BS: One for us ladies

Subject: BS: One for us ladies
From: Black Beauty
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 06:09 AM

So many butch threads on this forum at the moment, so let's have one for us girls.
What do you feel more comfortable in, jeans or skirt ? Tee shirt or blouse ? looking and feeling good at the same time is important.
Ever go grocery shopping and look at those around you feel a little bit flompy ? Some girls really do go overboard and must get up hours before they head to work to look so good. I feel more at ease in a tee shirt and jeans and a nice big cuddly wooly jumper.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 06:15 AM

Stretchy trousers and a T shirt and fleece for me... never was a girly girl.

I have a work colleague who, if she spent as much time working as she does primping and applying mascara (and separating each lash with a pin - has the woman never heard of comb applicators?), would singlehandedly reduce our backlog to zero.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 06:29 AM

I know someone who wears what I consider to be 'party frocks' for everyday shopping, taking children to playgroups and such like. (If she's going to a party she adds make-up as well.)
Usually she looks, well, a bit cold.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: skipy
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 06:37 AM

Not just for the girls!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 06:52 AM

Not just for ladies either but all women of the female persuasion and inclination.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST,Sparticus
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 07:48 AM

"Stretchy trousers and a T shirt and fleece for me... never was a girly girl."

That reminds me, I must buy a couple of sacks of spuds.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Bee
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 07:56 AM

In a dress, I look a bit too much like my tall sturdy grandmother, who was called 'handsome' as a young woman. As an older woman, she made a dress look like it wanted to be a pair of overalls, things stuffed in pockets, up sleeves, and a hanky down the front. Used to embarass my brother greatly as a child when she'd fish in her 'boosum' for the hanky.

Jeans, buttoned shirts, and sweaters fer me, thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Moses
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 08:29 AM

Sorry but it's flowing skirts, clingy tops to show lots of cleavage and plenty of bling for me. If you've got it, flaunt it I say.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: *daylia*
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 09:45 AM

I like wearing ultra-comfy track suits best - but even in a track suit, I go for touch of femininity. Like a lacy cami peeking up from under my V-neck sweatshirt ...

Jeans are too ill-fitting and uncomfortable, on this bod anyway. I put up with it daily, for years and years -- but no more!

For a more feminine look, I like extra-long flowing skirts and dresses. That way, I can skip wearing unhealthy, uncomfortable pain-in-the-butt leg coverings. And I'm glad I'm tall enough to get away with wearing flat shoes, cuz you wouldn't catch me DEAD in a pair of those godawful back-breaking foot-busting ladies contraptions.

(well, those pointy little heels are okay for wearing while for lounging around in soft comfortable chairs .... and cleaning out my ears, too ....   ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 10:22 AM

I have a closet full of great clothes, a lot of summer dresses, skirts, jackets, and blouses (nothing frilly), but I have to lose a few pounds before I'll be comfortable in them. I'm working on it. Meanwhile, jeans and t-shirts are my uniform of choice. Durable enough for all of my yard and dog-walking activities. I wear the nice jeans for work with a t-shirt from the university where I work. I'm wearing a denim skirt this morning because all of my jeans were in the laundry. :)

I shop in thrift stores a lot, and have a favorite in this area. There are some ladies in our side of town who shop at very nice stores and give away clothes before they show any wear. So I have a lot of good labels, Talbot's being one of my favorites. Good cut, nice design, not leading edge, but classic.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Bee
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 10:32 AM

Thrift stores are wonderful; I love 'em.

I feel very conspicuous in a T-shirt, and they are not flattering: the fabric, if tucked in, reveals all the bumps I'd rather conceal; if left loose, hangs straight down from the furthest promontory, making me appear somewhat like a two legged tree trunk with a head on top. A buttoned, darted shirt narrows in the right places, can be unbuttoned as far down as one likes for comfort or discreet display (hey, cleavage is one of my few assets!), and is available in a variety of fabrics.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST,sometimes caught short
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 10:41 AM

For long walks in the countryside a wide, longish skirt is great (for when you need a discreet pee, so much easier and less obvious than lowering one's trousers).

