Playful and nonchalant

To be fair, the pin has got five little owls on it. Got it from a craft stall at a steam engine rally. It is very sweet.

Ah those kilt pins - now that is a proper playful accessory and the outfit as described would not be half as nonchalant without it.

Faded Dash cotton trousers, worn with a nonchalant old navy and white t shirt (also very faded) and feet playfully attired in old fitflop sandals (again)

I have been cleaning, not feeling either nonchalant or playful really, but one has to try to keep up appearances

Mustn't forget the brown and beige slippers.

My attire is playful and nonchalant this morning. Navy blue Cotton Traders shorts coming just below the knee, worn with Marks and Sparks grey ankle socks. And an elderly longline navy cardi fastened with a kilt pin in the front.

Vogue can contact me via Gransnet.

rosesared all cats are tasteful! You never see one and think 'whatever possessed her/him to wear that?!" They're generally very clean too. I feel I'm an affront to Baz but he puts up with it nobly. Good boy.

My GD aged 3 also seems to notice what I wear (I only had sons I'm not used to this!) and greeted me one day when I went to mind her little brother with "Why do you always wear the same things, Granny?" I was about to say I didn't then realised I actually did- oldish jeans and a long jumper- clothing resistant to sticky fingers and snotty noses!!

You made me laugh Riverwalk. I get that cheery jolt every time I close the car door. Today is wet so I'm attired in jeggings, gay little ankle boots with purple laces, a North Face all-weather cagoule, with peaked hood, and a nonchalant flowery tea shirt atop (of me, not the cagoule). I would add that I'm just going out but the underwear will stay on all day. Oh I'm not doing well here. Underwear as in what's under the cagoule.

Michellehargreaves, I always wear perfume too on the basis that whenever my grandchildren smell Opium in future they will think of me. However I know that at least one of them thinks about what I wear too, because she (aged not quite eight) recently told me that I ought to wear brighter colours and not black or navy all the time. Out of the mouths of babes ....

Fashion writers live in another world I think. Never take any notice what they say or what they think you should wear for this or that season, lad of tosh.

They are on another planet IMO but often good for a laugh!
Ditto a cookery writer some time ago when there was an 'austerity' trend for recipes to use up leftovers.
This particular Other Planet woman gave a recipe for lobster broth with linguine or some such - broth made with SIX leftover lobster shells she just happened to have lying around.
Yes, dear, we all have half a dozen lobster shells cluttering up the kitchen, so tiresome having to think what to do with them...

My DS skipped me later than usual this week. For once, I didn't appear like the creature from the lagoon in my dressing gown and wet hair

I too have a blue spotted, fleecy robe, £15 from John Lewis - it looks and feels cheap. Creates so much static, every morning I get a playful jolt when I touch a door handle or light switch

I'm channeling my inner animal self with a loose stretchy dress in a sort of giraffe print but only small earrings so Bet Lynch lite.

Annerogers
I always use perfume when I see my grandchildren, I work on the basis that when they remember me in the future, they will think of me smelling divine rather than "what the heck did she wear".

Your comments on the nonsense of the fashion world are amusing and apposite.

I recently had a lightbulb moment concerning fashion and the high street. When shopping I saw that every fashion shop window had models in lovely, pretty, summery dresses, cardies and sandals. They looked incredibly 'nonchalent' and sported 'playful accessories' too. However, every single woman on the street had jeans, a wintry top and a jumper and/or coat to suit the awful summer we are being gifted by the weather gods.

downtoearth Go Walks can be washed time and time again in the washing machine and come up good as new

I'm very nonchalant this morning in very old pull-on jeans (the elastic has gone and they keep slipping down to reveal my playful granny knickers) and a fleece that was once black but has faded with washing to an interesting shade of dark grey, decorated with quite a bit of black cat fur because She-Who-Rules-The-House decided it was a good thing to curl up on for a kip.

I am going to do a massive tart-up later though, before going to pick up grandchildren from school this afternoon - I don't want to terrify them!

My inner nonchalance is being channeled today in multicoloured striped dressing gown purchased from Ikea for a fiver about 10 years ago. Rocking the vintage look! And the cheeky accessory of the day is the small, delicate and highly original plaster cast on my right foot. It certainly adds a " je ne c'est quoi".

I'm being playful this morning in my clingy animal print 'Bet Lynch' leggings with a slightly tatty but stretchy black T-shirt. Keeping me warmish (it's peeing down and chilly) is an old grey stripey cardi, finished off with pink ballet type slippers, with holes in the sole.
No wonder I'm alone!

and today another wet Monday I shall done my playful bright yellow Joules (suitable for land and sea) wincheater and nonchalantly go out and get drenched.

Depends where you go, roses. I think you need some advice ?

And will it be under £15?

There seem to be a few white and blue spotty d/gowns about.Where can I buy a tasteful cat like Jane10's ?

my added extra is a bottle of reisling ,which highly complements my colouring to that of squashed tomato red..so am nonchalantly negotiating my keyboard very carefully

Forgot to say that I will definitely be more 'playful' later at the BBQ after a glass or two of vino but definitely not at all nonchalant (don't think I have ever been nonchalant actually).