As You Get Older

[pastafreak]

Do you find your clothes are getting heavier? I mean winter clothes in particular. I don't remember feeling like this when I was young. :(
As soon as I need to put all the extra layers on, I feel like moving is such an effort. Oh for featherlight boots, coats and jumpers.

[emmie]

i do, so much so it's like wearing a straight jacket, constricted, bunged up, moving like a snail, (I do anyway), but slower and full stop, and wishing with all my heart i could have summer all year long.

[DTCwordfan]

This is why Lady Godiva went naked through the streets of Coventry - she felt bound by her Kendal or Lincoln Green worsted suits and decided to liberate herself.

Is Plymouth ready for Lady Pasta?

I'll keep a close check on the West Briton front page......

[pastafreak]

It's terrible, isn't it?
I'm an inpatient person, and like to move quickly when I'm feeling energetic. But the last few winters I've noticed this horrid feeling of being weighed down...and puffed out.

[Eleena]

My grandaughter has just asked me why Im wearing vestments! A navy mid length Winter wool coat ;0)

[pastafreak]

Eeek....need to grow VERY long hair first. ;0

[Eleena]

Not personally pasta (weight of clothes)

[pastafreak]

Lol, Eleena!

[pastafreak]

I've got a lovely, Canadian-made parka with a removable liner. Obviously made for heavy duty winters. But the liner is a wool blend, quilted on one side. And HEAVY! Maybe I need to invest in down.

[rowanwitch]

Skechers, real down jacket, thin layers , but the thought of wearing my heavy winter coat....
I think it comes from that spell in midlife when even in winter you didn't need warm clothes. When those brief trips to the tropics stop its a big change back. I just buy lightweight versions

[pastafreak]

I'm looking at down on eBay as we speak. My fav brand of boots is very lightweight. It's the coat that does me in...
I've always loved all my winter layers...the scarves and big chunky jumpers. I don't DO thin knits!! ;-)

[NellieMay]

Thick heavy coats are a no no. However I prefer winter clothes to summer clothes and love layering. Thermal tops are my best friend! Summer clothes just expose my elderly body too much! I like to disguise.

[retrocop]

When my sister first went to Canada about 60 years ago she worked at Eton's Department store in Toronto as a design artist for their catalogues. The store supplied,for their customers,massive lockers to divest themselves of their layers of winter clothing so they could shop more comfortably.
She had a massive basement in her house (same area as ground level) and it was a ritual at the start of Winter to change fom Summer to Winter clothing.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah in canada it wasnt shall I wear a sweater but how many

In fact clothing was heavier post war as a result of woollen fabrics and... no one had central heating

1963 I remember wearing an overcoat in doors

[Pyxis]

I daren't wear anything heavy, otherwise as soon as I go into a shop or somewhere, I boil. Layers are the key, I reckon.

What I have found, though, is that as I got older, I could no longer wear wool. If I wear jumpers now, they have to be cotton.
Dunno why.