After liberty bodices...

Crikey - that's brought back memories! I DO remember my mum scratching away at the leather soles of my newly-bought shoes with one of those metal pan-scrubbers. Also 'segs' - we used to ask the cobbler to put these into the heels of our 'kitten- heeled' shoes when they were in for mending (something else that's rarely done now). Thought we were the bees knees making the lovely clicking sound as we walked from class to class at senior school

Any one remember the road being tarmacked and being told to go out to walk on the fresh tar to make the soles of your shoes last longer.

I've learned something new today - I never knew they were called segs! I remember having them on my shoes and how noisy and slippery they were.

I was born after the war but I remember having to put on new shoes (with segs) and go outside to shuffle around in gravel to rough up the soles.

Remember segs-never had them but remember little cards of them in the shoe polish basket. I do remember having the soles of new shoes scratched with the point of a nailfile

I remember segs too , you could hear us coming a mile away lol and the other kids chased us off the icy slides because they scored the surface