DUNGAREES

I read somewhere that dungarees are back in fashion, but after 35 years I don't think I'll be reviving mine (they probably got cut up for a school play sometime in the intervening years, anyway). This is on the fridge door, ostensibly to bolster my willpower, but it occurs to me that since the fridge is full of healthy food the photo really ought to be on the bread bin, and quite honestly I'm unlikely ever to be that shape again!

"The term 'dungaree' was associated with a coarse undyed calico fabric that was made and sold in a region near Dongari Killa (also called Fort George) in Bombay (now Mumbai) in India. The cloth was cheap and often poorly woven. As such, it was used by the poorer classes for clothing and by various navies as a sail cloth. Sailors often re-used old sails to make clothes. In time, the name of the cloth came to also mean an item of clothing made out of it." It's in Wikipedia, so it must be true.

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