Fashion on the dole...

SALFORD WOMEN
The women dress like little girls
and the girls dress like little women
and the little girls dress like their
mam's dressed twenty years ago.
But that's fashion on the dole.
Round here a woman's old -
when she gets to forty,
then she dresses like Ena Sharples
for the next thirty years -
unless she's got a young bloke,
or a husband with a proper job.
Then she'll dress like a girl
and everyone'll say:
"She's fit for an old bag."
Except for the blokes down the pub.
They're not bothered as long
as they've got their entrance fee.
Barmaids are like that sometimes -
mutton dressed as lamb!
You'd think they'd have plenty
of money - with all those tips -
but it doesn't work like that.
All those coins go in the gas.
Or the husband drinks it with
the Giro every other Thursday lunch.
That's why the women dress like girls
and the girls dress like little women
and the little girls dress like their
mam's dressed twenty years ago.
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