Are you comforted by wearing a certain type-or specific item-of clothing?

[bertha katzenengel]

Me?

Hats. Hats comfort me. I can't explain it, but I am so comfortable, calm, and happy if I can wear a hat.



You? If you've got one, post a photo of yourself wearing your comfort clothing.

[Sugar Smack]

1. Yes, Miz Bertha.......

PAJAMAS!!!!! It's what Saturdays are for most of the day. I get a lot of work done in them, writing specifically.



BTW, I love the picture of you with the dashing black hat, standing in front of a mountain scape.

[Sugar Smack]

5. And this is me in my "Lucky Shirt"-

So comfortable!

[bertha katzenengel]

14. thank you

it's a self-portrait, like yours.

[Redstone]

51. NICE jammies! We're casual; you can wear them when you visit.

All day if you want to; we don't have rules for visitors.

Edit: Mrs R and the Little Guy are casual; NOBODY sees me outside the house without a shirt with a collar and long pants. But you can wear whatever you want.

Redstone

[Sugar Smack]

63. YES! Thank you, my dear!

I wear these around the house when I'm feeling like a homebody. Also, sometimes my friends'll bring their PJ's & we'll watch movies & drink Bailey's on a weekend. I bought these because I loved the color, and the stars on them charmed me.

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: x 1,000

[chat_noir]

2. when I'm out protesting

[Shell Beau]

3. A tank and jeans or lounge pants as seen here,

even though you can't see my face, I was comfortable that day!! :)


And here in jeans! I always wear jeans!!

[Sugar Smack]

6. OMG, Shell Beau, I love you!

You rock-climb too?

Outdoorsy girl! :toast:

[Shell Beau]

22. I try a little of everything!!

:) You look adorable in your pics!! :toast:

[Sugar Smack]

31. Thank you! YOU definitely do. Look- rock climbing in the lucky

shirt. I didn't once fall off that mountain!



:D

[Shell Beau]

32. Looks like y'all had fun!

:)

[justabob]

4. No photo but

I am at peace in t-shirts that have been washed so many times that they become thin and super soft.... almost sheer. The only bad thing about this is that once the shirts get to this point, they are in danger of disintigration or one false move ripping them to pieces. Same rule applies for blue jeans.

[jane_pippin]

7. Oh, I'm with you on that.

I've got the best old worn out t-shirt--pale yellow with red for an Ocktoberfest thing. I love it.

But like an idiot, I wore it to the darkroom when I was taking photography so now it has a chemical stain on it. I still wear it on days off though because it's my favorite shirt and I don't care if I look like a filthy bum on my days off--in fact, I kind of like it better that way.

[justabob]

9. ah... 1st rule of dark rooms.... wear black or

clothes you don't care about. I work in the photo lab at my school and have many many pieces of clothing that have those lovely stains on them. I look like a filthy bum at work and I kinda like THAT. :D

[jane_pippin]

23. Yeah, lesson learned.

Also, at the time I thought I didn't care about that shirt but realized too late that it was my number one favorite. Oh well.

And lucky you, getting to look like a bum at work. Someday I hope to have a job where I can get away with it.

[bertha katzenengel]

11. Love it, justabob (love your name, too)

I have one of those. Gray, with a great design: a big orange, made to look like a softball, with blue lettering: "SUMMER CHAMPS, CITY OF ORANGE." It's on a hanger -- but just barely. It is disintigrating. I was so sad when I realized I should stop wearing it. :(

[justabob]

26. lol

I have one shirt like that now... I don't even risk the hanger. :) It is sort of like a security blanket... if I want to experience that shirt I can only hold it in my hands :D


(justabob... is the name of a race horse in a book I read last summer called Horse Heaven.... the story largely told from the perspective of the animals. Just a Bob was a race horse with a great attitude. He didn't take a lot of the humans' bs. WHEN he felt like it, he would win races, but only by a bob of his head, and it was he alone that would decide if he would bob or not. )

[bertha katzenengel]

29. Sounds like a great book.

I'll look for it. :hi:

[tenshi816]

74. I wondered if that was where your name came from -

I love that book, and I loved Justabob! I was so afraid, as things started going downhill for him, that something really, really awful would happen to him but in the end you knew things were going to turn out fine.

I'm a horse person, in that I not only ride frequently but I also closely follow horse racing, so Horse Heaven was definitely my kind of book. If you liked it, you might also like another one of Jane Smiley's books called A Year at the Races. It's a non-fiction book she wrote about her adventures as a racehorse owner and it's both funny and insightful. I'm pretty sure it's where she got the idea to include a "horse communicator" in Horse Heaven's cast of characters, because she used the services of one in real life with her own horses.

Smiley's also a Democrat, so earns extra points with me for that!

[justabob]

76. I'm a horse person too

... or I was. I used to ride on the horse show circuit in my younger days - show jumpers. Alas, I have no money for it now or I would ride every day. I like racing too, but I prefer steeplechases and we don't have that down here. I went to school in Virginia though and I was a regular at meets there.

