What is you oldest item of clothing, handbags or shoes ?

I also have a great big red handbag, fake fur with red plastic parts, one big main zip section, and one popper section on either side. I found it on a stall in an indoor shopping area in 2007 when I was 41. Cost £20.00, and I still use it to this day.

A bit of the plastic on the handles is rough, but other than that, it's still in perfect condition!

When I go to Glynebourne, and we haven't been for several years. It used to be an annual treat. I wear the beautiful embroidered evening coat my mother bought in Hong Kong in the early 1950s and carry her embroidered evening bag dating to the same period.

Then there is the shawl I knitted around 1970, rose pink, and all the rage then and wore over my floral dreamy dress. It has lived under my pillow for the last 65 years and gets wrapped around me on winter evenings when I sit up in bed to read a book (as distinct from hiding under the duvet with my Kindle).

It would have to be my three pencil suit skirts which really suit me. I wear them at selected times. The current long, wide skirts don't suit me at all. They are 20 years old.

Not me, but a lady I used to work with. Her mother had several sisters and the lady would, on the demise of her aunts, ask for the wardrobes that were to be given to charity. She wore to work suits from the 1940s, velvet, satin, and they were beautifully made. She also had twinsets, blouses, and coats. She looked lovely.

A silk Hobbs dress, bias cut and lovely blue and white. Can’t remember exactly when bought but I have photos of me wearing it in 1999. It still fits and I still love it!

Black velvet maxi dress from when I was sixteen and met my husband. Now seventy and can still get into it. My granddaughter tried it on and declared “very goth gran”!

A mac that I bought in Wallis in the early 80’s, still looks as good as new apart from the lining which has disintegrated.
I was much slimmer then so it’s a size 8 but as it’s a wrap around it still fits beautifully. Wallis were good quality then.

I have and still occasionally wear a long cardigan from M & S given to me at my son’s first Christmas. He’s now 55!
Also my wedding dress from 1969 which I don’t wear obviously, but my daughter did for her wedding in 2008.

I still wear a cardigan I bought from Chelsea Girl in 1980, it washes well and still looks great. A pair of suede boots which my (late) dad treated me to in C&A in around 1987/8 and a dress from around the same time I think I got from Selfridges while shopping with my (late) mum 💕
We moved house a few years ago and I got rid of a few things which now I wish I’d kept, 1970s leather coat and jacket and a couple of floral skirts - my granddaughter would have loved them!

Until I stopped working 3 years ago I was wearing a skirt my mum made for me in my late teens! That would be about 1970! No need to wear skirts now!

I@ve still got my wedding dress from October 1979.

A cony fur coat bought in C&A in Wood Green, probably in the late 1960s.

I bet a lot of us still have our wedding dresses. Mine is red, from 1972, but only a size 10 - I’m not!
Otherwise a Burberry Mac bought in ‘89 which I hope (one of these days) to fit into again.

I've, not I@ve

I haven't either. It was a white courtelle minidress. After the wedding I wore it to parties and DS's christening, eventually it got all worn and dravelly and was thrown away.

I am still the same weight as when I married in 1968, but 2 inches shorter and a different shape.

Brown halter neck evening dress bought in 1974. Size 12 on the label, but having checked and compared with today's size 12s it would be an 8 I have kept it to remember the event and now just in case my GD wants to wear something from the olden days. There are gold high heel sandals to go with the dress.

Hello all. I have a lovely small leather bag which I purchased in Gallerie Lafayette in Regent Street, London - 1966. It’s beautifully soft and dark brown and I would use it but it is too small for a mobile phone……..

Two t shirt material stripy summer dresses bought from Grattons catalogue in the early 80s. They're a bit faded now but I can't bring myself to throw them away. I also have the Laura Ashley dress I was wearing when DH proposed in 1980 and a navy & white spotty maternity dress my mother wore when she was expecting me 67 years ago and I wore when I was pregnant with our 2 children.

I have an unused, unopened box of face powder from the 1920s..my grandmother's. Also a crocheted evening bag of hers from the same era. I'm thinking of donating both to the local archive.

I bought a jumper for 10p at a jumble sale in 1980; I still have it

I have a real leather waistcoat bought from a Peter Robinson department store in Brighton in 1965 approximately.

I never wear it as it’s a bit small. I don’t know why I’ve hung onto it for so long. Probably a bit of nostalgia.
Am currently trying to sell it on Vinted.

P.s. not sure I can get picture to open.

A pair of very high very sexy red shoes, only wore them twice, but felt like a million dollars in them....still in the original box, that was 50 years ago

A black Britain evening bag of my mothers, 1950s, I've used Edwardian black.lace of my grandmother's to trim a dress. I made a christening dress for my daughter from my grandmothers 1907 wedding petticoat. A beautiful Austen Reed jacket which I have used constantly and it still looks as good as new, likewise a Burberry trench coat and Aquascutum black wool coat, all mid 80s. A few Russell and Bromley leather handbags, early 80s Buy quality and make it last.