I’d quite like to get a light jumper - I’m imagine something off-white with thin orange stripes, maybe - and a couple of soft/comfy buttoned long-sleeve shirts, again in spring/summery colours?
also looking for similarly coloured skinny jeans/cotton trousers maybe, or tracksuit bottoms
(I don’t have lots of clothes or buy them very often, so)
(if anyone has seen anything affordable that meets the criteria, hi)
My only jacket is an ASOS one I bought about 10 years ago for, I think, £20. It’s got annoying oversized domed buttons that always look about to fall off, including 2 on the back that catch on the backs of chairs or press into your back uncomfortably when sitting.
The worst thing is, it’s dry clean only. My reluctance to buy a new jacket means I’ve paid far more than the jacket originally cost in dry cleaning (which, wow, is really fucking expensive). I’ve decided I’m going to get rid of it so I don’t have to pay to get it dry cleaned again, which in practice means I’ll spend several years’ worth of dry cleaning cost on fabric to make a replacement.
I have an inordinate number of coats & jackets but it’s still no good at this time of the year when it’s -3C when you leave the house, 11C at lunchtime and goes back down to 0 when the sun goes in at 7pm
I’m hesitant about washing dry clean only stuff after once shrinking something (that also let out an alarming quantity of purple dye while washing). ASOS stuff is usually machine washable so if it says dry clean I imagine there’s some reason for it. However I’m not particularly attached to the jacket and it’s getting on a bit, so now might be the time to find out…
nearly declared the official shorts weather demarcation line last week and then it was 2° in the morning a couple of days later, so can’t ritually burn all my long trousers yet.