How to make CHEAP look EXPENSIVE! (merged)

Horasio

I made a black waistcoat for my O Level needlework in 1980.

It is a little small now but I can wear it without doing up the front buttons.

I have sewed assorted buttons on it all over to make it look funky

wishingonastar_3

gosh, i don't have anything older than a couple of years, but i love charity shops, co tend to go through phases of things, then having a mass clear out, lol. although i'd have to say my dressing gown is my oldest, 10 years on and its still going strong. but i've nothing else to match it. dd has her first baby gro on her baby annabell doll, so thats nigh on ten years old too.

rubytuesday

Oh yes that reminds me I still have my sons Dads dessing gown and matching towel black and grey checks from habitat 1982.

metherer

I think my oldest clothing - in active service - is an orange jumper from evans. got it in 1996 and its the best jumper i've ever had. The majority of photos of me have it in!

Oldest not in active service is my brownie dress with badges and brown bobble hat. I left in 1989, and can't imagine it would have fit then!

Metherer

catnatlady

I have, and still wear, a strappy, low cut summer top that my sister bought when she was 17 and I was 15 and gave to me because she had no cleavage! I'm now 2 months off receiving my pension!

shetitasatic

catnatlady wrote:

I have, and still wear, a strappy, low cut summer top that my sister bought when she was 17 and I was 15 and gave to me because she had no cleavage! I'm now 2 months off receiving my pension!

Wow!!! Can you remember where she bought it? That would be a very good recommendation for a shop / brand!!

myrnahaz

I think my MIL has kept every item of clothing she ever bought - she thinks they'll come back in fashion one day. The trouble is, I'm not sure what the reaction of her neighbours would be to see a plump 75 year old woman going shopping in her size 10 pvc wet-look hotpants.

mummysaver

myrnahaz wrote:

I think my MIL has kept every item of clothing she ever bought - she thinks they'll come back in fashion one day. The trouble is, I'm not sure what the reaction of her neighbours would be to see a plump 75 year old woman going shopping in her size 10 pvc wet-look hotpants.

Does she live in Brighton, I think that I may have lived next door to her! :happyhear

Loads of my clothes are old - I don't seem to have changed size since I was about 14 - scarily this was early/mid '80's, but I tend to give the purple brocade trousers a miss these days! DD1 is now just about big enough to fit into my old stuff, and is often to be seen wafting about the house in my old white and blue ra-ra dress! :grinheart

gentlepurr

my mom still wears her "going away outfit" from when she got married in 1950!

when i got married to my 2nd hubby in 1992, my dad was proudly telling everyone at the wedding thta he was wearing the same suit he wore to my first wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!
btw, he is still wearing it, and that was 1975.

myrnahaz

My daughter doesn't get the chance to wear my old things (I don't keep anything that I don't wear) but she was quite ecstatic when she found MIL's stash of vintage tat. She wore the crocheted waistcoat and peaked hat for weeks.

She wasn't keen on the hotpants, but she loved the pvc wet look bootee things - they are like pvc pull-on socks (shiny red) with a fabric foot, that allowed you to make an ordinary pair of shoes look like a pair of boots. Fortunately, DD didn't have red pvc shoes and her feet are 3 sizes bigger than her Nan's.

I try to keep DD and MIL apart if I can; they encourage each other too much.