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Gardening Gloves

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2022
    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.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    How about a nice turquoise shell suit?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    B3 said:
    How about a nice turquoise shell suit?
    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. 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    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."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Grunge is a fashion statement too😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    That's me B3 and I've stopped buying 'good' gardening gloves now because they end up disgusting in a very short space of time. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    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.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    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?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    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.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I'm left handed and it's that one that gets worn out first.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
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