Comfy old favourites

Like you J52, it's my comfy dressing gown!

I know what you mean about comfy dressing gowns J. Mine is about four years old and my "go to" at the end of a busy day.
But my real old faithful is a pair of superb Wallis leggings bought about ten years ago....so very very comfy and totally indestructable.

I have a pair of winter trousers which I bought from a second hand stall in the market. 10€ I think. They're partially lined, and are a nice brown/blue tweed. Big side pockets.
I've had them a few years and when the 'bum' area was getting thin lined it with some tough cloth.
I'm wearing them now and will be sad when they give up the ghost;

An old brown wool cardigan that DD bought me years ago. It is worn and pilled and utterly scabby, but still warm and comfortable. Every time I put it on, DH says “you look like a tramp in that! When are you going to throw it away?” Well, I look like a tramp in anything I wear, so it ceases to bother me!

I've got several dressing gowns but always end up back in my old pink one that's got a huge tear down one side where I caught it on the door handle. It's just so warm and comfy I can't part with it - I have mended it once but did the same thing again!

I love comfy p'js, old dressing gowns and best of all, my "leisures" which I put on most evenings between 6 and 7 pm. It coincides with wine o'clock. It involved ancient joggers/leggings, comfortable sweat shirts or long T shirts and I won't mention B**'s which are definitely not leisure wear.

Yes, a grey, zip-up Edinburgh Wool cardigan - must be about 10 years old now. Very cosy! And I do love my M&S brush cotton turquoise pjs ... I have to go out in ten minutes - I would love to be curling up in them right now!

My dressing gown and a top that is so tatty I call it my housework shirt (that's my excuse to wear it a lot).

My green and white striped dressing gown. And, my grey joggy bottoms and a hoodie!

An old plum coloured cardigan, oversized and woolly.?

I have an ancient, broken-down, totally disreputable pair of slippers. They are extremely comfortable and I cling onto them, although I know that old slippers are the cause of many accidents. Most footwear hurts my dodgy feet, but these don’t.

Grey wool knitted slipperboots, quite ridiculous but wonderful.

My purple half dressing gown, plus pjs with a honeysuckle design. I also like comfy cotton socks.

Sent you a PM Kitty about another subject.

In 2002 we were on a coach tour about to arrive in San Francisco. It was a beautiful hot day and we didn't take any notice of out tour guide when he told us to take something warm to wear when we arrived. Wish we had, it was freezing when we got off the coach, the San Francisco Haze or something. Most of us made our way to a street vendor selling San Francisco fleeces. Mine is cream, cost $5 and has since been used as a dressing gown. Still as good as new too.

Like you, Alima, on holiday in Canada (many years ago) I was colder than expected and bought a fleece gilet in a local shop. It is still my favourite cold weather garment and still looks like new.

I have a tatty long flannelette nightie, it is at least 15 years old, the colour was once a raspberry but it is now a mucky pink. soo warm and comfy! I have put it in the rag bag loads of times and then changed my mind!

Pity that we can’t all wear these comfy old things, get together in a group and take a photo! What a glamour loaded pic that would be.?

I still have a zip-up full-length dressing gown I bought from M & S when I was expecting DD1 (now 36!). To be fair the zip broke after a few months from being pulled too tight around my bump, but I took it back and they repaired it free of charge; it was fine all during my pregnancy with DD2 and keeps on going. I have newer ones I wear as well, but it still looks good and is so comfy.

My gardening cardie, it makes me looks slim and gorgeous and keeps me warm, only one of those statements is true of course.

OK... how about this. We've lived in this house for 27 years, I wore my favourite red skirt when we were house hunting... it was old then and I still wear it regularly !

It's a full circle ankle length skirt I got in a sale at Chelsea Girl. I think it was £3.

Needless to say it has an elasticated waist, which is how come it still fits !

Every time I wear it DH says... that looks nice... don't think I've seen that one before have I ?

Yes, my winter long johns...they've even got holes in them, but I can't part with them! Oh and a couple of very comfortable knickers, also with holes!! I only hope I'm not wearing them if I have an accident and have to carted off to hospital!!

I have a short-sleeved bowling-shirt-type blouse bought in the much-missed C&A in about 1995. It's in lovely shades of cream, pale green and pale terracotta, washes and irons like a dream, gets trotted out every summer looking as good as it did the day I bought it. Wish I did ....

Old Faithful; my long cable knit woolly jumper that goes well with leggings [covers the hips]. Now gone at the elbows. Know I have to throw it away, but ...

Not clothing but when I was living in military married quarters over 40 years ago, the quarter was fitted out with everything from a teaspoon, to beds and bedding... if anything broke or got damaged or lost we had to pay for it at the leaving inventory when we were moving to another quarter ..

everything was superb high quality

On my final quarter before moving into our own home , I took the heavyweight wooden handled stainless steel Carving fork.. which I paid for at the final inventory at a reduced price ., but I wouldn't have been able to buy such such a decent one brand new at the time.
I still have that wooden handled fork..even though I could buy one these days as good quality... I wouldn't part with this one 40 years on...