Moments of Permanence - When the going gets rough, just shop with somebody tough...

From: rainbow Date: June 17th, 2009 06:54 pm (UTC) (Link)

I may, possibly, have clothes that are 20-30+ years old -- that I still wear. (I'm proud of myself for consigning THREE t shirts to the compost, recently...after I'd worn them One Last Time). Old ts I love, Laurel Burch sweatshirts, a pink cotton jacket that was Mama A's... (I also have her blue wool full length cape, from the 60s.)

I hate clothes shopping, too, even mroe since I got housebound. It's hard to find stuff that fits, and most stuff has resins/pesticides/fragranced stuff on it, so I can't even try it on until it's been washed several times and hung in the sun. (This probably explains why my clothes tend to be generic sweatpants/sweatshirts, lighter cotton pants, and tshirts.)

What a neat idea to get the smaller guitars for kids!

Is it really weird to avoid London and Paris if one travels?

I *hate* crowds and big cities; if I could travel, I'd want to go to places like Aberystwyth in Wales, Leighlinbridge in Ireland, Stonehenge, rural England and France, the Highlands, Cornwall.

Also? Paul and I don't drink...and we live in the Lorane Valley, which is filled with wineries, including one of the top-rated organic wineries in Oregon..it's literally just over the hill of Stony Point from us. Fortunately they also grow and sell organic veg and fruit, so I can still enjoy that.

I'm so excited that you'll be travelling. I love reading ppl's travels and seeing what they see!

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From: sami Date: June 17th, 2009 07:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

Travelling won't be soon, alas.

The thing with the cities is that they are major tourist destinations. I'd just rather see *other* parts of the countries, ones less well-travelled - though my desire to see the Highlands of Scotland is specifically to see the part where my ancestors lived.

As for clothes... I don't have any that old, but then, twenty years ago I was eight years old, and wore rather smaller sizes than I do now. *g* I think my oldest shirt is from 1992, and I don't really wear it any more because it's pretty much transparent.

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From: rainbow Date: June 17th, 2009 07:14 pm (UTC) (Link)

*nod* Leighlinbridge, Wales, and Scotland are places my family came from, and I've been told France (but can't find any proof; I think it might have been my ggrandfather and gggrandfather's little joke in support of Aunt Mary marrying a French-Canadian, actually. My Grampa thought it was true, but I can trade his side back pretty well, and it's 100% Irish on his father's side and 50/50 Irish/German on his mother's).

This body was 28 twenty years ago, so plenty of grown sizes of clothes from then. *g*

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