NOSTALGIA: Boston girls ‘go mad’ for maxi-scarves in 1970
The mammoth woollies were proving popular in Boston at the start of the Seventies.
Doreen Pick, manageress of Bellman’s Scotch Wool Shop, in Strait Bargate, said: “The girls are going mad for them. We’ve sold about 200 sets in the last fortnight!”
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Hide AdThe kit comprised 12 balls of double knitting wool, an enormous pair of maxi-knitting pins, and a special pattern given away by the firm.
The pattern gave instructions for not only the scarf but for a pert ear-hugging cap to match.
Mrs Pick said: “I’ve never known anything to catch on quite like this before. All our branches are promoting it and it’s just as popular at all of them.
“It’s not just girls with maxi coats who are knitting the scarves either. If you wear a mini-coat you simply wrap it round your neck a few times to shorten it!”.