The headboard is rubbish for all the reasons you mention. S and I were in a cafe yesterday, seated at a table that had some random books on it, so we were looking at them while waiting for our tea/coffee, and they were highly amusing as many of them were old school textbooks. And that is a much better thing to do with old books, to have them where they can be enjoyed, than massacring them to make a stupid headboard. One of the books was called 'Be Prepared' by A. M. Maynard, first published in 1948, although that edition was 1957, so I had a very Chalet School moment while reading it. The owner of the book had written '(PRISON)' after her address and I don't know if she were literally in prison--a prison Guide company would be a brilliant thing--or if she were bewailing the woes of being stuck in Perth.
Re pants/bras:
1) I can't afford to have matching pants for all my bras, because my bras range from £35 Freya bras to £65-75 Prima Donna bras, and the matching knickers are equally pricey. I have very occasionally bought matching PD knickers for bras, but only one pair, so I put the bra back after having worn it once and wait until the pants are washed to wear it again. I wear the matching sets to please myself, but never when I'm having a period.
2) I wear my bras for two days in succession, unless I have done something excessively sweaty, so I'd need two pairs of pants per bra to make them match. That means a full set of underwear could cost me around £150 or so.
3) Apart from the few matched pairs, my pants are black cotton Sloggis, as Sloggi still make theirs with decent, sewn-down, double-layer gussets that have appropriate placement, with black bras. Or else I wear nude-for-me/pale pink/lavender bras that don't show under white/pale tops, with black knickers, because I rarely wear anything on my lower half that I couldn't wear black knickers under.
4) When I have a period, I wear period pants that are old M&S knickers that have wide enough gussets to support towels. Most of the more recent pants have too narrow gussets to support towels. I know; I've looked and I am grumpy about it. When I'm having my period, the last thing on my mind is whether my knickers match my bras.
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Date: 2013-09-30 02:22 pm (UTC)Re pants/bras:
1) I can't afford to have matching pants for all my bras, because my bras range from £35 Freya bras to £65-75 Prima Donna bras, and the matching knickers are equally pricey. I have very occasionally bought matching PD knickers for bras, but only one pair, so I put the bra back after having worn it once and wait until the pants are washed to wear it again. I wear the matching sets to please myself, but never when I'm having a period.
2) I wear my bras for two days in succession, unless I have done something excessively sweaty, so I'd need two pairs of pants per bra to make them match. That means a full set of underwear could cost me around £150 or so.
3) Apart from the few matched pairs, my pants are black cotton Sloggis, as Sloggi still make theirs with decent, sewn-down, double-layer gussets that have appropriate placement, with black bras. Or else I wear nude-for-me/pale pink/lavender bras that don't show under white/pale tops, with black knickers, because I rarely wear anything on my lower half that I couldn't wear black knickers under.
4) When I have a period, I wear period pants that are old M&S knickers that have wide enough gussets to support
towels. Most of the more recent pants have too narrow gussets to support towels. I know; I've looked and I am grumpy about it. When I'm having my period, the last thing on my mind is whether my knickers match my bras.