Not sexist at all Peter. I totally agree, I hate them and will never wear them, once was enough.
I wasn’t a dolly girl either, I prefered being outside and rollerbooting or playing marbles with my brother.
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At school (primary, secondary less) we played loads of cigarette card games, the prize was of course more ciggie cards.
I used to collect the bubble gum cards and re found many of them wen rummaging trough boxes recently. Things like the Man From Uncle and Batman series etc from the '60s
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What is a dolly girl?
Woolly tights are the best thing ever, lovely and cosy.
I spent my youth in awful scratchy tweed school uniform, riding kit or swimming kit or games kit.
Riding kit was best by miles.
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Lucky it was not Buckfast 
I still have an original lava lamp and sometimes switch it on.
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I had a Sindy doll and birthdays and Xmas I got furniture for her…sindy’s Wardrobe and sindy’s bed and her horse…and her car…I don’t remember sindy having a boyfriend but maybe she did and I had outgrown her by then…??? 
I also had Pippa dolls…
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I only remember them because of my gran and my great aunt…I vaguely remember my mom having some but times were moving on and stockings were made differently…
I had quite a collection of fish nets and hold ups and stockings with designs down the sides…
I never quite took to tights…I tried them and remember having to wear two pairs of pants…one pair as normal and another pair on top to stop the gusset from appearing round my knees by lunchtime…
Woolly tights were great but still needed the two pair of pants approach…
Nowadays I’m much more comfortable in leggings or combats…
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I don’t think I have worn anything but jeans for the last 20+ years. Here I can work in jeans 
, in the UK I couldn’t 
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We used to get Shaws Ginger beer and dandelion and burdock (2 bottles each) on a saturday when the pop truck came round. Happy days. My first car was a Bond bug, but only as i could drive it on a bike licence.
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my dear dad always bought in Snowballs for me at Christmas - even until the 1990s! likes them when I was 16 but they were so sweet,
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I remember damp Sunday afternoons repairing laddered tights with a hook thingy to re- link the strands. ( a funny gizmo I still have) but you could always see the trail of darning going up your leg!
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yes I had Sindy and before that an Amanda Jane doll.
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I had a doll which was brown with very fair hair, called Sasha I think. I gave it to someone as dolls weren’t really my thing.
Along with almost every child in England, I had a golly. He had long black hair, stripey trousers, a round face, a big smile, and gloves.
As I recall it, gollies were regarded with great affection, rivalling teddies, and were always tucked up in bed with kiddies, teddy on one side golly on the other, when they went up the wooden hill to Dreamland.
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I still have my hand made golly and teddy.
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One of the first casualtys imo of Political Correctness 
They were much loved…
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I don’t think black people saw them as anything other than amusing toys, until it was suggested that they were intended to humiliate black people. No more than Ponchinello (Mr Punch) is a slur on Italians.
The idea that they were a racist symbol is the unfortunate consequence of a more recent (post-Windrush and Idi Amin) upsurge in xenophobia IMO.
Not for me to say, but I can say that as a child I loved mine and there was never any realisation that it could offend anyone.
It was for me just a much loved toy, could have been green, pink or blue and it would not have made any difference, so much to be said for the innocence of childhood. Shame it doesn’t seem to last too long nowadays.
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As Tracey says it is not for you (or I or any white person) to say.
Punch & Judy is slightly different in that it has Italian origins, adapted into British culture. I don’t think there is a suggestion that it was ever anti-Italian.
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