The 'old' lady style and beauty thread

[thisenglishlife]

With 'old lady' not being an offensive term, but rather referring to women with knowledge, refined taste and other positive qualities

Show off your pretty things and link to dresses, slips, twinsets, pearls, stockings, big knickers, cross your heart bras, prestige scents, retro style makeup, soap and everything else in between

[Cocolapew]

Enjoying these threads as I sit listening to Doris Day 💞 and Dean Martin
I've bought a few things from Bon Marche lately, they do tops with a slash/boat neck which is my preferred style. I haven't worn jeans for about 18 months and prefer trousers, I got a lovely heavy pair from Bon Marche last winter. I like ankle length to wear with Fly London ankle boots in the colder weather and Stan Smith trainers in the summer and they do different lengths.
Also gave up on underwired bras and am now into M&S big holder uppers .
I've been doing jigsaws during lockdown and have taken up embroidery.

[Cocolapew]

Aren't they great Grumpymum

[Greenpop21]

@VictoriaBun I’ve been watching on YouTube.

[ElGuardiandenoche]

I love this thread and feel so at home here.

Powell Crafts do some beautiful stuff and are local-ish to me.

I love to sew little bits and bobs and use a Singer Treadle that’s been handed down to me.

[VictoriaBun]

@Greenpop21
Thanks for that.

[Greenpop21]

No probs.
@ElGuardiandenoche how lovely to actually use that vintage Singer. So many people have them as piece of decor.

[ElGuardiandenoche]

@Greenpop21, I love my Suzi Singer she's a dream, she was my Great Great Grandmas. I also have my Great Aunts 80s Bernina and my late MILs 70s New Home sewing machines (plus my first sewing machine, an 80s Singer; my second a 90s Silverline plus a modern computerised Brother and a computerised Pfaff Coverstitch.I may have a problem . Oh! and I've just had to get rid of a Riccah as my DS in an autistic rage threw it on the floor and destroyed it).

[Greenpop21]

Ok, so I’m guessing you like sewing.

[MotherofPearl]

Update on the Bronnley dusting powder: I've really been enjoying using it. In the hot weather it's so soothing after a bath or shower. But nobody loves it as much as my 4 year old DD, who saw me using it, and now insists on dusting herself liberally with it after her bath every evening. She clearly thinks it's the height of sophistication!

[ElGuardiandenoche]

@Greenpop21, just a little bit . I was into it when it wasn't 'cool' to be into it, when it was a little old lady thing

I love Bronnley talc and being the only female in a house of 5 means I don't have to share . Though I'm loving the visual of your 4 year old copying Mum, that is so sweet.

On a similar tangent does anyone remember Pretty Peach, I think it was. I used to love getting that when I was a kid.

[plinkplinkfizzer]

New Yardley range on Boots website. Must get some.

[dontcallmelen]

@ElGuardiandenoche sewing machine is beautiful, I’m in awe am hopeless with a machine, despite my lovely mum trying so hard to teach me, she was a wonderful seamstress & so talented.
Cocolapew I blinking love Doris Day & Dean Martin.

[ElGuardiandenoche]

Anyone else had to get there winter coat out again. It’s feeling a little chilly here. I managed to pick up a tweedy type coat with a faux fur collar to help keep my neck warm in a charity shop last autumn.

[ElGuardiandenoche]

@dontcallmelen, thank you very much. My GG Grandma was an amazing sewist. I don’t really remember her much, I was very young when she died. I have an outfit that she made my grandmother to honeymoon in and it’s beautiful. It’s miles too small for me to wear so it’s packed away in storage at the moment. My G Grandma was more of a practical sewist, I have quite a few cotton sheets that she cut down the middle when they grew thin, turned and sewed up the middle. Grandmother wasn’t much of a sewist. She and my mother were knitters. They tried to teach me but I’m hopeless.

[ScorpioSphinxInACalicoDress]

Hello, just popping in to say what a lovely thread and to rather boastfully out myself as the inventor of the "pink minger" title on the perfume thread
You all have wonderful taste!

[Greenpop21]

Chilly??? It’s very warm here. Just had to shower in the afternoon as a short trip in the car on a few errands left me in a hot sweaty mess.

[Greenpop21]

Splashed on some gorgeous rose cologne after and now just wafting about.

[dontcallmelen]

Definitely not chilly here in a London, must admit even though I like the heat temperatures forecast for the next few days here are a bit 😱
Not sure any wafting will be done over the next few days.

[MotherofPearl]

Not chilly here either. I've got my 4711 cologne wipes at the ready!

[dontcallmelen]

@MotherofPearl

Not chilly here either. I've got my 4711 cologne wipes at the ready!

That’s what I need! Curses myself for not buying when I saw them in boots the other day.

[NannyOgg66]

@thisenglishlife thank you, I have contacted Powell craft, they say their dressing gowns will fit up to UK size 16/18 if anyone else needs the info.
Think I will have to wait till my birthday near Xmas though. I am currently repairing my Japanese shop kimono, like it's predecessor it has worn thin in the bottom area, but I literally wear them every day for years and am sitting down a lot! :) I hate throwing things away if I can make do and mend. I think this must be a hang over from my mother who was brought up during the war and rationing in the 50s. I also have a Singer machine I use. Much easier than modern fancy ones that do everything, less to go wrong.

[NannyOgg66]

@Cocolapew which style M&S "big holder uppers" do you recommend? I am 34G and always looking for a comfy bra that doesn't look like body armour. I have the M&S fuller bust bralette and that is just about big enough but can look a bit droopy. I am finding underwires so uncomfortable now after so long wearing bralette. I know a lot of ladies on this thread recommend Triumph Doreen bra but am worried it might give me a pointy look like my old head mistress who had massive norks!

[dontcallmelen]

@NannyOgg66 sainsburys apparently do some good bralettes for the bigger busts will have a look see if can find any pictures/info

[NannyOgg66]

@dontcallmelen thank you. I had a look and just ordered a couple of bralettes. I'm a bit slow on the uptake sometimes...I've just got your name lol.

[sueelleker]

. I used to also have The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady duvet set as a teenager! I've got the wallpaper in my kitchen!