Leather dye

[kennedia_nigricans]

I bought green leather dye. The shopkeeper told me that it was old but I didn't mind cos it's GREEN!

I got a brush and brushed it merrily onto my shoes until I wondered about the incredible stink so I read the label more closely.

The next 30 minutes I was thinking "What the hell?!?!?!?"

I am still not over it and I thought I share this one with you cos that is just another reminder why "the good old times" were only good when you were a white male. My dad uses the term "the bad old times" for that reason.

[freddie*rooster]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

I recall having a lime green pair of shoes and handbag to match when I was about 17, OMG I thought I was Elizabeth Taylor when I wore them HAHAHAHA

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Do you still have them?  Fluro is back

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No meep, they got chucked many years ago, but I do have a fluro green top I wear with a pair of lime green and white striped pants I bought from Margo

[**meep**]

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@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

If she didn't insist on killing all her lawn she could wear her shoes while mowing.

Worked on my volleys

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oh no, did she concrete it?  LOL

get her to mow yours

[polksaladallie]

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

This time I'm right. You can still buy Nugget shoe polish but Alexanders was an Australian company still operating into the 1960"s. They produced and sold N.... shoe polish and the tin even had a graphic of some sort of stork-type bird carrying a black baby!

I used to work for an antiques dealer and you still see the tins come up as collectors' items.

Marina.

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You are right. I just googled and found info.  That's amazing.  No doubt it was racist, with the black baby depicted.