in the 70s, Clothes of the Seventies

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Commentor Name:	Tom
Comments left:	It's a sad day for me. I visited my grandparents for the weekend and I wore my faithfull old snorkel parka. My gran commented on how shabby it looked, that I had worn it regularly for a decade and that it was about time to bin it. She laughed and told me that herself and grandad wore the same parkas in the 70's and 80's and that they had a few of them. I perked up when she said she may still have a unused one upstairs and that she'd have a look. She came back down with a parka that was in worse condition than mine. It was made out of the thicker weave nylon whereas mine was the shiny satin type. She laughed and told me she thought there was one that was hardly worn but unfortunately grandad confirmed that he had thrown it away some time a go. I looked at my coat that night, all of the nylon had gone so shiny it looked covered in oil. The stitching was a light colour and you could see it missing in many places. In reality, this parka had done really well. An old girlfriend and her mum wore snorkels all the time. I have a picture of her mum wearing my parka back in 1983, it looked alot better then. She bought another parka in 1986 and this one was used for gardening and walking the dog until she threw it away in 1991. I remember I was looking after their house when they went away for a couple of weeks. I night I had to put the bins out, I looked inside the bin and noticed loads of clothes had been chucked out. I found and rescued the parka along with some other clothes. I guess it was pretty worn then, never mind another 26 years of use! I knew my gran had thrown that parka in the bin so I went to rescue it when I left. She had also thrown out a long blue nylon raincoat so I took that too. I got home and got a good look at her parka. It's not really wearable. The truth is I'm now too embarrassed to wear mine, it really does look a state. Can anyone recommend a good replacement and where to get one? I've seen those Alpha ones but they are expensive. About 12/13 years ago, I bought two of the reproduction ones made by a company called Pop, a blue one and a brown one. The nylon was very thin and felt crappy and so was the padding. The blue one was way worse than the brown one. I wore the blue one quite alot but didn't like it at all. Once it got dirty, I put it in the bin.I still have the brown one and have worn it a few times but don't like it.
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