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

My graduation dress. 1968. I made it myself out of pink embroidered cotton. It was long and 'empire line'. (Think of those dresses in Pride and Prejudice with the seam pushing up the bust!)
I never liked it much -no bust to speak of - and I've never worn it again. It still looks like new.

On 10th March 1964 I bought my first leather biker jacket, I still have that so that's over 62 years ago. It still fits too.

Ive got a Winter Coat that I bought so long ago I can't remember. It must be at least 20 years. Its still fine for every day its warm, shower proof, and its still got room for a nice thick jumper under it.

Haha.ive got loads,never like to get rid of anything unless i REALLY have to! 😆 I even have a cool bag for when i foodshop that my DD gave me about 16 or 17 years ago.😁

I like vintage clothes so have quite a few older items. Of my original clothes, I still have a couple of Laura Ashley dresses from the eighties - although I will probably never fit into them again - the same with my wedding dress from 1989, which I still have. I have bought some vintage 1990s St. Michael label clothes - principally knitwear - from eBay and Vinted in my current size and the quality is far superior to present day M and S. My very oldest item is a 1960s navy patent box handbag with the St. Michael label, which I bought from eBay. It is so smart and a classic design. I feel very ladylike when I carry it.

Cabbie21

My oldest item of clothing is a handbag which was my mother’s, for her wedding day in 1939. I don’t use it though.

My own items go back many years. I have lost their birth certificates. I have a blouse which makes a nice lightweight jacket, bought from C & A, Sixth Sense, however many years ago that was. I have items too smart for normal wear, going back over 20 years.

They sound gorgeous.

LindaPat

I have a calf length button through denim skirt, bought in 1974 from a denim shop in Sheffield during my first year at Teacher Training College there. I absolutely love it, and having recently lost weight, may wear it again this Autumn. ( The cheesecloth shirt bought with it has long worn out! ).

I also have a strappy vest top, also bought in Sheffield, from a department store on The Moor. Can't remember the name of the place. I had my ears pierced there ( away from home for the first time! ), and almost passed out when the time came to change the studs. I couldn't bear to push the post through my earlobe, and my Mum had to do it for me! What a wuss!

Lovely thread by the way, bringing back lots of memories. Thank you NanKate xxx

Was the Department store Atkinsons ?

My dad gave me his lady friend’s blonde mink coat with a receipt dated 1974 when it cost £2,400 . Looked on e bay out of interest and I could get £17 for it now . It fits me but for short arms but how on earth can I wear it now a days? Should I wear it ?

AskAlice

My mum's honeymoon shoes that she wore in 1948. Black suede peep toe with a little platform, still perfectly wearable although I don't wear them as they are too precious!

Fabulous to have such items.

My DH still wears a jacket and a couple of woolly hats that I got him 34 years ago in C and A, honestly they don't look a year old !

My son is 35 and I still have the jumper I bought from Mothercare whilst pregnant. It was the most expensive jumper I had ever bought but I fell in love with it and when it was reduced in a 20% off sale, I grabbed the last one. I still wear it regularly. There are lots of little snags but every so often I pull them to the back.
I also have a shirt which I have had in my possession for about the same time. It was a crinkle fabric and it hasn't got much crinkle left but that meant that even as I got bigger, I could still wear it. It was my mother's before I borrowed it off her and I have no idea how long she had it. She bought it in Marks and Spencers so it was good quality.

A pair of DMs which are about 30 years old. Wear them to work a couple of times a week.

I have an A line ball gown that I made in the late 1960s for a college ball. I have a swing coat in wool made from a Vogue pattern and a cheesecloth top that I made in the mid-1970s when I bought my Pfaff sewing machine (I still use it). I occasionally wear the top. In the loft is an A-line ball gown I made in the late 1960s for a college ball and with it my wedding dress I made in 1977. And red leather knee length boots from about 1970. Still wearable.

My red leather motorbike jacket. Got it at 18. It saved my skin when I was involved in a motorbike accident the following year. 42 years old now.

Sadly my brand new jeans didn’t make it and were cut from hem to above the knee to assess the damage 🫣

I’ve got a fleece I bought in M&S Aberdeen in 1999. It’s been long relegated to a garden fleece for donkeys years! It’s too big really but good enough for the garden.

I've got a burgundy corduroy jacket from Galeries Lafayette in Paris which I bought in 1978!

I have a rust coloured pullover which I had at the age of 12. My mother bought me two a green one and a rust coloured one. I didn’t like either but a friend said the rust one really suited me or words to that effect so I wore it and wore it. Being acrylic it grew with every wash and I kept it for 59 years. After a while I couldn’t part with it so it’s worn every time we decorate and it’s covered in paint.

A leather thick, white, wide belt I bought when I was 15 to wear with my levi jeans. It's still OK to use

my brown leather short jacket cant part with it and my wedding dress Hanker chief style from CA oxfordstreet 1978

Hi Rocketstop2

The name doesn't ring any bells, but looking at a map it was in the right place, so you are probably right! Thank you!

Were you also in Sheffield at that time?

I have wedding dresses belonging to me, (1963) my mother ( 1941) MiL (1936) Mil was an expert needle woman so have a “Norwegian” multi colored sweater knitted for OH when a teenager And a lovely knitted waistcoat covered in a multi coloured flower pattern. Not sure how old it is but she had to stop knitting about 30 years ago.

A small silver fabric evening vouch bag embroidered with crystals, it is 65 years old, used it on a cruise about five years ago and do many peope commented on it. The other an Escada two piece about 45 years old if I were a size 10 it would still be in fashion.

tanith

I took these shorts on holiday to France when my son was 6/7 he’s 50 next week I still wear them in the garden and they fit better now than they did. A bit thin around the backside but still decent enough.

Blimey! I have a pair almost identical to those! Bought mine from Matalan too long ago to recall and they’re seemingly indestructible. Faded and getting a bit thin around the derrière they are great for the gardening jobs during the warm weather.

A teashirt I wore whilst giving birth to my daughter.. she's 48 now

Ooh, do you think you'll keep it though, Bassoues?