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Items of clothing you still mourn...

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petitdonkey · 15/07/2014 17:55

Just doing the ironing and I have realised that my favourite ever French Connection black t-shirt looks awful - those mystery holes around the tummy and and a bit faded. I've had it for about 4 years and they don't do that style any more.

It got me thinking about clothes I have loved and lost…. they are often not the most expensive, just great staples.

  • my bright pink high-waisted ankle skimming trousers circa 1992. Leant them to someone and never saw them again. they will have been in fashion at least twice since then (and I would love to know if I could still squeeze into them!!)
  • a gold dress from the sixties that was given to me for a fancy dress party by a family friend. Lent it to a friend at uni and never got it back but it was fab!

My favourite blue jumper is past it's best too Sad

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TheCraicDealer · 15/07/2014 22:24

Alma, someone's going to turn up lamenting the loss of their tweed Zara jacket on a drunken night out and you're going to get it! Grin

I have a petite camel Crombie coat from Next a few seasons ago. Fits my short little arms, looked smart for work, nice with blue jeans and Chelsea boots...unfortunately Next don't make clothes to last any more and it's gone bobbly. I have tried to shave it with a bic razor in desperation. I've kept it with the intention of getting a tailor to make me a replacement but it's going to cost £150+...eek!

Someone (TV gods) should make a program where they get photographs from people and make them their old loved and lost clothes. Channel 4- call me Wink

TheFirmament · 15/07/2014 22:26

Lovely short grey chunky knit sweater with really long sleeves (so hard to find) that I lost on a trip to a breast cancer clinic years ago to have a lump checked. I went back but they didn't have it.

A very simple chunky glass flower necklace on a leather cord, lost on the way back from holiday also years ago. Went with everything.

Boden cashmere sweater that I splashed out on and the moths then ate, the greedy gits. Why do they have such expensive tastes?

Have also ruined several favourite cardies in the wash. It's so easy to do when you're in a hurry.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/07/2014 22:31

My topshop Martha's . Bring them back damn you.
Any of my band tee shirts , stone roses, smiths chucked on over black denim jeans. I was thin enough and carefree enough ! Ditto my precious purple doc martens .

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petitdonkey · 15/07/2014 23:26

TheCraic - I just laughed out loud at the thought of someone claiming Alma's jacket!

Your programme idea is brilliant!

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WildBillfemale · 16/07/2014 06:38

A beautiful pure wool full length red coat I bought back in the 80s. It cost about £300 which was a huge amount of money to me then just starting out. I loved it to bits and just had to have it, I was browsing in a store with no intention to buy as £££££. I think it may have been Maxmara but can't remember, it was gorgeous quality. Wore it until my bag strap has worn a bald patch on the shoulders and it was beyond repair.

I will never forget how it made me feel, and how stylish and warm it kept me that bitter Canterbury winter

RonaldMcDonald · 16/07/2014 06:44

Pucci heels, they were perfect

AmberNectarine · 16/07/2014 06:49

I've just remembered a pair of silver stilettos I LOVED when I was 19. One of them ended up in the Thames during a drunken episode - we were kicking fizzy fish sweets into the river (they needed to go home, obviously), and my shoe followed them in. I've still not had the heart to replace them.

WildBillfemale · 16/07/2014 06:55

we were kicking fizzy fish sweets into the river (they needed to go home, obviously), and my shoe followed them in

bwhaha lol

WildBillfemale · 16/07/2014 06:59

oh yes - my skin tight black satin olivia newton john 'grease' trousers complete with a diamante love heart on the back pocket.
I bought them off a school friends cool older sister when I was about 13. T

My dad wouldn't let me out the house wearing them though as in his words they were 'too grown up'

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autumnsmum · 16/07/2014 08:30

Loving this thread I had a lovely psychedelic print 1960s mini dress that I had bought at Glastonbury. It was lobbed when I was splitting up with cheating ex a few years later

Eliza22 · 16/07/2014 08:35

My Mickey Shirt from White Stuff. A slub cotton, long sleeved one. Had a few of them but finally had to bin the last a couple of months ago. They don't do that style any more.

Eliza22 · 16/07/2014 08:37

Oh, and pink sparkly plastic clippy-cloppy shoes when I was 6. I'm 52, but I often think of them. Smile

stubbornstains · 16/07/2014 08:46

A brown tweed-ish jacket that I left hanging on a fence outside college one drunken night......

