To think it’s really hard to be fashionable when you live rurally…?

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As title really.

I’ve never thought of myself as unfashionable before and can look ‘trendy’ (eurgh, hate that word) on a night out etc, but in terms of day to day wear, I’ve come to realise that I don’t really have anything ‘fashionable’ to wear as I live in skinny jeans as these go under wellies well and look good under wellies, whereas baggy legged jeans just look ridiculous and bulge all out to the sides.

I WFH so not much point in dressing up for work and then I walk the dog across muddy fields/ footpaths on my lunch break each day which means, again that ideally I need to be in wellies and suitable trousers for that.

My weekends during the day now tend to be spent at local farms/ children’s attractions etc and I just feel like, especially during winter, baggier style jeans and trainers are just a a bit impractical and would get filthy within 5 mins.

I do have a couple of pairs of mom/ boyfriend jeans that I wear in the Spring and Summer, but even then, I struggle to find tops that go with them so that the overall effect isn’t making me look huge when I’m not.

Am I alone in this? I’ve just been on the ‘what are you buying this spring’ thread in style and beauty and people are linking all sorts of ‘trendy’ looking things, some of it lovely, but I just think, where would I wear any of it? Where do these women wear any of it?! I’m wondering if it’s just because I live rurally, surrounded by mud or if other country bumpkin women on here manage to still be ‘fashionable’ day to day?!

I don't WFH so have work clothes, the rest of the time I'm walking dogs across moor, renovating an old house or cleaning my own house. I have little need for anything other than the most functional of clothes, packing for a week away usually involves a panic clothes shop 😆
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@BrillantBriony - we are all 'aging' - it's a fact of life no matter our age. It's also bloody rude to suggest that everyone who is "old" is unfashionable.

I agree that functionality does take precedence over style very often. It's the MUD!!! And the creatures!!

I hear you @Radionowhere - I have an annual weekend away with old friends who are city mice and have a little panic at my country mouse wardrobe 😁. It's nice to have a change from wellies and waterproofs though.

I live semi rurally and work in a small town and I'd say I'm not especially fashionable but all my colleagues think I am. So in that sense it's easier than when I lived in a city with more stylish people in!

It is almost impressive to be able to write a post with this level of snobbery and superiority.

I buy my cashmere jumpers at the charity shop as people save them for best and then they get donated. Amazing condition but the labels date them as 30 plus years old, I wear them every day.

I’m impressed too! That takes some beating - the snobbery and lack of self awareness.

I agree, it’s impossible! I’m in Ireland, we live in the countryside. The whole place is like a swamp with all the rain we’ve had. We are in farming country too so the roads are destroyed. I live in skinny jeans or leggings. If we do have to go somewhere I never seem to have anything nice to wear. Roll on summer!

Tricky during the week if you need to wear wellies for walking the dog in fields etc but at weekends for mucking around with young kids, a pair of leather Chelsea boots with a chunky sole with either knitted dresses, straight/ cropped jeans or jumpsuits is perfect for this sort of thing.

I have no interest in fashion fortunately - I live rurally but would have an equal lack of interest if I lived in a city...

I wear robust waterproof hiking boots for much of the year with a wax jacket in winter. I'm far more interested in wearing clothes that make sense for the situation than wearing something that might be considered to be this seasons fashion. And judging by the other people I see around me, I'm not alone in that view - and I suspect the other folk are as unbothered as I am.

I wfh, and if I ever have to go into the office (maybe once a year) I'm somewhat flummoxed by what I'm supposed to wear 😁