Reasons to be cheerful 2024

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• Ergates Posts: 2,953

  1 March

  Totally agree about the inconsistency in clothing sizes. I’ve tried on trousers in M and S, same style and size, but in different colours. Supposedly identical but several inches difference in length and width. Buying shoes in somewhere like TKMaxx with lots of different brands, I just try on anything I like the look of, regardless of size, I seem to fit anything from 5 to 6.5 depending on the style.
  It does make buying on line very difficult, I do hate the faff involved in returning things.

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  1 March

  Shoes are a particular bugbear of mine - these days the smallest size available is often too big (or the right width but too long).
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  1 March

  How come men's jackets have secret inside pockets and women's jackets don't. I want to put my purse somewhere safe too.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  1 March edited 1 March

  It's called a handbag @B3 tho these days it can be a shoulder bag, a cross-body, banana or bum bag and many more forms that don't ruin the hang of your jacket.

  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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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  1 March

  I'm with you, @B3.  Hate carrying a handbag, even a cross-body one which is the only sort I can cope with.  I never was a "girly" girl and don't intend to start now...
  
  I have been known to sew secret pockets into jacket linings.  Much safer than a handbag.

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  2 March

  I prefer my clothes to be loose and comfortable so the line isn't an issue . I have one jacket with a secret pocket. I still use my handbag for other things but my purse goes in the pocket.
  That's a good diy idea @Liriodendron

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• ViewAhead Posts: 866

  2 March

  I am quite pleased with my little impatiens cutting started last Oct. 😁
  
  
  
  

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• Bluejayway Posts: 392

  2 March

  That's gorgeous @ViewAhead
  

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  2 March

  @B3 we have recently made small pockets - just big enough to carry a mobile phone and bank cards and a few notes.  A thin cross body strap makes it a portable pocket for wearing under or over jackets, jumpers, blouses. 
  
  Very discrete and no messing with pockets in linings.  Surely possible to find some online.

  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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• KT53 Posts: 9,016

  3 March

  Only the 3rd of March and we've been sat outside at the pub!
  

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