2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

PipneyJane said:

Don’t forget, too, that overalls and dungarees were coupon free, so many men would save their coupons for their off-duty clothes, which would only be worn for a couple of hours a week..

- Pip

I'm confused - in the Opening Post, you say dungarees and overalls are 6 coupons a set... or do you mean like boilersuits, work-clothes only worn whilst at the factory or in the locomotive cab, and never worn outside work? Whereas the ones for women might be worn at home for eg digging the garden...? 

I meant boiler suits and clothes only worn at factories.   (You are right, of course, Laura.)

- Pip

PipneyJane

nannygladys said:

Please may I join in? I haven't really bought much this year, but during lockdown turned a couple of old 'too big' dresses into skirts as I didn't have any, and it got me thinking. I don't have loads of clothes but I don't need them really. Im retired so only work in the home (and down the allotment) and over the last couple of years have become more aware of the waste I make in my life, so I have been cutting down quite a bit on everything but after making the skirts I was thinking I could perhaps have a go at altering CS clothes for me - when they are open and reducing my clothes waste, so this challenge should keep me on track and hopefully ideas, help and advice given when I get stuck!!! By the way Ive always wanted to live in a friendly village!
Nannyg

Yes, of course, @nannygladys.  Welcome!  Please pull up a chair and join us around the fire.  Cup of tea?

- Pip

nannygladys

Oh yes please, I love a cup of tea, I hope you don't me doing a bit of embroidery, I have it in my bag?

PipneyJane

nannygladys said:

Oh yes please, I love a cup of tea, I hope you don't me doing a bit of embroidery, I have it in my bag?

oohhh.... Please take this chair - it has the best light.  What are you making?  I’ve done a some embroidery, mainly cross-stitch and needlepoint and a small amount of crewel work.  (I don’t have anything to show for it.  It’s all in a box somewhere.)

- Pip

Shropshirelass

I've just lost a lovely long post setting out lots of plans and promises, it's too late to write it again, but I would love to join in here from Less Mending on the Mere, and will study the lists and rules so I can make sense of this complicated rationing business. Looking forward to a planned wardrobe (something new for me).

Chocolatedrinker

I’d like to join for 2021 please. I’m hoping I won’t need too much, but I have got a wool addiction over the last year.

Cherryfudge

Chocolatedrinker said:

I’d like to join for 2021 please. I’m hoping I won’t need too much, but I have got a wool addiction over the last year.

You and me both. I've just been searching unsuccessfully for a darning needle but in the process found my long sewing scissors, a stitch ripper and a whole box of forgotten wool (ahem!) to add to the bag and box I already knew about.
I also found three balls of wool for a baby outfit I started for my eldest. He's 29  

PipneyJane

Chocolatedrinker said:

I’d like to join for 2021 please. I’m hoping I won’t need too much, but I have got a wool addiction over the last year.

Welcome @Chocolatedrinker.  You aren’t the only wool addict here.  I tell myself that I was sensibly laying in supplies for the lean times, e.g. when the ships from Australia couldn’t get through because of the War.  (In both World Wars, Britain bought Australia’s entire wool clip.).  Are you a knitter, a crocheter or both?  What are you working on now?

I have made some in-roads into my stash this year with six jumpers completed - although one still needs its sleeves sewing up - and 41 balls of yarn used up.  That’s my record.  I normally manage 3-4 jumpers and half a dozen pairs of socks.  (I only knit socks on holiday, on the occasional train trip and in the car on long journeys.)  

Shropshirelass said:

I've just lost a lovely long post setting out lots of plans and promises, it's too late to write it again, but I would love to join in here from Less Mending on the Mere, and will study the lists and rules so I can make sense of this complicated rationing business. Looking forward to a planned wardrobe (something new for me).

Sorry to hear about your post, @Shropshirelass.  Are you using an iPad?  I don’t think MSE plays well with Safari.  I find that if I leave the MSE Forum mid-post to search for something elsewhere, on a different tab, about half the time my half-written post disappears.  It’s really annoying.  (This never used to happen to me.  It’s a 2020 development.)

- Pip

DrCarrie

Please can I join. I will be making and buying a new work wardrobe, for my new job...for when we are allowed back into the world. So it might be tight, Ebay and Chaairy shops...since 2nd hand don't count. Its a great challenge to really make you consider and choose. Looking forward to it. 
DrCarrie. 

Liverpool_Anne

I'm in please, this is such a lovely place to visit. I can't see that I will need many clothes next year but I have been slowly losing weight so while some of my clothes are getting a bit baggy others will once again be able to be worn.  The frustration is I am now different sizes top and bottom lol.  I will just have to see how it goes. I think my biggest problem will be knitting and crotchet supplies lol, having got busy during sheilding I now find I am addicted to it. 
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