Spring Must Be In The Air.....

[gness]

....beautiful day and I had the fidgets.
This means a big clear out, everywhere tidy and yours truly happy until.....

I came across my forty odd year old wedding dress......still looks lovely and fresh so I thought I'd try it on......but I measured the waist first.....

Twenty four inches! Twenty four flipping inches.....it went back in the box......... :-(

[-SharonA-]

Those were the days, eh gness!!!!

I was skinny as a rake up to the wedding day and hoovered up all the food at the reception!!

[gness]

Weren't they just, Sharon......I weighed six and a half stone when I married......then reached seven when I was having my first born....it was an effort to put on weight......

Now........ still twenty four inch waist....plus some Guinness and choc....:-(

[hellywelly4]

I've got a dress like that, gness. I think someone has been in and craftily altered it. I don't know how much I weighed in 1962 - don't remember ever weighing myself. Now I do it every day in the vague hope that I haven't put on any more.

[gness]

I wondered about it being altered when I wasn't looking, Helly.....but no......that was me in the sixties.....skinny and probably knobbly kneed.....x

[hellywelly4]

I bet you were as slim as a gazelle!!!

[hellywelly4]

Is that really what I wanted to say? Oh well, you know what I mean xx

[corylus]

Hiya Gness, I am being obliged to downsize from my home so I've been clearing out accumulated grot and tat for months now. I make a point of throwing something away every day and I can tell you that this is cathartic!
As for my wedding dress, that was slung many years ago.

Regards to Mrs O if she's still with it.

[gness]

I do, Helly......xx

Hi, Cory......'tis nice to clear clutter......makes me feel brighter.....kept the wedding dress.....ditched the hubby......and MrsO is as with it and cheeky as ever.....x

[corylus]

So Mrs O is well on form, thanks for the warning.

[gness]

She posted yesterday, Cory....and Shoota's in THE BOOK already......☺

[corylus]

She never gives up does she?

[gness]

And don't you just love it!

[jourdain2]

I had a 24" waist when I was 1st married (I was, and am 5'9" tall). I still have a 24" waist, it's right there underneath the other one, probably fighting to get out!

[gness]

Mine too, J........think I'll get the dress out again and hang it up as incentive......or drape it over the cake tin........☺

[jourdain2]

Good idea in principle, gness, but 4 yrs later it may prove depressing :(

[gness]

And it'd be a shame to let the cake go mouldy, I guess......x

[jourdain2]

It really would be a shame - is there any left-over champagne? I'll give you a hand....

[Caran]

I was 7 stone 2 when I got married with a 23" waist. Had my daughter a year later and back to my weight two weeks after. Those were the days weren't they!

[DaisyNonna]

My waist was also 23" when I married
Had plain sleeveless full length high necked dress with lace coat incorporating train
Returned from honeymoon to find dress had disappeared
Coat used many years later as part of my costume for Jadis the witch in a performance of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe that the staff put on for Christmas at the school where I was teaching