Pickles by Brian Crane for July 12, 2013

Does Nelson know what trousers are? (I had to look up “dungarees.”)

Eileen is a cutie. And those guys are good. And, shades of the sixties, they have a flavor of sound much like the Dave Clark Five. Gonna put them on a play list. Thanks.

I truly lament for those innocuous juveniles who never trouble themselves to seize advantage of their intellect’s capacity.

In the 60s my college roommate (from Ohio, I’m a NY Westchesterite) asked me for the skillet and I had to go to my dictionary to find out he meant “frying pan.”

when i was in school i wore jeans.i loved wearing ones that were ripped.after i left school i switched to sweatpants.their a lot more comfortable.

might explain the blank stares I get from my grandkids every now and then.

The name DUNGarees suggests that they were pants worn in the barn for the more messy part of chores, or for spreading the brown..\\//_

I like Opal’s capris. When my grandma wore capris over forty years ago they were called pedal pushers.

my X always called jeans “dungarees” and sneakers “tennie runners” lol also the working uniform for the Navy back in the 60’s and early 70’s was called “dungarees”

Back in the 50s my mom called jeans dungarees, too, and you wore them when cleaning the basement. I was stunned when I saw ads some years later showing young women in jeans that fit well, not baggy, and wearing them out for the evening with heels! I wore gym shoes and only in gym class. Pedal pushers were good for riding a bike because longer pants could get caught in the bike’s chain. Language changes. I was later instructed by my daughters that they got “perms”, not permanents, and stayed in the “dorm” at college, not the dormitory. Grandma always sat on the davenport and used a looking glass.

Gene’s jeans

BarbJay: During our time in Canada, my son summed up the culture shock of “socials” (social studies), and “labour” with “They write long and talk short.”

Thank heavens Nelson has the dog to talk to!

Does anyone remember Mukluks, and Leggings, and Galoshes ?

Thongs went on your feet when I was a kid. Now they are flipflops.

Love your story jr. Thanks for your service!

Pedal pushers are shorter than capris.

I remember that while my kid brother was in the Navy, they went from dungarees to “utilities” and nobody except the notorious Adml. Zumwald liked them. I grew up calling dungarees either dungarees, Levis, or blue jeans. My grandson, until very recently, and his almost 18, wouldn’t wear dungarees. He preferred cargo pants, because, he informed me, they looked cool.

Just another name, neither wrong nor old fashioned even though it has ancient roots, per Merriam-Webster:DUNGAREE1: a heavy coarse durable cotton twill woven from colored yarns; specifically : blue denim 2plural : clothes made usually of blue denim - -Origin of DUNGAREEHindi dũgrī & Urdu dungrīFirst Known Use: 1673-Nelson is learning or he will when he seeks information other than from the dog

I asked my 8 yo what she thought dungarees were, and she said, “Underwear?”

We did not use the term dungaree in the 60’sand what the hell is a cocktail table???

i used to sit on the davenport with my dungarees

How cute.

LOL xxx

i could get the term dungarees from context, which is what a i think skydancer11 is talking about todays youth not doing. But I like knowing the older stuff, when i was 19 (In 2000) I took an age test asking me to identify terms along this line, because i not only knew what a turn table was but also owned one (had way more records then cd’s) my age came out 45

They would have to google it. (That means look it up on the computer)

I’m ex-Navy and still think of dungarees as a Military term. Usage changes…

She needs to look in a mirror herself.

Tin Can Twidget: I still live in the same county as Bug Tussle, which I doubt was ever on any map larger scale than Fannin County. Still there are people who identify themselves as being from there.