better than
the early-mid '80s, though there's absolutely no excuse for some of the clothes my mother dressed me in in the '70s
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 20:43, archived)

My memories of the early eighties
were of printed poyester T-shirts and luminous socks.
( Druid, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 20:45, archived)

ahhhh luminous socks...
towelling they were, and we used to swap them at school so we had mismatched pairs
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Sun 3 Jul 2005, 20:48, archived)