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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 528 Send Message	JEH123	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:16
	Never had a shell suit but did wear legwarmers once with a flying suit...they were called flying suits weren't they? Those all-in-one top and trousers joined together? Mine was beige. did anyone else have one? Hayley do you remember Rotters nightclub in Offerton? That's where I wore it....embarrasing thought. xx
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:17
	Oh Sally... I remember the big hair, lol... mine looked like Diana Ross on a bad hair day... the hair just frizzed for Europe... had to have it all cut out a week later, lol... my perm started about three inches along the length, which meant the crown was flat and unpermed... the rest, well!! Dozzas mum... no, I didn't.... I didn't wear tights to school, I was the only one in the 5th form still wearing knee length socks... although I refused to wear white ones, and wore black! Gawd Muffy.... £70 .... I don't think mine cost more than 70DM, and that was both of them, lol!! Teresa, I had a really posh pair of Reebok trainers at the time... I had only worn them a couple of times when I had a really bad injury... I wouldn't let the paramedics cut them off me, even though to get them off nearly killed me... the bone of my ankle was sticking out, lol!! That was when I was 25, and I finally threw them away after regular wear about 5 years ago.... I was about 49. They built stuff to last then, lol Caz, I would have loved to try the Goth thing... but I was already married with sons of an age when they would have died with embarrassment... and OH would have been hauled up in front of the RSM pretty smartish, lol! Maddie, I smoked quite heavily in those days, too!! Lol Juliecat... I didn't have that excuse!! I was a pretty mean netball player at the time..... but the serious stuff was not very decorative, lol Hayley, I bet you looked cute, too!! Love Daff xxx
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:19
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Maddie that reminds me, my ex MIL broke my daughters heart...she IRONED her shell suit! There was a big iron shaped hole in the back of the jacket. My daughter loved her shell suit, lovely shiny pink one. She was only 7 lol
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:20
	Janet... I had those as well.... a bright red one that looked like a fitted mechanics overall, an airmans one, and a khaki army coloured one... all very feminine and sexy, lol!! I thought I was the bees knees... but they were a b***** if you needed the loo in a hurry, lol! Love Daff xxx
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 4,758 Send Message	Maddiecow	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:22
	I had a White flying suit with Rhinestones and a matching Denim coat with bat wings ....... Oh god its like a bad hangover!!!
	Researching: Powell, Chappell, Haffenden, Elliot, O'Shaughnessy
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 12,949 Send Message	MarionfromScotland	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:24
	Shellsuits??? I got married in a white one. No, I didn't but sons had them lol
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 528 Send Message	JEH123	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:24
	Daff, ok if you had a zip. Mine had buttons. Lol xx
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:24
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Ohhhhhh batwings...anyone remember all those knitted jumpers with batwings we used to have? cringe
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 37,870 Send Message	Silly Sausage	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:26
	Janet ....I do indeed my OH and sisters went there but I never did....went when it was Hamletons in the 80's full of yuppies...lol and Quaffers...pmsl ...
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:28
	Oh my goodness the images I have flying around in my head right now, lol Maddie, I had a gold lamee. one..... sort of Goldfingerish.. with little glittery bits and imitation gold studs all over it. hubby wouldn't let me wear it, I wonder why? We looked lovely... we really really did, lol!! Love Daff xxx
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 528 Send Message	JEH123	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:28
	Hayley, I remember Hamiltons and oh yes Quaffers too. Went there a few times. Ever been to Bredbury Hall aka Bredders?
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 37,870 Send Message	Silly Sausage	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:29
	OMG.....and your admitting it ...you will be saying you went to the Blue waterfall next...lol...
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 528 Send Message	JEH123	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:32
	Never heard of Blue waterfall...Where's that? Went to Heaven and hell b4 it was heaven and hell. Been to Bredders once only. That was enough. ;-) Think I'm going off the subject here....
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 528 Send Message	JEH123	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:33
	What are bat wings? Back on subject again.
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 37,870 Send Message	Silly Sausage	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:35
	Janet it was a right ...hole....carpet stuck to your feet...dog rough....* shudders * Bredders is still going ...call it a country Hotel now * sniggers ** My first husband took me there on our first date....I should of seen the signs..pmsl...
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:36
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Batwings...well if you wore a jumper with batwing the wrist would be sort of joined to the waist, so when you spread your arms, it looked like batwings.
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:37
	Janet they were lovely.... don't listen to them... I had a very very sexy white one. They were jumpers, where the underarm seam on the sleeve startedon the bottom rib of the jumper.... if you held your arms out side ways. you looked as tho your arm was connected to your waist, lol Love Daff xxx
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 12,949 Send Message	MarionfromScotland	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:39
	Bit like bingo wings but made of cloth and not skin,well not quite lol
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:40
	lol Marion!!!
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 37,870 Send Message	Silly Sausage	Report	27 Mar 2008 20:41
	and you could never get your coat on with them...

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