My personal wardrobe is divided into 3 categories.
1. Ratting clothes: old gardening/building togs, mostly fit for the dustbin.
2. Smart-ish clothes: shopping, weddings, and funerals. Almost socially acceptable.
3. Buck House Specials: ermine, medals, dress sword, etc. (Maybe No 3 just lives in my imagination).
This morning I decided that my current pair of ratting trousers (above) should finally be laid to rest. There is almost as much hole as material, and they are beginning to look a tad scruffy.
Whilst dressing, I declared to Lady Magnon that this would be their final outing, after which they will go to the bonfire. (Am I being a bit hasty here?)
"No, no" she cried "Make them into dusters".
I capitulated. My ratting trousers will now live on to be of further use...... They will be responsible for buffing the silver, dusting the Renoirs, and shining the Chippendale. Wonderful; my £4 spent in 1990 was well invested, albeit a bit rash.
I thought it was white paint on your trousers but gather from your post that it is actually your skin showing through. Sounds just like my wardrobe although I definitely don't have #3.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen skin that white...is it natural ?
DeleteOh that's great ! I'm doing the same useful for cleaning shoes , garden furniture , leather and silver.
ReplyDeleteCro you kill me .I love your wry sense of humour.
ReplyDeleteLady M is full of wisdom as also is Lady G who tells me to cut squares of cleaning rags from my old underwear. From 2 pairs of old boxers I managed to get 8 cloths.
ReplyDeleteNaturally we wash them first.
ReplyDeletePeter took my old nightie for a tractor rag. He insisted I didn't wash it first.
ReplyDeleteSounds Napoleonic.
DeleteNot your skin, but thermal long Johns surely :-D
ReplyDeleteIf only Kath.... but then they'd be red!
DeleteJoin the farmer's club! The only time he has new clothes is when I take money from his account and buy them for him because some event is coming up and I think he has nothing to wear.
ReplyDeleteSame here Weave. left to David he would have no new clothes.
DeleteThey look good polishing material Cro.
Am sure some professional beggar could make good use of them ?
ReplyDeleteIt might give him a bad reputation.
DeleteI love my old comfy garden clothes - just embarrassing when unexpected visitors arrive! Haven't got any Buck House specials but can't bring myself to throw out my old ballgowns. Not much call for them in VdP.
ReplyDeleteNot just dusters - surely you could use the bits of fabric left over to patch the holes in your second-from-worst pair?
ReplyDeleteI shall suggest this to Lady M.
DeleteI have one level of wardrobe...'sadly deteriorating'. I hate shopping and trying on clothes so I wear everything until it is past the duster stage. Love to see you in your ermine robes lol.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly got your money's worth out of that purchase.
ReplyDeleteI have 2 categories- clothes that i wear and clothes that i shall wear after i shall loose 3 kg,
ReplyDeleteI like that.
DeleteI am sometimes unaware that an article of clothing has become #1 status and am shocked when once I realise that it's so.
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