What do your clothes say about you?

My clothes say I am a rather eccentric old English woman who lives outside a little ski resort in the French Alps and does not give a fig what she looks like. My daughter's remark was that I usually look as if I have just rolled around in the wardrobe. I have never owned a pair of jeans. I never wear skirts or high heels. I dress solely for warmth and decency and suitability for mountain walking.

Mine say "that woman shops at Bonmarche"! As I was saying to Barrow yesterday, I can always find something that I like there, and whereas in most shops I`m a size 26, in there I`m only a 22!

The purple thing was really useful wasn't it.
Love your sense of humour gracesmum
Some of the girls had their hair done elaborately but had not yet changed into evening things. Another lot had the clothes but hair still in big curlers!!!
Mine today say "vaguely sporty and dressed for warmth and comfort"
Other times they say "slightly compulsive about colour co-ordination"

Oh! I was recently delightfully described by other Gransnetters as willowy which I found charming if confusing. (Photographs of Glasgow meet-up where I look like a man in drag.) I am also blonde, although hardly naturally these days. I am 5 foot 9 inches (with legs up to my armpits) and certainly the right side of 50 in that I am 62. I also sometimes wear a purple top, often with a cream and purple skirt, as well as occasionally going for vertiginous heels.

I don't dress to impress (some hope) or make a statement about who I am. Mostly I live in jeans, but there are times I enjoy dressing up and wearing a pretty frock or an attractive skirt and top. I still have fairly shapely legs (my best feature – in fact, the only good one – all my life) but keep my skirts at knee level or below these days.

I feel comfortable about what I wear and try to follow absentdaughter's advice: "Mum, there is no right time to look frumpish."

Will read the others 'in a mintit' as DD1 used to say, but isn't waterproof gilet an oxymoron?

Why?

??I take gilet to mean sleeveless thingy - which may or may not be waterproof?? OMG have I been wearing the wrong thing for years? How humiliating

You've been wearing an oxymoron, gracesmum!

So what's wrong with purple?

Nothing at all yesterday!

Numberplease - crafty manufacturers make generous sizes. I have never been below a size 12 since I was 17, but when I lived in Monaco and could afford it, I used to buy Parigi in a size 10! I was really size 14/16.

Nothing - it was to identify us so tha we didn'g hug complete strangers.Some people did try to hug a few but they were all male......

Sorry !! Sun over the yardarm! (using Cointreau in my orange sauce and had a nip!)Meant to say "So that we didn't hug complete strangers"

I can vary from "Janet Street Porter" to "farmer on Countryfile" to "housewife who strayed into an office" to "power dresser" depending on the mood I'm in - note, not the occasion!

Gilet (French: gilet, from Spanish: gileco or Spanish: chaleco, ultimately from Turkish: yelek) is a sleeveless jacket resembling a waistcoat or blouse.[1] Currently, a gilet is a sleeveless jacket or vest. They may be waist- to knee-length, and are typically straight-sided rather than fitted. However, historically, they were fitted and embroidered.[2] In a further derivation, in 19th-century dressmaking a gilet was a dress bodice shaped like a man's waistcoat.[3]

Today, gilets are often worn as an outer layer, for extra warmth outdoors. Fashion gilets may be made of cloth or fake fur, or knitted. Sports gilets are often windproof and/or made of fleece. High end hiking jackets often have an integral gilet inside them, that can be zipped on/off. Racing cyclists use thin light gilets with a windproof front and mesh back. Shooting gilets are rugged and made of leather. Gilets were made famous by Lucien Schneller, the Duke of Hungary.
I can just see myself in M&S asking for a size 16 oxymoron!!
(No mention of waterproof above, however)

Perhaps Bags meant that a gilet wouldn't keep its wearer waterproof....
Even so, I'm sure the gilet itself could be waterproof.

My sister-in-law pronounces it as gillett. And I'm far too nice to nice to tell her otherwise...!

With a 'hard' G that is.

'She has stopped bothering'. Since I retired from paid employment, the way I dress has been affected by three factors; I don't have the spare cash to spend on a new wardrobe ; I don't have to because I'm not trying to make a good impression; I feel the cold when the temperature is under 70F.

DH reckons a gilet is just a posh bodywarmer. He used to wear his until the quilting was worn flat and shiny and the very thin padding would fall out.

I think mine say that I buy from charity shops and Ebay! I'd like to think they said that 'this woman doesn't like to appear older than her years, but doesn't really mind much really'!

Yes, clothes are a strange thing, or maybe a very important thing.
When I put on my waterproof gilet, people think I own at least 400 acres, for fun that is, not for farming. And nothing could be further from the truth!..

Well over thirty years ago my OH and friends were at an important horse sale in Dublin.Purely as spectators.
The prospective buyers looked so unbelievably rich in a very quiet manner.
No diamonds or ruby's or any bling whatsoever. However the quality of their clothes was something to behold.
I saw Alpaca suits, Vicuna coats , Hermes scarves, and so on and so on.

So, yes in a subtle way clothes do say a lot.
Wearing a 1 carat diamond with a polyester blouse and a M.& S. handbag
is not going to look the same is it?

how do you pronouce " gilet" isnt it just g i l l e t ?

That's the look I aspire to, johanna - rich in a very quiet manner! I've got the quiet manner....