2025 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

thriftmonster said:

Oh that sounds lovely @PipneyJane

I just need to work out a pattern @thriftmonster. I’m sure I’ve got one somewhere that I can botch. We’re in deepest, darkest Kent for the week, so it’ll have to wait until Sunday.

I have a spend to declare.  We’ve spent today wandering around the Outlet Centre at Ashford and I couldn’t resist this t-shirt from Mountain Warehouse:



You can see why it was irresistible. 4 Coupons and £12.99 spent.

(DH bought 3 pairs of jeans from M&S, while his best friend purchased multiple items having lost 7 stone this year.)

- Pip

Cherryfudge

Great t-shirt @PipneyJane! 

CapricornLass

Woohoo, PipneyJane, that sounds brilliant!  Looking forward to seeing the result in due course.

PipneyJane

Good morning All

Anyone up for a thrifty game?  How about we play “Today, I Will Mostly Be Wearing”?

Today, I will mostly be wearing…. an ancient pair of Levi 501’s, purchased in a charity shop at least 20 years ago, a bluet-shirt bought in H&M in 2002, a pair of socks I knitted in September 2010 (thanks Ravelry), and a navy blue cashmere cardigan purchased in 2021.

What are you wearing?

- Pip

maryb

Today I will mostly be wearing

• A new pair of Ecco sneakers - still within coupons for the year.  Very pleased with these.  Ecco shoes are so comfortable but most of them have white midsoles which are a disaster in winter.  These are all navy.  The nubuck will need a spray to protect it

• A three year old pair of M&S navy jeans

• A four year old navy v neck cashmere jumper from Uniqlo - it's cold!!

• A 10 year old white tee shirt

• A 20 year old "silk" scarf

• 5 year old navy socks

• unknown vintage undies - I buy a bra whenever Marks has one of its 20% off Sparks offers on bras  and rotate them so not sure when this one was bought

I'll be going out later and I will be wearing a three year old Barbour with a 2 year old tan leather shoulder bag.  I would have been wearing a 20 year old Barbour but I lost a lot of weight and it swamps me.  I expect this one to see me out. ( It's green not navy!)

Laura_Elsewhere

And a splendid Rhapsody in Blue your outfit sounds, @PipneyJane! 

I am wearing my newly-made 1980s needlecord dress, over an eBay second-hand shirt in nice soft heavy cotton in a kind of pale-chestnut/apricot colour, with a green and cream striped cardigan knitted earlier this year by me, over warm cotton longstockings made by cutting the tops off Tesco school tights (size for 12-14 yrs!), and a pair of the well-made old-fashioned black cotton plimsoles I have kept clean for wearing indoors. 

PollyWollyDoodle

Today I am mostly wearing … 

jeans, brand unknown (I’d have to take them off to check!) bought from a charity shop like all my jeans since I learned the economic cost of producing them. 

Heavy cotton long/sleevedT-shirt, label removed, also from a charity shop.   

Blue asymmetric scarf kindly knitted by my sister.  

Underwear, model’s own! 😄 (Bravissimo/M&S)

Giesswein slippers, bought new on Vinted - deep enough to take my insoles, warm because they are wool and washable. 

alicef

Today I am wearing:

0re Norwegian jumper (bought in my 20s - so a LONG time ago)
D@mart thermal vest (can't remember when bought it) 
Thermal leggings
Knitted socks

was wearing wellies but have changed into Gl3rup slippers.

Laura_Elsewhere

Briefly popped outside, and wore my old Clark’s leather ankle boots, bought in 1991, re-soled by me a few years ago, have materials to re-heel later this autumn, but the reinforcing tape along the top edge of the leather was plastic-textile so it just shredded, leaving the edges unreinforced and vulnerable to tearing when pulling boots on…

Luckily, my 123-year-old Singer is quite  happy to stitch boot-leather  

PipneyJane

alicef said:

Today I am wearing:

0re Norwegian jumper (bought in my 20s - so a LONG time ago)
D@mart thermal vest (can't remember when bought it) 
Thermal leggings
Knitted socks

was wearing wellies but have changed into Gl3rup slippers.

Thermals!  That wind is definitely cold enough for thermals! How can it be when it’s only September???  My personal prediction is that we’re going to have an awfully cold winter, possibly with snow.

I’d forgotten to mention that the only coat I bought with me on this trip is a 1960’s/1970’s-style black leather jacket,with patch pockets and a button-up front, purchased from Dorothy Perkins 20+ years ago.  Even when I turn up the collar, it offers little protection from that biting wind.   I didn’t think it’d be that cold!  I caved today and bought a viscose scarf while we were at Canterbury Cathedral.  Dark grey one side and poppy-red the other, it’s soft and warm. Feels more like wool than anything else.  Made a considerable difference.  Two coupons spent. 

On my feet this week are either my ASICS leather trainers (purchased in 2021 from their website) or a pair of hard-soled, felted wool slippers purchased in Normandy in ? 2014.  The slippers live in my suitcase and have clocked up a lot of travel miles.

As a side note, i wandered into M&S in Canterbury and have to report that not only are big shoulders back in fashion, along with Oxford-bags style trousers, but so are mini skirts.

- Pip