Saw this on another thread....
"Dont you look a bit strange with folded up newspapers tied to your knees?"
And laughed and laughed and laughed..... ;D ;D ;D
I'm currently wearing odd shoes....well the toe's worn through in my left shoe, right ::)? so wear a blue rt gardening shoe & a damson-coloured left shoe, but, as they're both caked in mud......?
Wear a pair of "leggins"....remember them? they were advertised on a rail in the Charity shop as "leggins" & I think they're smashing..still got them in varous colours...twas abt 4 yrs. ago I could buy non-second-hand ones - becoming quite a collector's item 8)
Wear son's old T-shirts........son now a middle-aged man but eh heck! when he was a young'un they made things to last....and anyway, one day, Batman will return to our screens, right? And I'll have the T-shirt all ready for the day ;D.....
In INCLEMENT WEATHER cover all with a Shell Suit!!!!!!! Now That was hard to find, but hey! those Charity Shops again are a Gold Mine!! Cover them with mud, rinse through and hey presto! dry as the Sahara and Ready to Go!!!!!
So what do you wear down the lottie?
growing old as disgracefully as me it sounds ;D
I wear husband's old shirts, worn out leggings (bought new :P), wellies or 30 year old levi trainers and when it's cold a very old wooly hat bought in new york - I probably look a real mess but am at my happiest then :)
No chance of a photo I suppose ... :D
I wear old clothes that can be put in the bin when they become TOO raggy looking. Trousers are ex employment issue, as is footwear. Oldest possible T shirts, and a jumper that is now 33 years old ...
For inclement weather, I have my old ex BAOR combat jacket, difficult to see the camouflage now, and will disintegrate if washed ...
Just add to that a fleecy hat, gloves and of course knee pads ... ;D
Old tracksuits here and worn out trainers or wellies, but I have one of those waistcoats with 20 pockets to carry all the stuff i need with me. I mean when you have keys, penknife, phone, bacca, one of those digital voice recorders and half a dozen other things the elastic waisted t/s bottoms tend to fall down on the job, if you know what I mean. When it's too hot for the waistcoat I use a joiner's nail pouch for the above . Much less boring is an elderly couple two plots down. He always wears shirt, tie and a smart jacket and his wife a long flowing dress and makeup.
Geoff.
Summer Wear - thin strap top covered over with OH's old blue striped shirt. Shorts - whatever is handy. If I'm digging then its the boots, otherwise old trainers. When sunny, the factor 40 Boonie hat tops off the look!
Winter Wear - Old Levi's - holes in waist band, knees and a new hole in the seat :o if very cold 2 or 3 t-shirts/long sleeve tops and a fleece, with an assortment of marks down the front, so it looks dirty even when its clean.
When I'm pruning the blackberries - OH old rig overalls - bright red - think LaLa from the Teletubbies ;D
Im a slave to fashion myself and I would not be seen dead in overalls. Tanktop and shorts with yellow wellies. I do have a nice pair of braces to hold my trousers up as I suffer from builders bum. I picked up a nice pair of gucci loafers at a charity shop and I sometime wear them when doing light duties
Quote from: ACE on August 28, 2006, 20:27:16
Im a slave to fashion myself and I would not be seen dead in overalls. Tanktop and shorts with yellow wellies. I do have a nice pair of braces to hold my trousers up as I suffer from builders bum. I picked up a nice pair of gucci loafers at a charity shop and I sometime wear them when doing light duties
Would that be when the light was OFF, ACE?
I haven't got a lottie :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
but in the garden it's either shorts or jeans, vest or hoody, clogs or wellies.
my needs are few.
;D
From the bottom up..........Brasher Boots (15 years old and split) with pink laces,bargain zip off leg walking trousers from Aldi, and yesterdays T shirt.
In the hot weather I found it cooler to wear a cotton scarf turban style than a hat. Fielded lots of comments about 'land army' but I just don't care, do you?
I always cut a dash...
:o
Not sensible at all H! The mud will seep through your toes with those silly shoes!
Nothing wrong with the rest of it, health and safety to the fore...nothing would hurt if you were to fall over with all that hair!!
;)
I just wear filthy old jeans, wellies and an equally filthy jacket. The family all turn their noses up at it all.
Ta daaa!
Heldi. Is that what you wear when you go out with friends for the evening!!????
And is it Christmas already in your house Heldi?
Nope strictly day wear that. Except I don't wear that awful fleece anymore. I wear see-through to go out :o LMAO!
