So my lovely Jewish friend almost got me started on a career in sewing!
Viktoria.
Apologies Runner55 for going "off topic" on your thread, but....
Viktoria, you never fail to give me a good laugh reading your stories. So many lovely memories of years gone by mixed with your wicked sense of humour, I love 'em
Sorry too to go off topic ,I got mixed up re which topic I was with.
There is another about the euphemisms “ sewer,seamstress, dressmaker “
All terms that have been used to describe prostitutes on Census returns!
Hence my referral to men needing some sewing being done snd the possibility my friend not turning up could have got me into a life “ sewing”.
I missed a bit out though, outside The Bodega ,a woman was standing on the other side of the doorway.
After a couple of men had approached me,presuming I was a “dressmaker “
she came across and told me to get off her pitch!!!!
That is when I went inside ,she was quite frightening!
You must also understand our knowledge of such things was very sketchy.
I don’t know how I got into The Bodega, but no one on the door.
Anyway, all turned out well ,never told my parents and my boyfriend was incandescent but he too presumed I would be aware of much more than I actually was.
So sorry for hijacking the topic ,but some of the men on Market St and along Piccadilly would be wearing raincoats so that is my excuse.
Viktoria.