What Did We Do Before ...

[joggerjayne]

Gravy granules?

Shower gel?

Tee shirts?

[hc4361]

We made gravy with Bisto powder. Took a lot of skill and a saucepan.
We didn't have showers before shower gel.
We had tank tops

[sandyRoe]

1. Made our own
2 used soap
3 wore simmets

[Cloverjo]

Made our gravy from meat juices and flour, and stirred for hours waiting for it to reduce. My mum would never use granules.
Used a bar of soap, which I still do. Shower gel just disappears down the plug hole before I've cleaned everything.
Blouses?

[EDDIE51]

Bisto gravy powder is still better than gravy granules. Plus it looks less like instant coffee granules so less chance of making a cup of gravy for breakfast!
Shower gel > Soap on a rope.
T Shirts, > short sleeved shirts with buttons.

[Mamyalynne]

Went to the chippy.

Ajax.

String vest.

[Jackdaw33]

Gravy was easy. Gravy browning/Bisto powder or Oxo cubes mixed with cornflour.

[DaisyNonna]

Gravy granules? We made gravy properly
Meat juices, cornflour, potato water

Shower gel? Soap in a tin bath in front of a dying fire

Tee shirts? Vests

[tonyav]

Gravy granules, AAHHHHGGGGGG
Shower gel, Vim.
Tee Shirts. What ever mom made me wear.

[Khandro]

I don't use gravy granules, I don't know what 'shower gel' is, I do know what a tee shirt is however and I possess one, a present, on which is emblazoned "je suis fou de St Tropez" but I never wear it.

[Jackdaw33]

T-shirts have been around all my life and I'm in my late 60s.

[EDDIE51]

Gravy browning ! I was a 'wise man' in my primary school nativity play.
The makeup was gravy browning , the teacher covered me in the stuff but could not wash it off me afterwards. I was followed home by a pack of dogs who thought I was a meal on legs !

[Mamyalynne]

You can still buy it too.


http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=274753098

[grasscarp]

1 like others said a long complicated process which ended with adding the juices from the cooked roast!

2 we only had a bath. First bedsit only had shared bath. By the time I got to have access to a shower there wad shower gel.

3 was there ever a BT time? Before T-shirts?

[ummmm]

I don't know as I wasn't alive....

[Mamyalynne]

History of the T Shirt.
T-shirts, made of a light, inexpensive fabric, were easy to clean. The earliest T-shirt dates back to sometime between the Spanish–American War and 1913, when the U.S. Navy began issuing them as undergarments.[2]
The word T-shirt became part of American English by the 1920s, and appeared in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.[2] Following World War II, it became common to see veterans wearing their uniform trousers with their T-shirts as casual clothing. The shirts became even more popular in the 1950s after Marlon Brando wore one in A Streetcar Named Desire, finally achieving status as fashionable, stand-alone, outerwear garments.[3] Often boys wore them while doing chores and playing outside, eventually opening up the idea of wearing them as general-purpose casual clothing.
Printed T-shirts were in limited use by 1942 when an Air Corps Gunnery School T-shirt appeared on the cover of Life magazine. In the 1960s, printed T-shirts gained popularity for self-expression as well for advertisements, protests, and souvenirs.[2]
Current versions are available in many different designs and fabrics, and styles include crew-neck and V-neck shirts.

[Jackdaw33]

In rationing times women used to paint their legs with gravy browning and draw a seam with an eyebrow pencil to simulate stockings when they were in short supply.

[grasscarp]

Jackdaw I still have my ration book somewhere!

[douglas9401]

Not sure but it's a weird menu. :-)

[Ann]

..... and we were saying the other day - how did we manage without kitchen roll/towel?

[Togo]

Meat juices and Mum's or Grandma's skill.

A trip to the "baths" (remember the smell of chlorine?)

My school rugby shirt

Now.......

Make it myself.

Boots no7 bath and shower.

Wearing a Big Audio Dynamite tee shirt.