Designer labels - who cares?

Mrs Lester was feeling a little under the weather today so opted not to hit the lights of the nearest metropolis.

Instead, Mr Lester went to collect the top of the range, designer label jogging bottoms from the upmarket store where he was also able to purchase the bread which is made for his wife especially by their highly trained bakers. Mrs Lester has declared this bread 'the best oaty sliced bread of all time' (well this week)

Meanwhile, the lady herself sat under a blanket, specially made by those weavers of note, Dunelm.

She had been shocked to notice a very similar blanket on the floor of her neighbour's garage which had been laid there to catch oil drips from the neighbour's classic car.

Rumour has it that Lady M was seen supporting her daughter, the Honourable FC, at a Cumbria Horse Trials on Sunday morning. She wore a red Regatta jacket, a Factory Store bargain, age unknown, price forgotten, covering a faded navy Musto bodywarmer (ditto) , navy cord trousers, £19.99 M&S c. 2018 and surprisingly waterproof battered pair of white Reebok Classics, M & M £27, 2 years ago. Luckily the really heavy rain held off until her daughter's class was finished as the jacket isn't very waterproof.

She didn't look her usual glowing best, having had to rise at 4 a.m to sort out the picnic lunch (smoked salmon sandwiches we believe) before departure at 4 a.m for an hour and a half drive in the far from comfortable cab of the horse box...

Walking billboards… idiots, all of them. They’re lucky they’re not attacked and ripped off‼️
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Today Mrs G.O.D. is ringing the changes and sporting as an underlayer, her tastefully (?) wrinkled birthday suit, as she believes it looks better that way than trying to iron it. Clearly a vintage item!
She is hoping the paparazzi will not be hiding outside of the house when she ventures out, necessitating a fast walk (if such a thing is possible with her sound-effects knees), to her 19 year old Jag. Mrs G.O.D. feels her car's vintage elegance is the perfect pairing for her similar state, though there are malicious reports that it is only the car which has attained that status. It certainly moves a lot faster than she does.....

Dr Biglouis was seen climbing somewhat akwardly into a taxi wearing a black and white zebra striped kaftan, black socks and flipflops. We suspect from the fall of the ample garment that she was not wearing a bra or any underwear beneath.

Through their long lenses, the eager snappers by the gate were able to see Lady Scribs (as she is known in her intimate circle) open the door to the postman this morning clad in her trademark ancient navy blue yoga pants (Amazon c.2015, price long forgotten) cunningly teamed with a Seasalt teeshirt in a not-quite-matching shade of navy and a pair of purple moc-Crocs from The Range. She sported a tousled pixie cut and her vintage gold hoop earrings (understood to have been abirthday gift from the late Lord Scribbles in the early 70s).

Of the mystery companion - rumoured but not confirmed to be the reclusive baronet, Lord (Aloysius, known as Al to his friends) Ponsonby-Smallpiece) - there was little sign except for a glimpse of a handsome, bearded man with charmingly disarranged collar length iron grey hair. He appeared to be sporting a burgundy coloured polo shirt (M&S c.1989) with three small holes in the midriff - believed to be the result of a mishap while welding two of his classic Bentley cars together during a misguided attempt to create one roadworthy vehicle.

Baroness Audun is wearing her delightful £10 denim dress from the closing down sale of M and Co. She has deliberately washed it at boil, in order to give it that fashionable above-the -knee look. It is accessorised with a pair of flowery loose-topped socks, and nine-year old Mary Janes, and her hair, naturally wavy, is benefitting from its au naturel uncut look... The Baroness feels expensive jewellery is utterly ostentatious, and keeps her gold in Coutts Bank.. sporting instead, her great-aunt's wellworn signet ring. Having enjoyed a mug of Horlicks for elevenses, she feels able to hang out the washing, unselfishly sparing her daily help.

Ronib is wearing an ironed (for once) Avon dress from the Jeanetic range - an immaculately tailored dark blue denim dress with long sleeves, casually turned up at the cuffs. Grey leggings and bamboo socks with Joya leather boots and Senso soles plus extremely expensive orthotics perfect the grunge meets designer look. She thinks…..

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Mrs H was spotted leaving the garden centre, she was wearing navy linen trousers by matalan, cream and blue top from Phase eight sale, and her bargain priced Ugg flip flops. Her bag was a hessian shopper from Holland and Barrett ( which was secreting a pot plant that she hoped Mr H wouldn’t notice).
Her jewellery was minimal, pink diamond stud earrings, wedding and engagement rings and a full Pandora bracelet, all bought by Mr H and other family members.

Today Ms Callistemon also is wearing navy linen trousers by Matalan which started their life as full-length trousers but are now ankle-grazers, the housekeeper having inadvertently put them on a 40C wash.
(I sacked her)
A t shirt by Cotton Traders @ £22 (for three), a navy M&S cardigan bought? years ago in a Swindon Designer Village, socks from Crazy Clark's and a favourite (ie old) pair of trainers.
Hair by Scissor Happy Salon.

She is ready to face the window cleaner and the postman 🙂

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You might be missing the point nanna8
For myself (lady lining ) I am currently wearing a mis matched pair of ancient pjs with slippers, Asda (£5) .
Sir L is in an even more ancient and extraordinarily thin white tee shirt which refuses to fall apart and shorts artfully tailored ( by me) from an old pair of long trousered pjs, because he gets hot, ( not that sort of hot) at night these days.
We will get dressed shortly displaying charity and supermarket purchases with style, as we try to avoid the inevitable papps who patiently wait on a regular basis outside our door.

