TOAST 2022, what will it bring us?!

[ToastCosILoveIt]

New thread for all lovers of Toast clothing, link to the last thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/4388083-Toastie-in-our-winter-woolies-Toast-10?watched=1&msgid=113550424#113550424

*green not dreen

@Laska2Meryls

I have just ordered the gathered hem skirt in Oil... I dont wear skirts that often but this one has been waving at me for some time.. Does anyone have it? What do you think?

I have it! I bought it ages ago and have still never worn it. It came very creased and that's my excuse. I have the same skirt from a few seasons ago in a brown colour. It is beautiful.

I ordered it last week. Due Tuesday, but in the terracotta colour. I’ve sized down but now waiting nervously after @Stoic123 said about the waistband.

Anyone else anxious about returns and how they'll be processed? I made the mistake of simply writing "toast" on my post office receipts and sometimes toast want proof of posting... grr. I may trawl through my emails to match dates of return portal emails to receipts. I'm so annoyed at myself. Two returns have come through to my account but of course the bank doesn't say "this was the lam skirt dudsville".

If uou log into your account and go to the order history it shows refunds against items. At least it does for me. I always return to a shop not by post but shouldn't be different?

That's@nocure, I'm more concerned for if there are disputes where they don't show at having recieved it. That's when I'd need to produce my reciept.

Ah. Yes. I had shennanigans about a regurn nade to the shop which wasn't processed and refunded. It got sorted out eventually but it was a faff and a pain.

@dudsville, can you not access the tracking number from the label they sent you? It should have (on the label) all the info needed inc weight

... and when you handed it in at the post office too!

@faustina, I don't quite understand what you're saying but I think you must have the solution to my worry, I will check the emails for this info!

Aha, I can be a little slow, I did not realise those emails had trackers in them, fabulous!

should be a tracking number that you can use online?

Thanks, I've found the emails, I'd deleted them thinking I was done with them once I'd made the return request, what a clever system! It does confuse matters that I sent 6 seperate returns to them and it takes a while for refunds to matierialise but my worries have now been eased. Thanks @faustina!!!

@ilovecherries

Toast, can I ask how you style those Oxford shirt dresses? I’m probably slightly triggered by the vitriol elsewhere on MN today, and I haven’t quite recovered from the ‘ugly lady’ and ‘it’s a nun’ comments last year when I was wearing the maroon one. I have both the maroon and the yellow as well, and they are super-comfy dresses but I’m wondering if I should eBay them if I look quite that bad in them!

@ilovecherries, there really is vitriol elsewhere isn't there. Who has the energy to come on to Mumsnet to purposely deride other women's choice of clothes, how awful they look and what it says about them....I can't imagine that there would be one person on this thread who would start another thread with the sole purpose of demeaning other women's choices about where they shop, what they wear and how it makes them look.

I know that there has already been responses to your question about how to style the dress and they perfectly illustrate how different and how inventive we are as we play to our own physical attributes and sartorial preferences: we are all individual and even divided about what we like within the Toast range. That's to be expected but it is the willingness with which we accept that and understand that it is perfectly normal which marks this thread out from others that have been less than kind.

My preference for the yellow and maroon versions has been to wear them in summer, buttoned up to the top (I love a done up collar) and then let what I consider to be my own individuality do the talking. For me that is some chunky jewelry, a good bag and some on trend sandals. Sarah Herriot's jewelry (www.sarahherriot.com/product-category/silver-rings/) has been mentioned on a previous thread and I have her oxidised escalator ring and her parametric wave ring, one of which I often wear. I feel undressed in summer without my much treasured Elsa Peretti cuff (www.tiffany.co.uk/jewelry/bracelets/elsa-peretti-small-bone-cuff-GRP08885/), bought for me several years ago for a special birthday). This summer I endlessly used the black and white african woven (looks like straw) bag from Toast which I can't remember the name of. It was in the Toast sale although I loved it enough to pay full price for but it has been taken off of the site now so I assume that it has sold out. Footwise, I love the Birkenstock Arizonas and wore them in black or brown, matching up a bag to pick up the colour. I think if you coordinate and accessorise with thought that it can really elevate the dress.

