Toast the Third

[ilovecherries]

Just in case we want to continue to share how we wear our sale gems!
Previous thread here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/3946605-TOAST-2?msgid=98452456

I’m beginning to wonder if the huge JL reductions on Toast are a one-off due to clearing stock through after lockdown restricted sales instore? Or.... has anyone had bigger discounts from JL than Toast we’re offering previously?
I’m hoping it continues for future sales but scared for my finances

@Moominmammaatsea and everyone else who has commented - what a super post and I agree, this has been lovely (and I don’t usually post on Mumsnet .. ssh). @faustina is your famous shirt the indigo cotton twill one? If so I also have it and love it. I started lockdown with a renewed attitude of not wanting or needing anything I usually craved and with a vision of minimal, frugal living for the future .. and ended it with the JL and Toast sales!

I'm breaking cover to de-lurk to congratulate moomin on such a great post. Massive apologies from me; I introduced myself on a Toast thread (the first one) and then promptly disappeared
I have followed this thread in great detail, bought in the Toast sale, went to a real life Toast shop this week and have obviously taken advantage of the JL incredible bargains. I have bought stacks of things and sent most of it back (!) but I have settled with the :
Merino swingy cardigan
Franca indigo cotton dress
Indigo cotton shirt
Kala Shirt Dress and the Chalkboard cotton dress 😅

I can't promise to be a regular poster, work is a bit manic at the minute, but I do have a weeks annual leave next week so I may be back more regularly then!

Me too @paintyhands. Because I’m a huge nerd and I like tracking things and lists I’ve been writing down every item of clothing I’ve bought. I’ve really tried to reduce what I buy ( not necessarily spend less but fewer items that I love and get lots of wear out of) and it’s been going OK. During the first 4 months of this year I bought 3 things - 2 of which were Toast dresses. Was v proud. Since the start of May though, I’ve bought 15 things 😬. Hmmm

@Saurus72 and quite a few take away coffees for me in the last few weeks too (when I have a perfectly good flask) - still, the better and less mantra vaguely continues and I am, as we speak, uploading lots onto EBay!

@AFingerofFudge - welcome back! I’m usually the lurker! Sounds like you have some lovely things.

Loving the thread too! As the sale ends, and the buying slows down, maybe we could post how we’re wearing our Toast things? I’d love to see how people style them.

Ps not a Guardian reader, more Times these days. Am I still allowed? I eat lentils and grow my own vegetables

I don't grow any veg (except a small herb garden in an old butler sink), I do love lentils mind you.

Now, something else I think you might all enjoy - did anyone else watch Grayson Perry's Art Club on C4 during the earlier days of lockdown? It was fab, and got me thinking I'd like a studio and a pottery wheel. And a kiln.

@paintyhands - yes it is!

@goldpendant - herbs in a butler sink sounds wonderful

Has anyone else noticed something called cottage core? I think we are probably all inadvertently a little bit that

The Toast sale ends tomorrow!

Grayson's art club was fab.. I am a big fan of all things Grayson..I even have an Alan Measles key ring ..
I had kind of lost my way with MN recently, bur yes this thread has made mw realise that my kind of people are still to be found here..
I had a huge clear out and ebay of old stuff as I am sure a lot of us did during the past few weeks. But these months have also coincided with me leaving work for good and us buying a long planned for campervan ( but now it seems since covid everyone is doing the same) .. So my Toast purchases had to be practical (as well any other) has to be fit for my new non-work life going forward.. ..I think that I have achieved that and hopefully updated my look to something more approaching 'relaxed stylish' than 'work/homesloppy' !(well one can try ) 😄

Certainly dont want to go all 'retired pale blue beige BHS' .....

I have been on journey in lockdown also and annoyingly I now think that my blue workwear 'Monty Don' jacket that I bought from JL is too big.. I have rebought that in a 10 this morning as one was there and will ebay the 12.. ( It was a fab purchase, and have worn it several times already, even if it was just going to the co op ! )

Weight loss journey that is !

Congrats on the journey @Laska2Meryls - my journey went to opposite way and I need to try to get fit again now, my knees and back are starting to play up! I'm hyper mobile too so really need to try to get stronger!

