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Alexnikov

daisybella wrote: »

I feel so lucky, but so guilty that someone would just sending something like that to me

Alex,
I've blogged PJs before

Stop feeling guilty! I'm firmly of the opinion that you get what you deserve when it comes to presents. If people send you lovely things it's because you're a lovely person and you thoroughly deserve them

Right, the pj challenge starts on Saturday! I have crafty things planned for this weekend so might add that as well.

Mariel

Hi all!

I'm wearing my Joe Browns dress today which got me thinking - if you wear dresses all the time doesn't it make for a lot of washing? I put tops in the wash after one wear usually and since a dress has a top it has to be washed each wear. So if you wear them all the time is it ok to give them a quick squirt of Febreeze and hang them up for another wear or do you just grit your teeth and cope with the extra washing? I suppose I've got 4 females to wash for so I have a lot of washing anyway.
Sorry, I ask the most random questions sometimes!
Right, off to re-dye my hair (it's a bit pink and orange now lol) and then sort out some posters for my companion's gig on Saturday. I love it, his gig = free drinks all night for me, result!

daisybella

Mariel, depending on what I've done during the day, what time I got dressed, and whether I spilled something I tend to wear a dress more than once...perhaps 2/3 times before washing. Otherwise I'd never do anything but laundry (as would my Mum who does a lot of mine with hers and dad's to make up a load!)

Alexnikov

lostinrates wrote: »

I think jeans, pjs, and the the sort of stuff we wear at home is actually important on threads and blogs. Otherwise aren't we part of the fashion mainstream: pushing an unmaintainable (for may women) ideal of what we should wear. Individually days we don't make the effort may tell us something about ourselves too.

Today, I'm wearing my old t shirt nighty with loads of rips and tears in it. It used to be y mum's and she gave it to me when I came home having left my ex with nothing but my handbag. It was really big for me, then fitted when I got fat, and now is getting too big for me again, but has loads of holes in it and is ragged. Its always what I wan when I feel or have felt really sick..but its got to go soon!

You always say exactly what I mean but so much more eloquently!

ETA - Mariel - I'm probably a complete skank and will get drummed out of the fashion thread for owning up to this but I almost never wash a top after one wear, it's more likely two or three. And jeans get washed after about 6 wears or possibly more - if clothing isn't dirty and doesn't smell then it's a waste of time and resources to be constantly washing them!

retro_bluebell

lostinrates wrote: »

I think jeans, pjs, and the the sort of stuff we wear at home is actually important on threads and blogs. Otherwise aren't we part of the fashion mainstream: pushing an unmaintainable (for may women) ideal of what we should wear. Individually days we don't make the effort may tell us something about ourselves too.

Today, I'm wearing my old t shirt nighty with loads of rips and tears in it. It used to be y mum's and she gave it to me when I came home having left my ex with nothing but my handbag. It was really big for me, then fitted when I got fat, and now is getting too big for me again, but has loads of holes in it and is ragged. Its always what I wan when I feel or have felt really sick..but its got to go soon!

You always say the right thing you! You are right

lostinrates

Mariel wrote: »

Hi all!

I'm wearing my Joe Browns dress today which got me thinking - if you wear dresses all the time doesn't it make for a lot of washing? I put tops in the wash after one wear usually and since a dress has a top it has to be washed each wear. So if you wear them all the time is it ok to give them a quick squirt of Febreeze and hang them up for another wear or do you just grit your teeth and cope with the extra washing? I suppose I've got 4 females to wash for so I have a lot of washing anyway.
Sorry, I ask the most random questions sometimes!
Right, off to re-dye my hair (it's a bit pink and orange now lol) and then sort out some posters for my companion's gig on Saturday. I love it, his gig = free drinks all night for me, result!

I get more than one wear out of most tops, depending what I've done in them. I tend to no put things away in drawers or cupboard if worn then wear them again, and aain if they don't need washing. I get through more washing than most people anyway: because of washing clothes to wear outside, and I change my linen 2-3 times week. I don' sweat much in good clothes, so it depends if I've got mucky or spilled stuff more than anything else. I do quite naughtily wear good clothes to do the lates with animals if its ok weather...which means washing:I'm always clumsier and dirtier than I planned to be. also, often I wear things that I wore as ''good'' one day to do horses etc the next couple of days. E.g. sundays top was worn to crufts..I wouldn't wear it as ''good'' again because crufts doesn't smell good, but wore it monday to do the horses in morning and evening, and its being washed today

lostinrates

Alexnikov wrote: »

You always say exactly what I mean but so much more eloquently!
!

Goodness, thank you, and retro!

I'm getting loads of compliments lately on writing, so I conclude I'm getting a lot better. I will be telling my neurologist that I'm becoming more comprehensible! :j:j:j

Queen_of_NO_MATTER_WHAT

I can relate to no wanting to blog when wearing jeans and also having a fat week grrr body image issues are w*nk!

Cute daisy, ill be a fun project for you

Pics up on blog now, not a great outfit..but it's not jeans, fleece and uggs which I have mostly been wearing, except yesterda when I swapped the fleece for gillet *yawn* I'm boring myself with the details of my practical/can't be bothered outfits.
Also swapped denim jacket for denim mac instead x

daisybella

Lost, comprehensible? You are one of the most eloquent people I have come across

killielila

lol random just noticed Martind " new outfit " on the banner happy St Paddys day