Hailstones today...white everywhere...honest. :D Shows off me pink bootees nicely doncha think?
Anyways my darling OH says I look like a Russian shot putter and the first person to call me Helga ..gets it!
Actually H I meant the first pic, you posted other pics when I was typing.LOL
LOL! That first pic is my Sunday morning best...for Sunday afternoon I add a ...
in tribute to Dan ofcourse...but he knows this already.
Quote from: Heldi on August 28, 2006, 23:22:57
for Sunday afternoon I add a ...
Is this ... what I think it is, and if so, what colour?
moustache...scouse like
Ahh, I guessed wrong then ... ;D
Oh...and what did you guess in the first place eh? eh? eh? !!!! Pray tell
I'm all...
Well with you mentioning Dan, I thought perhaps boots (like in his avatar), or perhaps the handbag ...
OoohI thought he might be sensitive to mention of his handbag....you've seen TinkyWinky haven't you?
Thats the purple handbag carrying bloke with an aerial for hair?
Bright red santa like tracky trousers, walking boots that I have owned since my early teens and whatever t-shirt I lay my hands on. If it is cold I have a selection of Aarons or fleeces and thermal worn under the trousers. If it is raining....I get wet! ;D My darling has no fear of me ever getting chatted up when I am going gardening or allotmenting. I am usually caked in mud...and other unmentionables. ;D ;D
So you've met Dan then?
Not yet, but I am sure I could recognise him from his avatar ... ;D
Heldi, hilarious! ;D My laugh for the afternoon with that wig and the vest!
I wear very old jeans and a disgusting pair of suede trainers, plus a paint-decorated t-shirt, and an old fleece with zip pockets â€" sometimes a nice wrinkly cagoule over all. Plus a half-chewed baseball cap (the half-chewed came courtesy of the lottie fox who nicked it for awhile).
summer: strappy vest & linen skirt, winter: fab commando trousers (hide practically everything, including me in the jungle !) and several thin layers with once delightful, but now rather grubby, down filled gilet.
Worn my lovely stripey wellies out ...
I grow my veg down the garden so am often out there in my nightdress gardening! Go down with my cuppa in the morning and get carried away and forget to come in and get dressed - OH often tells me off!
Do dress a bit warmer in the winter though! ;)
T.
No Lotty either but a big garden and I do a tremendous amount of weeding in my slippers. Came to grief weeks ago by falling in the rockery, so maybe I have learnt my lesson. ::) ::)
Quote from: mc55 on August 29, 2006, 19:05:04
fab commando trousers (hide practically everything, including me in the jungle !)
Hey! that's living too dangerously for me :o. I've got this pair of velour-look leggings in splodgy lime-green, orange, fuchsia, blue, sunshine-yellow & every colour in-between, which I wear with a similarly classy top especially for Me Ventures into The Shrubbery......'Lost' ain't got nothing on my Shrubbery..... ;D when I peg it I want it to be in a smoky jazz joint somewhere decadent, NOT at the top of me garden 8)
ps....said leggins are known as me 'Dare to Wears'.....ie " do you really dare to wear those?"........you bet I do! :P
Ha ha ha!Got caught out by the postman the other day (delivering tomato squidger) Me: "ooh,great" Him "worth getting out of bed for then"
This was 9am, I had been up since 6.30 weeding,picking toms,figs, messing around in greenhouse etc., but still in dressing -gown.
Smiled and shut door with great speed.
PS Lisha, can I come with you to the jazz joint? I promise to be suitably attired. ;D
Quote from: Emagggie on August 29, 2006, 20:12:35
PS Lisha, can I come with you to the jazz joint? I promise to be suitably attired. ;D
YESSSSSS!!! Any time!!
I'm not so sure about the jazz ! :P
and i thought you were meant to stay in your jammies as long as possible.
saves on washing !
;D
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Blouse that managed to get blue nailvarnish down it on wear number three and was consigned to scruff forever. Used-to-be black jeans; one is patched on both inner thighs but the patching is so old it's ended up like the other identical pair - bloomin' great tears across the back of each leg. I try not to bend over with my bum to my neighbour! Old shoes that are on the way out, handbag, mobile phone x 2, palm pilot etc etc murble murble
:o
A HANDBAG????!! How posh are you Bennett?
I stagger to the plot with kitchen compost bin, carrier bags with milk for tea, another few packets of seeds, sarnies, chocklit etc etc!
;)
Ancient holed army jacket (bit smelly, but each dangerous wash risks final disintegration), pockets a black hole of useful/useless items. Soggy boiled sweets always a delight, surfacing at opportune moments.
