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1972 Mail Order Catalogue

  • 17-12-2010 02:16PM
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    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,525 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭


    Following on from the Argos 1985 catalogue thread, I though I would share with you what some of the best dressed men were wearing at Christmas 1972 to keep themselves warm:

    mailordercat2-1.jpg?t=1292591573

    mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

    These are pages from the Great Universal Autumn/Winter 1972/3 mail Order Catalogue. I am not sure if the catalogue was available in Ireland at the time - I think Family Album, which was an associated company, established itself in Ireland in the late 1970s


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Jaysus...


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,525 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    State of the art calculator, providing multiplication, division, addition, subtraction ...

    mailordercat4-1.jpg?t=1292852635

    ... a snip at £79 (not far off €1,000 in today's money)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    cannot_be_unseen.jpg?1257471121

    (Please never post anything like that again.)


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