I am this person and I am at peace with this fact. Except for the vinegar, that's going too far. Besides, in my experience hotels can generally lend you an iron.

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You know that sort of money-saving tip that can only come from someone who is both very rich and very stupid? Well, the Guardian has given me a new one:

She suggests making sure the seam allowance on a pair of trousers or a skirt is enough to allow you to let them out and the hem is such that you could make the garment longer if you need to. She ( Read more... )

I see that after last year's surfeit of flamingos, the print du jour is now the lobster. And indeed although it is perhaps not quite as ubiquitous as the flamingo, nonetheless, John Lewis has an inflatable one.

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Something* seems to be reminding me lately that I am the past owner of a couple of black silk shirts, ones of which - a rather nice sandwashed number - I had completely forgotten, but which when I asked my mother if I had owned such a thing, because I had forgotten so much I wanted to check, she instantly replied that of course I had. This absence ( Read more... )

That I am finally doing the seasonal wardrobe swap*. Along the way I am managing to get rid of a few long-cherished things by going "Yes, this Gap pinafore was lovely in spring 1998, but it is a bit small and if you were invited to a Jane Austen ball you would in fact want to wear something else ( Read more... )

How the TK Maxx website described this garment that I purchased recently ( Read more... )

I am trying and failing to purchase new walking shoes. The challenge in doing this is that my existing walking shoes, which have now seen better days, are the platonic ideal of what I want and everything else is Wrong in comparison. I would just buy the old ones again, but since I bought them in 2009 even the internet is failing to deliver. They ( Read more... )

As I move various garments between drawers, wardrobe and suitcases the question arises as it does a minimum of twice yearly with the major changes of the seasons: do I have too many clothes or insufficient storage space ( Read more... )

I know that independent pattern companies aren't going to size exactly the same as the major companies. But I feel that I, a UK 12, should not be finding that this sweatshirt pattern runs so large that I would have to make a size (US) 2 not to swim in it. Are all the people on the internet who have made it kidding about their measurements, or ( Read more... )

A walking holiday type of hat for my forthcoming (September) walking holiday*. After years of not really adequate hats and failing to find anything in the outdoor shops of Edinburgh last week, I watched the BBC's Spingwatch-with-bears on Sunday and realised that one of the hats worn by a presenter would be perfect for me, and now I have this hat in ( Read more... )