2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

thriftwizard said:

Turns out I am making scrubs after all! DS1's delightful partner is a pharmacist in a central London teaching hospital, on a ward... I messaged her to ask whether there was anything she needed, and the reply flashed straight back - yes please, scrubs & a scrub bag! So OH's blue-striped duvet cover has been requisitioned - he has others - and scrubs she shall have! Pattern's downloaded & printing as I type.

Pip, yes, it's an antique/country/vintage emporium, and sadly no, we don't have keys. I'll be contacting the owners shortly to ask about next month's rent... watch this space! Heaven knows where I'd put it all if I did have the chance to bring it back. But there are some fabulous fabrics up there...

Good luck with the Owners.

- Pip

PollyWollyDoodle

Thanks for the recommendation for the book, I’ve also just purchased this on Kindle.

CAFCGirl

Apologies its so huge! 
Im not sure how to resize it.
But my chakra/rainbow blanket of hope is completed

PipneyJane

CAFCGirl said:

Apologies its so huge! 
Im not sure how to resize it.
But my chakra/rainbow blanket of hope is completed

That’s lovely!  I hope it’ll be very cozy to cuddle up to.  You’ve put a lot of work into it.
- Pip

CAFCGirl

Thankyou lovely.
Goal is to use it on my massage table, possibly even offer up for sale for reiki practitioners as its just the right size for a treatment couch. 
I will however not opt to loom knit a blanket entirely in garter stitch again LOL
For now though, it makes me happy just to look at 

PollyWollyDoodle

Wow, that is a thing of beauty. 

CapricornLass

Gosh - everyone has been busy while I've been off-line!  (We've had router problems, and it took BT ten days to sort it out - bless 'em!  Its still a bit flakey even now....)

Anyway, I've got a spend to declare - 5 coupons for a pair of sandals.

Rianbow blankets must be in - I'm in the middle of one at the moment.  I started it to use up odd balls of wool that I had.

lolly2481

Hi guys! Hope you are all ok 😊 I bought two dresses today but both we're second hand off ebay so no coupons required (funny story, only meant to get one but thought I hadn't won it and bidded on a second one 🙄🤦‍♀️) Still, less than £20 for two dresses including delivery. One was Dorothy Perkins and another Cotton Traders so would have been much more new. 

supersaver1000

I'm checking in with a 1.5 point spend on a bra.  Losing a bit of weight and as it looks like getting fitted will be some time away, I've purchased one of the fitted stretchy ones so it will see me through several changes.  Similar to this one, but mine has adjustable straps and came from the Bay of E https://www.johnlewis.com/wacoal-net-effects-bralette-rose-dust/p4109355?size=34&sku=237997495&s_ppc=2dx92700046625819811&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtLT1BRD9ARIsAMH3BtVd45Az-TT88PVl49LfQXtv3KJMrSWPvYAk98Qv6yocGNXdSv0QFp4aAgTAEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds  

I'm not sure how they managed to keep comfortable and supported with rationing in place.  

Edit - I've just been reading this about front and back and side-lacing corsets!  http://www.corsetiere.net/Spirella/War_corsetry.htm

Laura_Elsewhere

supersaver1000 said:

I'm not sure how they managed to keep comfortable and supported with rationing in place.  

Edit - I've just been reading this about front and back and side-lacing corsets!  http://www.corsetiere.net/Spirella/War_corsetry.htm

I suspect a huge part of it was that they didn't bung their bras in the washing machine - which almost everyone does, and which EVERY manufacturer, fitter, seller of both bras AND washing-machines says should never be done  

Bras would have been hand-washed - some women may well have worn light cotton chemises under their bra especially if it was a long-line one more like the old corsetry styles; that way you wash the cotton chemise, not the bra. It always makes me laugh when you see someone selling a "corset cover" and they put i on a mannequin outside the corset - they were worn inside the corset to protect it from the nasty dirty oily sweaty human wearing it!  

But generally speaking they had habits we could do with bringing back - they aired their clothes overnight instead of discarding them to be washed and wearing a clean one next day - they changed their bodylinen and not their entire outfit daily - clothes were washed less often and so lasted much longer. And no tumble-drying of course!

there's this idea that people smelt bad but when you ask people those memories are almost always from the 1960s and 70s, when everyone was wearing synthetics which recent research has shown will not only develop a much worse BO smell than natural fibres but hold onto it longer and develop it quicker. So people having BO in the 1970s is no reflection of whether they did in the 1940s - and a lot of references in Mass Obs journals and so on suggest people did keep clean even through bad bombing periods and so on.