Beat this for a lunchtime activity

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Is this the most middle aged, middle class thing ever?

I’ve just spent my lunch break sewing a kindle pocket into the inside of my gilet!

It can now go out and about with me without the need for a handbag.

What has my life become?

Ownership of a gilet IN ITSELF is proof of middle class status (at least if it's referred to as a gilet).

The Kindle pocket is truly next level.

I want a Kindle pocket now

goes of to find out what a gilet is

Showing my working class background. 😁

@Finkelbraun

Ownership of a gilet IN ITSELF is proof of middle class status (at least if it's referred to as a gilet).

The Kindle pocket is truly next level.

I want a Kindle pocket now

I have without doubt peaked on many levels.

I own a gilet, but my dm and grandma when she was alive always called them gilets, pronouncing the T. I am now so confused about my social standing!

I own one... but I call it a body warmer

Definitely a body warmer 😁

How do you pronounce gilet?

My parents insist on Gillet (with the T)

Oh, sweedy, sweedy, sweedy. You most definitely win T'internet MC Award of the Day!

Congratulations, hun

Gilets confuse me. What's the point of them? If you're cold put on a coat or jumper. What's the purpose of having no arms?

@CuriousaboutSamphire

Oh, sweedy, sweedy, sweedy. You most definitely win T'internet MC Award of the Day!

Congratulations, hun

Tee hee

I pronounce it jeel-ay

No no no - what you need is a Barbour with a poacher's pocket. Plenty of space for a kindle along with a dead rabbit or two.

"If you're cold put on a coat or jumper. What's the purpose of having no arms"

Yes @FatCatThinCat! I say this all the time to my parents!

If you have no arms though, you only need a gilet, surely, as it has no sleeves?

@FatCatThinCatFat would I be totally wrong to assume that you don't live out in the middle of nowhere, or have horses!

I have a couple of body warmers, a puffer jacket style one and a flat one and the are great for early morning late or night dog walks when the temperature is a little low but sleeves would just be too hot. They also sit weel beneath a bog coat, for those days when you might be standing still a bit, or are walking for a couple of hours. They just keep your core temperature up.

And I have a leather gilet (jee lay) - poachers pocket and all. That is used on winter, when I want to use my arms freely but again need to keep my core temperature up.. and that one covers my bum, so fixes that cold midriff/lower back problem that ruins a good long dog walk!

They only look or sound daft if you don't actually need one for whatever it is you are doing! Soccer mums, dog walkers, horse riders, mucker outers etc ALL need them, even if they don't yet know it!

Brilliant idea. Need one of those on my coat.
It's why I like wearing walking trousers.. pockets! I have a phone one, a mask one, a keys one, one for random things... But none are quite big enough for a kindle.

@CarolVordermansArse

If you have no arms though, you only need a gilet, surely, as it has no sleeves?

Such waist coats (!) are useful for gardening etc. when full jacket too warm or too restrictive.

Kindle pocket sounds fab.

Look how cheerful it is!

Ah.. the lexicon for sleeveless, mid region covering garments grows

Body Warmer
Gilet
Waist Coat

Just realised this could be my new niche selling point - I'll put a kindle pocket in every jacket I sell

Ooh! That is pretty

"summer on your arms, winter on your body" we (probably mis)quote this regularly when we see someone wearing a gilet/bodywarmer. It's from Cloudy with a chance of meatballs film. Pretty much sums them up.

Anyway nice idea OP

@FatCatThinCatFat would I be totally wrong to assume that you don't live out in the middle of nowhere, or have horses!

Half wrong. I live in the middle of nowhere in a way that makes the UK middle of nowhere look positively bustling. I don't however have horses as they scare the shit out of me. One kicked me in the stomach when I was a kid and now I have a panic attack every time the kids want to go on a pony ride at the country fair.

Next we'll see a thread on how to pronounce gilet

Ive ordered a gilet/bodywarmer online. Colour name is beetroot.

I think owning a beetroot gilet makes me officially past it.