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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Short socks are fine under trousers (including denim) but it's a no to dolly shoes and frilly puff sleeves. Unless you love them of course 😁.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited August 2020
    My Mum wouldn't let me wear patent shoes because you can see the reflection  :( 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited August 2020
    B3 said:
    Apparently, when you get to a certain age, you shouldn't wear denim.


    Stuff that, I'm wearing denim till I die.  They can bury me in my paint-splattered, holey-kneed gardening jeans.  They are, after all, bio-degradable; 23rd century archaeologists will just find the copper studs.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Mobile phones do a more efficient job for perving schoolboys now.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited August 2020
    Guess what style the first pair of shoes was that I bought after I was married
     

    how on earth do you know these things @B3 ?
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Our Sainsbury's order is due for redelivery today. My wife checked the order last night and added a few things but also noticed that instead of ordering 8 bananas she'd ordered by weight instead. She asked me how heavy bananas are so I weighed the 5 we already have: 600g. She looked a bit sheepish and said 'so 8kgs of bananas is probably too many then?'...
    Looks like we dodged a bullet by not receiving that delivery. I bet the person who had to load and then unload 60+ bananas must have wondered where they were being delivered to  :D
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    A cautionary tale about sunbathing in the buff.  Many years ago we went on a coach holiday to the South of France and the local beach had a nudist area.  One person on the trip finally plucked up the courage to strip off - on the day before they were going home.  Although they had been brave enough to strip then spent the entire time face down on their towel.  Result?  A severely sunburnt backside to contemplate on the 24 hour coach journey home.  No it wasn't me.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    Mobile phones do a more efficient job for perving schoolboys now.
    Sadly it seems to be folk well past school age who use their phones for such nefarious purposes ... 😢

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    JennyJ said:
    Short socks are fine under trousers (including denim) but it's a no to dolly shoes and frilly puff sleeves. Unless you love them of course 😁.
    I think Grayson looks marvellous in his  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Did that on a  Greek island back in my 20s tho I didn't have to travel home the following day.  Never again.

    Being non shop-shaped, I make a lot of my clothes, especially dresses, tops, jackets, trousers........   It means I rarely visit clothes shops or know what is fashionable tho I do know what suits my shape.   I have noticed loads of dress and top patterns with elaborate sleeves creeping into the pattern catalogues including puff, mutton, bell and it seems the 80s shoulder pad may be making a come back.   

    I like denim but have to put elastic in the waist of every single pair I buy and won't buy any more until they start doing them with higher waists.   Fed up with pulling them up all the time.  Might make a denim dress this autumn and I still have an 80s denim jacket I bought in Texas.  Can't wear a classic Levi's denim jacket tho.  No shape to them.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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