....dianne
ReplyDeleteThis is a site that is rich in subject matter, and has a menu of topics for everyone. Take your pick: connect with former Verdunites, serious discussions leading to serious debates, photos to take us down memory lane, light banter to off-set the serious side of things, announcements, celebrations, support to members in times of difficulties, books and movie reviews, Verdun past, Verdun present, reunions, weather reports across the country, profiles of members current location---to name a few. You can pick and choose your flavour of the day and ignore the rest. And because there is a large membership, understand that we are all different in our experiences, our upbringing, our ages, our education and personalities. We are all unique. Do not expect to convert members to your way of thinking if they disagree. They are not you. Just accept. Easy. But stick up for what you believe even if others don't and then just move on. Easy. People who know me here, know that I say it as it is and hopefully with diplomacy and acceptance of others' views, and I am big enough and sensitive enough to admit when I am wrong. But we are all human, that is our connection. I wasn't following this thread so can't comment on it. Well, you know me. Being a writer, I have to say what I think and I guess I write alot. Dolly
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ReplyDeleteSandy. I think an assortment of colors would be great, and of course more exciting....anything to help me to remember WHEN!!!!!!!!......What I use to do all night, now takes me all night to do!!!!
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ReplyDeleteSandy ~ I think Laurie is waiting for Mr. Maltby to raise his head again. Les_F have you seem Maltby around anywhere?
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ReplyDeleteSandy ~ Are you thinking somebody deserves them????? I always keep a few handy, and you know that I'm a good girl () and was taught to share, soooooo, here you go:
ReplyDeleteHere's one with thunder Dianne
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ReplyDeleteSandy. I don't think lightning bolts are needed today....I am already charged up and ready to go. WW or not!!!!!
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Hi guys I'm back. New E mail address. Have a good Sunday. How and why on on earth did that member get 700 e-mails. Laurie
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ReplyDeleteHi Laurie: I love the clipart and welcome back!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that is the number of messages posted on this board in a day.....don't know for sure. But every message posted results in an email for those members who choose to receive the messages by email!!!! Guess some people think that they'll only receive messages that they're interested in....like Les_F or MaggieMck are sitting there sorting through every message....say weren't you looking for a job Les_F? Happy to have you posting again.....missed your great sense of humour!
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ReplyDeleteNice to be back in the neighbourhood. - Laurie
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ReplyDeleteLaurie. Glad to have you back in the Verdun Connections area....You don't want to miss out of the good stuff here. Just remember, what is good for the GOOSE is good for the GOOSIE!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteSandy. Also. I didn't know that SLOW was the prefered operational procedure!!!!
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Right on, Sabby! Your assessment of this site and the way to participate really puts things clearly. Choose the topics that interest you. Respect the opinions of everyone else here. And have fun. Simple, no? Cheers -- Phyllis
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