Compulsary ( and expensive) school uniform when I was a youngster. My mother had to trek across London to South Kensington to the only shop that stocked the uniform. I think there was a small grant towards the cost, as I was a low income student with a scholarship. I was very grateful that we had to wear a uniform. Most of my other clothes came from jumble sales, or donated cast offs from mumâs friends with older daughters. I think Iâd have felt very much the outsider if we had been wearing different clothing. On the plus side, it has left me with a love of charity shops!
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Why is it that the most overweight schoolgirls wear the shortest skirts?
Because they are not allowed to wear leggings to school? On the one hand, I really wonder why people wear such unflattering ( to my eyes) outfits, and Iâll include celebrities in plunging necklines exposing an impressive row of ribs! On the other hand, I applaud their decisions to dress to please themselves, and not to feel they canât wear the âlatestâ fashion trends because they are deemed the âwrongâ shape.
Why is it that the most overweight schoolgirls wear the shortest skirts?
On the other hand, I applaud their decisions to dress to please themselves, and not to feel they canât wear the âlatestâ fashion trends because they are deemed the âwrongâ shape.
Not just girls @Busy-Lizzie. Plenty of women here do it too and then there are the leggings and jeggings worn with a tight top over rolls and rolls of blubber.  Reminds me of something an old school friend told me after she'd been for an interview at M&S HQ - huge mirror on the stairs down from teh staff area witha sign - This is how our customers see you".  Clearly some people don't have full length mirrors but if they're comfy, what does it matter?
Personally, I prefer comfort rather than fashion so wear what suits my shape and what I'm doing and where I'm going.  I make most of my clothes and then buy the rest in sales and outlet stores.  Wrong shape for the good stuff found in charity shops. Â
When I first started work in 1962 I was on the managerial floor, lots of comings and goings by important people. Â Me and the typist, Â the only two girls, were asked to coordinate our clothes so as to look smart, Â we would agree the night before what we were going to wear, Â quite happy to both be dressed almost the same. Â Pleated skirts and twin sets.Â
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On the plus side, it has left me with a love of charity shops!
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Personally, I prefer comfort rather than fashion so wear what suits my shape and what I'm doing and where I'm going.  I make most of my clothes and then buy the rest in sales and outlet stores.  Wrong shape for the good stuff found in charity shops. Â