2019 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

vintagegal

I am always interested in a good book!
I forgot to mention earlier that I KNITTED A HAT!!!


It is massive


But I did decreasing and sewing up so that's an achievement I think :rotfl:

vintagegal

I'm wearing my coupon free Grensons today, still loving them.


They've garnered some snarky comments - they are a black and white brogue - all from men who think they look like 'golf' shoes or 'gangster' shoes.


I am a bit miffed that people think they can say things like this to your face. Usually I can rise above these remarks but today I feel irritated.


Clothes are our form of self expression and no one has a right to belittle our choices.

PollyWollyDoodle

Absolutely right, and you're right to be irritated. Nobody else's business.

Crafty_Lisa_Hampshire

This isn't so much an update on me but I thought I would share this with you guys. I met up with a friend on Sunday for a cuppa in town and was talking to her about the virtue of charity shops and the successes I have had in them recently (I have only recently been converted). She said that when she used to trawl through the shops with her son for his vinyl records she was never very successful. When we went our separate ways she passed a charity shop on the way to the bus stop and popped in to see. She texted me later to say she had purchased two lovely jumpers and two lovely scarves. We have agreed that we should spend one day on a "shopping" spree but just go to charity shops. I think I have converted her.

vintagegal

How lovely crafty_lisa_hampshire, I need a charity shop friend too!

PipneyJane

Perfect fit. Just the right length and with decent front pockets. I am tempted to buy another two pairs for posterity before they go out of stock: one in black and another in the denim blue. I have the money - at £15/pair they’re very affordable plus there’s more than £30 in my clothing account and I even have another money-off voucher.... It’s just the coupon cost that’s holding me back! 12 more coupons spent would leave me with 24 for the rest of the year....

Can I break my self-imposed constraint? The one where I took the suit that I bought in December and included it in 2019’s coupon spend? Can I put that suit back into last year? That would give me an extra 25 coupons with which to get through 2019.

Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!

- Pip


PS: these are the ones I bought: https://www.marksandspencer.com/mid-rise-skinny-leg-jeans/p/p22469385?prevPage=plp


PPS: Sod it. I’ve bought the extra 2 pairs.

PipneyJane

vintagegal wrote: »

I'm wearing my coupon free Grensons today, still loving them.


They've garnered some snarky comments - they are a black and white brogue - all from men who think they look like 'golf' shoes or 'gangster' shoes.


I am a bit miffed that people think they can say things like this to your face. Usually I can rise above these remarks but today I feel irritated.


Clothes are our form of self expression and no one has a right to belittle our choices.

How annoying! I bet they’d look lovely with tweed, Prince Of Wales check trousers; very smart, very 1930’s and not gangster-ish at all.

Congratulations on the hat! Wear it with pride.

- Pip

diminua

Thanks for the welcome PipneyJane. I do have 2 more coupons to declare - on gloves. They were the right size (I take a 3, so large children's gloves) and grey and much warmer and more versatile than my old pink ones, and half price at £6. So I had to, really.

Reading the Julie Summers Fashion on the Ration book (thanks are due to vintagegal, who recommended it a few pages back I think) - it seems women were wearing boys shoes to use fewer coupons/because they were practical. I wonder if someone my size (well, my height but slimmer) could have got away with wearing a child's mac or jacket, with a whole 3 coupons saved. Or would the shopkeeper have to say 'If it's for you madam, then I'm afraid...'

59 coupons left

vintagegal

Pipneyjane, the jeans sound like a good buy as you will wear them a lot, and that’s the basis for this challenge. I’d say you could have the suit coupons back too!
Glad you’re enjoying the book Diminua, I bet people did find ways to stretch the coupons. I have small feet so would definitely have tried to get kids shoes!
Time for the sewing bee!!

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane wrote: »

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Can I break my self-imposed constraint? The one where I took the suit that I bought in December and included it in 2019’s coupon spend? Can I put that suit back into last year? That would give me an extra 25 coupons with which to get through 2019.

Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!

Well, I think you miscalculated anyway - you included all the yarn you bought in NZ didn't you? But surely bringing things in from overseas might incur purchase-taxes or import-duty you had to pay at the port, but you wouldn't have needed coupons for them. So you should knock all those bits off.