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How do you manage not to touch your "holiday clothes"

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kittya · 21/04/2011 10:55

Is it just me that buys things for holidays and has them hanging up for weeks in advance? Ive got three dresses and I could do to wear one of them this weekend but, I cant bring myself to. Why do we buy clothes for holidays?

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PaganOfBologna · 21/04/2011 10:57

Barking surely? Clothes are clothes, and you can wash them! Just wear the dress (it'll probably rain on your holiday anyway)

FolornHope · 21/04/2011 10:57

you are nuts

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kittya · 21/04/2011 10:58

its weird isnt it? it must stem from childhood when we used to get new knickers to take on holiday

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FolornHope · 21/04/2011 10:58

i dont have holiday clothes!
i have clothes i wear

PaganOfBologna · 21/04/2011 10:59

new knickers for holiday - that's a whole new level of barking! Were your old ones so disgraceful they couldn't be seen in public - and why would you be showing your pants in public anyway?

Dropdeadfred · 21/04/2011 11:00

I buy new stuff for hols but wouldn't hesitate to wear them beforehand if the weather wAs warm enough

noddyholder · 21/04/2011 11:01

I wear everything all the time Life is too short for saving stuff

FolornHope · 21/04/2011 11:10

so you buy things to wear for 7/14 days?
how freaky
mind you I regard holidays as a time to scruff

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kittya · 21/04/2011 11:15

my mother used to buy us new knickers for holidays, I guess it is a routine now!!

Of course I wear them afterwards just not before incase I "spoil" them. I'll get my coat..........

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overmydeadbody · 21/04/2011 11:20

You are very strange

Clothes are clothes. Why save them for a holiday?Yuo should wear that 'holiday' dress this weekend. You won't spoil it.

mosschops30 · 21/04/2011 11:23

I dont think its strange, me, dh and dcs will buy new bits every year that are for that years holiday. I dont like wearing them before because its nice to have something new to wear thats pecial. Of course we wear them after hols and for years to come.
Am a bit that i put a 'holiday' t shirt on ds2 today

shazbean · 21/04/2011 11:24

You are totally normal, don't listen to them
I bought holiday stuff in the January sales and they are all folded nicely in the suitcase - I'm not going away til the end of May

FolornHope · 21/04/2011 11:25

that so so so sad

noddyholder · 21/04/2011 11:26

I would never wear new clothes on holiday would look daft Maybe a new swimsuit but I am not a dress up for holiday person at all. Have never ever stayed anywhere that demands it I suppose

FolornHope · 21/04/2011 11:27

its a bit benidorm the " ooh i have my sundress on and gold shoes"

ewo naffo

noddyholder · 21/04/2011 11:28

You see whole families out in teh evening in clothes they wouldn't be seen dead in at home.

KeepCalmAndCarryOnMNing · 21/04/2011 11:29

My mother does things - she was complaining the other day that she doesn't have anything to wear for something this weekend because all her holiday clothes have been packed away (for her holiday in June).

I do buy some new clothes for holidays - but usually a few days before when I'm packing and realising that I have a few gaps.

albania · 21/04/2011 11:29

Oh I do this too
We also do a big shop at Matalan for lots of holiday clothes ready to be ruined with ice creams and sun cream
I thought I was normal!
DD1 has her new holiday dress on today (from desigual, I'm jealous and am debating ordering myself one...), if she gets sun cream all over it I will be fuming :o

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kittya · 21/04/2011 11:36

Abit Benidorm? bloody cheek!! theres nowt wrong with getting dressed up on holiday. Maybe its a Northern thing like having to buy a new outfit every Friday night.

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noddyholder · 21/04/2011 11:40

be warned step away from the special 'holiday' section of the supermarket! Pat Butcher ahead of her time rockin the printed maxi dress

mosschops30 · 21/04/2011 11:41

Maybe some people think its ok to be wearing any old shit at night on holiday, perhaps thats wh the brits get a bad name
'footie shirt and jeans, yep thats totally fine '

The normal ones among us like to look nice and make an effort, not in gold shoes and a sundress either, cheek! Benidorm!!

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kittya · 21/04/2011 11:44

I know, bloody cheek.

My Boden parcel arrived today and, for a change, I love it all. Its been tried on and put straight back in the box for holidays.

Except the leather clogs, I will have to break them in so Im wearing them this weekend. Then they are going in the box.

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noddyholder · 21/04/2011 11:45

footie shirt! Depends where you go never seen one apart from at the airport.You can make an effort doesn't have to be new neccesarily

Alibabaandthe80nappies · 21/04/2011 11:46

A new outfit every Friday night? WTF is that all about?

Much weirdness on this thread

My MIL buys all new clothes to go on holiday. She went away a few weeks ago and said she was so pleased that M&S and Debenhams had got their summer things in before she went. I suggested that if they hadn't, she could just have taken some of her existing summer clothes (she has tons, and tons - shopaholic) and she looked at me like this
She is mad, but lovely so I just laugh at her rather than letting it annoy me :)

shazbean · 21/04/2011 12:06

I buy stuff I would normally buy for summer. To be fair I haven't been away for aaaggess and am way too excited about it. But even so I would still buy a few new things (so the old stuff doesn't clash with my Madge Harvey tan.....)

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