A little thread about belts

[ridski]

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?