Clothes - Treat or Necessity?

KatrinaC_2

Peem wrote:

The thing that's worrying me about cheap clothes at the moment are the working conditions of the people making them and the environmental issues of cheap (for e.g.) cotton t-shirts. I'm not saying the more expensive ones are necessarily any better but it would be nice to know (remember the Nike sweat shop hou hah a few years back?)

Does any one have any definitive answers about who NOT to buy from?

I remeber there was a lot of noise about Gap being a bad employer. With them and Nike on the side of the bad guys, it's not necessarily the cheap producers who's practices are less ethical.

Peem wrote:

one day I'll have enough cash to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe (and have the figure to go with it) But I'll still have short legs!

Hey - one day we'll have enough cash to get our legs lengthened to match our nice new clothes!

Kat

lazy&indebt

LookingAhead wrote:

The OP said she is a size 8/10 with 34" legs.

Ok I'm not jealous at all. :rolleyes:

You shouldn't be - I have the figure of a golf club

lazy&indebt

The length of your legs and the siz of yuor backside makes no difference - sorry to sounds corny but if you walked into a club with your shoulders back and your head high and just look comfortable in your own skin...you will turn heads! Nobody looks at me and i have been accused of being bulimic because i eat like a horse but don't put weight on - how nice! It's tough for us skinnies. People think it's ok to pick on us because of our weight but I am unhappy with my figure just like other women - I wish I was curvy!

ZTD

lazy&indebt wrote:

You shouldn't be - I have the figure of a golf club

What? With a car-park, driving range and bar area? Cool... :cool:









:rotfl: :rotfl:

Everyone should be happy with their body because there is someout there who actually does want their body.

MinnieSpender

ZTD wrote:

Everyone should be happy with their body because there is someout there who actually does want their body.

Are you SURE about that? If there is, he's doing a flipping good Houdini job! :rotfl:

schoolfundraiser

My 15 year old daughter has to be prodded to buy clothes - I have recently introduced a monthly clothing allowance linked to a debit card for her but still has to be practically frogmarched to the shops and then she insists on only buying what she came out for!!!

Could be because she is 5ft 10 size 16 to 18 and size 9 wide feet. Clothes shopping has never been pleasurable as it was always what would fit her rather than what she wanted. So I suppose it is years of conditioning for both of us. Primark solved the problems for a while but she has grown again and now only the underwear and nighties fit. Luckily Asda are doing longer trousers at a reasonable price and Dorothy Perkins have a limited range. It is still a bit of a problem though. She can't wear tights as they don't make them both tall and larger sized (they assume everyone tall is a size 10) so skirts are out.

It could be worse - her year at school doesn't wear uniform - so I don't have to go through the palaver of having it ordered specially and paying through the nose any more. Although £50 a shot for shoes is normal.

MoneyMagnet

lazy&indebt wrote:

i have been accused of being bulimic because i eat like a horse but don't put weight on - how nice! It's tough for us skinnies. People think it's ok to pick on us because of our weight

Yes, I've come across this kind of attitude. It's as if making comments about an overweight person's size is considered rude (and rightly so), but it's somehow acceptable to make personal remarks to slim people about their appearance. Bit of a double standard there! :mad: (Sorry going OT here.... )

ZTD

schoolfundraiser wrote:

Could be because she is 5ft 10 size 16 to 18 and size 9 wide feet. Clothes shopping has never been pleasurable as it was always what would fit her rather than what she wanted.

I know this might be a sensitive issue, and certainly would have to be sold carefully to your daughter, but have you thought of buying men's stuff and just having it "fitted" by a seamstress?

ti1980

Schoolfundraiser-where does your daughter usually end up getting her shoes from? I have the same problem with wide feet and I don't enjoy shopping at all, it is a definite chore rather than a treat like it is for most people.
I once bought a pair of shoes from Primark as they miraculously fit me but they fell apart after about a month as I used them for work. Only bought socks from there since.

chevalier

I don't really buy clothes at all on a regular basis. I am always hoping that I will lose the stone in weight I want to lose, and with THEN buy clothes. Of course there is always something else to do than exercise, so I don't lose the weight and so don't buy the clothes.

As for the family, my dh kept on being given shirts because he likes loud ones, so he has enough to last him for about 5 years. My DS1 is growing like a weed at the moment (12cm so far this year), so ebay is my saviour. My DS2 gets all my older sons clothes, so no spend there.

I guess never being bothered by clothes, shopping for them is a chore.
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