Quote Originally Posted by Soquili View Post
Brogues and Brogans are terms I haven't heard for almost 50 years. We got one pair of brogans when school started and they had to last until the following summer. Just bare feet until school started again in the fall
>sniff< You were lucky. We didn't even get the shoes in the first place.
Didn't even have a shoe box.
If we did have a shoe box we'd have had a place in which to live.
Working 26 hours a day, every day for a penny a week, walking ten miles to work and back - shoes would have been most welcome.
I seem to remember getting a pair of socks once.
Being a sharing family we had one finger-warmer each.
A luxury indeed.