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Scrump
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 10:57 AM

Sorry but it's flowing skirts, clingy tops to show lots of cleavage and plenty of bling for me. If you've got it, flaunt it I say

Go right ahead, girls - we don't mind :-)

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: skipy
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 11:07 AM

I'm at work, but I have got a bra on!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Scoville
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 11:20 AM

Skirts and T-shirts/sweaters. I'm extremely pear-shaped/curvy and pants are both uncomfortable and unflattering. I was built to wear June Cleaver skirts and ladies' [fitted] tees (straight T's look horrible on me. Make all of me as wide as my butt. People start asking if I'm pregnant).

Currently wearing a T-shirt, turtleneck sweater, and black cotton-poly A-line skirt with elastic waist (I hate doing buttonholes) I made last weekend. I normally only wear those at home but I have messy stuff to do today.

I make a lot of my own stuff from vintage patterns. I look a bit kooky but if I don't mind that, they fit me better--apparently women in the 1940's and 1950's still had hips and backsides--and I don't have to waste my money on poor workmanship and bad fit. You wouldn't believe how many women tell me they secretly wish they had the nerve to wear yellow calico.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Scoville
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 11:23 AM

Oh, and I wear an apron when I cook. An older lady complained to me recently that nobody wears aprons any more even though they're really very reasonable things. Well--I have a big green-calico bib apron with huge pockets on it and a skirt that goes almost all the way around. Damned near a jumper, but it keeps my clothes clean. I'm a big apron advocate.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: dianavan
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 01:12 PM

I prefer to wear a bikini.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 01:28 PM

Don't mind me, I'm just reading...

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Bee
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 02:22 PM

Myself and another lady had to make 48 bib aprons with pockets and edge binding for a museum a couple years ago. I could see edge binding with my eyes shut for weeks, damn stuff!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Scoville
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 02:29 PM

48?? Okay, I don't like aprons THAT much. That was cruel.



Mine has pink edge-binding, by the way (matches the flowers in the print).

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: jimlad9
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 02:42 PM

Last summer I was going up Scaefell on a scorching hot day. Descending was a good looking blonde 20 ish lady wearing a short White lightweight flowing dress. The wind caught her dress and lifted it to waist height. The only other clothing was a tiny pair of white M&S see through pants,and the curtains and carpet did not match............please excuse the shaky handwriting!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Partridge
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 02:51 PM

I'm with Liz on this, stretchy trousers and a T shirt and fleece, or in the summer the same and substitute loose cotton top for the fleece.

When I have to I do wear a posh frock, but am not really comfortable with myself.

I will not suffer for fashion anymore, I prefer to be in clothes that my body feels happy with. I'm wearing a red track suit and cream dressing gown at the moment and I wouldn't change if the queen decided to drop in

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: gnu
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 02:51 PM

Well, if it's just us girls.... I like the Pathfinder work pants by Kodiak, because I can change pants without having to take my big hulkin' work boots off. You can't do that with Dickie work pants.

And, the Pathfinders are now infused with teflon, so they don't stain as easy when youy're under the truck or in the mud, the blood and the beer. At $18 Canuck on sale, they are great.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: eddie1
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 03:12 PM

jimlad9
Go and have a cold shower now!
Otherwise it will all end in tears!

Eddie
(scuse me while I go for my shower!)

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 03:25 PM

I'm a jeans, sweatshirt and sneakers kinda girl. Those Pathfinders sound good, too, though.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: gnu
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 03:41 PM

Oh, my dear. You gotta have em! Seriously... I can take em off and put em on without taking my size 11 Browning huge rugged sole boots off.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 03:42 PM

jimlad9, you obviously had a really good look, if only to read the label . . .

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: annamill
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 03:55 PM

Oh Please! I always wear the finest tailored outfits while doing my dishes and cleaning my house. I wake up, shower and put on my outfit with pantyhose, high heels and appropriate bling-bling.