Thanks for the suggestion of A Year at the Races. I'll definitely check that one out, I really loved Horse Heaven.

[tenshi816]

84. You'd be in "horse heaven" in my part of the world then -

Yorkshire is serious horse country and there's no shortage of steeplechasing either! I remember reading National Velvet when I was a little girl growing up in Georgia, never dreaming I'd live in England one day, let alone see that kind of racing for real.

Not only that - and this is a flat-racing story, not chasing - last year a friend who is the CFO for one of the Arab racing outfits got me an "owner's" badge for Royal Ascot. It allowed me to go inside the paddock in the pre-race parades instead of being one of the several hundred surrounding the outside of the paddock. While I was standing there before one race idly chatting to my husband on my cellphone, I glanced up and the Queen and Prince Edward were walking right past me - so close that if I'd wanted to, I could've reached over and poked her in the shoulder. No bodyguards surrounding them, no entourage or anything. Can you imagine the Shrub doing that?

I only took up riding English style a couple of years ago after not having ridden for many years and got hooked immediately. It was a natural outgrowth of my love of horse racing (I wanted to do more than just watch other people ride!), but I lack the fearlessness I had as a child. In fact, it was like starting over altogether, and I've got so many bad habits from Western style riding - I still keep forgetting not to use a neck rein!

I had reached the point where I was doing little jumps when, just over a year ago, I was thrown by a horse that had a reputation for being ill-tempered (the sort that lunges at people passing his stall, trying to bite them) and broke three ribs. My confidence was shattered along with my bones, and I've gone back to basics once more. Baby steps...

Horses. Once they're in your blood, it never goes away, does it?

Edited for clarity.

[justabob]

85. No, it never goes away

That is a great story about Royal Ascot. Sadly, I only know about/ experience English racing via Dick Francis. :)

I can imagine that going from Western to english style is difficult.... don't worry about that neck reining thing too much :) Its a useful thing even in English. I imagine there are some dressage moves that use it... I know I used it some back in the day. I am sorry to hear about your fall over fences. That does do a number on your confidence. Ultimately it was a fall that ended my career.... I had a really bad crash. My horse and I took off WAY too early for a big oxer and ended up flipping over when my horse tried to land and realized there was another rail there and tried to get his legs back up. Neither of us were hurt but confidence was shattered. Hopefully you'll find a better horse to learn on, that makes all the difference. Now I will leave you with some very basic advice from one of my early trainers .... "Knockers up, heels down" :D

[tenshi816]

86. "Knockers up"...LOL

That's one of those things you should give keyboard warnings about!!!

It's nice in a reassuring kind of way to hear from someone else with confidence issues after a bad fall, although you're obviously riding in a class far above mine. I'm glad you and your horse came through your mega-mishap unhurt, and think riders who can take big fences are amazing. I'll never be able to, I know that. I'll now be happy if I can get to the point where I can ask a horse to hop over a log rather than go around it without me having a panic attack!

FYI, if you ever become remotely interested in British racing, here's a good site to look at: http://www.racingpost.co.uk You have to register (free), but after that you can read racing news and also watch racing online (as well as betting, but to me that's a separate thing altogether). It's where I go every day online after I've been through DU for the first time!

I wonder if there should be a DU equestrian group.

Edited for typo.

Edited a second time to say the "knockers up" advice makes damn good sense. I'm even sitting up straighter as I type this!

[justabob]

87. Haha... I hope your keyboard is ok

I guarantee that you will remember that advice.... I can still hear her deep and raspy Texas voice shouting that tidbit in the schooling ring. :)

Thanks for the link. I poked around a bit and will definitely go back. I need more than the Lounge to take my mind off the tragedy that is the USA, that site seems just the thing to do it.

Try not to worry too much about falling off or jumps too much. Just go at your own pace and when it feels right, give jumping another go (on a sane horse). Everyone falls off, and most of the time falls are not painful except to one's ego. I fell off a lot... I mean a LOT... eventually you learn how to do it with style. :)

An equestrian group is a good idea. I have seen several people with horsey things in their sig lines, and here and there in posts. I'd support it.

[LaurenG]

8. I don't like clothes anymore but if I have to wear them

it'd be sweats in the winter. Also is that a cat disciplinary handgun to your left? lol (the squirt bottle)

[bertha katzenengel]

16. Yep! "Cat disciplinary handgun" LOL

That's exactly what it is! Now w/ leather furniture and hardwood floors, my aim has to be dead-on. ;)

[Heidi]

10. I have no photos of me in my "uniforms"

for winter and summer (they're different), but I will say that you look like someone with whom I'd feel very comfortable. Maybe it's the bare feet. :hi: and :hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

34. you're such a sweet heart

:hug:

[khashka]

43. She does look very huggable doesn't she?

I've always liked her, but I don't think I've seen a pic of her before. Very, very huggable.


