Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - February 2022

[Tony Griffiths]

Me a capitalist? I bought materials which I used my skill to turn into objects of desire. The artisan is worthy of his labour.
Still doing it almost 50 years later though I don’t have hair halfway down to my waist any more!

Spot on.
"How much? Two and sixpence? Outrageous!"
"Nay, lad, it's sixpence for hitting it - and two bob for knowing where."
So said the man who, squatting on the floor with a pair of tins snips and a hammer, made me a beautifully crafted new rear wing for my chummy in 1964.

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With that dress presumably the lady was riding the red bike side saddle. Otherwise the boy would  have  made some more impudent observation.
It is intriguing how extensively pictures of healthy young were used to sell. Raleigh bikes had numerous similar adverts. Now such ads would imply blatant basic sexual attraction, but it requires no mean  imagination to read muchof that into the 1950s versions.
I read somewhere that just post war only about half or so UK men wore underpants. Hopefully  that did not apply to the class who could afford a Bantam and tennis shorts.
(On further examination there is a subtle touch which even I did not intially notice...)
I trust the huge windows in the tram were safety glass.

Side-saddle - if you had the money it would have been the expensive sprung-seat "Tan-Sad". Looks rather dangerous.