Toasties - still loving the knitwear and the chat!

[IlovePond]

I have set up a new Toastie thread, guys.

@AFingerofFudge It's such a scare and hassle! Glad you got everything back.

My eBay item is back, and seems to be as originally and accurately described. Refunded (and ofc I'm down return postage too) and added to my blocked buyers list. Posh name, fancy address, yet not a soupçon of grace or integrity.

Now for a creatively à-propos curse to send their way. 'May moths flock to your wardrobe / may your hems always unravel / may you always lose one mitten.' Something along those lines?

Huge heartfelt thanks to everyone who chimed in with support and advice - you stopped me spiralling into an unwinnable fight, helped me detach and do what was pragmatically best for me overall. I'm exhausted, and shakier about selling than I used to be, but it hasn't dragged my health backwards as much as it might have, and that's entirely thanks to you wonderful Toasties. Big love 🤗

Well done @Stravaig - it's really difficult to back down- graciously or not- it's the feeling of injustice for me, it really hurts!!
I now treat ebay buyers like my kids- I pick my battles!!

I meant to add that it has made me more defensive in my selling (ha! A bit like my job in healthcare 😬). I take far more photos that I post, just in case of a complaint. And I always post with tracked postage.

@AFingerofFudge 😆 Love that strategy!

Good tip re: extra photos.

@Stravaig - glad it came back in one piece. Onwards and upwards!

Glad you got it back @Stravaig x

Is 10% for a newsletter normally there?

Good grief @TosstTastic - have Toast finally joined the 21st century???

It’s a good job I’m sitting down!

Off to see if I can sign up. (Even though Toast email roughly every ten minutes atm, so I am guessing probably not 😹)

Sorry @IlovePond should have put a trigger warning on that!

@TosstTastic are you in the UK site? The EU one has 10% off…

Bloody hell, stand down everyone, I was looking at the look books whilst away. They think I'm EU.
Possibly good news for @BettinaInDenmark

I have cracked and bought the geo patchwork quilt in coral and clay. So much bigger than the other three Toast quilts I have, which just cover a double bed.
its beautiful and feels very folk artsy. Will swap from the slate velvet quilt, which is so cosy, once spring hits.
i am waiting for the galaxy manos space dyed tank. Hoping it fits. Does anyone have it? does it come up small?
Also the Japanese olive cap.
Definately done now. Until the next sale. I bought too many full price pieces last year. There are no gaps in wardrobe. 🤣

😹@TosstTastic Thought it was too good to be true 😿

Hello Toasties, I haven't posted for a while but am enjoying the tales of all of the sales goods going back and forward between Toast 😀. I have sent a fair bit back myself including the sun and moon jaquard dress which wasn't a great fit and which it felt counterintuitive to have no sleeves when it is very much a winter dress, and the minako cotton linen twill trousers which just didn't feel special in their cut although I know they have got a lot of love on here. I try to live by the rule that if I don't love it as soon as I put it on, realistically the love is never going to develop.

There is a few things I have loved immediately including the brushed cotton linen herringbone jumpsuit (loved, but not yet worn) and the Isobel Harvey irregular print dress which I am sure will be a real hit in late spring and into summer. I also got the organic denim pinafore dress and if I can work out a way to stop the shoulders slipping off, it is a keeper: just the right side of both old fashioned (in a good way) and modern at the same time. I kept a couple of other dresses, the silk embroidered blouse, the fisherman trousers in mango and the etched linen dress and matching shoulder bag. The block print batik cotton dress arrived too today havign sent back the skirt in the same print. I am not sure about the dress - perhaps it is one for winter with a jumper thrown over or a lovely cardie. The print is quite lovely so it is hard to resist.

Finally, I ordered the striped cotton gathered smock top in brick having heard about it being raved over on here. It comes up big and I wonder if I would have been better with the ocean blue for my colouring (pale and blonde). I am dithering over it but I do think it drowns me and I may need to size down to a 10 (I am an average 12 in most clothes).

Do you all do what I do - read the thread and constantly search out the clothes you are all talking about on the Toast website for a look at them and their reviews. I have bought so many things following recommendations on here. Toast should be sponsoring us or rewarding us all with a 20% discount just like the old days (forget the 10% for EU sales - too paltry:)).

I am very tempted by the kantha stiched pinafore but even in the sale the price is very high. Does anyone have it? I think I saw upthread that someone had posted a photo: much check it out.

