Snake belts?

[dondons69]

Anyone remember these?

[Aidan]

Yep, ideal for kids' quick-growing waistlines. Cheap and durable too !

[Dean]

I remember them, I also remember the painful knuckles after messing about fastening the elasticated devils!
Dean.

[Oggy]

yep i though they were kool red and black striped, with the snake, if you had one of these you were kool, or thought so.

[sixtyten]

yep,and what about V.D belts?? (vertical danglers)

[Oggy]

Sounds weird, never heard of those?

[steve edwards]

yep my dad bought me one once it was brown and yellow as i recall thought it looked great , but then again so did leg warmers ....didnt they ?

[OrangeCremolaFoam]

Best thing about Snake Belts was that you could put a towel on your head and pretend to be an Arab too!! (though i was never sure why I wanted to be an Arab but hey, it was the 70's!!) I do remember however a tale of a party when I was at School and a guy was running about with just a pair of brown and cream piped y fronts on...and a snake Belt!!! Bet the ladies loved him!!!

Rab ;0)

[steve edwards]

couldnt do that now ...you would be RACIST absolute s*it

[Wil]

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Snake belts and political incorrectness all in one handy piccy

[Stockcarfan]

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yep,and what about V.D belts?? (vertical danglers)

Those were the ones where you had the end dangling about a foot down your leg? There were red, pink & yellow ones and the had shiney metal at the end of the 'dangly' bit?

If it's the same thing they were called 'funky belts' here.

[sixtyten]

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Thats the one!! same as ones worn today (I'm wearing one now),but they are called webbing belts now and they are not so long in the dangly bit.

[pedro]

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snake belts great for holding up your "Sea Dog" jeans. A pair of these and you thought you were the dogs VD's

[m-tina]

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i hated my snake belt, so much so, I've bought my daughter one (she's 4), just to keep the cycle going. I also had a dangly belt, but for some reason our school went through a phase of plaiting string together, dying it with food colouring and wearing that!... and yep the colouring did run in the rain!

[ridski]

Snake belts?

This is probably going to sound a little stupid, but I saw an old photo of me and my sister back in the late 70s and it made me think of these. My sister worked as administrator for a while at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, and had a pager and various bits of nurses uniform she was supposed to wear (but not the whole thing, as she wasn't qualified.

So in this photo, she's wearing one of these:



Which every nurse wore back then, and I was wearing one of these:



Which every boy wore back then. Anyone else have any fond or horrific memories of the kinds of belts they wore back in the day?