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#1: Jeans Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:07 pm

So, did they wear jeans?

 

#2:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:30 pm

Yes, they did. There's a thread in the archive about it somewhere.

 

#3:  Author: Liss, Location: Harrow, London PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:41 pm

It's only a passing reference in one of the later books, but it's definitely there. I just found it really weird. What on earth did Matey think?

 

#4:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:42 pm

*dissolves into hysterical giggles* Maybe she wore them too...

 

#5:  Author: Liss, Location: Harrow, London PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:50 pm

*keels over in dead faint*

KB, you shouldn't make such suggestions to delicately-minded people! I admit, that doesn't apply to most people around here, but still...

 

#6:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:54 pm

Liss! Liss! Miss Fluffy! *shakes the admin person and then produces smelling salts* Wake up!

 

#7:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:54 pm

Somehow, I just can't picture Matey in jeans!!!!! Laughing

 

#8:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:58 pm

*wonders if I'll be able to picture her in anything else now*

 

#9:  Author: Liss, Location: Harrow, London PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:03 am

*sighs in relief*

No, the starched white linen has proved too powerful, thank heavens.

 

#10:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:06 am

Probably fortunate.

 

#11:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:03 am

Of course, I still treasure Ianswythe's image of Joey in the gold lame miniskirt and lime green twinset.......

 

#12:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 2:45 pm

I sometimes find it hard to remember the way in which the times changed when the books were written which maybe why we find it more difficult to imagine the girls in jeans.

 

#13:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:47 pm

Matey never wore Jeans, that is almost as bad as saying Miss Annersley wore them.

When did they become common wear?

 

#14:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:32 pm

Can't see either Matey or Miss Annersley wearing jeans. The staff do wear slacks, there is a reference in Island I think, where Miss A says they are OK for younger mistresses but not the older ones.

 

#15:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:56 pm

Laughing i can just imagine it now and how wrong it would be but even now if i see my teachers out of school and not smartly dressed it just seems so wrong!

 

#16:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:42 pm

I can understand that. It is the same with managers at work. Seeing them casually dressed not in dark suits is a bit peculiar at first.

 

#17:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:21 am

*giggles* Well, it was just an idea!!!

 

#18:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:35 pm

My teacher was wearing jeans today as she was taking a class on a trtip adn i said a bit too loudly Embarassed "But it's wrong teachers can't wear jeans"

 

#19:  Author: Laura, Location: London (ish) PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:55 pm

Ill never imagine matey in anything other than jeans again!

The reputation of Miss Sixty has just been mentally torn to shreds.

Twisted Evil Out of interest, was this the Rachel smiley?!

 

#20:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:09 pm

Laura wrote:
Ill never imagine matey in anything other than jeans again! Twisted Evil Out of interest, was this the Rachel smiley?!


Thank you, Laura! Someone else as mad as me!

And yes, that's how. Appropriate, isn't it? Wink

 

#21:  Author: Laura, Location: London (ish) PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:12 pm

Very! However, there's no blood....well, not really!

OMg! So far, the board is death free! Now that's a scary turn of events! Shocked

 

#22:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:28 pm

I know that they wore jeans in the later books, but what always amazes me was that they would take the girls rambling, ie, scrambling up a rough mountain path wearing clean dresses and their blazers.
Can you imagine the state of them when they got back?

 

#23:  Author: Laura, Location: London (ish) PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:35 pm

Aah, practicality. Something I would always associate with the chalet school.

And dresses with hiking boots?!

 

#24:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:41 pm

In one of the books the girls are wearing slacks but the older mistresses are in dresses. Miss Annersley says something to the effect that slacks might be okay on the slim, young girls but not on middle aged (persumably plump) mistresses. It could be in 'Island' when they are going to the cove to look at the boats.

 

#25:  Author: Ray, Location: Bristol, England PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:53 pm

It is in Island.

I will say the girls had breeches from around about the second half of Exile onwards for the purposes of gardening.

I also, kind of got the impression that their Guide overalls were trouser-type rather than anything else from Camp. But that could just be my late-20th century brain automatically asuming overalls=trousers...

Ray *will probably continue to imagine the girls in overalls with legs even if she's wrong*

 

#26:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:43 pm

Didn't the girls wear trousers in Eustacia? I'm sure she refuses to wear them because they are 'unladylike'.

 

#27:  Author: Emma, Location: Lichfield PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:49 pm

I could not imagine my ex Head Mistress wearning jeans, the image is just all wrong!! The same goes with all the CS staff, in my imagination they only wear floral dresses or suits on special occasions. Laughing

 

#28:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:33 pm

Sarah wrote:
Didn't the girls wear trousers in Eustacia? I'm sure she refuses to wear them because they are 'unladylike'.


i remeber something like that too but they weren't jeans i know that

 

#29:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:31 am

Laura wrote:
Very! However, there's no blood....well, not really!

