Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Charlottechicken]

....that you still wear regularly?

 

I was working in the garden last weekend and suddenly realised that the tatty old rally style anorak I was wearing was my winter coat when I was 14, I am now 43, so the coat is 29 years old (not sure if it is more shocking that it still fits me )

 

I also have two pairs of black knee length school socks from around the same time, with no holes in them yet, which I still wear and they still stay up too. Lastly, another winter coat, a flimsy blouson thing, which I also wear in the garden but had to cut the sleeves off as the cuffs frayed. It is also from around the same time, I think it may have been the following winter's coat, so a mere babe at 28 years old then!

 

A lot of my work clothes are really old too, I have just shortened a pair of pencil skirts I bought about 15 years ago from a catalogue, they are still going strong, and I have a few M&S long sleeved t shirts from around 12 years ago.

 

Can anyone beat that!

[Cooks]

I have a pair of pink jeans (yes ME pink!) that I bought for my 18th birthday. I keep them as an inspiration to be that size again.. :lol: I got back in them once.... for a brief while.. but nothing that I wear regularly, I am too bored with clothes I chuck them out on a regular basis.

[BeckyBoo]

I've had my work shoes since I started and that's 17 1/2 years ago, and I wear them every day to work - sadly one now has a split in the sole so I squeak when I walk which is maddening. I keep forgetting to take them with me when I go into town

 

BeckyBoo

[purple hen]

I have still got a lightweight dressing gown that I got when I was 15, that makes it 31 now, it is not as big as it once was

[Old Speckled Hen]

My Uni scarf is 40 years old.

[The Dogmother]

Sports wear that is 20 odd years old.

 

Cheating slightly, I have my great grandmother's kid gloves, which I sometimes wear to special occasions. She had tiny hands like me.

[Guest]

i haven't got anything that's more than a few years old but 2 sheds still has his boy scout jumper with all the badges on. I try and chuck it out whenever we have a sort out but he always spots it and puts it back in the drawer

 

It doesn't fit him any more by the way!

[The Dogmother]

I odn't regularly wear it (obviously!) but I have a handsewn baby dress that was worn by my grandma, mother, me and then Rosie.

[WarrensWorld]

I've a Jockey 'T' shirt that's 41 years old, I wear it every now and again. Just because of the printed slogan. The oldest piece of clothing I have is my uncle Georges, Norwegian Reefer Jacket, 50 years old, and it still looks the business. Still fits too.......

[whoopsie]

I still wear the shoes my mum bought me when I was in 6th form. i'm now 35 so they're not doing badly!

[docsquid]

I still have my Brownie belt. I got it when I was 7 (it was much too big, as my Mum always bought things too big but I never grew into them). I can still wear it and I'm 51!

 

I have other belts that are 25+ years old.

[Lesley]

I have a skirt which I bought just after having my first child 37 years ago - it still fits......my leg I keep it to remind myself of the size I used to be.

[Fizzle Knit]

I have a knitted waistcoat my mother made me over 30 years ago. I don't wear it but I admire her handiwork occasionally. It's the only thing she made me that I still have.

[bluekarin]

I think my oldest item is a set of gorgeous M&S underwear hubby bought me before the kids were born, and possibly, before we got married (so about 15 years) And, I still wear them. The bra is possibly a little too small, but I think it may have stretched to my size with all the washes its had

[Caballero]

I still have the tie I wore for our wedding 25 years ago on the 25th of this month

 

But my oldest piece would be my scout shirt complete with Green Cord & Badges from 1964 (45 years) doesn't fit.

[Reikiranf]

I have a M&S cardigan from when I was 8 so that's 35 years old but I don't wear it anymore, I still have my over the knee socks that I used to wear to school but haven't worn since I discovered Uggs last year. I also have a belt that I got when I was 12 that still fits but it looks a bit strange wearing a belt round my thigh

[bigmommasally]

I still have the red dress I was wearing when I met my OH 30 years ago, I don't wear it but DD1 has to a 70's fancy dress party

[Valkyrie]

My mum's skirt that she had when she was 18. It used to be a dress, and now it is sadly ripping all over the place - and constantly being repaired. The cotton is such good quality not bad for 63 years old! Other than that my clothes wouldn't fit me any more from my early years - but I do wear an old M&S skirt that I had when I was expecting DS - it used to be corduroy.

[The Dogmother]

How could I have forgotten?! My Nonna used to knit beautiful Arrans in the proper 'lanolined' wool. I still have a (well darned) big cardigan with the original knotted leather buttons. It must be around 60-65 years old.

[clootie]

I have my dad's christening gown. He was born in 1919. Lost him in 1980.

[iar fach goch]

I live in my Dad's 70's Starsky style cardigan, it's a good thing he's so small!

[Cooks]

I have my embroidered baby dress that my photos were taken in... I can't believe I forgot that, however I can't get it in anymore... :lol: ahem...

[Space Chick]

I have my Mums wedding dress, just for keeping, so thats 38 years old. I love having it here, even though its just in a box, I couldn't entertain getting rid of it after we lost her.

 

As for clothes I still wear, I have my Mums fleece which I will often wear in the garden which must be about 15 years old, and my rain mac that I wear to sort the chickens out when its raining is about 17 years old as I bought it to walk to Uni.

[DebC]

I wore my Mum's diamante head dress for my wedding . Mum & Dad married in 1957. I kept the headdress after my wedding and when Mum died a few years ago Dad found the veil that went with it, so I have that as well now. Will never get rid of either of them, but may lend them to my neices if they want them (if they ever that sort of wedding - at the moment they like the idea of beach weddings!)

[The Dogmother]

Whe I got married, I used my Nonna's wedding ring, which she'd left to me for that purpose - it is 22k Itaian gold with a platinum lining to stop it wearing away inside. I still have it in a jewellery box.