When l first got married in the mid 1970s every house in the street had net curtains, apart from mine! I looked upon them as rather old fashioned at the time, and not in keeping with my bright Purple front door, pure white walls and ceilings, and jazzy bold patterned curtains in shades of Orange, Lime Green, and Sunshine Yellow!
It was obvious that the local Gossips had been talking about my new home, and had decided that the lack of Net curtains was down to the fact that l could not afford to buy any, and that they needed to do something about it!
One evening I came home from work to find Chief Gossip stood at my front gate with a carrier bag in her hand, and looking rather awkward about, whilst trying to be very wise and friendly. She handed me the carrier bag before making her excuses and scampering off before l could say anything, it was full of her old tatty cast offs of Net curtains!
It was like a scene from out of 'The Last of the Summer Wine' l could just imagine the Comittee calling a meeting together to see what could be done about the lack of Net Curtains over at number 64!
I never did use the bag of old net curtains, but as a token jesture, l bought a pretty half length Lace curtain just to fit across the bottom of my front Lounge window, at the side of the front door, but no way was l going to buy them for every window in the house, or use the tatty stained smoke yellowed ones offered to me out of their Rag bag!