Make Do and Mend

Mrs_Thrift

ROFLMAO! OK, OK, the varnish on the toes maybe isn't so sexy, but when that's hidden by my boots or shoes, I feel sexier than I would in tights anyway, hehe!!

jazzyjustlaw

I cut mine down and use them as knee highs for boots and then cut them in to ankle highs - sorry having a moment where I cannot remember their name.

Sarahsaver

pop socks.
Don't they fall down?

jazzyjustlaw

Sarahsaver wrote:

pop socks.
Don't they fall down?

Who sees them if you are wearing zip up boots and if you wear trousers no one sees them either.

Sarahsaver

eugh! rather wear normal socks! I miss C&A because their socks were cheap AND they lasted ages.
Whats the oldest item of clothing any of yers still have and use? I have stuff I had in 6th form and that was from 1987 to 1989, such as a skirt and some tops.
I am thinking of having a 'mending basket' which I will work through once a week, I've got one of those pop up net laundry baskets spare, when the pound shop were doing a BOGOF! Now I know what to do with it!

crana999

we still have towels and stuff my mum had when she was at school.. does that count

Sarahsaver

Sure does! I must be getting on a bit as I do think 'they dont make things as well as they used to' but then again Mum used to make a lot of our clothes.

Mrs_Thrift

Sarahsaver wrote:

Whats the oldest item of clothing any of yers still have and use? I have stuff I had in 6th form and that was from 1987 to 1989, such as a skirt and some tops.

Well I was sat here last week in a shirt of my Dad's that was from late 70s / early 80s and today I'm wearing a skirt of my Mum's from the mid 80s that she's had a lot of wear out of and I'm now absolutely loving. It's from Country Casuals so would have been expensive originally, but my Mum only used to shop in their sales - when we visited family at Christmas / New Year time there was always a fantastic sale on at their Ayr branch. So we're definitely getting her money's worth out of the skirt!

Of my own clothes, I think the oldest item I still wear is a Cathay Pacific T-shirt my Dad brought back for me from his first visit to Hong Kong, so I know that's from 1989. It's very very thin now, but I can't bare to part with it as it means a lot to me, so I still wear it as a PJ top.

Austin_Allegro

The oldest item of clothing I have is a waistcoat from the 30s which I got from a vintage clothes shop, but I don't wear it much.

I've got a suit made in 1943 (it says on the label) which I got from Oxfam in 1989. I used to wear it regularly for work until the mid nineties, but now only bring it out occasionally.

It is amazing when you think it was made to wartime utility standards, but is beautifully cut and still wearable after 62 years. I'm pretty sure that in the old days, fabrics were used which were much more hard wearing, because nowadays my suits, which are quite expensive and tailor made, only seem to last about four years before going shiney.

I've also got a 1950s dinner jacket and a 1950s morning suit from charity shops (again only worn very occasionally).

Oldest regularly worn items are a poloneck sweater from 1987 and a jersey from about 1990.

HOLsale

Sarahsaver wrote:

Sure does! I must be getting on a bit as I do think 'they dont make things as well as they used to' but then again Mum used to make a lot of our clothes.

we've just inheirited a load of towels, many quite plainly from the 60's but in really good nick! we're now going to go through all our threadbare towels and cut them up into cloths for doing the dishes. the older not so bright towels will become towels to dry the washing up with and the towels we've just received will now become our bath towels!