Music

Ooh Baubles.... jealous.
Though can't halp wondering what his voice is like at the age of 77!!!
Yes, in the last few years we have seen Eric Clapton and Bryan Ferry.

Oh no! Memories of lumpy girls in tweed skirts, in bed sitters with gas fires and lino floors -- and a Dansette grinding out Leonard Cohen! Fog round the street-lamps outside... mugs of instant coffee and full ash-trays...

The charm of Mr Cohen escapes me. Ditto Mr Ferry, another of the regurgitation school of vocalists (like Bowie).

Eh - not so much of the lumpy!

And those Dansettes did good service. (wistful sigh)

Each to his or her own I think. I too had a Dansette......enjoyed mugs of coffee and was known to possess a tweed skirt or two.

Tweed skirts were too itchy for me (tender little flower). Even with the "slips" we used to wear then. Does anyone still wear a slip?

JO4 Occasionally, but not with jeans.

Feetlebaum
As one who lived in a bedsitter and wore tweed skirts, and was a member of what was known as 'The Knicker Brigade' (no not what you're thinking, it referred to the fact that our skirts were so short that when we ascended the large spiral staircase at the entrance to the institution where I studied, men of a certain type could see our knickers), it comes as no surprise to me that the charms of Mr Ferry escape you.
this is for the pleasure of hot-blooded GNers everywhere.
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JO4 wrote: "Does anyone still wear a slip? "

Yes, I have several of these
They are fabulous, slightly stretchy, keep you warm and most importantly, don't ride up.

Granted, he never has had the best voice in the world, to which he refers in 'The Tower of Song' but he knows how to put across his lyrics. As with Bob Dylan, it's all about the lyrics for me.

I've never worn a tweed skirt in my puff but could have easily qualified as a member of The Knicker Brigade!

Leonard Cohen songs always seem to be unbelievably miserable – music specially written for hanging yourself.

"Is there anyone from your youth whose music you still follow?"

Of course - anything before the mid-fifties, really! Basie, Ellington, Shaw, Goodman for starters. Al Bowlly, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday, Rosemary Clooney, Les Paul & Mary Ford...and on and on... the thing is, back then they could tell the difference between B-flat and a boiler explosion!

You can get trouser slips!

Oh I know Mr Ferry is considered 'hot' by the ladies... even quite hip ones. I remember taking some music to Shepperton for the pianist, Anne O'Dell who was rehearsing with Ferry for a tour - she was all fluttery - never seen her like that before! Couldn't take her eyes off him...

janeainsworth I called those petticoats. A slip was a waist one. (never bother now even though DD said she could see my spotty knickers through my white skirt (no it's not chavvy!) (the skirt that is))

I didn't know that JO4 and I have no idea why anyone would want them. Disguising the VPL?

Don't they wear them any more? It was always claimed that skirts hung better over a slip or a petticoat.

So they did. Now hardly anyone wears skirts, and those who do don't seem to notice that they go all droopy and cling where you don't want them to. It is not only VPL, they show every lump and bump, even the crease in your bottom is revealed.

absent that's a common misconception, he has quite a wicked sense of humour which comes across in a number of his songs.

baublesbandb I don't think it comes across to me. I had some of his LPs when I was a student and found them so depressing that I threw them away. However, I hope you enjoy your concert tomorrow and also have time to say hello to your mum.

Does anyone else recalled those petticoats that you had to dip in a sugar solution after you'd washed them? Weren't they called paper nylon? They'd swish as you walked!!

eGJ Yes paper nylon. Very fashionable in the 1950s. When my mother bought one for me I thought I was amazingly grown up.

I like the way this thread is covering two completely unrelated topics in parallel.

eGJ on reading this thread that was just what I was going to say - you beat me to it! Oh yes, only too well. They went with hairspray in squeezy bottles.

We live in an area where all the old 60s group keep popping up. Recently went to see Alan Price and he was brilliant, had a dry sense of humour too which surprised us. The Hollies come round regularly too.

Tweed skirts were quite popular in the 60s, I also was one of the knicker brigade but the doctors at the hospital, where I worked, were not so polite.
I do wear slips/petticoats if the dress material is quite see-through. I have found some of the crinkle dresses, particularly East, cling and show off my nana knickers.

feetlebaum and Elegran I was querying trouser slips that JO4 mentioned not slips for wearing under skirts and frocks.