Grin Grin Grin

(not really)

stubbornstains · 16/07/2014 08:49

A black satin Agent Provocateur corset along with a bag full of other clothes- left in the back of a taxi in Dublin, and the taxi firm claimed never to have found it Angry.

You need to add Lost in the Taxi Vortex to your list OP...

weatherall · 16/07/2014 08:54

A red suede coat with feather trim- got nicked from a nightclub

Silvery mac- left in nightclub cloakroom

Short red dress- would never fit me now

Clarinet9 · 16/07/2014 08:59

Perhaps not what you were thinking but we have recently been robbed and the f^%$#rs took every piece of jewellery I had, everything. Wedding ring, cheap holiday souvenir earrings, the watch I have had since I was 21 (if came from ARGOS FFS) everything. The police were crap and I know I am never going to see any of it again, a couple of things were gifts from my df (who died a few years ago) and it just makes me so sad just thinking about it.

On a lighter note! I had the most amazing coat, black wool, short swing style, satin lined, large fake fur colour (also black) 3 or 4 big buttons down the front came from M and S. I just loved that coat and felt really lovely wearing it. I totally only wore it for best.
I went to a posh wedding and someone stole it, it was February freezing sleet was falling I was 8.5 months pregnant!
What a shitty thing to do.
They left behind another coat in really poor condition, long, polyester, dirty and a totally different colour!

ah well

merrymouse · 16/07/2014 08:59

My 1987 Benetton Argyle pattern jumper.

It has finally got so many holes in it that it isn't even a wear over pyjamas jumper. R.I.P. jumper, you served me well.

13loki · 16/07/2014 09:01

A perfect pair of boot cut cargo pants stolen (along with all my favourite clothes) in 2000. I was on my way back from visiting inlaws and we went shopping. Someone stole the bag out of my car.

Perfect Fcuk jeans I bought on sale in January 2005, then promptly got pregnant.

A knee length brown suede coat with sheepskin collar. I hope my niece still owns it- I gave it to her when I moved overseas

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petitdonkey · 16/07/2014 09:28

stubborn - I want to know how you came to leave a corset in a cab Grin

Clarinet - that is just shitty beyond belief, I'm so sorry.

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marymcb · 16/07/2014 10:37

My perfect black polo neck, it just fitted perfectly, fitted but not too tight, the polo neck stayed up and didn't roll down and the sleeves were long enough! It served me for many years until one day it just looked really sad and tired. I still go to reach for it sometimes and remember it's not there!

ChablisChic · 16/07/2014 12:24

In the 80s I had a pair of black crepe cigarette pants with a side zip, and a tiny slit at the ankle. The were so flattering, I wore them every time I went out until eventually they just gave up the ghost and went limp, and had a few pulled threads so they went to the charity shop.

I've been trying to find a pair like them ever since and, despite spending god knows how much on black trousers, I've never found any that were so easy to wear and made me look so good.

ChablisLover · 16/07/2014 12:58

KenDodd - I have martha's that are about to be thrown out - what size are you?

I lament everything i throw out but then I hoard things in the ah sure it'll come back into fashion mode

stubbornstains · 16/07/2014 13:32

I wore it for work donkey (and that's all I'm going to say Wink)

LulaPalooza · 16/07/2014 14:15

I mourn and lament the loss of many pairs of shoes over the years, but the two that make me hurt inside are shoes that I had in my late teens:

A beautiful pair of purple suede flat ballet dancer style shoes - complete with square toe and purple silk ribbons. Wore them to death, mainly with abre feet over a hot sumer (1989?) They smelled like something had died in them eventually so my Mum made me chuck them out Sad

A pair of black suede over the knee boots from Bally. They had a red suede lining so you could fold them down, sort of puss in boots stylee. Flat heels. I worked in Bally on Saturdays and even with staff discount and them being in the sale it took me weeks to save for them. I loaned them to a friend and her ultra conservative DF threw them out, thinking they were hers and because he thought they were slutty Sad Sad Sad

Clothes-wise, the only items I really miss are a pair of cream trousers that were some kind of man-made fibre and were ironed on hot. They melted. I'm too fat for them now anyway.

I am a horder and have loads of clothes stashed away that I intend to fit back into someday. Maybe.