I really want

I operate on a "cost per wear" and have some cheepos which have worked out VERY expensive (usually sales disasters) and other expensive items that I wear time after time after time - thus justifying the intial investment. If it truly lovely why on earth hold back - life is too short to have serious regrets.
(PS if and when you do buy it, post a picture so that we can appreciate it!)

butty, .

jeni, I'll pm you because I'm still at the price!!!!!

Ah ha! You've already done the deed. Great. x

bagitha - I know you've already done the tick-box in your head - but here it is again in case you're having a last minute wobble about buying it.....!! [wink}

Do you want it..........................Yes/No
Do you love it.............................Yes/No
Can you afford it.........................Yes/No
Will it 'see you out'.......................Yes/No
Is it you.................................Yes/No
Will it keep out the cold..............Yes/No
Does it make your heart sing.........Yes/No
Do the colours make you smile Yes/No
Will you wear it and wear it Yes/No
Will it hug you.............................Yes/No

That answers it then. Buy it !

I can only find the yarns and I can't knit! Where did you find it?

Isn't gransnet nice?

Right . I've ordered it! Thank you, ladies. Of course I can justify it! I'm still wearing good quality things that I've had for over twenty years. This will be like that.

I just needed someone to say Get it!

I'm skint now.

At our clan gathering in the summer everyone will gush and say how perfect!

You wouldn't even be thinking of buying it unless you were sure of getting good wear from it, would you? In that case, what's stopping you?

Go for it Baggy, your family would surely be happy to see you have something beautiful for yourself, and you may never see one as nice again!

I love Kaffe Fassett's designs! I would pay top money for something like that as long as I was sure it suited me. Just think of it as an investment which you could sell if money became really tight.
I am trying to resist the temptation to now go on line to see what items are available by him.
Go for it bagitha, you deserve to treat yourself!

Go for it bagitha even the most basic of your other pieces will look good with it and you will live to regret it if you don't,you will forever be thinking if only and it will be a classic for yrs to come and never date as his lines are fabulous.

Get it! Sometimes you just know something is right for you, and I also think, having come to know you, bagitha that you deserve it. Go on - for yourself.

Get it and enjoy it bags. You'll be bound to get good wear out of it if you want it that much. I can think of 'bargains' I have worn once, so it's worked out at £20 or £30 a wear, whereas this could work out at 30p a wear if it's one of your basics. Go on.....!

There ...glassortwo and I posted within seconds of each other ...both using the term 'investment'!!

Go on..treat yourself...you know your worth it. And every woman should have at least one fabulous piece of clothing in her wardrobe (even if you only take it out to look at it).

I don't know why you can't justify it bagitha ...I love his designs.

Look at it as an investment in a piece of art? or as the ultimate 'me' moment?

Why do we seem to have this discussion with ourself when it comes to spending money on ourselves??

Go for it!! You'll only keep thinking ..."if only I'd bought that jacket ...I could have worn now!"

Go on treat yourself baggy you deserve it think of it as an investment