RIGHT! NOT!!

I'm wearing, at the moment, cotton pants and a flannel shirt. It's a bit cool here in Southern California, about 57 degrees. BYW, no shoes. Thats comes from my South Carolina raised Mother.

I just retired and there will be no more panty hose for me!!! EVER!!

(I have to be sure to put that in my will)

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 04:36 PM

I go for comfort every time - so nearly everything I wear is too big.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Bee
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 05:21 PM

Annamill, you just gave me a cold shudder - I've never felt the need to discuss my burial clothes, but now I do. Fancy decomposing away with your nether parts wrapped in polyester!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 06:57 PM

I'm a jeans and blouse kinda gal. Or sweaters. But I avoid dresses at all costs. Uncomfortable and I cannot wear nylons as I'm allergic. Give me my comfy jeans, a lightweight sweater and weather warm enough to go sockless!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: rock chick
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 08:33 PM

I like comfort when doing housework, but smart trendy casuals when out with friends, either skits and footless leggings to contrast with either pump shoes or a nice thin med high heeled shoe, or a pair of trendy skinny fit trousers with boots, weather permitting. For work I wear a smart suit and blouse with a nice trendy pair of shoes and occasionally stocking!! Don't like tights, horrid things. If you are a lady then why not dress the part combined with being trendy. Having three grown up girls it nice to swap and share clothes and I take it as a compliment that my 28 year old girl twins and 30 year old daughter feel they can do this... it keeps me young (55) they love to have a trendy mum and that makes me proud, even my son of 29 loves the way I dress. Although I cam be a completely dress sloppy for the right occasions..... Like digging the garden etc.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Janie
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 01:40 AM

I confess I rarely give much thought to my appearance. I am forever surprised - sometimes pleasantly and sometimes not - when I happen across a mirror or the glass in a store window as I walk down the street.

Comfort matters more than anything. I like long skirts and dresses, but it seems to take more fuss with grooming to wear them, so I hardly ever do.

I will forget to change from work clothes before I go into the garden in the evening. I'll realize halfway through cutting the grass that I am wearing good shoes. On a weekend, I'll go straight from digging in the garden or dong a major clean-up of the shed to the grocery store, not realizing until I'm in the checkout line that I have mud on the seat of my pants, dirt up to my elbows and imbedded under my nails, and twigs in hair that hasn't been brushed or combed for 8 hours.

I absolutely never wear anything that is not comfortable, especially shoes.

I guess I'm just heedless. Or eccentric. Or both.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 04:05 AM

"I'm at work, but I have got a bra on!
Skipy"
Skipy, not sure what sort of work you do but do you normally do it naked.......?.    Sounds like wearting a bra at work is somewhat unusual!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 04:38 AM

Bee, I thought museums were supposed to collect the exhibits, not make them - that's cheating, surely?

I too have misgivings about what they will dress me in for my funeral. I gave up wearing make-up before I was twenty and I haven't been inside a hairdresser's for decades, but an ignorant undertaker might give me a 'hair-do' and make-up to go and meet my maker - horrors!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 05:22 AM

Topsie - don't worry; they seem to do less of that sort of thing now. Also, you can put things like that in your will (if you can be bothered that is.) I'm like you with the makeup, although I do go to the hairdresser very occasionally (it's like a mammoth thing though and I've cancelled many appointments in the past at the last moment).

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Rasener
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 07:30 AM

He he great thread.

Mosse when are you next at Faldingworth Live to flaunt it LOL :-)

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 10:32 AM

I like the fact that as women we have so many options. I vary with the seasons. In winter at work it's slacks and cotton turtleneck sweaters - I have the same sweater in seven different colors. In spring and fall, longish skirts (again about seven identical Dirndl-pleated skirts in different colors, plus a couple of others- ALWAYS with pockets!), in summer tee shirts and knee-length skirts. Guys just get to wear -pants.

