Then, all of a sudden, there was I minding my own business,
finishing off my next blog and wammo... unbeknown to me I get tagged by the
lovely The Last Slayer along with Margot and Barbara and Dorky Mum!!! That’s ok I
hear you shout, it’s not like you don’t do this sort of this for fun anyway,
but here’s the rub! It couldn’t just have been a nice topic, you know one that
I could easily think up, write and post ... something up my street! Oh no, it had to be on the one thing I know
very little about, yep vintage clothes. Now I ask you, is there more of a
challenge that you could set a bloke, let alone one that’s actually just a hand,
other than to ask them to write about what’s in their wardrobe.
Ok so being one who’s never afraid of a challenge (well
maybe... possibly... ok probably then.. depending on what it is) here is my tale of
my Vintage ‘Handy’ Wardrobe!
#1 – The Paisley
Romancers
So yep it’s true, I was born in the sixties albeit at the
very end of the sixties. A decade of free love; Mods and Rockers, Jimmy
Hendrix, 1966 and of course paisley patterns. Now these little beauts above are
Father Fingers romancing gloves, it was with these gorgeous finger fettlers
that he managed to snare Mother Fingers back in the day. It was a match made in heaven; he was a right
hand and she the left... and these gloves brought them together to a point of togetherness
that saw little old me enter this world. Who’d have realised that such a simple
act of unity, such as clapping hands at the final whistle of a victorious world
cup win would have ‘climaxed’ (and I do
obviously mean climaxed) in 9 months later the birth of ‘onlyfivefingers’. To
this day we keep them unwashed and festering in their loving embrace as a sign of my
beginning (for H&S purposes they are obviously in a Tupperware box now!).
#2 – My Wedding Glove
Fashionable, functional and feisty, I present you my wedding
glove (or gauntlet as you may see), pretty apt thinking about it as I’ve been running
the gauntlet in my marriage ever since.
I came across these hanging amongst the many gloves in my wardrobe while
looking to see what to include in this post. They epitomise everything about
me.. as you can see they are strong, reliable, fashionable and functional... ok, so you're right that’s nothing like me, but then in reality they were only bought
with one thing in mind and that was to stop Mrs Fingers from squeezing that
little bit tight when I was asked the vital question on my wedding day (so as
you can see they don’t work) but hey I still like them and they do come in
handy sometimes ;-) 