Toasties eagerly waiting for sale day, while worrying about the life of their resold items

[ilovecherries]

Here we are

Noooooo!!!!! (I do put air tags in the cases)

10 for 9 days? So I should take LOTS more for 35.

I do. Blush. Well, maybe have are linen. Very few bought new though. (I think that makes it better?)

@ilovecherries I took 5 for 7 days in Greece in the summer!!! Which was too many really but I wanted a choice...... and I put two in my hand luggage and one in a daughter's bag for fear of losing them.

5 weeks is a decent amount of time, I say 10 dresses

I'm wearing the drift check pinafore today over a Muji cotton tee and BOILING (London) so vote for bringing only your 10 lightest dresses to Spain @ilovecherries Leave lots of luggage space so you can bring back lots of lovely shoes and leather goods!

(BTW I wasn't wearing the boots, just trying new ones out today like @OftenOrange though not remotely as cool!)

Re: coats I agree synthetics can be very useful in blends but I wouldn't go above £200 if the wool content was below 80%. But I have a lot of coats already, and can buy excellent quality deadstock fabric for less than £20/mm, so am extra picky.

Love that dress on you @clowniform !

I have been digging out some autumn/winter clothes as it is getting chillier here. I have a lovely navy merino wool ribbed skirt (long pencil/tube shape) from years ago…does anyone else have it or remember it (it also came in grey and green from what I remember)? I never wear it as I cannot figure out what to wear with it. It needs a longer top to cover my menopausal belly, but not too long as I am short. Looser tops make me look too top heavy (I carry my weight on the top half of my body anyway), but I never wear fitted tops.
Any ideas? I can’t find any photos of the skirt anywhere, but I’m sure someone will remember it!

All this chat of packing dresses in suitcases brings me out in a cold sweat. Having lost a suitcase travelling once, I never ever check in luggage anymore. I am now very skilled at whittling down my choices and packing them into a tiny carry on. Sometimes I wear many layers on the journey itself if I can’t fit everything in the bag 😆

I would need a lot of dresses for 5 weeks. Really a lot.

Coat stupidly expensive and would be better to wait for sale, but in my climate it's usually proper coat weather by now and this is cheering me up about the long dark winter. I'll wear it for smarter work days and restaurants, opera etc. I have a very practical and actually quite nice Didrikson waterproof winter coat (among others tbh) but nothing that cuts it for fancier events. Thought I might get something from Max Mara but reckon I actually prefer this.

@Alpacasoft Yes, it's the high cotton content I'm being snooty about 🤣 As you say, marmite. Also though, just such an odd design choice.

Make a thick folksy coat with blanket stitch edging and blanket in the name out of a fabric that could be an actual blanket. Make a separate wool-cotton coat, for those who want something with whatever beneficial properties cotton might allegedly bring. 😉🤯🤷‍♀️

I have a mini-skein of yak somewhere, barely enough to pet from time to time; a whole coat would be a thing of wondrous warmth and beauty!

Would someone like to start a new thread?

I am happy to start a new thread. Will do so now :)

Here we go, new thread for all https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/4906287-toasties-moving-into-autumn-and-dusting-off-the-mothballed-knits-or-buying-new-ones