What have you bought recently?

horseless carriage said:
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The first picture is the new summer blazer that I bought a couple of weeks ago.
Following that are two photos of the trousers that my wife is making to go with the blazer.
The trousers are all but finished but not quite, they will need to be pressed professionally at a dry cleaners, in order to insert a strong crease. What you see of the trousers, I uplifted from the photo on the front of the paper pattern. The style is known as Oxford Bags.
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Real Oxford bags look like this...
https://www.efootage.com/videos/81443/oxford-bags-trousers
 

My digital clock went crazy. Two weeks before the time change, it was already "setting itself" one hour ahead. I'd set it, in one day it was 12 minutes fast. By the 2nd day, it was 40 minutes fast and the 3rd..24 hours fast. I unplugged it for awhile but missed being able to see the time without grabbing my phone. I reset it twice and decided to just get another one. Glad we went to Walmart because I got one a couple of dollars cheaper than what I would have chosen on Amazon.
 
Dana said:
Real Oxford bags look like this...
https://www.efootage.com/videos/81443/oxford-bags-trousers
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You are very knowledgeable Dana, I'm impressed. It was impossible to buy a pattern of an exact copy of Oxford Bags, my wife, clever girl that she is, alters the trouser hem width. These are a dark brown pair that she made previously. That pair that I lifted from the front of the pattern are still a work in progress. You will see them soon, when dry cleaners re-open.
 
horseless carriage said:
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You are very knowledgeable Dana, I'm impressed. It was impossible to buy a pattern of an exact copy of Oxford Bags, my wife, clever girl that she is, alters the trouser hem width. These are a dark brown pair that she made previously. That pair that I lifted from the front of the pattern are still a work in progress. You will see them soon, when dry cleaners re-open.
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My Grandfather went to Oxford where the bags were actually created to replace the banned plus fours at the time. We still have a trunk in the attic in London, with a lot of his paraphernalia.

Looking forward to seeing the finished product...your wife is very skilled.
 
horseless carriage said:
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The shoes that I have ordered to wear with the trousers that my wife is making. They haven't arrived yet, but then again the trousers aren't finished yet.
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As teenage girls in the very early 70's Oxford bags were even a fashion for us.. it was the winter of the year when we wore hotpants in the summer...

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I had multi check....

we even wore 2-tone shoes
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The fashion lasted one season and it was gone but I loved the shoes.....

..as always your wife is a master seamstress.. she makes such beautiful outfits, I love those oxford bags...
 
hollydolly said:
we even wore 2-tone shoes
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The fashion lasted one season and it was gone but I loved the shoes.....

..as always your wife is a master seamstress.. she makes such beautiful outfits, I love those oxford bags...
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Those shoes really are timeless. This may come as a surprise, you mention the shoes being in fashion in the 1970's, it's well known that two tone shoes were very popular throughout the 1940's but they have been just as popular in previous decades. The shoes in the photo, one on the left for the men, the other the ladies, were sold in Saxone shoe shops (remember them?) well before the forties and you can still see them, in the V&A museum.
 
horseless carriage said:
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Those shoes really are timeless. This may come as a surprise, you mention the shoes being in fashion in the 1970's, it's well known that two tone shoes were very popular throughout the 1940's but they have been just as popular in previous decades. The shoes in the photo, one on the left for the men, the other the ladies, were sold in Saxone shoe shops (remember them?) well before the forties and you can still see them, in the V&A museum.
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Oh yes I knew they were high fashion in the 40's... and yes I remember Saxone with great affection, still miss them today... :giggle:
 
Amazon for two different metal credit card/business card holders. One would be enough except that they’re not showing many of the style I like. Since Covid I no longer need cash or coin. My purse is much lighter. I can wear a vest with my phone on one side & credit card holder on the other.
 
Jules said:
Amazon for two different metal credit card/business card holders. One would be enough except that they’re not showing many of the style I like. Since Covid I no longer need cash or coin. My purse is much lighter. I can wear a vest with my phone on one side & credit card holder on the other.
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that's pretty much what I do...(y)...although I try to take change in my jeans pocket where I can, I really want to pay by cash in smaller shops, and even sometimes in the supermarket if I take my bag out with me .

I feel if we just let a cashless society take over we'll regret it..:(
 
hollydolly said:
that's pretty much what I do...(y)...although I try to take change in my jeans pocket where I can, I really want to pay by cash in smaller shops, and even sometimes in the supermarket if I take my bag out with me .

I feel if we just let a cashless society take over we'll regret it..:(
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I mostly pay cash for everything except Amazon, of course
 
Had to decide against the platform bed 😩 since there was no way husband, at his age and poor physical shape he is in, could get it in the house let along set it up. Settled for a bed frame with a head board and foot board. He didn’t like my last one so when we moved he threw it away. Just one of many things of mine that went, unknown to me, into the apartment dumpster.
 
I ordered my vitamins and supplements, more refills for the gel pens, oat hay, a set of cleaning brushes and 3 music CD's (Soundtracks of Grease and Saturday Night Fever and a compilation CD, Pure 60's). All from Amazon.
 
Aneeda72 said:
I mostly pay cash for everything except Amazon, of course
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hollydolly said:
I feel if we just let a cashless society take over we'll regret it..:(
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Some retailers only accept certain ways of paying, cash certainly isn't one of them. When my wife and I went to a Hawaiian themed wedding I searched for a hat to match my thirties style suit. The search was in vain but a young milliner in Belgium, who spoke fluent English said she could make one. We spoke on the phone, I gave her my hat size in both imperial & metric just to make sure that the hat would fit, she gave me a reasonable price, including post & packaging and told me to pay by Paypal. By what?

"Let me get back to you," I said, adding, "I have an idea." Two days later the milliner phoned me: "You've sent me cash," she exclaimed, like she had never seen the filthy folding stuff. "Supposing I was dishonest." Before she could say anymore I interjected and said, "if you were a charlatan, I would lose the money for the hat, but if I had given you my card details and you were dishonest, how much more could I have lost?" The hat arrived a week later, what a beautiful job she made of it too.

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timoc said:
A 5 ton supply of ******, just in case Lara is right about humankind being wiped out by 2045. :)
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Well, I am not familiar with ******, but, you know I’ve seen the commercials, I don’t think it increases sperm count, 😂, and who wants babies at our age? 🙄
 
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