I have great difficulty in relating any gardening attire I’ve seen to ‘fashion’. 🤣
Just because something is brightly coloured or in pastel shades, or is made of a printed fabric, that doesn’t mean it’s fashionable.
I suggest closer scrutiny of catwalks and fashion magazines is needed if you want to avoid looking ‘fashionable’. There’s a definite trend towards natural fabrics and neutral ‘earthy’ colours in the high end fashion houses and designer labels.
To avoid looking fashionable you should wear bright pinks and purples … very passé 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cringing a bit now, but I do remember having a beautiful turquoise shell suit, I loved it and looked really good in it! I also wore a purple Lycra all in one leotard thing to exercise classes with matching knitted leg warmers. Shades of Jane Fonda! Neither suitable for wearing in the garden, would snag terribly on the thorns and brambles, to say nothing of terrifying the neighbours and the wildlife.
My neighbour has special smart clothes for gardening. (but isn't "smart" a bad word these days?) She also wears specialisd kit for jogging, different for cycling, and lord knows what for her trips to the gym and pilates. Not that I watch.
Me, I just wear an old shirt and patched jeans. "Patched " is important, I hate holes (that's fashion) and they snag in the shrubs.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Very sensible, Uff. I have an added problem in that if I buy ‘pretty’ gardening gloves, which I have been tempted to on a couple of occasions, I’m then reluctant to use them in case they get dirty! I do find it annoying that so many of the sturdy but cheap and cheerful versions rarely come in anything other than large or even extra large. Too big and they have a habit of flying off, or I can’t get them into the handles of tools.
Wee Uff likes pretty gardening gloves, he buries them or at least one, he leaves the other for me. Do you know anyone that would like a very discerning chocolate cocker spaniel?
I always keep the intact left-hand glove when the right-hand one is in tatters. Just in case the new left-hand glove has a nasty accident or gets lost somewhere.
But it's always the right-hand glove that gets damaged or mislaid.
Such a waste, throwing the left-hand ones away. But that's what I end up doing.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Me, I just wear an old shirt and patched jeans. "Patched " is important, I hate holes (that's fashion) and they snag in the shrubs.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
But it's always the right-hand glove that gets damaged or mislaid.
Such a waste, throwing the left-hand ones away. But that's what I end up doing.