Does the cold weather make you not care about looking nice?

[Iwillnotbeamug]

These last few months I've really let myself go.
Don't care what I look like
Think it's the cold weather

I wear similar colours to you Yay. They aren't difficult to find in summer clothes.

I much prefer winter dressing too. I look better in clothes that have a bit of structure and they're much harder to find in the summer - any tips welcome. I look a fright in a floaty, summery dress and don't get me started on sleeves.

What's really annoying is that summer lasts about two weeks where I live and yet the clothes are in the shops for months.

It does to some extent but I have to look decent for work.

Having said that I've got a fairly new boyfriend (about 5 dates now) and we did the deed the other night so I got a mani/pedi, got bikini area waxed and shaved my legs!

The mani/pedi was a good deal £42, Cheeky Salons in London do it. I felt so much better after it, more polished.

I look better in the winter - hate the weather getting warmer from a dressing pov.

I don't wear dresses either in summer as I've got little red dots all over my legs which never go away :-(

Yes, you can buy summer clothes in deep rich colours but having that rare bit of sun beating down on your navy clad back while already in the throes of a perimenopausal hot flush is not a recipe for looking and feeling good.

The concept of being offended on behalf of those unloved and rejected summer clothes is giving me quite a giggle, though.

I'm offended by linen. It used to be a luxury fabric (admittedly with a price to match). Now it's cheap, flimsy, nasty.

Yes. What happened to good quality linen?

I've still got a couple of vintage linen jackets - one Italian and one by Moygashel and they're beautiful. Really heavy fabric.

I used to have a pair of Per Una heavy linen trousers. They were really good quality, but after umpteen washes they were too faded to look nice. They had also shrunk in length.