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Posted by Quirkpod 7 Lewisville NC (My Page) on Mon, Apr 4, 05 at 14:19
| I dearly hope I am posting this in the correct forum. I looked for a Garden Fashion or Garden Garb Forum, but there isnt one. Please dont ban me, Spike! Any mistakes are not intentional here. Let's all share our garden fashion, garden hats, things we wear to do gardening, things we wear for time spent in the garden. What kind of hats do you wear? I wear a few different hats, from fairly presentable straw to cotton calico Victorian style (made by me). I also enjoy carrying the paper umbrella I bought in Boston's China town when the weather is very hot and sunny, for strolling. My work uniform consists of bib overalls for the dirty work or cotton elastic waist pants and a T-shirt. Work shoes: slip-on rubber garden clogs. Any ideas out there for creative outfits and practical clothing? |
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| Definitely a hat when the sun is shining; otherwise jeans and denim shirt, or lightweight cotton, and garden clogs. I also try to remember to wear gloves! |
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| How about aprons anyone? Can anyone show me interesting apron patterns? Does anyone have the apron that doubles as a bonnet? I want to see one and maybe copy it. Aprons are handy for picking veggies. How do you carry veggies? |
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- Posted by Leisu Boston, MA (My Page) on
Wed, Apr 6, 05 at 8:53
| Straw hats, Knee mats, garden clogs, overalls or cut-offs... and veggies/flowers carried in basket or sometimes canvas bag. |
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| I like to wear a visor so my head can breathe. Helps keep me cool. And never wear a low-cut shirt to garden. All that bending over will have the neighborhood men coming in droves! haha I also wear my 99 cent pair of gloves from Wally World. |
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| You can find me gardening wearing rubber garden clogs, gloves, hat and apron. Have made several garden hats, using my favorite materials, flamingos, flowers, sometimes solid colors. My first garden apron was a gift from my daughter. It is a canvas type material with pockets along the bottom of the front, I took the same idea and made several more as I live in red clay and they are very dirty each day. My neighbor gave me a great gift, it was a bucket with a lid that you use to sit on and it also storage for your tools. On the outside was a belt with compartments like a handyman would wear and I wear this when I'm not wearing an apron. As for clothing, just comfortable jeans and shirt in the winter with sweaters to layer, and summer loose fitting cotton shirts and cotton pants. Hallngarden |
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| Aprons!! I love aprons. I wear the old fashioned full kind with bib and ties. I like big pockets to hold stuff. I buy them in antique and thrift stores and can sometimes persuade my sister, the seamstress to copy a favorite. So I have the jeans and tee shirt with the full apron AND my pink John Deer hat. As you can imagine I am quite the fetching sight in my garden. |
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I make garden aprons from 2 denim type place mats ($ .99 ea.) No raw edges to contend with.
Stack them, fold one partway down, stitch bottom & sides, add ties of web belting or velcro. Pockets are made by dividing the top mat with a line of vertical stitching sized for items you carry outside; phone, hand pruners, tissue, etc. Friends & relatives expressed desire for 'em so many times I made a bunch for Christmas gifts. Added cotton gloves in colors to go with placed mats. They were a big hit, and everyone mentions their usefullness over & over. Suzi |
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| -I wear a hat with a wide brim, always a hat, my Dad had melinoma and I have had suspicious spots removed from my face, so a Hat is a must. Then it really depends on the time of day. If its early, like between 6-8 am, its my nightgown, we have a privacy fence and trees,after that its jeans of various lengths, full, capri or shorts, depending on the temps and a tee, topped with an old chambray shirt I stole from my husband and my garden clogs. I also have a garden apron I made. The store bought ones always have little pockects on the left side and larger ones on the right, which is backwards for us lefties. Yup its a scary picture, this middle-aged woman roaming around the yard in a white cotton gown with garden clogs and an apron. I am my mother and grandmother after all!!!!! Cajun |
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| Doesn't anyone but me sweat?! A former neighbor of ours, who had the best yard ever, is from the Phillipines. He always wore a folded bandana tied around his forehead. DH and I always do the same now. It keeps the sweat out of our eyes and is the best darned thing I've discovered! I never work in the yard without one! Heck...on a really hot day...I even go to the store wearing one! Makes me feel like a Hippie...and young again!! Straw hats are great, and on really hot days I wear a tankini top with cropped pants. ~Sandy~ |
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| Until you try one you won't believe how nice these bandanas are. I got one for a birthday gift and on hot days it is just terrific. Looks nice as well. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Cooling bandana
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| You can make those cooling bandanas by taking a bandana folding it and adding those soil crystals that plump up in water. If anyone is interested in the directions let me know. Cajun |
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| You can make those cooling bandanas by taking a bandana folding it and adding those soil crystals that plump up in water. I was wondering about that! And I could kick myself, cuz I spent what I think is a lot of dough on "insulin wallets". They're quilted wallets with that absorbent crystal inside. Keeps insulin cool for a week in high (but DRY)temperatures. Just last week, as I was adding TerraSorb to a pot, I wondered if it was the same kind of crystal as in my insulin wallet... So is it the exact same thing? And since TerraSorb says it will break down in a few years, I assume my insulin wallet will too. Or not as quickly cuz I don't travel that much... Well, I won't buy any more of them! I'll just MAKE my own. |
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| Thanks I would have bought one. Sure love these money saving tips so I can spend more on garden projects. nannycmc |
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I read that you should avoid extended contact with the skin for ag-sorb and terrasorb.