How exciting about finishing work. Your new wardrobe will be perfect. We have toyed with the idea of a campervan too, let us know how you are finding it?

Morning, Toasties. I had also lost all interest in MN over recent months, it just didn’t feel a nice place to be anymore. These threads has been lovely though and provided kindness and light relief during some pretty shit times. DH had just retired a month before lockdown and we were also off on a mini gap year. The plan was I’d continue to keep my own business ticking over while we were away. Of course everything had to be cancelled and doesn’t look likely to happen for the foreseeable, my poor business is screwed and unexpected shielding has been a monumental trial, interspersed with sad comments about ‘today we should have been arriving in xyz’. However, I’m looking forward to playing with beautiful clothes now, and seeing all your outfit creations. It’s been lovely and I’m oddly grateful to a bunch of random strangers who have given me something to look forward to doing when I get up in the morning. My credentials are: a potato barrel, home grown herbs, a love of red lentils and a house that heaves under the weight of books it holds.

@faustina just looked up cottagecore and OMG that’s it!

I’ve also found this thread a real tonic. I don’t look at the rest of mumsnet ant more because it’s so bad tempered and it stresses me.

I’d love to carry on and hear about your toast outfits and toast inspired things.

I was looking at the Celtic and Co website last night. Some lovely photography and 2 pairs of boots I neeeeed.

Like the credentials @ilovecherries

Mine are:
Books books and more books
Like holidaying in the UK, especially Cornwall and Scotland
Proper coffee in pottery mugs
House decorated with one of artworks and prints and hand thrown pottery
Comfort prioritised over style
Dogs
Like cooking
Wool cardigans
Dresses
We have a real fireplace
Wool blankets
Daunt Books
Art galleries
Non chain coffee shops and cafes (favourite ever is The Vaults in Oxford)
Walks in the countryside

The flip side is that I have a doctorate in computer science which really isn’t very Toast!

Its ok if you wear Phillipa Perry glasses though Slippery !

I just got the indigo top (the TagGate one) from JL! I just picked up my phone, and there it was...

Ha! @ilovecherries I love your list of credentials. Rubbish about your amazing plans all being turned upside down - although to be fair, I bet a gap year would have been a bit rubbish anyway 🙄😉.

This thread has been a huge help, both in having something new to focus on (I have always loved clothes but there aren’t that many people who can rumble on with me about a stripy t-shirt’s pros and cons - that has been a really lovely thing. Also, I’ve been eBaying like a maniac. There have been things hanging in my wardrobe that I haven’t worn for years and it’s so satisfying to finally have the time to get it sorted. I’m putting aside all my earnings to buy lovely new things that suit my life way better. I think I got the idea from you @Laska2Meryls, I think you said you’d made hundreds of pounds which was a really good motivator.

My credentials - I love a natural fabric, love reading (newspapers of choice Guardian and The Times), easy gardening - flowers in pots - and last night, I cooked with homegrown chillis for the first time ever. Amazing sense of achievement 🤓

Today I am going for the full 'Bonjour Matelot ' look! .. Another beautiful day here.. hope its nice where you are.. ..

Good spot Cherries!

.. I need Phillipa Perry glasses ... Hmm... where to look ?

It’s teeming with rain where I am sadly.
Lovely thread.
I am done buying (surely! )
My wish list for winter includes a Toast coat.
I have two containers of carrots, some radishes and unexpectedly successful rhubarb.
Drowning in books.
Have a real fire.
But I would like to be in Spain at this minute as I am so fed up with the weather.
I too am off to google Phillipa Perry glasses.

I don’t think I have any Toast credentials 😢 I just really love well made clothes in beautiful fabrics and I’ve always loved oversize tops and dresses.

I completely get the “dress for retirement” thing @Laska2Meryls. I had to do it a couple of years ago and it’s a strange transition. I was never very corporate but I can’t imagine wearing the dresses, jackets and shoes that were my week day uniform now.

Just the thought of beige horrifies me, it’s like being invisible. The thing I have noticed as I’ve got older is that colour wise I’m turning into my mum. I used to wear loads of black but my wardrobe’s gradually turned to shades of blue, with lots of navy. Mum was horrified by black and navy together but I love it.