Fantastically accurate descriptions

Reminds me of when DH and I first went to Florida. Sitting in a Mall drinking coffee we remarked on all the older ladies in bright clothes. Back home it was all permed grey hair and beige. Vowed I would always wear bright clothes as I got older and I have.

Yes, Blinko, I remember Howard & Hilda! (We still see couples like that, out and about - dressed in identical jumpers or coats.) If ever DH & I find that we've chosen similar clothes to wear, one of us will change, to avoid the "Howard and Hilda" look.

I've never heard of older ladies being described as cauliflowers but it is a great description. Thinking about it I find I know quite a few. Permed bouffant, grey haired ladies of a certain age. I love it.

I agree with Jennifer Eccles.

to me, all young girls (!) look alike,

never heard the expression "cauliflower" hair..

Mr N is a naughty man and has nicknames for many of our friends.
I have a friend who looks like Esther Rantzen. Mr N calls her T&G. Teeth and gums.
A house proud friend is Hyacinth.
A know it all interfering acquaintance is Thrush apparently because he is an irritating **. I told you Mr N is naughty.

Howard and Hilda were from Ever Decreasing Circles. Richard Briers played the lead character which reminded all our friends of my husband! Hubby is still a bit like that but we are nothing like Howard and Hilda

Ladyleftfieldlover

I have always been a nonconformist regarding clothes. A few years ago we went to Munich for the Christmas markets. OH said I was easy to spot in the crowds as my white with bright red flowers patterned coat stood out from all the dull coloured anoraks!

From where did you get such a coat, Ladyleftfieldlover? I'd love to have one of those but I can only find - at most - coats with two block colours only.

My wife worked fir some years as a school lunchtime supervisor (dinner lady) and the headmaster once informed me that she did a marvellous job in the playground:

“Surrounded by a crinoline of small children”

Priceless description of a wonderfully motherly woman.

Fevertree, my daughter and I play bookends when we go shopping. They are couples of any age who dress the same. If we are going out and DH has a similar colour to me, I change my clothes.

When my GS was younger his school always arranged a Christmas lunch for the elderly. My mum attended one in the school hall one year and my GS looked in the window to try and spot her but he said he couldn’t because all he could see were lots of white fluffy clouds !

fevertree

I can't remember where I heard or read this, but the description of older couples - often of much the same height and outline - wearing matching anoraks, as "pepper pots" - is pretty accurate!

Howard and Hilda - anyone remember the series?

Of the sort of rough grey hair belonging to the sort of woman who could never be bothered with ‘titivation’ - looking like a used Brillo pad.

I had to look this up to get it verbatim, but it comes from the description of the deliciously ghastly Mr Slope’s nose in Trollope’s Barchester Towers.
‘It is pronounced, straight and well formed; though I myself should have liked it better did it not possess a somewhat spongy, porous appearance, as though it had been cleverly formed out of a red-coloured cork.’
I always loved that!

I have always been a nonconformist regarding clothes. A few years ago we went to Munich for the Christmas markets. OH said I was easy to spot in the crowds as my white with bright red flowers patterned coat stood out from all the dull coloured anoraks!

More the time of year for pumpkins Rufus ????

Perhaps we should form a club and swear that we will never be cauliflowers
How about "turnip heads!?
That would make you swear, too!

I think that’s true of clothes Lucca (mini skirts, dresses and for a short while hot pants!) but I think our hairstyles were different in our youth.

My hair is fine and straight and oh how I envied girls with curly hair! Back-combing was in fashion but mine just was too fine to produce the desired result! My friends had a variety of styles from short to long with every length in between.

“ That’s funny because I always think young women (teens and twenties) all look alike these days”
They/we always did !
My age group around here don’t so much have the cauliflower head as the straight bob. (Including self)

I can't remember where I heard or read this, but the description of older couples - often of much the same height and outline - wearing matching anoraks, as "pepper pots" - is pretty accurate!

It is very true JenniferEccles. We all have our group identity, we can't help it.
It's much easier to conform than to stand out.
I like to think I don't look like all the other old ladies but I probably do.
I don't have cauliflower hair but I love curls.

That’s funny because I always think young women (teens and twenties) all look alike these days.

They all have the same hairstyle, long, straight, parted in the middle with no fringe.

Their clothes too follow a uniform as if they were still at school - jeans with the ubiquitous ripped knees, similar tops and trainers.

Years ago a young hairdresser friend described older ladies perms as Nelly perms. My friend and I decided there and then we would never have a nelly perm or wear crimplene dresses!

Perhaps we should form a club and swear that we will never be cauliflowers ( or be expelled from it.) ?

I remember going to the cinema with my Mother in around
1969 ( she never liked to go on her own) and I was the only young-ish person there, it was an afternoon showing of Gone With The Wind, and I whispered to her ‘look at all those cauliflower heads!’ She couldn’t help laughing.
So I claim the phrase first vampire ?

I can't be arsed to straighten my hair .. and as straight is very commonplace now people use straighteners I stick with my unruly curls...but do dye it to avoid the cauliflower look?????

My DH and I have always , since we were newly married, called old ladies cauliflowers. One reason my hair is straight ?