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Rosa_Damascena said:

MrsCatz said:

Agree @DigForVictory if they are so passé why is it still the footwear of choice on the streets? Anyway what do they know, they are paid by companies to push certain products. Wear what you want and enjoy it, I do.
My charity shop haul this week was a loss apart from a Tony Hancock LP

Smart women respect their feet. Flat and comfy suits me fine.

Definitely, and I can't wear heels any more so all my footwear is flat or low heeled.

Watty1

Just wear what feels great.  I showed a pal an pin interest board from a styling coach that I met years ago becuase pal thought she could only wear plain black with the wild colours she loved and I knew that the style coach had some wonderful combinations on her board of things that should not work and did.

Also board showed how clashing prints can look fabulous. 

Pal said that the 2 mins looking at pictures was life changing as she had never considered just putting things she loved together and she got that if colours worked or the prints worked then it was fine

Having watched the style coaches thread over the last year, just do what feels great for you   seems to be her advice.  (That and choosing 3 words that sum up how you want to feel in your clothes and doing that, which I never seem to quite get right).

elsien

Comfortable, comfortable and comfortable? 

Watty1

elsien said:

Comfortable, comfortable and comfortable? 

Comfortable practical easy would be mine

goldfinches

Watty1 said:

elsien said:

Comfortable, comfortable and comfortable? 

Comfortable practical easy would be mine

Comfortable, friendly and interesting would be mine

skint_spice

Style coaches thread? I need to look for this.

 I live in trainers apart from in winter when I favour a boot. DS came to visit today and said “cool trainers” when he saw me so can’t be too bad.

goldfinches

I had to take various bits of my Sunday haul back today some of the clothes because they didn't fit or weren't flattering and the nightlight, timer plug, Julia Child and Sleep books because they weren't on my receipt so I hadn't paid for them! I don't know how I managed to inadvertently shoplift but anyway it all got sorted out in the end.
Then, of course, I couldn't resist a quick look in the Oxfam shop and I fell for a couple of white linen pillowcases, £2.99 each, a 0.5l Le Parfait jar, £4, a blue glass frog which is cracked but still usable, £2.99, a Uniqlo straight knee length chino skirt, £9.99, some cute cutters (heart, duck and dog), 99p, and some rectangular silicon lids also 99p.

Rosa_Damascena

One chazzer I will not be venturing into: https://www.southend.gov.uk/news/article/3343/reuse-shop-reopens-at-stock-road-hwrc-in-partnership-with-havens-hospices . The smell at Southend tip is unbearable due to its proximity to the sewage treatment works.

goldfinches

Rosa_Damascena said:

One chazzer I will not be venturing into: https://www.southend.gov.uk/news/article/3343/reuse-shop-reopens-at-stock-road-hwrc-in-partnership-with-havens-hospices . The smell at Southend tip is unbearable due to its proximity to the sewage treatment works.

Yuk, you'd think that the people organising the initiative would be able to work out that the pong would be a stinky disincentive wouldn't you? 

Anway, after grubbing up any number of thistles, everlasting peas, dandelions, forget-me-nots, brambles, willowherbs etc. today at my allotment I cycled up into Headington proper and went to the hospice furniture shop and fell for all these books as well as snapping up a Dave Allen dvd. I did enjoy his television specials years ago so am looking forward to laughing at all his jokes again. I also found a dvd of Gone With The Wind. The dvds were £1 each and the books were 2x £2, £2.50 and £3 for the Self-Sufficiency bible. When the zombies come I shall be ready!
I'm very pleased to find the Biscuiteers book because I loaned my copy to a "friend" who keeps forgetting to return it and at £2 it's easy to buy another copy and just let him keep the other one. Mind you, he's not borrowing anything else of mine, I think I shall become a private reference only library as far as he's concerned.

DigForVictory

We have several copies of Self Sufficiency - can't imagine how. I was always dryly amused that it included a wife & her labour. As how different The Good Life would have been without couples... That some of us have struggled with OHs who do not Get It, to read of a situation where the opportunity to go fishing came up & he phones his wife to drive up & meet hm & quite a lot of mackerel - I don't think I took it entirely seriously as a child. All that Yes Minister comedy (which was in fact very close to the actual truth) meant my perception of where the laugh out loud line was drawn was a bit skewed.