And how about the boots too? People my age will know what I'm speaking off. Took me forever to get them on and had to lay on the floor to get the snowsuit off, but I don't ever recollect being cold. We played outside in the snow too! Not like today's schools at all.
2007-12-02 12:32:34 · 11 answers · asked by kriend 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Buckle Boots-don't you remember the torture of them too? I think they only came in one ugly color too!
2007-12-02 13:16:34 · update #1
As a baby boomer, I do recall those brutal Ohio winters as a youngster & getting all bundled up in a snowsuit, hat, gloves, & oh, yes, those boots with the buckle on them. By the time I was ready to go outside, I was sweating so bad. I had to chuckle when you spoke of laying on the floor to get the snowsuit off. Wasn't that the truth? There was a special register that I had to put my mittens/gloves on, so they would dry. If I got snow inside my boots, I had to put my boots upside down on the register too to dry them out. When the furnace came on, the room filled with the scent of my rubber boots. I have such fond memories of those winters in Ohio. Thanks for sharing yours. :)
2007-12-02 13:44:47 · answer #1 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I HATED the one piece snow suits!...wasn't that of the two piece either! LOL...all the ones my parents bought me were too 'childish' in my opinion at the time LOL
And yes, the pull on rubber galoshes that went over the shoes...then later I got a pair of pull on over the feet [no shoes] boots which I dearly loved.
I also remember stuffing my own kids into snowsuits and multiple layers of clothing...by the time I got through they could barely walk! LOL
2007-12-03 05:59:32 · answer #2 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mother never had us in snowsuits. A good coat was good enough. It was the layering... along with good hat/scarf/gloves... which was more important.
But I do SO love the image from the movie, "A Christmas Story" where Ralphie's little brother... and I quote... "Looked like a tick ready to pop!" LOL!!!
It was rare we stayed out long enough to get cold. Besides, in NJ, it doesn't get AS cold as it does here in Wyoming... last night it went down to -3(F), and our pipes are frozen!
Have a good ol' day.
2007-12-02 13:15:18 · answer #3 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Growing up in Vermont, we girls had to wear dresses to school back then, but always wore corduroy pants lined with flannel underneath the skirt, which we would take off and hang up in the "cloak room". My grandma would knit us "wrist-lets" to sew inside the sleeves of our coats, so there would be no gap between sleeve and mitten. I remember many a fun recess, sliding down the hill on our pieces of cardboard. Now the kids wear snow pants and go to school with "Magic Carpets" made especially for that purpose.
2007-12-02 12:47:49 · answer #4 · answered by Snow Globe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gosh, I hadn't thought of those 'snowsuits' in years. We wore them when we were kids too, they were puffy and no we were never cold, sometimes we'd about roast in them. lol
I'm 51 and I lived in the mts and we got a lot of snow. We always have mittens-with no individual fingers and boots. We'd build snowmen and make snowballs and snow ice cream. It makes me cold just to think of all that snow. lol
2007-12-02 12:59:29 · answer #5 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm 52 not a senior citizen but i lived through the snowsuit era. lol just thinking about it! we had those dandy one piece puffy things with umpteen zippers and i can remember the horror of having to go to the bathroom! it took forever to get ready to go outside! and the boots, lol, those days were the best....
2007-12-02 12:50:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember being jammed and packed into that horrible grey snowsuit!! I felt like a 900 pound pillsbury doughboy. I sorta walked funny too. My mother would say "Now go outside and play."
I would say back: "Play what?"
2007-12-02 13:04:51 · answer #7 · answered by Just Tink 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry grew up in LA-No snow. I do remember having to put on socks in the winter and exchanging our flip flops for closed-toes shoes!!
2007-12-02 12:39:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember being so bundled up you could hardly walk and if you fell down you needed someone to help you get up. haha
2007-12-02 13:05:23 · answer #9 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God, you brought back memories of freezing my fingers having snowball fights and making snowman. Thanks.
2007-12-02 13:12:09 · answer #10 · answered by 'Old & Cudley' 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