OMg! So far, the board is death free! Now that's a scary turn of events! Shocked


Not for long, I imagine, if Rachel has any say in the matter...

 

#30:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:14 am

Quote:
"But it's wrong teachers can't wear jeans"


Can't? Says who?
And fortunately for me, they also may. Laughing

 

#31:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:17 am

The ones with three legs might have problems!

 

#32:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:20 am

Which ones were those, KB?

 

#33:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:23 am

Most of the ones I had right through Primary School, for starters!

 

#34:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:31 am

*Thought inhabitants of Australia were humanoid*

 

#35:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:39 am

That depends on their choice of career. Wink

 

#36:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:56 am

So, all Australians morph between species? Or only primary schoolteachers have this power?

(Begins to wonders if this conversation is an artefact of the cut&paste visualization tactic. Sure hope Liss can do something about that.)

 

#37:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:10 am

Not all, just some! And nobody on this board, of course...

 

#38:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:11 am

this thread has become VERY bizarre!!! Rolling Eyes

 

#39:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:20 am

Yes, because you weren't yibbling on it! If you had been, it would just have been normal. Laughing

 

#40:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:37 pm

Normal?? *Wonders what Vikki's definition of normal actually is*

 

#41:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:19 pm

"Normal is as normal does"

*looks down at todays clothing. Yup, I thought so, this teacher was wearing jeans today (very smart ones with embroidery on)*
*admits to not teaching today, but wonders if that is really the point?*

 

#42:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:04 pm

Lulie wrote:
*looks down at todays clothing. Yup, I thought so, this teacher was wearing jeans today (very smart ones with embroidery on)*


They sound very snazzi, Lulie!

 

#43:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:47 pm

Lulie wrote:
"Normal is as normal does"

*looks down at todays clothing. Yup, I thought so, this teacher was wearing jeans today (very smart ones with embroidery on)*
*admits to not teaching today, but wonders if that is really the point?*


My teachers would never wear those type and look good/right in them

 

#44:  Author: Nicci, Location: UK PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:54 pm

May I ask a potentially stupid question?
what are slacks? Confused


"A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist"

 

#45:  Author: Rachel, Location: Plotting in my lair; sometimes in Hampshire, England, UK, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, Universe PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:01 am

Nicci wrote:
May I ask a potentially stupid question?
what are slacks? Confused


Smart or casual trousers that aren't jeans! Maybe thats not quite right, but I know in my own mind what they are, but I'm not very good at describing them!

Think nice linen or cotton trousers, teamed up with a nice twin set - and theres Joey in a pair of slacks!



Rachel the Quidditch

 

#46:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:15 am

Rachel wrote:
Think nice linen or cotton trousers, teamed up with a nice twin set - and theres Joey in a pair of slacks!

Rachel the Quidditch


That idea is almost as funny as Matron in jeans!!!

 

#47:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:36 am

I've always thought of slacks as leggings with stirrups, but I don't know why and I know I'm wrong.

 

#48:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:40 am

Sarah_L wrote:
I've always thought of slacks as leggings with stirrups, but I don't know why and I know I'm wrong.


*giggles* No, definitely not!

 

#49:  Author: Nicci, Location: UK PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:26 am

Stirrups? Like a horse has you mean? Confused



"A man isn't really poor if he can still laugh"

 

#50:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:18 am

KB wrote:
Rachel wrote:
Think nice linen or cotton trousers, teamed up with a nice twin set - and theres Joey in a pair of slacks!

Rachel the Quidditch


That idea is almost as funny as Matron in jeans!!!


Of course, the twin set would have to be lime green........ Wink

 

#51:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:29 am

Nicci wrote:
Stirrups? Like a horse has you mean? Confused


"A man isn't really poor if he can still laugh"


I think she means elastic that attaches to the pant legs near the ankles and runs under the food. They're called stirrups because they hold your pants against your legs, particularly useful when horse-riding.

 

#52:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:41 am

I remember when I was working in London and I described someone as 'the guy in brown pants'. It took my a while (and explanation) to figure out why the everyone was laughing at me!

 

#53:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:45 am

*huggles Chelsea*

 

#54: Jeans Author: Helen, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:27 am

Wasn't it the sixties that Jeans became popular?

In the early seventies the female teachers at my private school were not allowed to wear pants. Later it was relaxed to wearing pant suits but by the time I left in 1978 a couple of the younger ones wore jeans. They had to be neat of course.

 

#55:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:05 pm

Yep KB, you're right. That's what I meant. I had a couple of pairs when I was 9 or 10, though I've never had any intention of going horseriding.

