‘What’s a weirdly anachronistic thing you can’t believe happened within your lifetime?’ – 22 areas where we’ve thankfully come a very long way

13.

‘I always found the expectation of tennis players at Wimbledon bowing to the royal box absolutely cringeworthy. The players themselves often looked uncomfortable. That only stopped in 2003. To his credit Edward Windsor was the driving force behind the change, if 30 years too late!’
–Stefgrep66

14.

‘Vinyl car seats. Uncomfortably sweaty on warm days (no air-con). If parked in direct sunlight, too hot to sit on when wearing thin summer clothes and shorts, had to break out the tartan travel blanket to sit on.’
–BunnySlippers404

15.

‘Pubs with bags of peanuts sold from a cardboard photo of a scantily clad woman who was gradually revealed as the nuts were sold. I bet someone was REALLY pleased with himself for inventing that.’
–linifloor

16.

‘Cars had no seat belts in the back or child locks. I know this because I fell out of my parent’s car on the M25 leaning against the door as a 7-year-old.’
–real_light_sleeper

17.

‘WPCs being issued with black leather handbags with a shortened truncheon to fit in the handbag.’
–bcscroller

18.

‘The ‘marriage bar’ in the UK, which prevented married women from working in certain careers, was only fully abolished when the last holdout, the Foreign Service, finally gave up on the idea in 1973. Up until WWII it was still largely in force and a woman teacher, say, would typically have to give up teaching if she married.’
–_gothick

19.

‘I worked at an office that had an actual typewriter in 2009.’
–bcscroller

20.

‘I grew up in the UK from secondary school onwards, I now teach at university. Using ‘page three’ as a reference for how women used to be portrayed in mainstream media doesn’t ring any bells with my students. Once I explain what it is they are can’t believe it used to be a thing.’
–BalthazarOfTheOrions

21.

‘Women not being allowed to wear trousers to work (office job Unilever 1982).’
–Consistent_Squash590

22.

‘When I had my baby and we bought a carseat my mother laughed and said that she didn’t bother when I was born, and would just carry me while my dad drove.

Out of interest I googled when it became a legal requirement, thinking maybe the 80s… 2006!’
–spiderplant94

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