Toast the Third

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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

Ordered the black to see that too.

That's a cute bag finger.

My Hermes man is usually excellent, bough just had an email to say it couldn’t be delivered as no one was in. I guess that’s the generic email they send when they’ve messed up, given he dropped off two parcels and collected three.

So I ordered the full price Gabi trousers . I have a green pair from a couple of seasons back but these are definitely neater and longer although they are at my ankle bone (5’4”). Really comfortable too but much tighter in the leg. Figuring they’ll stretch? Anyone else tried these. Same generous fit in waist and bum. They’re wuite heavy as expected. Good for late summer (and the blooming awful weather here) or Autumn even winter with brogues/socks/boots. In other words probably a keeper.

Really nice @Countmeout

They really suit you Count, and I love the colour of your T-shirt, too.

I’m working backwards today as there are so many posts to catch up on.

I am buying nothing more this sale ..nothing, nada, nil .. Ok?

Hear me, for I do not lie !! ....... Never

and if I was to I will blame you lot

They look Good Count,

Oh but @Laska2Meryls that’s a big statement to make when who knows what beauties will be added to JL this afternoon?

I know Saurus but I have just looked at , and paid (squint, wince), my credit card bill.... and tbh I think I now have everything that I really liked in the Toast sale ..and I still have the Slate linen jacket to come from Toast and the red linen tee!!..
...Am currently looking through wardrobe for more to ebay !! I will put the 12 blue workwear jacket up if the 10 fits better so hopefully that will sell for pretty much like for like.. ..

Thank you @neveradullmoment99 and @Moominmammaatsea.
The trousers are Storm blue. T shirt is Uniqlo.

I hear you @Laska2Meryls. 😂

I am back from JL and I am happy. I bought the honeycomb kimono jacket (medium) which I am 85% happy about and I managed to get the indigo pleat front trousers which are £195 on Toast for £58!! Not something I would normally try but after reading your thread I though I would give them a try. I am a pear shape but they actually look really fab so am keeping. I also got that stripe top (navy and gold) with the cropped frill but it doesn't suit so I am sending back. I have also decided to send back the Chie Mihara wedges as they are too wide over the front part and I know I will end up on the floor in them. Also forgot to mention I really love the shape of the v neck brushed sateen v neck dress which I have in the 14. I find the shape flattering on my shape. I really must stop but would really like a good quality white top so that is my last hunt down.

I have that sateen dress but in the denim. It is a very flattering shape. I too am a pear. I did have the black one but wasn't too keen on the material. It was also neater on the ribs strangely. The denim was just perfect. I am looking forward to wearing it with a long sleeved tee under it too.

I love the kimono top. Very nice ! Didn't buy though.

I think they stopped doing Toast in the John lewis where I stay, sadly.

Yes @Dottty, as @neveradullmoment99 says, that dress shape is the same as the denim one currently priced around £45.00 on JL and Toast. It's a very flattering style

Saurus and Applecatchers I also saw that Madame Butterfly at ENO and it was a terrific production, I do hope you get to see it one day Saurus. I'm very lucky in that I usually get to go to Glyndebourne in the summer, but sadly not this year.

@Gymntonic and @neveradullmoment99 - I’ve just bought the denim dress on your recommendation. I’d been looking at it fir ages cos I do like a pinafore but the reviews talking about the mad shoulders put me off. For £45 it’s worth a go.

@Dottty I love the indigo pleat trousers. I think they’re my favourite recent purchase - so flattering and comfy.

[quote paintyhands]@Dottty I love the indigo pleat trousers. I think they’re my favourite recent purchase - so flattering and comfy.[/quote]
@paintyhands I agree. I am so excited to wear them. What footwear do you wear with them?

I’m been busy granny-sitting a friend’s grandma, who is 99, while her three younger generations of family are on holiday. Even at 99, she takes a keen interest in clothes and has an enviable wardrobe of John Smedley knots and vintage Liberty print scarves (she can keep the Hotter shoes ). I sincerely hope that I will be as interested in life (and clothes - and still manage to tackle the crossword in The Times every day - when I reach such an advanced age. I bet I will still be wearing my Ivar jacket, too! 😂

It’s lovely to have so many newbies aboard and to read everyone’s back stories. Whoever started the original thread (@goldpendant?) deserves a clap on the back for setting in motion something that has become something of a lifeline to many of us, regardless of our individual life and lockdown circumstances.

In addition to the clothes porn, I’m loving all the culture chat! Our holidays (a big trip to Japan before my big girl’s sight deteriorates any further - she is mad for anime, manga and Studio Ghibli) are cancelled. But, we are having a trip to London imminently and we are booked into the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Tate Modern, Picasso & Paper at the Royal Academy, Titian at the National Gallery, something at the Barbican, plus the Natural History Museum and Tate Britain. I really cannot wait; I’ve a craving to look at beautiful art as well as beautiful clothes.

We’ll be staying not a million miles from the Toast Islington shop so I may be begging for five minutes of child-free time to take my be-masked person in store. Happy to take one for the team and report back!

Incidentally, don’t you think it would be wonderful to have coordinating/contrasting face coverings in our favourite Toast prints?!

For those who mentioned a love of (outdoor) sculpture, I can heartily recommend the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which reopens on July 29th.

For the Persephone Books lovers among us,
currently on my bedside table are: The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow by Mrs Oliphant and Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill. I’d dearly love some more recommendations for good reads.

Because so many people have mentioned growing and gardening, I thought I’d give a mention to The Little Botanical, which posts the healthiest looking indoor plants in the most stylish of pots. Look them up on JL. Our interest started with a delivery of cactuses (cacti?) to teenage up my daughter’s bedroom and has become a bit of an, ahem, obsession (notice a trend here?!). I may ‘inadvertently’ have recreated a desert-meets-rainforest micro-climate in our Wuthering Heights home.

Ooo @Saurus72 I hadn't read any reviews. I do have broad shoulders though. I hope you're not disappointed .
It's lovely thick, but soft, denim and a dress I can wear alone and well as with something underneath. I wasn't expecting to keep it and I've ordered a fair few dresses recently but, for me, it was spot on. Hopefully it'll fit your bill too!

Anybody have the Fracap navy sandals? Wondered about the fit of them. I normally am a 5.5 and I always have the up or down dilemma.

Any Ottolenghi fans on here? I am obsessed by his cookbooks and that as been where a lot of my energy has been spent during lockdown although I do work for the NHS so have been at work.

@Boiledeggandtoast I’m really hoping they will be able to get going again but think it may well take a year or two to see anything, they always sell out so quickly.

@Moominmammaatsea are you going to see Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain? It’s beautiful, totally worth a visit (as is the Islington store 😉).

@Moominmammaatsea I do hope you enjoy your trip to the galleries. I bought one or two items from the John Smedley factory shop thirty years ago. They've outlasted one marriage and survived several house moves. Your friends collection of scarves and knitwear is a real treasure!