The next catalogue will probably dispense with the "outdoors" bit, while retaining the "off-grid" reference.
For a lot of poor elderly people, wearing a fleece and a woolly hat indoors could well mean the difference between life and death. If you are 85 and on a State Pension, every winter's day is a hike up the Brecon Beacons.
Bring back woolly vests, simmits, string vests (See you,see you, Ah'll gie ye string vests.), liberty bodices, long johns, jerseys, guernseys, balaclavas, cable knit jumpers, nightcaps. My jumpers and cardigans pass through the "fit to be seen in public", "slumming about the house" then the "messing about in the garden or under car" stages before being consigned to cotton waste duties. Cotton waste? No rude mechanical was complete without a multicoloured tangle of thread jammed in his pocket. What happened to that? Gone. Along with our cotton industry. No wonder our warships don't work. Nothing with which to wipe down the moving parts.
Doonhamer - I could never get on with string vests or long johns, they didn't seem warm to me. My clothes pass through similar stages apart from those which go into a charity bag because we already have lots of old clothes for gardening, cleaning out the wood burner and cotton waste duties.
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The next catalogue will probably dispense with the "outdoors" bit, while retaining the "off-grid" reference.
For a lot of poor elderly people, wearing a fleece and a woolly hat indoors could well mean the difference between life and death. If you are 85 and on a State Pension, every winter's day is a hike up the Brecon Beacons.
Why wouldn't I wear a fleece indoors? It's just a modern version of a cardigan.
The only downside to wearing a fleece indoors is - which one to wear of the dozen available!
Sam - it's not a bad idea for oldies to wear some outdoor clothing indoors during winter. M&S versions can be quite inexpensive.
dearieme - we wear them in the house all the time apart from summer. For some reason Rohan don't call them cardigans though.
Jannie - we have lots as well, probably too many but they are useful.
Bring back woolly vests, simmits, string vests (See you,see you, Ah'll gie ye string vests.), liberty bodices, long johns, jerseys, guernseys, balaclavas, cable knit jumpers, nightcaps.
My jumpers and cardigans pass through the "fit to be seen in public", "slumming about the house" then the "messing about in the garden or under car" stages before being consigned to cotton waste duties. Cotton waste? No rude mechanical was complete without a multicoloured tangle of thread jammed in his pocket. What happened to that? Gone. Along with our cotton industry. No wonder our warships don't work. Nothing with which to wipe down the moving parts.
Doonhamer - I could never get on with string vests or long johns, they didn't seem warm to me. My clothes pass through similar stages apart from those which go into a charity bag because we already have lots of old clothes for gardening, cleaning out the wood burner and cotton waste duties.
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