In terms of the recently arrived blue one, I do think it is one to wear in winter too. I will wear it with a navy blue oversized alpaca cardigan that was from Toast last winter or a mohair chunky sweater from Toast several seasons ago which can be taken off when somewhere warm indoors. I'm not sure about the footwear and agree about a comment up thread that careful thought on brogues needs to be given so that it doesn't look too school marmish (no offence to teachers or heads, I work in education). For weekends I think some navy trainers which I got from Toast several years ago will look good.

I also meant to say that I continue to really enjoy these Toast threads, listening to thoughts about the clothes, occassional top tips about other brands or individual items that we might enjoy and the helpful feedback on sizing and how to style items. I do hope the threads continue.

I know Sarah Heriot a bit! She is fab and her jewellery is too...

I really like these toast threads, everyone is lovely and calm just enjoying chatting about clothes. I am a toast nightwear fan and have a decent collection of nighties and robes - they wash and wash and look amazing plus you can answer the door and look fine 😉
In the summer they double as dresses in the back garden and in the house. I have branched out and bought the blue and white striped shirt in the sale which is well cut, plain and understated but it suits me. I think with jeans in the summer it will be a go to outfit.

Very little on MN surprises me but I found the vitriol in the ‘middle class dressing’ thread pretty awful too and thought I’d mention it - not to give them airtime- but to say how nasty and idiotic they come across.
I bought another nightdress to comfort myself as they just don’t know the joy of a toast nightdress obviously.

I know! I pity them the fools.

One Sunday afternoon, during lockdown in 2020, I went out for a long run in my local park and round the area. On the way back, absolutely wrung out, I realised I’d lost my keys. I spent the next few hours retracing my steps and looking under hedges. By the time I was staggering home I looked a right state. I passed a group of women on the way who’d been having a picnic in the park earlier, all very glamorous in tight clothes, generously curvy, with perfect contoured make up and long fake eyelashes and ironed hair. One of them said loudly as I walked by: “God, if I ever go out looking like that (referring to me) please shoot me.”

I was a bit startled, she sounded so vicious, and really, why should she care? But I also found it funny, because she was so the last person I’d ask for style advice. I mean, she was a magnificent example of that look, but I wouldn’t want to look like that in a million years.

I found the anti Toast thread really funny for the same sort of reasons. It’s a shame, though, that a woman can’t wear anything without some other woman, somewhere, thoroughly despising her.

Thanks for all the lovely reassurance. I think I’m just feeling a bit crap and vulnerable just now (still missing dad, huge issues looking after mum, big and very ugly basal cell bang in the middle of my nose, and have lost count now how often surgery has been cancelled) and it’s not taking much to make me feel teary and ugly. That cuff is a thing of beauty Toast, is simply gorgeous. I have birthday money, I think I may treat myself to a Sarah Herriot ring.

found the anti Toast thread really funny for the same sort of reasons. It’s a shame, though, that a woman can’t wear anything without some other woman, somewhere, thoroughly despising her

The simple reason women do this is that they despise themselves due to internalised misogyny.
Its uncomfortable feeling like this but they have to conform or be rejected by these men and so they lash out at other women, particularly those who are confident, happy and dont conform to misogynistic stereotypes or ways of dressing.

Very true & well put @TempleofZoom

Agreed. 《Gavel》

there was a very interesting comment at one point - which I can't be arsed to find again, but basically it was pointing out the OP's very rigid thinking - that it seemed they simply couldn't get their head around how even though they personally didn't like something, someone else might.

I felt so sorry for the woman who was going to send her dress back on the strength of the horrible comments

@ilovecherries - so sorry to hear you're going through all that crap - I hope you manage to get your surgery soon. It definitely calls for jewellery!

Me. I just won't be able to wear it with confidence now. I'd be self-conscious.