Christmas tree style - help

Nothing wrong with lametta if used in moderation. Anyway, it's your tree and up to you how you decorate it! Daughters? What do they know?

I had google Lametta as I didn't know it had a name, its been many years since I've seen it in the shops though I think it gets lost in the myriad of decoration material that is now available.

kitty it matters not what other people think if you like it then go right ahead and dress your tree with it don't let people put you off..

Kitty Trending now are Christmas trees decorated with the decorations you store from one year to the next and are full of memories of previous Christmases. Tell your daughters that their ideas are sooooo behind the times and lametta away.

As DH says old age and treachery will defeat youth and enthusiasm any day.

Doesn't everyone store tree decs from one year to the next? Most of mine have been in use since my girls were tiny, and they are in their early forties now.

Why can't you buy thin tinsel anymore? Modern stuff is too brash.

And I prefer non-led lights. Quieter. (visually!)

Thin tinsel is lametta, Jingl
Not sure when it acquired the fancy name.
Our tree has been adorned for the last 29 years with a glitterry angel that DS made in Primary 1. Each year she has slightly less glitter.
Kitty it is your perfect right to be as stick-in-the-mud as you like

I've actually done the tree sans lametta and it does look good. It can't be so uncool because the lametta I bought in last year's post Christmas sale was Gisella (sp) Graham!

A friend of mine who was an interior designer and one of the most stylish people I ever knew used lametta but not tinsel.

When she had put the lights and baubles on her tree she would very carefully drape some strands of silver lametta from the ends of some of the branches. Looked lovely. She bought new lametta each year so that it draped sort of like icicles, rather than the frizzy crumpled effect you might get after it had been scrunched up in a bag for 12 months!

No! I know what lametta is. It's very thin strips of silver stuff that you drape down over the branches. This thin tinsel is like modern tinsel but much shorter "haired". And less "hair" on it. It's lighter and daintier than this modern stuff.

Mine is starting to go a little bit bald. But still very pretty.

I trimmed the white dress of our fairy doll with it. And put a bit on the end of her wand. She has seen many Christmases now.

She sounds a bit like me !!

We still have some of that old thin tinsel too, jingle. It's much easier to drape than the modern bristly stuff. Lametta looks all right when the tree's lit up, but in daylight I think it looks a bit...odd.

My 'Fairy' is a sort of rubbery cherub doll wearing a home-made broderie-anglaise dress and woollen knitted knickers! A halo made of tinsel and a wand made of a cocktail stick and a blob of tinsel too! She is the almost the same age as no.1 son (40+) and he loves her!!!!!!
Is that really Jingle..... whoopee

I am making no comments relating to baldness Nonu.

But I'm sure you are very pretty.

I'm not BALD , in fact have rather a good head of hair !!
I meant I had seen a lot of Christmas"s like your fairy !!!

Oh right! Sorry.

She is a bit of a tramp actually. I made the top of her frock from a piece of broderie anglaise. Turn your back and her tits fall out.

jingl

I'd never heard of lametta. I had to google it.

My little house on the prairie will obviously never grace the pages of Country Living!

Sorry, but I don't think lametta is the same as thin tinsel!

Nor me phoenix - I've got loads of lametta and absolutely no thin tinsel.

Lametta was a trade name way back. When we were kids (ie more than 60 years ago) we went every year to Woolworths to buy it. There are probably other brands but the 'real' Lametta was very thin strips of tinsel which we more or less slung at the tree hoping some of it would stick! We did have a very cavalier approach to tree dressing.

DH has just told me his mother got the lametta out every year to decorate the tree.

The stuff we had when I was a child was very thin so it must have been tinsel

Jilly Cooper would probably be able to fill us in on which one the aristocracy uses!

Dress your tree with Lametta kittylester and make it look so good that everyone else wishes they'd done it

Lametta as advertised by Selfridges.