Tattered tracksuit bottoms (always wear matching underwear so the holes aren't so evident ;))
Split walking boots/soft green plastic clog type things (also mightily split)
Old t-shirts - holed, but oh so comfy, emblazoned with snappy slogans which are excellent ice-breakers/neighbour scarers e.g. 'Star Trek Intergalactic Tour Dates', 'Avon killed the Clone' and 'I am not a number'...
Blue woolly hat (cold), blue brimmed hat (warm)
Had a bit of a chuckle Heldi, and I notice you like your pink footwear! I wear old jogging pants and a collection of old and past-it T-shirts. Manky old zipped cardy when it is colder, with either boots or old trainers. Would you believe it - I have seen a woman at our lottie wearing white trousers and white blouse :o How she managed to keep clean I don't know, I usually come home covered in soil somehow! Also the other day saw someone actually wearing flip flops! ??? busy_lizzie
Know what you mean Lizzie, about the 'white' stuff. Last week when Dave and I were down there, suitably attired for digging - me in old trackys, boots and a Star Trek Generations (daughters cast off) tee shirt, him in jeans, tee shirt bought in Florida on holiday that 'seemed a good idea at the time, but never been worn outside the house since we came back' (you know the sort of thing, everyone has them), and boots covered in paint and plaster from when we were working on the house, our next-door allotment holder appeared in pristine white shorts and tee-shirt, hair done, and 'face on' and holding very elegant basket to collect veg for tea. Mind you, they do have about the tidiest allotment on the site. Not a lot to live up to then!
Found out at our allotment open day that our plot a few years ago, used to be the 'show plot'. Now it's the 'don't look at this for at least 3 years' plot!!!!
Ahh, the 'bag!!!'. No handbag, (Not big enough). Huge 'Wilkies bag for life' in fetching shade of lime green, containing flask of coffee, bottle of water, sweets and other life saving equipment for little g'daughter, pen-knife, secateurs, favorite trowel, string, carrier bags, plastic pot (for more d**n blackberries!), keys, phone,
collection of baseball caps for all the family, sunglasses and other vital essentials.
Must find the leady-thing for camera!!!
Ah yes, the secateurs........at the airport on my way to Spain, I was asked to empty my bag as it had a 'very suspicious and dangerous' looking article in it. Laughing to myself,tipping all and sundry out, thinking 'stoopid woman'
the light dawned as I clutched my £2.99 tiny secateurs from Aldi and my little plastic bag for cuttings. :-[ They were ceremoniously removed,never to be seen again.Kicked myself all the way there.
blimey, watch out Paris - sounds like we'd knock the socks off 'em (not least from the smell from some of the descriptions !!!)
accessories usually consist of choc-o-late or warm egg custard tarts .. mmm, just as a little treat for doing so much, or whilst I'm stretched out on the bench planning my next crop :D
oooo flip flops...with all those stinging nettles!! :o
Yay ! I took my four quid allotment broken-in jeans to a Chinese Restaurant last evening. Thought they deserved a treat !
old work trousers,pink with yellow dots wellies, when it's raining wax hat with wide brim with pheasant feathers,sometimes a white :o t- shirt, sunglasses, maybelline cherry shimmer lippy, maybelline unstoppable mascara :o :o yes makeup ;D and I've even worn flip flops :P :P you can't miss me/shades x
Namissa's now come up with a new expression for particularly disreputable clothes of mine; 'Those are allotment!'
I've never really understood why Al the OH insists I get changed out of my Lottie clothes before we can go to the pub etc..
;D
Ok, I confess to having worn flip flops to the lottie. Wasn't really thinking - it was one of those 'just popping over to do a bit of watering'
Never again........... :-[
This is my usual get-up
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;D ;D ;D ;D and there was me thinking you wore a 'Top Hat' all the time like the pic you showed us of yourself last Ch******s. You sure have changed a lot in under a year. ;) ;) ;)
Well this is another of my favourite outfits
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There's handsome..........
isn't he just, wow and plus a top hat :o :o :o
Now thats how a man should do the 'lottie,
Suit and tie to match me dressed all in white
teetering in my 3"heels with white gloves.
NOT ;D ;D
Tie??? That comes straight off as soon as I get back from school. Loathesome things!
Robert,
My OH wants to know what this 'tie-thingy' is???????
(He thinks it's that funny thing he used to wear round his neck before he retired, but memory isn't what it was now 60 is fast approaching!!)