They recommend wearing gloves when handling the product.
Would this be safe in a bandana around your neck and close to your mouth and nose?
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| ack! that would be horrible cuz I've been using the stuff a lot this past month. Last year, my plants succumbed to either slugs/snails or heat. I was hoping this stuff would help some this year. I'd better go look for an MSDS... |
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Have you ever tried copper to keep out the slugs and snails?
It works very well. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Copper slug and Snail blocker
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| hmm I've never seen that one before! Looks much more affordable that copper flashing! |
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I am like Sandy, I sweat a LOT and don't like it running into my eyes. I have used bandanas, but DH came up with a clever idea several years ago as he has the same problem working here on the farm. He took one of his old socks, folded it lengthwise and pinned it around his head. Worked great and really absorbs the sweat. I refined it somewhat to sewing the ends together, after determining the fit around my head. They stretch just enough that they fit well and good way to recycle those socks with a hole in the heel.
T shirts and elastic waist pants for me. Maybe shorts if it is a really hot day and I am sure no one will come to visit, I am just one ugly sight in shorts with my thighs!!
Donna, who needs to go find her straw hat. |
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Last year there was a thread with a picture and everything. I have found old clothes left in the garage until I need them work best. They are cotton, long legs and sleeves. Here in MN it is mosquito central. From the first of June unitl frost exposed skin is a smorgasboard for these fliers. Instead of putting bug spray on me I apply it to my clothes. It gets so bad that I dawn netting over my face for a few weeks each year.
I may look like the odd lady that lives down the block but I am chemical free and w/o bug bites! |
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I have a flat topped, tightly woven, wide brimmed straw hat with a suede chin strap,that I bought off a young girl at a yard sale..she wore it to play polo..until it was too small for her. Thankfully, I have a small head so it works perfect for me. Keeps my ears from sunburning, and if it gets too hot, I can just slide it back and the straps keep it ready to put back on when needed.
I have a pair of yellow garden clogs that I've worn for several summers. I am a sit on the ground, hands in the dirt type of gardener..and I wear shorts and a big T shirt, usually with plants or birds on them.
I have usually worn waitress aprons, but right now I'm using a Home Depot nail apron, since my others have worn out...but I sure like Suzi's idea of using placemats (thank you Suzi!). I hardly ever wear gloves, but have to carry medications with me, and of course tissues, so this smaller size works well for me. As I work, I turn the apron around to the back, so it isn't in my way. When the weather is cool, I wear a chambray shirt.
Woodsy |
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| Let me tell you...if this weather keeps up...I'll be wearing a ski suit, a fur hat and thick gloves! ~Sandy~ |
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| you all sound like you garden in the summer!! Around here we usually plant and work in cool weather, sweatpants and sweaters are my gardening uniform. In the spring it is so nice when you go in all cold and muddy to throw everything in the washer and take a hot bath. Last november I got a little frostbite? on my nose from the cool temps while I was finishing up a bed of heuchera. |
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| I am trying to design a straw hat for a party this Thursday evening. The themes are The Madhatter's Garden Party, The Ultimate Ladies Garden Club Hat, The Chainshaw Gang, Greenthumbs Forever, Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme, The Toolbelt as a Hat, Pest I have Known. If any of you gardeners have any ideas please email me direct at Nannygoose2@aol.com or tmostiller@wesleycommons.org if it's during the week. Have a great day...... |
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| Garden attire: Shorts, tank top, baseball cap and sweat band, rubber garden clogs, Avon Skin-So-Soft and Johnson's Creamy Baby Oil (blue lettering with pink cap.) The cooling bandana doesn't work well in the South because of the humidity - the moisture doesn't evaporate. Iced tea poured down my neck works best! Out and in by 9:30 a.m.
Carol |
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| cajungardener, I would like the instructions for making the Cooling Bandana. We are expecting a very hot and humid summer here in Southern Ontario. We have already eperienced 2 heat spells of 95F weather for 3 or more days. Thanks
Mary |
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| I do most of my gardeing first thing in the morning so I wear a swimsuit, then when it gets too hot to garden anymore I jump in the pool to cool off. Shoes are usually flipflops, easy to hose off when dirty. |
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| I read somewhere that someone uses the absorbent crystals from disposable diapers to make their own cooling bandanas. I would imagine these would HAVE to be non-toxic. Kathy |
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| Wide-brim hat with sweat band, huge t-shirt to wipe my face on (I seem to sweat a lot), and my secret - baggy men's pyjama pants! Don't laugh; they're 100% cotton, very cool, cover me so the bugs don't eat me alive, the sun doesn't burn me to a crisp, the plants don't give me allergic rashes, and best of all, they cost about $10 a pair. My daughter clued me in to these. I never wear anything else, unless it's sweatpants during cold weather. |
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| I have since acquired the pattern for the apron that doubles as a sun bonnet if anyone would like a copy. I also have vintage apron patterns. |
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