Recently adding contra dance to my life has opened up new doors. Coming of age in the severe mid-'60's I thought I'd lost out completely. In 1961 My mom had a red taffeta party dress with a sweetheart neckline and a poofy crinoline (and long kid gloves). I had dead-straight and simple lines thrust on me.

But now I get to wear long or short swirly skirts with sequins any weekend I want to -- wheeee!

Linda

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 12:46 PM

I also like the fact that as you get older who cares what you weaar, I like to wear crazy things at times, think thats why I was called rock chick in my earlier days ;-))

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Bee
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 01:20 PM

Topsie, the aprons were for the recreators to wear: we made two dozen dresses as well.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Janie
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 01:45 AM

You got that right, rock chick. It is one of the many pleasures of middle age and beyond.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 02:11 AM

Janie,

I do the same thing, but in reverse--I'll be puttering at home working and then decide I need to go over to the office, only to realize, as I climb out of my truck at the school parking lot, that I have on nice pants, ok socks, and my old brown gardening shoes (usually with the university t-shirt, just in case readers think my description comes up short). The problem is that when I work at home I'll take a break and head outside to pull weeds for a couple of minutes, so I'll have stepped into an old pair of gardening shoes. And forgotten to take them off.

Gnu, really, who would WANT to take their pants off over their boots? You'll just leave crud from your work boots on the inside legs of your pants. If it's such a job to remove your boots, maybe you should consider getting velcro fasterners for them instead of laces?

:)

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:45 AM

SRS.... a workin man would. As for crud on the inside of the pants, who's gonna know but me?

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:47 AM

Oooops! A workin person would. My bad.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST,Canadienne
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:47 AM

gnu - a "real gentleman" would remove his trousers AND his boots :)

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: GUEST,Canadienne
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:55 AM

it all leads to this sort of thing :)

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:27 PM

Refresh, for people inquiring about health of Rock Chick!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Amergin
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:36 PM

I like to wear skirts, myself...with combat boots....and usually a t-shirt or depending on the situation a black button up shirt.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 12:39 PM

I spend most of my time in baggy tops and comfy trousers but have been known to turn out in a basque on occasions!

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Wesley S
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 02:00 PM

Here's a CNN story about uncomfortable clothing:

Woman stopped wearing girdle of live crocodiles

POSTED: 12:45 p.m. EDT, March 26, 2007



JERUSALEM (AP) -- A woman was caught with three crocodiles strapped to her waist at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked "strangely fat," officials said.

The woman's odd shape raised suspicions at the Rafah terminal in southern Gaza, and a body search by a female border guard turned up the animals, each about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long, concealed underneath her loose robe, according to Maria Telleria, spokeswoman for the European observers who run the crossing.

"The woman looked strangely fat. Even though she was veiled and covered, even with so many clothes on there was something strange," Telleria said.

The incident, which took place on Thursday, sparked panic at the crossing.

"The policewoman screamed and ran out of the room, and then women began screaming and panicking when they heard," Telleria said. But when the hysteria died down, she said, "everybody was admiring a woman who is able to tie crocodiles to her body."

In her defense, the woman said she "was asked" to carry the crocodiles, said Wael Dahab, a spokesman for the Palestinian guards at the crossing.

The reptiles, which had their jaws tied shut with string, were returned to the Egyptian side of the border.

Dahab said the animals were likely meant for sale to Gaza's small zoo or to private owners. The crocodiles would fetch "good money," even in the impoverished territory, he said. In Gaza, the animals can fetch about $500 -- roughly two months' salary for a low-ranking police officer.

The woman was not the first to try to illegally smuggle exotic wildlife through the Rafah crossing, Dahab said: another woman tried to bring in a monkey tied to her chest, and other travelers tried to smuggle in exotic birds and a tiger cub. Border guards more frequently confiscate cigarettes, prescription drugs and car parts.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 02:16 PM

Poor crocodiles.

Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 04:22 PM

But, I suspect that, now, they're awwwrriiight mate!