 

#56:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:51 pm

I'm quite certain that Matey would never bring herself to wear jeans - my parents would never wear anything so 'scruffy', but the girls wore them in Prefects when they had to get up in the middle of the night because of the disturbances I think.
Personally, my idea of getting dressed up is to put a clean pair of jeans on.

 

#57:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:20 pm

Sarah_L wrote:
Yep KB, you're right. That's what I meant. I had a couple of pairs when I was 9 or 10, though I've never had any intention of going horseriding.


They were really popular when I about that age too. I had yellow ones!

 

#58:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:02 pm

Yellow ones Surprised Mine were a nice shade of black.

 

#59:  Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:14 pm

I wear jeans to work in the holidays! Otherwise nearly always trousers of some sort.

 

#60:  Author: PatMac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:49 pm

LOL, Chelsea - the pants vs trousers one is one of the hilarious differences between the versions of English. I've been caught on your side of the pond.

My mother was thought rather odd because she wore 'slacks' in the 1940s.

Then in the 50's and early 60s 'nice' people didn't wear jeans and it was my turn to be 'odd'.

Now, we don't have a dress code at work and I wear jeans when I feel most days. We're what you might call a 'back office' firm so we don't need to dress up and, as our clients are all regulars, they love coming in casuals and envy us our freedom.

 

#61:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:59 am

I don't understand why people automatically assume jeans are scruffy. These days, there are many varieties and some are pretty smart.

 

#62:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:20 am

One of the joys of being a student is that, within reason, I wear what I want, when I want!

Currently I'm in jeans that are at least 1 size too big and are only worn at home and a hooded sweatshirt I've had since I was about 12. Note, I didn't actually go out in this though.

 

#63:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:22 am

Chelsea wrote:
One of the joys of being a student is that, within reason, I wear what I want, when I want!


Absolutely! Jeans are my uniform!

 

#64:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:36 am

Ditto on that.

It always used to amuse our teachers that we hated school uniform, but that we could all wear the same 'uniform' out of school

 

#65:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:03 am

*suggests Jeans be the uniform for the Gathering* Wink

 

#66:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:37 pm

I occasionally wear a pair of combats, but generally jueans are my uniform. I've just bought two new pairs.

 

#67:  Author: Katarzyna, Location: Preston, Lancashire PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:08 pm

Ok, just to be different

i don't wear trousers at all, let alone jeans. I may occasionally be found wondering around in a pair of leggings but normally only very very early in the morning when we go caravanning

 

#68:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:00 pm

No jeans can not be the uniform for the gathering, partly because i doubt i'll ahve any left by the gathering and i'm working on get cords as replacement trousers Very Happy

 

#69:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:28 pm

*lol* Pop goes that idea then!

 

#70:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:57 pm

Shouldn't the uniform for the gathering be brown or gentian blue dresses?

 

#71:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:25 pm

If we had them, they might be.

 

#72:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:36 pm

*coughs*

Dress no what's that then i don't think i know! Confused

 

#73:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:53 am

You don't do dresses then Chloë? Wink

 

#74:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:22 am

You're not the only one, Chloe. I very rarely do dresses!

 

#75:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:41 am

I own a grand total of one dress (fortunately made with a drawstring waist, as it's 14 years old). Actually wore it twice in 2003 -- definitely more than average!

 

#76:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:42 am

The only time the people in my Res have seen me in a dress was at our Christmas Semi-Formal. Where I got the comment - wow, you have legs! Umm...did they think I walked on my pelvis bones? They've seen me in shorts for goodness sake!

 

#77: Jeans Author: Helen, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:00 am

I am probably quite odd but I don't have one pair of Jeans. A demin skirt is the nearest I suppose. When I was a teenager I occasionately wore Jeans but I never found them all that comfortable.

On cold days I wear trousers, mostly black ones. On warmer days it's dresses or skirts.

I think some women started wearing pants in the 1930's and I think they had the zip at the side.

 

#78:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:14 am

*doesn't find all that in the least unusual* Each to their own!

 

#79:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:16 pm

Vikki wrote:
You don't do dresses then Chloë? Wink


Hmmm no

and for some reason i'm expected to wear one if i bother to go to the leaver's ball in june

 

#80:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:38 pm

Dress, whats a dress??

Well if we die our Jeans Gentian Blue, won't that do?

 

#81:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:25 pm

I nearly bought a dress today. Red, full length, half price from Debenhams. I was only stopped by the thought that I'd probably never wear it.

 

#82:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:49 pm

Ally wrote:
Dress, whats a dress??

Well if we die our Jeans Gentian Blue, won't that do?



Shouldn't that be 'Jeantian Blue' Ally? Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

 

#83:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:02 am

Vikki wrote:

Shouldn't that be 'Jeantian Blue' Ally? Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing


Vikki that's a terrible pun!

 

#84:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:07 am

The fact my Mum's name is Jean makes it worse!!!

