Ashes of Roses (and other scents/cosmetics that survived from the 30s to the 60s and then vanished)candidiasis
circular knitting needles (an 80s thing – harder to use than the regular kind)
Citroen 2Cvs
codependence
cropped tops and trousers
ergonomic computer keyboards (in two pieces)
Ever Ready batteries
four-leaved clovers
goods trains
headsquares (especially those wool ones in big checks with fringed edges)
herby sausages (80s)
hire purchase
hitech interiors
inner tennis (You worked on WHY you didn’t WANT to win. It was so effective that… it disappeared about 30 years ago.)
interactive Web art
iridology
jelly
knitting machines (bought, used once, stored under beds)
leg paint
Lux soapflakes (if it’s safe in water – it’s safe in Lux!)
miniature brass cannons on your mantelpiece
mink farms
non-competitive games
nuclear-free zones
pilaff
shortie nighties
shove ha’penny (oh, what fun we had)
stable girls and kennel maids
starch (that you starched your clothes with – why?)
sundried tomatoes (everywhere in the 80s, now a faint, vanishing memory)
television hire companies
thongs (agony, whatever anybody said)
tomato puree/concentrate (which you put in every single recipe in the 70s)
track lighting
trendy vicars
water beds
More here, and links to the rest.
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