slemslempike: (nemi: argh)
slemslempike ([personal profile] slemslempike) wrote2013-09-30 01:45 pm

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I feel that this is a bad idea: book headboard.

1) It is basically a collecting ground for dust, which is exactly what you want above your head while you're sleeping.

2) It's going to get dirty/torn very easily.

3) The first time you sit up in bed you'll bed and fold bits of pages and it'll look rubbish. The project's from a year ago, I bet it looks really tatty now.

4) It just seems like a warning to other books. I bet the ones you read in bed wouldn't like it, having to stare over your shoulder at its comrades, with pages that could once flutter in the breeze nailed flat to a wall.

(Though if you are going to do that I suppose they've done it quite well, unlike other book atrocities which don't even look nice.)

I went to look at their other projects - such organised http://www.designeverydayblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/3.jpg>underwear! It does look quite nice, but I am somehow deeply suspicious of anyone together enough to have so many matching sets for everyday use. A friend of mine does that, she said she just assumed it was what you were supposed to do, and was surprised when someone at a party made reference to someone else being the sort of person whose pants always matched their bra as if that were unusual. Maybe I am just a slattern.

[identity profile] yiskah.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
My underwear never matches either. I pretty much only ever wear black pants and I used to only really have black bras so they would at least be the same colour, but since I got refitted all my new bras are all sorts of different colours and the vast majority of my pants remain black. I do have a matching pant for each bra, but I am keeping the pants for some sort of entirely imaginary and hypothetical 'best', which - I guess? - would involve someone actually SEEING said underwear, but by the time that actually happens I will have worn the bras so much more than the pants that they'll be different colours anyway. Plus if I were to ever go on a date I would probably be so paranoid about jinxing potential future naked action that I couldn't bring myself to wear a matching set anyway.

How do people change their bras, anyway? Are there people out there who wash their bras after a single wash? I certainly don't. Am I a slattern?

I think that headboard is dreadful.

[identity profile] yiskah.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
*how OFTEN do people change their bras, I mean. I can pretty much manage the mechanics of it.

[identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Every second day. Same as hairwashing for me. Tomorrow will be clean hair, clean bra day. I am sure it will enhance your tomorrow to know this. ;)

[identity profile] yiskah.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
My tomorrow is duly enhanced!

I'm more like every four or five days. Is that revolting? I would definitely not wear a t-shirt four or five days in a row, so I guess it's weird that I'm happy to do so with a bra. And I DEFINITELY wouldn't wear pants for more than one day. HELP NOW I AM HAVING A BRA-WASHING INTERNAL CRISIS.

[identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I may just be more sweaty than you! Sometimes I do go three days in the same bra, but it's rarely more than that.

DO NOT HAVE A CRISIS! IT'S OK! I PROBABLY OVERWASH MY BRAS.

I am not revolted.

[identity profile] serriadh.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I wear a different bra every day, but only wash them about every 2-3 wears, iyswim.

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I think people who always wear matching sets buy several pairs of the pants, maybe? Or they are ridiculously clean. I definitely don't wash my bras after a single wash. I wash my bras when I am too overcome by the stench not to, and not a moment before.

I rarely buy the matching pants because if my bra is £30 (and it often is) then I am not feeling kindly towards spending £10+ on a single pair of knickers. Also they are often thongs or otherwise unflattering on me. I do have quite a pile of pants that used to match bras that I have now sold. I am today wearing a pair of turquoise spotty pants that matched my one-time favourite bra whose underwiring burst free.

[identity profile] yiskah.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I think they must buy multiple sets of the pants. And my objection is similar to yours - I can JUST ABOUT countenance a single pair, but certainly not more than that. (I have stopped buying very cheap pants though, as I find that their elastic gives out so quickly that it's a false economy - so if I am buying M&S pants it's often not that much more to get an on-sale pair of matchy-pants. I won't spend over £10 on pants, though! NEVEEEEER.
Edited 2013-09-30 13:49 (UTC)

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I thought this post might get lots of comments about the book headboard. Instead it is all about the pants!