It was the early 1960s, the era when women wore stockings and suspenders (and not tights) when knickers were feminine and mostly made of nylon, skirts were either tight or full with frothy petticoats and I was about 7-8 years old.
In those days, Friday nights had two scenarios, but both involved family members getting together at one or another house. The blokes went out to the pub and the women stayed in, chatting, doing each other’s hair and generally being women. Being young, I was engulfed in the women’s realm and ended up on the floor