 

#85:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:14 am

*giggles*

I wondered when someone would notice it!!!!!! Laughing

 

#86:  Author: Emma, Location: Lichfield PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:25 am

I used to live in jeans when I was at uni, then I went and got a 'proper' job which means that I can't wear them 5 days out of 7. We couldn't wear jeans at school or in the 6th form so I have only really had 4 years of full-time jean use. It doesn't help that I can't ever get jeans that are long enough!! Crying or Very sad

 

#87:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:53 am

Vikki wrote:
Shouldn't that be 'Jeantian Blue' Ally? Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing


*admits to being amused by this*

 

#88:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:58 am

Poor you Emma i refered to go to a sixth form where i8 couldn't wear my own clothes!

 

#89:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:40 pm

Emma, I have the opposite problem - I can never find jeans that are short enough.

 

#90:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:04 pm

Sarah i have that problem- sort of - the normal jeans are too long but the petite jeans are just too short Rolling Eyes

 

#91:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:51 pm

Chloë wrote:
Sarah i have that problem- sort of - the normal jeans are too long but the petite jeans are just too short Rolling Eyes


I hear you Chloe. Or they are okay with boots but too long in shoes OR okay in shoes but too short for boots. Why do they assume that people in size 4 are 6 feet tall???

 

#92:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:25 pm

When I went looking for jeans after Christmas, I could find loads of size 18s with 30inch legs, bu hardly any size 8s with 30inch legs. And no 28inch legs at all. Sad At least my mother is pretty good at taking jeans up.

 

#93:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:06 pm

I've always had this problem too!!
Having a 27 inch inside leg makes things tricky......

 

#94:  Author: gigagal, Location: London PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:45 pm

I'm at that kinda stage where if I go to a Children's store, everythings too small for me, but if I go into a store for older people, everything starts from size 8 and is therefore to BIG for me! It's very annoying...

 

#95:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:09 pm

Vikki wrote:
I've always had this problem too!!
Having a 27 inch inside leg makes things tricky......


My mother has similar problems...

 

#96:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:58 pm

My mother is tiny, and weighs slightly less than seven stone (even though she's perfectly healthy) so finding any clothes to fit is a nightmare for her.

 

#97:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:11 am

Sarah, how tall is she? My mum is 4'9, down from 4'11'' two years ago. *wonders how long it will be before she disappears altogether*

 

#98:  Author: Chloë, Location: London: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:19 pm

Unfortunatly the cord trousers i buy hyave like 32" legs or soemthingt like that so i alays have to have them taken up, but i'm glad i'm not as short as my mum was as she was 4"10 nad i'm 5"3 ish

 

#99:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Redcar PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:07 pm

My mother is about 5"3, it's just the fact she weighs so little and has such a petite shape that means finding clothes is hard.

 

#100:  Author: Kirsty, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:32 am

Just to show I was paying attention while transcribing "Shocks", there is a reference in Ch 9 or 10 to them wearing jeans while out in the garden. Of course, the description of them was "from the chest to the feet" or words to that effect. That translates (in my fuzzy mind anyway) to overalls, not jeans, which traditionally stop at the waist, or hips.

 

#101:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:43 am

Ah, thank you, Kirsty! Maybe the image on the front of the most recent pb isn't that bad after all!

 

#102:  Author: Kirsty, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:37 pm

KB wrote:
Ah, thank you, Kirsty! Maybe the image on the front of the most recent pb isn't that bad after all!


Weeell, I wouldn't go that far! Wink

 

#103:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:02 pm

Kirsty wrote:
Just to show I was paying attention while transcribing "Shocks", there is a reference in Ch 9 or 10 to them wearing jeans while out in the garden. Of course, the description of them was "from the chest to the feet" or words to that effect. That translates (in my fuzzy mind anyway) to overalls, not jeans, which traditionally stop at the waist, or hips.


I would call those dungarees!

 

#104:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:40 pm

Kirsty wrote:
KB wrote:
Ah, thank you, Kirsty! Maybe the image on the front of the most recent pb isn't that bad after all!


Weeell, I wouldn't go that far! Wink


Hmm, maybe not... Wink

 

#105:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:08 pm

For me, jeans and dungarees are synonyms, while Kirsty's description likewise conjures up bib overalls. I haven't heard anyone say dungarees in ages though! Not since it was stylish to get them long and cuff the bottoms.

 

#106:  Author: Catriona, Location: South Yorkshire PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:13 pm

To me, jeans are denim trousers whereas 'bib overalls' are dungarees. Also, when I met Pat today she was wearing jeans! (I haven't worn them for years as I'm too fat).

 

#107:  Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough....... PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:08 pm

Did you and Pat meet up deliberately? Or was it a coincidence, Catriona?

 

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