winkle-pickers

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Put this in the file of "Things that sound dirty, but aren't"

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> I remember both the term and the style of shoe, likewise from
> some time in the 'Sixties. The winkle referred to is the
> mollusc known as a "periwinkle," not to be confused with the
> flowering plant of the same name.
>
> -Wilson
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> On 9/21/06, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> > 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 suspected was long out of date.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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> >       W is where Worse comes to Worst!
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