The late Victoria Wood joked that a sure sign of growing old was seeing Scholl Sandals on display and thinking they looked nice.
The movie equivalent is Guernsey - Sunday evening comfort telly on the big screen.
Downtown Abbey fans still suffering the DTs can get their fix here as four familiar faces from chez Crawley - Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode, Penelope Wilton - continue to do their bit for period drama.
The setting is 1946 as James' best-selling author Juliet Ashton travels to The Channel Islands to find out more about the book club that provided a light during wartime darkness for its motley membership.
There is, of course, a secret, and also a rugged farmer (Michiel Huisman) whose wooly jumper has a hole to match the one in his heart. BOOM! goes the chemistry.
Whatever about the stodginess of the society's needs-must culinary creation, this adaptation of the 2008 bestseller goes down easy. Having previously pointed his lens at disparate communities in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco and Harry Potter, Mike Newell's latest gathering of waifs and strays are good, but not great company.
Lily James is likeable as the literary lead, but there's the nagging feeling throughout that the quality of co-stars Brown Findlay, Courtenay and Wilton deserved more of a look-in. Even at two hours, Newell has too much story and not enough time.
Any chance of a TV series?
