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goldfinches

Well done to the GC for being firmly first in the queue, I'm so glad to hear you got the bag and am looking forward to hearing what you'll be wearing with it. Nice dress too, although it looks a little chilly around the neck. I think you're right about the Duke of Windsor's trousers, they were the wide legged ones with the turnups weren't they? The sort of thing that Bertie Wooster and other Wodehouse characters wore or am I confusing them with plus fours?

General_Grant

Miró said:

goldfinches said:

Miró said:

Brie said:

Miró said:

I really wish I was not a handbag-aholic!  👛

Spotted this Lulu Guiness handbag in the window of one of the chazza shops in Bedale yesterday.  Unusually for a Saturday the shop was shut.  Dun a bit of research about it since and apparently it’s quite an iconic bag. Cannot stop thinking about it…..I know it’a a bit quirky but I love the look of it.  It’s priced quite highly, about 1/3 of the 2nd hand market price.  Do I go back for it…..? Hmmmmm

Not my thing.  And handbags in general are much avoided when possible.  But I'd go back for this if only to sell it on for a bit of profit.  I expect there may be others who have spotted it and are thinking the same.  So if you want it you'll have to be quick!!!

Went back this morning but the shop is still closed until tomorrow ☹️  Have the ‘Gentleman Caller’ all set to be on the chazza shop doorstep at 9.05 tomorrow 😋. Did the rounds of the chazza shops in Ripon to console myself.  Came away with a nice pair of Rohan dark denim jeans, b/n and £6 from the YMCA shop.  Straight leg stylee not the current, (and hideous imho), barrel leg style.  Does anyone actually like those?  Then found an Autograph leather cross body bag in taupe, nice & roomy and £4.

No definitely not and interestingly I haven't spotted anyone wearing them around here at all, not even any of the students. I have seen a few of the wide leg styles being worn but not very many so I don't think either of those styles is catching on and I'm waiting to see what's next with a slightly raised eyebrow.
Did the 'Gentleman Caller' snaffle the bag? Noseyparkers Enquiring minds wonder?

Yes, the "face' bag was snaffled  The GC was parked outside the shop at 8.45 on Monday for the 9am opening.  In the space of those 15 mins 2 other people stopped and looked at the bag so he got out of the car and barricaded himself into the doorway just in case!  We only meet up at week-ends generally so I won't actually clap my peepers on it til Friday.  Can't wait!!!

The students round here, well the 'cool' ones, are all wearing these hyuuge baggy type of jeans just now....all faded and worn 



Didn't the Duke of Windsor wear Oxford Bags??

My trip to Otley this week produced a Boden knitted wool dress for £5.99 and a b/n smart shirt for the GC for 99p but It's the wrong size so will go on Vinted

Love the dress.  Are the colours political - green, white, and violet?

Rosa_Damascena

Wednesday2000 said:

I keep seeing a lot of young women dressing almost as I did in the 1990s. Baggy trousers or jeans with trainers.

I first typed 1900s.🤣😂

Like All Saints, you mean?

Wednesday2000

Rosa_Damascena said:

Like All Saints, you mean?

Yes. The young woman who cut my hair the other day was wearing almost the same outfit as I used to wear all the time at uni. She said she was 23. Makes me feel super old, lol.

Miró

General_Grant said:

Miró said:

goldfinches said:

Miró said:

Brie said:

Miró said:

I really wish I was not a handbag-aholic!  👛

Spotted this Lulu Guiness handbag in the window of one of the chazza shops in Bedale yesterday.  Unusually for a Saturday the shop was shut.  Dun a bit of research about it since and apparently it’s quite an iconic bag. Cannot stop thinking about it…..I know it’a a bit quirky but I love the look of it.  It’s priced quite highly, about 1/3 of the 2nd hand market price.  Do I go back for it…..? Hmmmmm

Not my thing.  And handbags in general are much avoided when possible.  But I'd go back for this if only to sell it on for a bit of profit.  I expect there may be others who have spotted it and are thinking the same.  So if you want it you'll have to be quick!!!

Went back this morning but the shop is still closed until tomorrow ☹️  Have the ‘Gentleman Caller’ all set to be on the chazza shop doorstep at 9.05 tomorrow 😋. Did the rounds of the chazza shops in Ripon to console myself.  Came away with a nice pair of Rohan dark denim jeans, b/n and £6 from the YMCA shop.  Straight leg stylee not the current, (and hideous imho), barrel leg style.  Does anyone actually like those?  Then found an Autograph leather cross body bag in taupe, nice & roomy and £4.

No definitely not and interestingly I haven't spotted anyone wearing them around here at all, not even any of the students. I have seen a few of the wide leg styles being worn but not very many so I don't think either of those styles is catching on and I'm waiting to see what's next with a slightly raised eyebrow.
Did the 'Gentleman Caller' snaffle the bag? Noseyparkers Enquiring minds wonder?

Yes, the "face' bag was snaffled  The GC was parked outside the shop at 8.45 on Monday for the 9am opening.  In the space of those 15 mins 2 other people stopped and looked at the bag so he got out of the car and barricaded himself into the doorway just in case!  We only meet up at week-ends generally so I won't actually clap my peepers on it til Friday.  Can't wait!!!

The students round here, well the 'cool' ones, are all wearing these hyuuge baggy type of jeans just now....all faded and worn 



Didn't the Duke of Windsor wear Oxford Bags??

My trip to Otley this week produced a Boden knitted wool dress for £5.99 and a b/n smart shirt for the GC for 99p but It's the wrong size so will go on Vinted

Love the dress.  Are the colours political - green, white, and violet?

Oooooh, never thought of that 🫢

Rosa_Damascena

Aside from dropping stuff off, I have managed to steer clear of all chazzers for a whole month. Going cold turkey was easier than I thought it would be!

retiredinfrance

I think that violet/ purple, green and white are/ is the colours of the Suffragette Movement.

General_Grant

retiredinfrance said:

I think that violet/ purple, green and white are/ is the colours of the Suffragette Movement.

Yes.

Green   White      Violet
Give      Women   Votes

Miró

A couple of finds today in Northallerton….a Jacques Vert silk skirt for £10, (RRP £100+) and a pair of b/n Cotton Traders trousers for £4.



’We’ have had a bit of a disaster with the Lulu Guiness bag…..the GC, now considering himself a ‘womens’ designer bag expert’ had to examine it minutely and in the process of trying to open it with great big clumsy man hands managed to inscribe two big fingernail scratches into the delicate leather.  (GC currently residing in the dog house!). Men…pfftt .harrump!!!!!

SandyShores

Miró said:

’We’ have had a bit of a disaster with the Lulu Guiness bag…..the GC, now considering himself a ‘womens’ designer bag expert’ had to examine it minutely and in the process of trying to open it with great big clumsy man hands managed to inscribe two big fingernail scratches into the delicate leather.  (GC currently residing in the dog house!). Men…pfftt .harrump!!!!!

Oooh, sorry to hear that.  Hope he isn't annoying the dog!

I don't know if this might help:  https://muudstore.com/blogs/news/dealing-with-scratches-on-your-leather-bag