How would we recognise you?

lostinrates

bearcub wrote: »

:rotfl:

Don't know about 'expressive dressers', lostinrates. I seem to be permanently in jods and hay and hair-covered fleece, or jeans. The first expresses what I spend a lot of time doing, I suppose. :cool:

. I don't get to ride much any more, but have ridden in 'expressive clothes' often enough. It all started when i realised i could ride my pony in my school unform if i hitched the skirt up. I have health probs that stop me riding, but occasionally scramble about to show a client or dh something. A couple of years ago i had to get two of the horses out of the field down the road in a hurry, and there was a monent a worried what i looked like, in a long dress riding and leading in head collars, barefoot, (i had shoes that would have fallen off while riding or been dangerous when dismounting) though a rather smart village to home. Sadly it was less romantic looking than it sounds.....my dad reckoned i loed like a bag lady on a rag and bone horse (i was moving our pensioners but they don't look that bad). The oldies liked the outing anyway.:o

lostinrates

:cool:

meritaten wrote: »

I am trying to picture all of us on this thread at a 'meet'! and I can envisage a gathering of mostly middle-aged to elderly women attired in black, wearing biker boots - some of whom are pulling a shopping trolley, with a sprinkling of smartly attired women and one wearing full evening regalia (with hay in her hair). Now that would be a sight to behold! but, we would all get on famously I think!

I hope so. I keep telling dh we are middle aged now (well, almost half way through our threescore and ten) but he says we are still young just well used.

midnightraven3

what a fabulous thread!

our neighbours call us the Addams family
need i say more?:o

like lame wolf i wear a black velvet cloak (think scottish widow advert)
my mother is my polar opposite and asked where on earth i would wear it, anywhere i please was my answer:rotfl:
i am a pierced tattooed goth (ex tattooist)
3 teens in tow, who love nothing more than a bargain except "free stuff" i get texts from uni "we just got free stuff, woo hoo!"
taught them well:rotfl:

i shall wear a safety pin next time i'm out and be searching for other wearers:D love it!

lostinrates

Can i ask the cloak wearers if they have made or bought their cloaks?

I really want a cloak.....i find coats cumbersome, especially in the evening. I don't know where to start with a pattern....

midnightraven3

i have several, i bought all of mine
i couldnt make them with the same quality of material cheaper
2 of mine have antique silver clasps to fasten at the neck, these alone cost a lot
but i love mine

PipneyJane

Cat501 wrote: »

I just had to ask one of DD's friends what an RPG was. I sincerely hope you meant Role Playing Games and not Rocket-Propelled Grenades:D

Yes, I meant Role Playing Games. :rotfl:

I just noticed that I must have deleted the second half of my post, when I went on to mention OS stuff. So here's an attempt to restate it all:

On an OS theme, my work suits are either charity shop finds, bought in the sales or purchased on my once-every-two-years clothes shopping trip in France. My jeans are either from the N*xt sale or Mr T's Value range. And any posh frocks are usually home made. Most of my make-up comes from the clearance shelves at Boots.

Oh, and I'm the one who wanders around the supermarket arguing prices with her husband. ("We can get that cheaper in xxxxx" is my frequent cry.)

meritaten

I would love a cloak - but dont have the hieght to carry one off! I'm Five foot nothing! I would look like a bin bag put out for collection!

Is it ok to put some sparkly beads on my safety pin?

midnightraven3

:rotfl:i'm sitting here making a wee dangly with beads and head pins for mine:D

Dazi

meritaten wrote: »

I would love a cloak - but dont have the hieght to carry one off! I'm Five foot nothing! I would look like a bin bag put out for collection!

Is it ok to put some sparkly beads on my safety pin?

Sigh at changing something and the whole post going into the ether


Meritaten your post made me laff, and in a good way, I have been having what my Oh would call 'a condor moment' all day today and your post was the first that really made me laugh out loud.

and yes it is oh so ok to put sparkly beads on the stafety pin, the more bling the better lol

Dazi

stafety pin? oh well, thats just another thing you would recognise me by lol