TOAST 2

[Countmeout]

New thread please delete if it’s a duplicate

@Laska2Meryls you look dead chic! I love black/dark outfits in summer.
Thanks everyone for the green light on Poetry/&daughter! Although my bank balance does NOT thank you.
I'm wearing the white Seth shirt today with the burgundy merino wrap cardigan hehe channeling Moominmamaatsea and Countmeout

Someone mentioned on one of these threads the supplier of soap to Toast. Does anyone remember what it is?

It was me and the business is called Droyts (based in Lancashire).

@Alsohuman and @Laska2Meryls - those JL bargains are brilliant! I never realised their sales were so good!

That parka is a really nice colour!

Thank you @Moominmammaatsea

Sadly Toast sale is coming to the end soon ( I dont know when) and lots of us have spent more than enough it seems!
But its been fun hasnt it and I have really enjoyed talking to my fellow 'carrot planting librarian hessian skirt lovers' ( was that it?)..
So shall we keep this going ?( with not just Toast which I am sure not too many of us but at full price often) but other lovely Toast-like clothes talk?
We could even do a bit of Toast and "nod to" 'What we are wearing today ?

Yes please @Laska2Meryls ! It’s been a joy - I love talking about/planning clothes buying and wearing. When you find just the right thing it’s an absolute joy isn’t it? Am still carrying on ‘buying less but buying better’, which means everything I acquire needs to be really considered, particularly in the context of potential wfh for the next 3-6 months at least. I’m foreseeing lots of merino/cashmere jumpers, but with what I have no idea cos I don’t do jeans or trousers. Jersey skirts maybe. Anyhoo, as you can see (sorry 🤓) I can rumble on about clothes for hours. Would love to carry on!

Sounds like a plan!

Great , a 'less but better thread ' it shall be !!
I must actually plant some more veg seeds!

Saurus I really rate And/Or silverlake jeans

Second the silverlake jeans, although tbh I’ve never been a jeans wearer for wfh. Hate sitting for hours in them. Yes, let’s carry on.

Thank you Laska for linking to the french website....was really interesting. I bought a lovely raffia Toast hat last year from there and I am now eyeing up a bag
I recently purchased some Plumo trousers from this Swedish company nygardsanna.se and have since ordered a jacket from them directly..the postage was expensive, but it arrived promptly and I love it . I prefer the more utilitarian Toast clothes and these clothes have a similar vibe. And although the nyardsanna clothes are expensive- probably more expensive than Toast- both the trousers and the jacket are very well made.

Definitely need to wear a non-elasticated waistband, wfh proving disastrous for weight management 🙄

My Riya dress arrived, but it's going back. Although I love the colours, it just didn't look right on, the neckline was high and weirdly baggy, and the general shape was unflattering on me. Shame.

My breen parka arrived, it’s lovely but is going back as it’s too tight across the shoulders. I wear a 10 or a 12 in toast but I would have needed a 14 in this.

So here's my last Toast bargain in this sale ( its meant to be the last , anyway!)
Short sleeve cotton linen jumper in Bone
From JL so a bargain at 37.50 👍

I ordered the velvet jumpsuit, it was crazy big

I am 6ft with wide hips, 12 stone, nothing petite about me... yet it was massively big, so much so I might need a size 10

But not sure I can be bothered

If they did free returns I’d buy a lot more of their stuff, but I already paid delivery and returns for the size 14 so may just cut my losses...

Back in from checking on my carrots .

I’m wearing my wrap cardigan it’s so light you’d hardly know you were wearing it.

I was awake at 4.30am (combination of insomnia, wriggly toddler and an horrific nightmare in which I was trying to protect my family from a random shooter in a shopping centre massacre. Anyone else having really intense dreams during lockdown?) Anyway, I logged on to the JL site (there’s something overwhelmingly reassuring and comforting about John Lewis, a bit like the poem, when I’m in a state of panic or distress) and ordered a Toast almond print shirt in black (was £95, down to £28.50) as I thought it would brighten up my black Jessa dungarees and I love the print which reminds me of mid-century graphics.

I’d love to stay on the thread to discuss our mutual love of Toast and perhaps pinpoint to other quality and heritage brands.

Has anyone here invested in a Toast throw (Ikat or silk velvet)? I’ve been contemplating replacing my sofa, which I purchased in the late 90s for an embarrassingly large sum of money but I honestly can’t find anything near as fantastic quality for an affordable/reasonable price, that is anywhere near as sumptuously comfortable. So now I’m considering a luxurious throw to primp my existing sofa - which has survived numerous children (my own and fostered) for another 25 years!

@Countmeout, Nantes, Nigel, Chantenay or Berlicum?

@Moominmammaatsea - wierd dreams a definitely a pandemic Thing - I read an article about it. I was also awake at a silly time this morning and saw that shirt - it's very nice!

I haven't bought a throw but have bedlinen and a blanket from Toast - all wonderful quality.

When I wanted to protect my new sofa from DS2 (adult but accident prone) I bought a fairly cheap linen sheet from Soak and Sleep in almost the same colour as the sofa and it did the job really well. Which throw are you thinking of?

@Moominmammaatsea that was a brilliant spot this morning - I have the dress in the same print and it is truly beautiful. There was another tranche of return on JL earlier but nothing that I can really justify. Would really like the stripy 3/4 sleeve t-shirt if it comes back, it’s £32 on Toast - less than half price - but about £20 on JL.

Has anyone been to the Toast outlet shop at Kilver Court? Planning to take a trip in September if we can do it sensibly. Hoping for Archive sale style bargains - so I really need to save some money for that.

I’ve been having terrible dreams then jerking awake gasping with my heart hammering. It’s horrible. Good spot on the shirt moomim.

That’s a beautiful shirt, it’s got a real 1940s vibe. And £28.50!

My Kin parka arrived this morning and it’s going back, it’s just not me. Hopefully the replacement will work better when it arrives. I added these to get free delivery, I’m undecided, I wonder if the lightening flash is a bit too much.

www.johnlewis.com/and-or-elvie-leather-high-top-trainers/silver/p4883043?size=4

Kilver Court TOAST is lovely. Been there a few times. Bit of a long way for me at about a 90 min drive but have a friend in Glastonbury so we meet there once or twice a year.