"Care home chic"

No more pink cardigans the one before he called me Agnes off Mrs Brown's boys.

What an insult! I'd have socked him one with the Hush socks for that

I would have immediately gone and got changed into an uber glamorous outfit complete with lots of slap and, sashaying into the room, asked if he thought that more appropriate! I did this very same thing once when my now (thankfully!) ex-husband made a rude comment about how ugly and boring I was! Thing was, he actually meant it though and I guess this lady’s husband was being somewhat tongue in cheek!

PamelaJ1

Not sure what my answer would be but are you sure you have the right husband? I think you may have borrowed mine!
At least they have hair?

Mine has scruffy hair and beard. He calls it his old testament prophet look, at least he has stopped telling new work contacts he meets on zoom that it is not his covid/working from home look but he always looks like that. He does. His jeans fit but are what we refer to as "religious", in other words they are hole-y!! And at his age ripped jeans are not trendy!!

I think your husband sounds great, yammy.

I would personally never wear pink and grey together and never in any circumstances zebra print socks, so I tend to sympathise with your husband here, although unless his remark was made in a tone of voice that implies that he would really rather see you in nothing at all, it was unkind.

My answer would probably have been, "Why don't you come and take it off me then, if you think it looks so dreadful?"

I think there's a song there "You can leave your socks on"...

Ha ....a lady from our road went into a care home ......she wears designer clothes, HIGH HEELS (how she doesn't trip over I don't know !) has her hair coloured every month and even wears jewellery every day that is care home chick ..........can't wait to get in (well, IF I had the nearly £5,000 she pays every month that is !!!! When I go into my cardboard box on the street I'll be glad of someone giving me an overcoat

Blimey! She sounds a tad OTT!

Grand’ tante pink and grey are lovely together !
But there are pink cardigans and pink cardigans …

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Quite, Lucca. I love pink and grey.

Me too. In fact there’s a lot of it in my house.

Agree, pink and grey do look good ( although none in my many wardrobes) will have to buy some now.

I like the idea of zebra socks.
Are onesies still in fashion? You could go the whole hog ( to keep the animal theme going,)?
DD’s both roam around their respective houses in animal onesies in Winter.

His comment was clever though. If my husband had said that I would have laughed.

It reminds me of The Royle Family.
The type of thing Jim would say.

MissAdventure

It reminds me of The Royle Family.
The type of thing Jim would say.

You've got him in one. I must say "OH L..."20 times a day. He was no different with his parents I knew what I was getting and most of the time I do laugh but I thought I looked so on "trend" yesterday I nearly threw something.

You can't beat a bit of micky taking for having a laugh.

Yammy I think we must see this outfit …OH may be very wrong !

And if he's not, well we can take the micky as well.

I have some lovely pink and grey Argyle cashmere socks and the colours definitely work well together

I’m not a fan of animal prints of any kind, never have been.

MissAdventure

And if he's not, well we can take the micky as well.

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Not a great fan of pink and grey in general. Saw a lady this morning in a knitted pink and grey bobble hat, scarf and mask. The bobble hat was beautiful (just in case she's reading ? ), sadly the mask not so much. But she had cleverly sewn buttons on the sides of her hat so the mask could be attached to that.

No zebra print socks though.

Your husband sounds hilarious (and I work in a care home and he’s about right, especially if your trousers have had a row with your socks!).

How different we all are.

Yammy sounds like your husband's comment was in genuine jest.

has her hair coloured every month and even wears jewellery every day

For the life of me I can't think what's wrong with this!

Ivory silk shirt - sounds grim and very old lady to me!

Zebra socks - I'm OK with these