A bit of nostalgia. I just got my Vermont Country Store catalog.

[Paper Roses]

Some of the goodies they have for sale bring visions of my youth. Not the price however. How about this:
Remember when you could go to Woolworth's and but a Tangee lipstick for 15 cents? Lifebuoy soap for next to nothing? It is now 3 bars for $12.95. Other great goodies like the horrible "Evening in Paris" perfume that we all bought for our mothers.

As I looked through the catalog, I thought of some of the other things I remember as a child. Anyone remember Lux Flakes? I thought that stuff was cool. I wonder if they make it any more.

What goodies do you remember?

[Captain Hilts]

1. I like the British Warm hot water bottle...nt

[JuniperLea]

2. Lanz flannel nightgowns...

I've worn them in the winter all of my life... still have several. They last forever! I have a couple that are 30 years old or better... just got 'em broken in!

:)

The prices in that catalog are pretty high, which keeps me from ordering more goodies. I hope to visit the original store some day!

[Paper Roses]

7. Seeing the store would be fun. You are right about the prices.

By the way, I saw the Lanz nightgowns at Marshall's a short time ago. They were $19.99, I believe. You are right, they wear like iron. I have one of the long cotton snap-front robes. It must be at least 20 years old and still going strong.
For nightgowns, you can' beat the old Barbizon full length. Mine are tissue thin but still holding on.

When I saw VCS price on Fels Naptha soap, I was shocked. It is $1.19 at the grocery store. Sometimes they push it too far.

[JuniperLea]

9. I saw that too...

Who would have thought Fels Naptha would be found in a specialty catalog? Weird!

I like the little rubber curlers that look like space ships too!

I have a couple of Barbizon "model's coats" that I've had for at least 20 years! So handy to throw on while you're getting ready to go out and you don't want to get fully dressed yet.

My mom used to use those on me... very curly! And you can sleep on them easily.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. I used to wear Lanz summer dresses.

They came in cotton floral prints, with straps and little bolero jackets. Very cute and cool in the hot summer. I got them at Neiman-Marcus.

[katandmoon]

3. I love that catalog. Several years ago I ordered a bottle of Oh! de London perfume,

once made by Yardley, but this was not a Yardley product and it was a little different from what I remembered. I'm a child of the 60's -- I do remember buying Tangee lipstick at Woolworth's when I was a young teen then, but though it was cheap, it wasn't 15 cents by then.

I don't know if it's in the latest catalog but I've seen Adams sour gum in there, and I chewed that stuff like crazy back when.

[Ineeda]

4. I have one of those blue bottles of Evening in Paris

and I sniff it once in a while. Brings back memories of childhood. :)

[monmouth]

6. I'm the same way with "Tweed"...Always reminded me of WWII...n/t

[LoveMyCali]

5. I really want to order

a bottle of Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo for my sister. She used to use that all the time when we were in high school but I don't remember it costing $15 a bottle back then.

[trof]

8. Ah...'Evening in Paris'.

I wonder how many of those unused little bottles my mom had stashed on the back of her closet shelf.
:rofl:

[eleny]

10. Tangee lipstick - I can't remember what color it turned when I used it

I'm tempted to get some but I don't recall using it all up. Maybe it turned a weird shade but I'm drawing a blank. :*

[peacefreak]

12. It used to turn my lips orange.

I'll never forget the smell of it, though.

[grasswire]

11. oh fun, they have Blue Waltz too

I can remember the smell of that. I also remember something called Apple Blossom that came in a real milk glass hobnail bottle with a stopper. I'd like to smell that again.

Ah, and 4711. I have an old, old bottle of it that belonged to my mom. Once in a while I sprinkle some on my pillowcase. Even though it is decades old, it hasn't turned bad. I love that stuff.

[quiller4]

13. I want to order Tween and Woodhue. I wore Woodhue as my scent throughout high school.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. Grandma would give the granddaughters White Shoulders perfume.

In the Art Deco bottle with the pink round cap.

I guess they gave us that because it did not have any sexy overtones. So I guess it was suitable for white Anglo-Saxon Southern virgins.

My grandma wore L'Air du Temps, which is a wonderful floral fragrance.

Mom wore Shalimar, which is heavy and sexy and wonderful in the winter. Also, Opium is heavy and wonderful in the winter.

I have never liked Chanel No. 5. I think it's just weird.

Chanel No. 22 I do like, and most of the Guerlain fragrances. I do not like any of the Estee Lauder fragrances - they give me headaches. I do not like Samsara by Guerlain either.

Funny cultural note:I think they named it Samsara because that is an exotic Sanskrit word. However, in Buddhism, Samsara is the cycle of death and rebirth that beings are trying to get out of by becoming enlightened, so it is not a good thing.