2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

skogar

Hello Laura - Something I wondered about on for the yellow shirt. I have had a few long sleeved shirts (a couple were for outdoor activities but the others were normal shirts where there was a strap inside the sleeve and a button on the outside s you could secure the rolled up sleeved with the strap. It worked quite well and I found it quite practical as sometimes it is useful to have the long sleeved option for protection from sun, insects etc. I don't know if something like that would work for the yellow shirt.

thriftwizard

I shall be delighted to oblige, @Laura_Elsewhere, weather permitting! I've yet to go this year myself, having been so conscious that my swimsuit was actually disintegrating, but the sea should be warming up nicely now!

Wondering whether a swimsuit counts as an "other undergarment" at 3 coupons?

Liverpool_Anne

Well it seems that I am a trend setter with my holey knitwear. I saw an advert on fb for a designer distressed cardigan. For a mere four hundred pounds I can buy a cardigan with holes in. My gast was well and truly flabbered. What was I thinking putting them in the rag bag! Googled it and they are a thing being sold by every one from designer to primarni. Unbelievable is all I can say.

Cherryfudge

Liverpool_Anne said:

Well it seems that I am a trend setter with my holey knitwear. I saw an advert on fb for a designer distressed cardigan. For a mere four hundred pounds I can buy a cardigan with holes in. My gast was well and truly flabbered. What was I thinking putting them in the rag bag! Googled it and they are a thing being sold by every one from designer to primarni. Unbelievable is all I can say.

Shows how behind the times I am - I had no idea! Mind you I have another pair of jeans to embroider over because they are an excellent fit but the knee has ripped. Some years ago I saw the first ripped jeans in the windows of top designers in Italy and was delighted to bring the news home to the younger females of the family, but I have to say I have never managed to want them myself. I also still have the lovely mustard/gold knitwear that I mentioned over here some while ago. In my mind is still unwearable because it's coming unravelled and I've saved a link to try to track down a similar yarn to fix it.

If someone had only brought out ripped duvet covers I could have kept using a really nice one that wore through.

TwibbleDee

CapricornLass said:

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing ok.  Its been weeks (or more probably months) since I've been on here but I've been SOOOO busy.  Mum and Dad have moved to a nursing home, and my sister and I are trying to sort out all their possessions so their bunglaow can be sold.  I'm trying to get rid of their clothes.  Mum bought loads and loads of clothes and doesn't seem to have thrown any of it away - would you  believe  six wardrobes, a chest of drawers, and three of the four drawers under their bed?  Currently I have 8 large laundry bags stuffed and stacked in my front room, another half full of of bits to go to the homeless shelter, and another which has a cloak.  Yes, a full length cloak in dark green loden wool,  wiith a hood ending in a lyripipe.  (For those not in the know, the hood ends in a long, long point, which is supposed to be wrapped around your neck like a scarf, this bit is the lyripipe.)  The height of fashion in the 1400s and never come back since, and having tried it on, I can see why!  What on earth am I going to do with that?  I'm not sure its accurate enough to be passed on to medaeval reactment groups.

If I weren’t sure that shipping would be outrageous, sounds like something my teenagers (or I!) would love to have for renaissance fairs. Believe me, historical accuracy is not required at those. 

Liverpool_Anne

@Cherryfudge, yes those distressed jeans are not my thing either. I remember 1 of my pupils being desperate for a pair when they were first a thing and beyond the family budget. Get a pair from the cs and get your Mum to distress them was my advice, and that was what they did I do have some decorating / gardening clothes that are still wearable but not for being worn out in public and they will make their way to the duster / rag bag eventually. Good luck getting a match for your repair, I love it when a favourite item can be rescued.

Laura_Elsewhere

skogar said:

Hello Laura - Something I wondered about on for the yellow shirt. I have had a few long sleeved shirts (a couple were for outdoor activities but the others were normal shirts where there was a strap inside the sleeve and a button on the outside s you could secure the rolled up sleeved with the strap. It worked quite well and I found it quite practical as sometimes it is useful to have the long sleeved option for protection from sun, insects etc. I don't know if something like that would work for the yellow shirt.

I have a few shirts like that and it's no only useful but I always think it looks good too. I have one shirt that is nearly too small but I keep hanging ono it because it uses a check fabric, and two different tiny floral fabrics, all in different but related colours, and I love how different bits of the shirt, like the sleeve-buttoning-straps, are made to contrast but co-ordinate! 

Thanks for reminding me - I shall still chop this one's sleeves to short, as I have some longer-sleeved ones, but also as I have psoriasis I spend most of the time with my arms bare trying to get as much UV as possible without burning (ie I stay indoors at midday). But I might do short-sleeved that can be converted to cap-sleeved, with a little buttoned strap which could be useful and look nice... 

Laura_Elsewhere

Liverpool_Anne said:

. Get a pair from the cs and get your Mum to distress them was my advice, and that was what they did 

In the 1980s, at school, I had a steady small income distressing denim jackets for friends Stonewashed, or naturally faded, was what everyone wanted, but brand-new very-very-very-dark-blue denim was what you could afford... so I would be handed a brand-new jacket, stick it in a90-degree machine wash, then leave it out on the clothes-line for a week, wash it again, then use sandpaper on the raised ridges along the seams, and then tiny amounts of white oil paint smudged on by fingers over the raised ridges on the seams before a final normal wash... 

Liverpool_Anne

@Laura_Elsewhere, the things we do to our clothes for fashion . I remember my sister sitting in a bath of cold water to get het jeans to shrink to fit. I never had that issue being a larger version I was always trying to shrink me to fit, I still am

CAFCGirl

Fruitful day today and zero coupons spent.

Charity shop finds of brand new polka dot cropped light denim jeans, look unworn Per Una £1
A pair of new (labels still on) leather gladiator sandals (my size is a rare find), £3

Plus my mum had sewn me a jumpsuit from a repurposed duvet cover and its bright and funky and so much fun and I love it, even though I don't love sunny weather, I cant wear for warmer days to be able to wear it LOL