A Tribute to C & A

I have just been doing a little sewing repair to my snow boots which I bought about 16 years ago from C & A. This is the first repair I have ever had to do to them in all those years of not just ski trips, but dog walking and just general walking. I think I paid £9.99 for them.
Everything else bought about the same time has now either been passed on to someone else or gone beyond repair - as in the case of my husband's C & A snow boots which didn't survive the night toboggan run in Schladming!
Has anyone else still got any C & A gear - or am I on my own here as no-one else would ever dream of buying their stuff in the first place :D

They used to be pretty decent for relatively budget priced winter sports stuff in the UK if I remember rightly. Perhaps their role has been taken over these days by TK Maxx. Funnily though, on a recent trip to Austria, I went into a massive C&A store in Vienna and saw a great variety of ski wear, in far more varied styles and colours than you could find in aforementioned TKM.

I do recall getting frostbite in my new C&A ski gloves whilst in Bormio. I was in ski school and was removed from the class and told to go buy something more appropriate.
It was only minor 'nip and the feeling came back into my fingers after a couple of days.

I took the gloves back and got a full refund on returning to the UK.

C&A cheap and adequate but served a purpose my first ski gear came from there in 1975 I am pretty sure it was "Rodeo" at that time I dont think there was much technical gear around so thick t shirt jumper ski jacket and away you went, just to add my very first ski trip was to Zermatt have not been back yet but will do one day

I have some rodeo heavy weight thermals from about twenty years ago. I still use them occasionally for kayaking.

I still got a Rodeo top it shall be comming to St Christoph with me, although it did not make Chatel

Ian Wickham wrote:I still got a Rodeo top it shall be comming to St Christoph with me, although it did not make Chatel

You will have the fashion police after you there. AKA Stewarts other half.

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:I still got a Rodeo top it shall be comming to St Christoph with me, although it did not make Chatel

You will have the fashion police after you there. AKA Stewarts other half.

It's an Antique .... much like me :wink: