Monday 4 May 2015

BEDM - Day 4 "Guilty Pleasure"

This pleasure was 'made' guilty by a family friend.
 
 
I wore my red leather trousers home for the first time and a family friend, Lois, was visiting. She was determined to find out how much I had paid for them and, in front of my mum and dad, kept pestering until I gave up and said they were eighty pounds.
 
I'd been working for a while at The Wells and had seen these in a store up Chapel Street Market and, once tried on, they had to be mine. They fitted like a dream and they wore and wore and wore. Even when they got ripped on the train down to Plymouth, they got stitched up and worn some more.
 
With red leather boots in the cold and my Arnie Zane cut-off T-shirt in the summer.
The year was 1987 and I loved those jeans like, well, a second skin.
But that chat at my parents - oh my, my dad, he very nearly went ballistic!
Guilt? Oh yeah!
 
 
Then I just got on with enjoying them.
 
These 2 photos were taken by Mr B on a trip over to The Isle of Dogs, an area now more commonly known as Canary  Wharf.
 
We had travelled over by bus to visit the Limehouse TV studios; it was one of those 'mecca'-type places that we aspired to work at, at the time. It was still East India Docks then and they had just built the Docklands Light Railway, which was running on the track with no-one driving or travelling on it. Weird!
 
 
Canary Wharf is just to the left and the white 'blob' top right is the Blackwell Tunnel ventilation shaft.
It is quite shattering to see the developmental changes. What was not much more than scrubland and disused docks, is now what it is today.
The O2 is just out of the Google Map screenshot above, on the right.
 
This was one of our 'days out' trips that we would do when we first started dating.
Today is our 28th Anniversary!!
Zxx


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  1. Oh no, I bet you weren't happy with your friend!!! They sound one of those life-defining purchases!
    Happy anniversary! X

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    1. I loved Lois with all my heart - always. She was a bit older than my parents, what my mum would call a 'county-type', had a beach hut and died when on holiday in Egypt getting mown down by a runaway horse (or even a camel...my memory is going downhill!). When they came to bury her, her coffin was too big for the hole! Seriously! Could only happen to her!
      Zxx

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  2. Red leather! I always dreamed of owning some in the 1980s! x

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    1. If I could fit into them still I'd be wearing then now!
      Zxx

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  3. Look at you in your red leather trousers! Gorgeous! If you wear things to death then they're totally worth the expense. Some things you cannot leave in the shop!
    So glad to hear you're feeling more positive. xxx

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    1. Thank you!
      It's great to be back and thank you so much for your support. Much appreesh!!
      Zxx

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  4. Oh gosh, I love them. I had a red leather skirt, which I loved but didn't really suit me, but I'm sad I didn't hold onto it.

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    1. Hello Char! (waves madly)
      Haven't been over to you for ages and was just saying to Arthur last night that it was you that got me into BEDM when it first started.
      Will be playing catch-up soon...so much to read!
      Zxx

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  5. Happy anniversary! Those leather trousers were worth every penny, don't they look fab? xxx

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    1. Thank you! Can't believe it's been so long!!
      They were my one big splurge and doing that Cost per Wear 'thing' it must be less than a penny a wear I would guess.
      Will come and visit...just getting my mojo back up and running!
      Zxx

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