What everyday things do you find utterly charming/chic?

You & me both 😃
I've been reading this thread like a checklist! I can add red hair, tortoise shell glasses, colourful bold frames (glasses habit), elderly rescue cat who sleeps in a velvet cat bed, colourful interiors, walls of books, window seats, sash windows....!

Children’s artwork pinned up on the walls

Parents chasing their red-cheeked giggling children around freezing cold playgrounds.

Old women out socialising with their friends.

A warm home. My childhood homes were freezing as my mother as always hot.

I love a fancy shop cake or buffet. Everything was homemade as a child, and a shop bought cake was a luxury.

Christmas trees in bay windows is one of my favourites 😍🎄

A house that’s mildly lived in but still smells nice

Older, well used kitchens.

The smell of freshly washed hair.

A gorgeous Christmas tree in bay window of a sandstone house.

A classic signature perfume.

Similar to a woman having a daughter who’s an only child; a woman with a girl dog.

A relaxed, velvet duster jacket in muted olive green.

Expressive, natural faces that glow from within.

When we stay over at ILs and I go downstairs in the morning to make a brew, FIL is always sat at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee, the weekend newspapers spread out and the radio playing in the background. He always gets up and gives me a massive bear hug and asks how we slept 😊

In our house, the dogs asleep in front of the log burner, DH cooking a Sunday roast in the kitchen with a vinyl playing, the (brief!) moments after I have cleaned the entire house on a Saturday and wander round admiring how immaculate it looks!

Also, I love looking through people's windows on an evening dog walk and seeing people / families going about their daily life - chatting, watching TV, sitting round having dinner. Just the small things but always makes me feel warm inside.

Cakes in a fridge now??

People who can knit.

Baby/toddler tights, as well. So many lovely colours and there is something very cute about the stage where they can just toddle about and they have those non-slip bits on the feet. I'm sure that's not chic but it is very charming.

Babies in hand knitted clothes

You don't see it much these days but I used to love seeing a man in a three piece business suit (preferably pin stripe) with the jacket off and sleeves rolled up.

Frosty morning

This is a lovely thread!

I think having a well stocked and organised pantry is incredibly chic!

Also popping to the garden to cut herbs for a meal you are cooking.

Pots of spring bulbs around the back door too.

As a cat-owning mother of one daughter, who lives in a colourful house with lots of books and throws and plants and an overflowing fruit bowl (and with a 'stock' of things like jam and olive oil in the larder cupboard), and a 20 year old family car - this thread is making me feel like I've found my people!

Some things I find chic:

• women with grey hair and red lipstick and/or bold glasses
• paper advent calendars
• brightly decorated Christmas trees full of a mix of shop-bought and child-made baubles (NO colour scheme!)
• stovetop coffee makers
• beautifully and visibly hand-mended clothes (I'd love to learn to do this)
• being polite to hospitality and retail workers
• clementines with the leaves still on
• women who order dessert
• the smell of beeswax candles
• slightly wild gardens full of flowers and vegetables, with insects everywhere
• being able to speak multiple languages well (I only speak one other one, I'd love to learn more!)

Window seats

And heavenly blue hyacinths, especially grouped in re-purposed old china, like a chamber pot... 😍

Oooh, I love this thread!

A basket full of fancy soaps, a cat curled up asleep where he shouldn’t be, a stack of freshly ironed napkins, a fridge drawer full of cheese, small useful things I’ve bought on holiday like my Italian salt pot, posh shoes . . .

I love long wool coats, more chic if they tie with a belt rather than buttons.

I still love getting birthday cards which people have written themselves in their own hand, ie not printed from moonpig etc.

We have a big whiteboard in DDs room and we leave messages to each other. It could be a seasonal thing eg happy start to the summer holidays or a to do list for a party. She has been enjoying long multiplication recently and loves me leaving her some to do on the board, so random and it makes me smile.

I think people who are fashionable in general regardless of the season. I’m in my 20s, slim and reasonably fashionable, but there’s outfits I just wouldn’t wear, like knee boots with mini skirts/knit dresses. Looks great on other people but I just feel practically, it would be a faff and I’d want trainers asap!

So many things are chic and charming!

1. Wearing a silk scarf.
2. Having a signature perfume that is old (10+ years since release) that you wear all the time, not just for special occasions.
3. A suit, but only if you feel utterly confident and comfortable in it.
4. Eating alone in a nice restaurant.

Not chic but utterly charming is my cat snoring, and I can hear her throughout the house.

Driving around the town where I live and seeing Christmas tree lights twinkling in the windows on random floors of apartment buildings, lights on balconies, etc.