Happy shopping and trying on all and I hope there aren't too many trips to the post office with returns.

Hi @ToastCosILoveIt - yes, I do that too.

Was it @TosstTastic who posted the pic wearing the pinafore?

I ordered some more new things alongside the grey ribbed sale cardi and they arrived this afternoon.
I tried the indigo side-tie vest again in a smaller size as M was a bit shapeless. S is too tight on the bust, so I can put that one out of my mind completely now.
The skirt that I raved about up thread - navy with pleats - is sadly going back. The one I tried in store had obviously been steamed and pressed, the one that arrived today was a shambles and would need a good iron to look ok. But I realised looking at it that it would be a bit of a bugger to iron, i don’t have a steamer, and resent having to spend too much time ironing anything, so I think it would be too high maintenance, and I would never reach for it because of this.
I ordered the brick stripe smock @ToastCosILoveIt. I ordered two sizes as I thought it might be big, and it is. M is too big, S is a good fit. Did you find that the little triangles of fabric at the openings on the shoulders stick up weirdly? Maybe it is just my shoulders, but it is irritating me and might be a deal breaker. I will try it again tomorrow with a bunch of different things to see.
I had tried the dark grey big ribbed cardi last year and thought it was too pricey, but it appealed at sale price. I’m undecided though. I thought I could wear it instead of a coat on slightly less baltic days, but I don’t know if I would. I need to try over dresses tomorrow to see if the length looks ok or if it is a bit frumpy at my height. Did anyone else buy it?

Finally got this twill dress and it is indeed lovely and will be a firm fav I think. But as someone posted upthread / on the other thread, it does gape at the front so is currently at the tailor.

And I've just bought this on Vinted. Anyone got it? Hoping it won't be too oversized, know I won't look like the gorgeous model but hoping it's lovely too. It's the crinkle check that was last summer? Summer before?

As for the sale, the scarf I want hasn't been reduced further so guessing it might stay at £75. A lot for a scarf I don't really need.....

My application to join the Toast facebook group has been declined, which I am finding kind of hilarious. My answer to ‘Which is your favourite Toast piece?’ or ‘What was the one which got away?’ must have been unacceptable. It’s very strict! I’m wearing a Toast jumper in my profile pic!

@OrangeyLemon sorry you're finding it hard to join the Facebook group. Did you agree to the rules as well as answering the questions? It's not supposed to be overly strict, but we do try to exclude dealers, resellers and bots. There should have been a reason for your application being denied -usually that there was no response to one of the above. Maybe have another go and message me on here if you're still having problems

Does anyone else find themselves keeping multiple sizes, even wrong sizes?

I'm finding some of the hardest things to let go of are the unworn wrong sizes of my most loved items - where I immediately changed size, or bought the only size available even though I knew, really, that I shouldn't. Then found the right size in a later restock or sale or reseller site, and wear it, and love it, and even replace it again.

Yet somehow I feel I must keep the wrong size 'just in case'.

In case of what? That I magically become one of these sizes that I haven't been thus far? It makes no sense at all.

Larger sizes are perhaps more justifiable, but I'm early 50's now, so ever less likely to be an old-style smaller size ever again.

This isn't sensible behaviour is it? 😆

I am trying to coax/trick myself by taking photos and preparing draft listings, just to see, and (what if I maybe upload some). But the reluctance is real, and a bit surprising in its irrationality!

@mizu Beware forever yearning for the scarf that got away! How true is your love? 😆

@ToastCosILoveIt I definitely go and look things up based on what's being chatted about here - it's the perfect combination of informed review and dangerous temptation!

@Stravaig - what my DSis does with things she doesn’t really want to sell is price them quite high. Then, if she gets an offer, she lets them go, (usually 😹)

I'm now on the Toast Facebook page but I say I won't buy, I'm.picky enough when I have all the sizes and colours and lookbooks.
I was all righteous about your post above @Stravaig.
Get the Whering app, streamline your life, Swedish death clean etc then saw an old grey and purple jumper on Facebook I used to have and got all nostalgic. It has to be from the 2000s.
I tend to wear my clothes to destroyed, I have the best gardening outfits. The stuff I have passed on, too small now, I'm surprised to find I get quite a kick from seeing on younger people.
Can you find a relative that will get a kick out of it if the money from selling isn't the right motivation?.