If you are really into this nonsense all you have to do is go on a particular well known Chinese site, write in the name and hey presto you can get the brand name for a quarter of the price. Maybe illegal, maybe not but they don’t care, obviously.

Now, this isn't fair! Yesterday I went for a private lesson on my ancestry, wearing Boden jeans, Jack Wolfskin fleece, Hotter walking boots and carrying an Eastpack bag. All fairly respectable, I thought. Half way through the 2 hours' research, the nice lady said to me, "Why aren't you stonking rich?" Obviously going by my attire!!

Sazz1 was wearing a beautiful blue, denim, sequinned, panelled, midi skirt from Next priced at £4 from ebay. She looked delightful in a black floral chiffon top from topshop via ebay at £2.50. With a beautiful Next white summer jacket with turned up sleeves draped across her arm she entered the restaurant with her family for a Sunday carvery lunch. Jacket was priced at £40 and complemented her clarks black gladiator sandals from ebay £30 and black handbag £6 from BHF charity shop.

Pee pee hastily wonder webbed an ancient kaftan expressly chosen for it's ability to swiftly reveal her shapely ( think ten pin bowling) pins at the unsuspecting GP who would be giving her a much longed for steroid injection in her knee. Her underwear was clean, if uninspiring: white cotton so as not to divert the Doctor's attention. Her shoes were flat Clark's, donated by a nonagenarian of her acquaintance; all the better for limping to the surgery. She took a final glance in the mirror and deftly painted on a pained expression. She was ready to face her public.

Mrs H was spotted leaving the garden centre, she was wearing navy linen trousers by matalan, cream and blue top from Phase eight sale, and her bargain priced Ugg flip flops. Her bag was a hessian shopper from Holland and Barrett ( which was secreting a pot plant that she hoped Mr H wouldn’t notice).
Her jewellery was minimal, pink diamond stud earrings, wedding and engagement rings and a full Pandora bracelet, all bought by Mr H and other family members.

Mrs Music, 58, was seen doing housework this morning in her oldest M and S trousers and a Joe Browns gold top. In the afternoon, she was treated to afternoon tea at a posh hotel. For this occasion, she wore her best Seasalt dress, navy with blue and white flowers, a pretty Woolovers white cotton cardigan and a dark pink tartan Ness handbag with purple handles. All these were bought new with or without tags from eBay. An orchid necklace and co-ordinating brooch complemented the outfit beautifully. To complete the outfit were her best silver and bronze Hotter sandals. When she returned home, there was an appointment with the ironing board scheduled so it was back to the old M and S trousers and gold Joe Browns top.

The absolutely funniest thread from here. Have a pain from laughing - wondering if that's ok or some rare and possibly fatal reaction!

The Honourable Hollysteers was spotted this afternoon leaving the restaurant arm in arm with her 89 year old companion. She was driving as he had just had his cataracts done. She was a vision in a casual pink M&S two piece completely copied from Claire Sweeney on Instagram, even down to the white trainers (H&M, given to her by her daughter as too small). White T shirt by Primark.
They drove away in her cute fourteen year old car which she is hoping will get through its MOT this week.
Now home, she is wondering whether to take out her hearing aid (the other lost) and is on her IPad wearing two pairs of spectacles as her old varifocals are not up to it.

This evening, Lady Gravy of Gravy Grange is wearing several years old gym cropped leggings, well washed yoga top, grey hoody artfully draped around her well defined shoulders, accessorised with a navy blue pinny decorated by hand with giraffes (Kenyan craft workshop) and ancient Ugg slippers.

Such a fun thread! Leaving out all the brand names since you wouldn't recognize them.

Mrs Gran was spotted leaving for work this morning, wearing rather faded jeans from unknown label, a plain white T, and a long beige open-knit cardigan from last season. Nicely pedicured toes peeped from strappy beige sandals from Amazon $80, and a straw cross body bag over her shoulder.

She was seen zipping away in her 2010 Honda, not sparing a wave for the paparazzi.

Mrs C, having arrived home at 10pm last night after a 200 mile drive is still wearing yesterday's clothes after falling asleep on the sofa! She did remove the cardigan as she had got rather warm in the car. It is vintage bought in a small boutique back in 1979 when in her first job after university. It has lost a few buttons but since it has grown with its owner over the intervening years they would not do up anyway if they were still there. She needs to go to Asda to fill up with diesel (not the label) for her next outing. Since it is now raining again, she notes that she must avoid puddles as her cotton trader sandals (circa 2018) have a hole in the sole but can't be binned as they are 'oh so comfy' and they don't make that style any more!

Bijou today was wearing a pretty floral dress purchased from Chums fifteen years ago with a cardigan bought so long ago she cannot remember when. It doesn’t matter what she wears because the only person to see her is her daily help.
She has given up wearing make up and all her jewellery she has given to her grand daughter and ten year old great grand daughter.

Dinah is wearing a black and white animal? print skirt from M & S bought last year. Ont he top half she wears a black t-shirt (doesn't like to wear bras because they irritate and the t- shirt vaguely keeps everything in place). Over that she wears alight blue linen shirt bought about years ago in a local street market. The cuffs are frayed and she means to bind them with some brightly coloured cotton but hasn't got round to it. Her faded red hair is now wiry and curly but it doesn't bother her. She quite likes the curls. Black Sketchers on her feet. Wide enough to cope with her feet when they balloon.

Really great thread ladies!!

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