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**Grownup_Rafbrat** · 05-02-2010, 10:25

Originally Posted by TaffJ

Should the cardie match the slippers or the belt?

The leather, football-style buttons on the cardie should of course co-ordinate with the belt.

We might be old, but we are still stylish!

(Does a bedjacket count as a cardie? I have knitted myself one of these fine items this year, and it's blimming marvellous for sitting up in bed, reading a book, whilst sipping tea.)

**old_fat_and_hairy** · 05-02-2010, 10:32

Originally Posted by Grownup_Rafbrat

Originally Posted by TaffJ

Should the cardie match the slippers or the belt?

The leather, football-style buttons on the cardie should of course co-ordinate with the belt.

We might be old, but we are still stylish!

(Does a bedjacket count as a cardie? I have knitted myself one of these fine items this year, and it's blimming marvellous for sitting up in bed, reading a book, whilst sipping tea.)

Ah, no. As an official old git I must say that the bed jacket is not, strictly speaking, a cardie. It is generally fluffy, pink and totally unsuitable for wearing in garden, under a car or to a garden centre. Speaking of which, the cardie should always be paired with beige crimplene trousers, high waisted and a 'wacky' shirt for garden centre visits.

**Ursus.Maritimus** · 05-02-2010, 10:36

I'm in the latter half of my mid 30s and have recently joined the button-up-cardie-wearing brigade: I'm obviously still in transition however as I also wear the half-zip jumper things also.

**ancienturion** · 05-02-2010, 10:43

Originally Posted by eodmatt

Nowt wrong wi a proper bespoke cardie! Hand knitted ones are ghastly. Me mum used to knit them and make me wear them to skool. She also once knitted me a pair of swimming trunks.......

Oh, No! Not the self wetting, instant sagging, slip off when in the water, home knitted woolly swimming trunks?

And I thought I had managed to put all that behind me. Memories, memories, Mother what did you do?

I shall now have to go and look out the old photos. Nah, I think I'll get ready to go over the pub and forget.

**sfub** · 05-02-2010, 10:56

As I type, I am in my cardi, moleskins, soft flannel shirt and Clarks dessies. Apparently, according to Mrs Sfub, 1954 wants it's clothes back.

**auscam** · 05-02-2010, 11:12

Originally Posted by TaffJ

Should the cardie match the slippers or the belt?

It should match the woolly hat that keeps your hairless, age-spotted head warm.

**blue-sophist** · 05-02-2010, 13:46

I am in shock to read that so many of you have slid into Cardie-dom at such young ages. I am now visualising you sat in those high armchairs [for ease of access] and drinking milky tea from something with a spout [to minimise the risk of dribbling]. The Cardie Image is, of course, completed by the adjacent Zimmer/stick.

FFS.

Blue, today, is wearing a Rugby shirt from Old Navy, blue jeans and a pair of nice comfy shoes by Polo Jeans Co. He does not own a Cardie, and hopefully never will.

**Grownup_Rafbrat** · 05-02-2010, 13:49

Forget that, Blue. Just visualise me in my bedjacket!

You obviously wear American clothes on your rock. I'm wearing jeans today. They're blue, but I don't need to tell everyone, because they're just jeans! (Unless you mean 'blue's jeans'?)

**DozyBint** · 05-02-2010, 14:02

Originally Posted by Grownup_Rafbrat

The leather, football-style buttons on the cardie should of course co-ordinate with the belt.

Memories of my grandad: he'd put on his chunky cardi with those buttons in order to comply with my grandmother’s banishment of him and his pipe to the back garden. I could never work out whether it was sartorially acceptable or a faux pas, him being retired RAF and all that! :D

**StickyToffeePudding** · 05-02-2010, 14:03

I feel ashemed by this thread.

For years and years I have worn cardies, particularly those of my late father, but on leaving the comfort of the shed or the garage (doors down) I have always felt I needed to protect myself by covering my garment of choice with a fleece or gore-tex jacket.

I now see I have been living a lie and have been in denile, it's time to come out of the closet - I wear cardies and they're fab!!!

Right, I'm off to sniff around the local Edinburgh Woolen Mill and cop a feel, and I don't mean of the shop assistants either (makes a change I know) followed by a visit to the garden centre that also does clothes, including cardies!

Am I alone in thinking that B and Q, Homebase and Wicks should add cardies to their range?