tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post5582576424968893996..comments2023-09-11T18:53:16.686+10:00Comments on idle persiflage: Downsizing - the wardrobe, not the bodypersiflagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161607100227748374noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post-54114351333831243872009-03-25T13:55:00.000+11:002009-03-25T13:55:00.000+11:00That dress as modelled by Stomper is fabulous!I te...That dress as modelled by Stomper is fabulous!<BR/><BR/>I tend to be ruthless with my wardrobe on a regular basis...which is good for storage, but I fear that when I'm older there will be a lot of things I wish I'd kept just for the sentimental value of them... taffeta balldresses, shoulder-padded corporate suits that I wore to my first job. <BR/><BR/>It's a balancing act working out what to keep and what to toss.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933483790082334755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post-11971803009149123302009-03-23T08:15:00.000+11:002009-03-23T08:15:00.000+11:00I have a dress I have kept for many years, if only...I have a dress I have kept for many years, if only to believe I was once so slim! It is black, & light, so does not take up much space in my life!<BR/>I must get onto the sorting of other clothing. A blouse of my very small mother's needs to go, but I can't bring myself to part with it.<BR/>Gom has moved many of our books down into the garage where we have many bookcases!meggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061112627819270427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post-31864217484715130742009-03-22T12:32:00.000+11:002009-03-22T12:32:00.000+11:00Here you go. The zip pull is broken and I am fatt...Here you go. The zip pull is broken and I am fatter than I was so it is not done up in this shot but I got into it better than I anticipated and only didn't persevere with the zip for fear of being stuck in it till Fixit gets back from the motorbike ride<BR/><BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/stompergirl/3373670585/Stomper Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038937073264645029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post-26490672586000984372009-03-21T15:44:00.000+11:002009-03-21T15:44:00.000+11:00Molly, I have the same problem with now living in ...Molly, I have the same problem with now living in a warmer climate ( I sit here perspiring as I persiflage, after a short walk to the market and back) but I do need the warm things for when I visit Canberra in winter. Or Melbourne, for that matter. Books are much more difficult to discard.<BR/>Isabelle, I feel even more curious about your novel. One of the people in my highly enjoyable Italian class is a writer, very successful and a prizewinner. I have been reading her books as they come to hand. She has been moving on to teen literature and is soon to have her first "adult' book published, and I am very keen to read it. Children's literature can be so enjoyable.persiflagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05161607100227748374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post-40484070890517529172009-03-21T13:53:00.000+11:002009-03-21T13:53:00.000+11:00Oh, you're just reminding me of what I've been mea...Oh, you're just reminding me of what I've been meaning to do for ages! I want to take EVERYTHING out of my closet and put back only those things that I wear regularly. After all, there is no need to be keeping beautiful wool skirts that belonged to my mother, is there? I live in Florida, for heaven's sake! But there they hang, year after year.... Along with other cold country clothes......One of these days! The plan is I'll pile them all on the bed. That way I'll have to be decisive, if I want to have a place to sleep!<BR/>And then there are the groaning bookshelves.....Don't even want to think about it.mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03797484583400519909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post-91391084001008791512009-03-21T08:46:00.000+11:002009-03-21T08:46:00.000+11:00That would be "haven't".That would be "haven't".Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301215723729061662.post-64874671784602679962009-03-21T08:45:00.000+11:002009-03-21T08:45:00.000+11:00Ah, I have lots of clothes that I fantasise I migh...Ah, I have lots of clothes that I fantasise I might one day get into again. Not that I've ever been particularly into clothes. Books, now.<BR/><BR/>The book I wrote was a children's novel, by the way. I mainly wrote it when I was in my early twenties, and it was published when I was twenty-eight or so (I did quite a bit of rewriting, in the days of typewriters, when it involved retyping the whole thing). But then I had babies and never did any more. The book is out of print. I'm sure it was rather feeble anyway, but I havn't read it for years and years.Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.com