winkle-pickers

[sagehen]

I submitted "winkle-pickers" to a (forgotten) thread here some years ago,
referring to a non-U kind of shoe fashion in the UK that I suspected was
long out of date.  One of the other listers with UK background  was
unfamiliar with the term.  I just ran across it again, this time with a
date attached.. Peter Robinson, in his recent /Piece of My Heart/ has a
rock festival promoter in the Midlands in 1969 wearing a pair.
o tempora!.......o mores!
AM

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