https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:53:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002279 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:09:56 +0000 texstyle 1002279@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look comfy and happy in your beautiful garden - so glad you shared! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002270 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:59:28 +0000 cobaltblue 1002270@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Beautiful garden and sweet doggie! You look perfectly attired for the task at hand. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002180 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:51:30 +0000 amiable 1002180@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You and I have similar lives! &nbsp;I'm entrenched in fruit right now too, and trying to wear clothes that I know splatters and fruit juice stains will come out of.</p> <p>Your raspberries and apples look amazing! &nbsp;And so do you! &nbsp;Your clothes should work for you and your lifestyle - and that's exactly what they're doing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002170 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:42:28 +0000 JennyAnne 1002170@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aint nothing wrong with that when you have a great garden to show for it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002169 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:40:48 +0000 Sylvia 1002169@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm so jealous of your garden! They closed down my community garden this past winter, so I've been going without much gardening. &nbsp;Very depressing.</p> <p>I dress more like you do. &nbsp;Utilitarian and comfortable. &nbsp;Beautiful to me.</p> <p>And to Anne, yeah, I've worn white to the garden, too. &nbsp;It's usually the pants/shorts that get the harder stains. &nbsp;The shirt might get some dirt spray, but that comes out easily. &nbsp;And, hey, white is easy to bleach anyway. &nbsp;Though I've never had to bleach a white shirt I've worn gardening. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002166 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:18:38 +0000 Karie 1002166@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my goodness, I love your garden - all that delicious fruit and produce, and all grown organically - so healthy and delicious!</p> <p>Thanks for sharing your "everyday" outfit, you look fab! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002159 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:57:15 +0000 Lantana 1002159@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another heavy duty gardener here. I start the day in gardening clobber: jeans, steelcapped boots, old long sleeved shirt, hat and gloves. I change in theafternoon for inside chores and that's when I wear my "nice" clothes.<br /> We have an acre in a very lowrainfall area, around 11-12 inches a year. We have a short window for growing veggies that starts about now. We have a tiny orchard that includes peaches, nectarines and apricots that we put down every year. Some years we dry the apricots. DH harvested oranges this week, bottled the juice in old beer bottles and pasteurised it. We have chooks too and a couple of darling doggies.<br /> Needless to say I totally identify with your style choices; I'm sounding three cheers for your garden and produce and dog. 'swonderful. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002151 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:05:04 +0000 Anonymous 1002151@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great garden and love your gardening outfit! I have to get out picking raspberries again -- I am inundated this year! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002150 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:02:32 +0000 deb 1002150@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very nice garden and gardening outfit. There is no way I can wear a white shirt while gardening without staining it. Kudos to you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002143 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:52:03 +0000 rute 1002143@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>amazing photos! I like the shorts! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002139 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:49:20 +0000 Jaime 1002139@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You and your garden look beautiful! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002128 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:18:28 +0000 rae 1002128@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, beautiful yard and pup! The shorts are actually very cute, too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002088 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 06:01:11 +0000 anne 1002088@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow you wear white to garden!<br /> you look good. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002086 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 05:51:39 +0000 Jeanie 1002086@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love to see how everyone wears everyday basics and I think you make them look very 'garden-chic' with the boots and glasses and Corgi &nbsp;Your garden is beautiful....everything looks luscious! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002048 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 03:44:02 +0000 lyn* 1002048@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love your corgi! I didn't know they came in that colour! :)</p> <p>I think your urban farm is super cute - and your at home outfit is practical and the rubber boots are awesome! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002044 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 03:39:17 +0000 Gaylene 1002044@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I loved this post, Betti. Your garden looks fabulous and so do you. I suspect that many of us on this forum can relate to your "urban casual" summer uniform of a T, shorts, and practical footwear worn with plenty of sunscreen and (in my case) a good coating of mosquito repellant. </p> <p>And I'm typing this as I listen to the "pop" on a couple of dozen jars of Nanking cherry jelly--my bushes were loaded with fruit this year! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002034 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 03:26:29 +0000 Elly 1002034@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lovely--- you have a beautiful garden. </p> <p>I feel you there, I've posted before for suggestions about home-wear.&nbsp; I live right on a main street in my small town and everyone that drives by can see our property so I try not to look too slubby. Still, we have an orchard, garden, flood irrigate, heat our home with wood fire, and I have a dog that goes out upteen billion times a day and needs lots of supervised walks (we have a big population of eagles). I wear a lot of workout or other casual shorts and tees in the summer, and older jeans or cargo pants/gear the rest of the year. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002030 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 03:20:54 +0000 Anonymous 1002030@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Betti, you are my hero! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002029 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 03:15:13 +0000 Parsley 1002029@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm so impressed with your garden, Betti!<br />And your clothes look just perfect for the job at hand.<br />Happy gardening!</p> <p>P.S. Wish I could&nbsp;try some of your homemade pickles! Yum! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002020 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:54:26 +0000 Anonymous 1002020@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yum, you're making me hungry.&nbsp; Well in my opinion rubber boots elevate any outfit ( with 98" of rain a year I wear them often). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1002007 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:36:49 +0000 ManidipaM 1002007@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gorgeous yunmy garden! </p> <p>You know, that used to be me with a dark shirt and tuckable pants 5 months out of 12 at Homebase #1. For going out. And nary a garden to show for it. Monsoonal tropical urban slush, you see. Garnished generously with mozzies.</p> <p>You do this with summer-appropriate style *while sweating in the sun and growing good things to eat*. Kudos!</p> <p>Am especially impressed by them shorts. That's what I call very smart shopping for your lifestyle. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-casual-reality-urban-farm#post-1001995 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:19:32 +0000 Betti 1001995@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I keep seeing how others look so spiffy and neat in their at-home clothes. Here's my typical summer at-home uniform:<br />White top - cotton t-shirt or long sleeve linen, depending on the weather, sun, bugs, etc.<br />Lee Khaki shorts - these are the BEST gardening shorts EVER. Cool, with a bit of stretch. I've spilled all kinds of gunk on them and it's all washed out. They have roll-up tabs for very hot weather. I think they were sold as golfing shorts, but I don't golf.<br />Rubber boots or clogs, depending on the weather, mud, etc.<br />Sometimes a hat, jacket. Gardening gloves.</p> <p>We have a nice sized lot with a very large garden. We grow all kinds of veggies, blueberries, raspberries, plums, peaches, blackberries, pears, apples...I may have forgotten something...oh, I have a cold frame for winter gardening too that's all herbs in the summer.&nbsp;It's all organic. Since I'm mostly unemployed right now, I've taken over the garden for the most part. Hubby still does the big stuff (like tilling, yuk).&nbsp;</p> <p>I also like to can things like tomatoes, pickles (did a bunch of jars this week), jams, etc. And freeze, and cook.</p> <p>There are times of the year when I can look presentable when I have to answer the door, but for summer, this is pretty much it. I throw on other clothes when I go out to run errands and such.&nbsp;</p>