(Heidi, I'm sorry I dissed your dress in that other thread. Forgive me? It was all Wesley's fault anyway.)

Khash.

[Heidi]

70. No apology necessary, dah-ling.

I did look unhappy in that prom-dress photo, and you easily discerned that. I know you weren't dissin' the dress. :hug: :loveya:

[LeftyMom]

12. I have this thick polarfleece robe I love

It's a men's one-size, so it's rather big on me, but it's very warm and comfortable. I just love it.

[Squatch]

13. A pair of well broken in Birkenstocks

[weeble_wobble]

62. mmmm Birkies and Uggs.

[HEyHEY]

15. Ties

[bertha katzenengel]

18. Ties?... Yes, you look calm, comfortable, and happy...

;) :rofl:

[HEyHEY]

19. You should see me with coffee

[bertha katzenengel]

21. um...

:yoiks:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

27. Where's your fuckin' beret?

[HEyHEY]

35. My flatcap?

I'm inside

[Burma Jones]

17. My Hoodie

[bertha katzenengel]

49. Hey -- are you a bear?

Or have I always made the wrong assumption, based on your user name?

Nice hoodie. I like red. ;)

[Burma Jones]

64. Not that sort of bear, although I could pass......

The beawr name is what my nieces, when they were tots, called me in order to allay their fears of this large and boisterous guy their Aunt had agreed to Marry. They'd go "he's justy a big friendly beawrrr."

I have done musicals, made my Mother fret, majored in Theatre and still sing in Choirs and didn't get married until I was 35 and know quite well what a bear is....

[bertha katzenengel]

79. Bear or not, I like ya.

Where in DC? I'm in So. Maryland & work in FB/Georgetown.

[Burma Jones]

80. I live in Northern Montgomery County

about a mile or so from the daycare center where the kid was shot. I work near Quantico - or at home......

[bertha katzenengel]

81. Dude.

Well, Howdy, Neighbor. :hi:

[Patiod]

20. My cowboy hat

As a Northeasterner, I had no idea what a great item they are -- shade, umbrella, bad-hair hider, and they keep the branches out of your hair when you actually ARE on a horse!!!

Sometimes, I'll wear my cowboy hat just to remind me of the happy vacation times when I've worm it!

[nutsnberries]

24. in general.... sweaters. nt

[cfield]

25. Pajamas

Most specifically, PJ pants (or boxers) with a tank top. Sometimes a big t shirt will cut it. But I love tossing on PJs and a tank; nothing underneath, just free and breezy is the way to go. Here's me on a Sunday morning; I got mauled by the animals and had to log off DU for awhile. (not my most attractive pj combo!)

[ContraBass Black]

28. If I have enough privacy, I'm most comfortable without clothes at all

But I don't have to pay for heat.

[bertha katzenengel]

37. I guess you couldn't post a photo of that.

:shrug:

;)

[ContraBass Black]

44. I could,

But that would be foolish.


And of course, I'd have to take one, since there aren't any now.

[Fox Mulder]

30. I'm also more comfortable wearing hats.

I don't like going without. In the summer, I wear baseball caps. In the winter, my stocking cap.

No pictures currently exist on my computer to show everyone, though.

[Misunderestimator]

33. Wigs

:rofl:

[bertha katzenengel]

36. Hey, everybody, let's play Name That Role!

???

;)

[Sugar Smack]

38. Contessa,

Marriage of Figaro! Right? :)

[Misunderestimator]

45. Close

:) Same composer...

[Sugar Smack]

48. Donna Elvira?

Donna Anna??? Am I getting close?

[Misunderestimator]

52. Think... sisters.

:)

[bertha katzenengel]

53. Hannah? Sister My Sister? Ma Seuer de la Mort?

;)

[Misunderestimator]

54. Ha.

Think Mozart.

[bertha katzenengel]

55. I am ashamed to admit that I don't know Mozart's operas well.

If they weren't in "Amadeus," I don't know 'em at all. So it'll have to be either

the harem one

The Marriage of Figaro

The Magic Flute

or

Don Giovanni


????

:dunce:

[Misunderestimator]

56. Cosi fan tutte

as Fiordiligi

(And it sounds like you know more than most... the harem one is Die Entführung aus dem Serail... aka... The Abduction from the Seraglio)

[bertha katzenengel]

57. Thank you!

I will try to find it. Any particular company I should look for when browsing CDs? ;)

:hug:

[Misunderestimator]

59. LOL!

Nope. No CD of that... not of me anyway. silly. :hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

60. well, i just tho't...

if i can't be near you, maybe i can hear your voice . . . :blush:

but seriously, do you know offhand of a good recording?

[Misunderestimator]

61. well.... there are many.

I haven't really listened to opera in the past 10 years or so... but if I were to purchase one today, I would try the recording with Renée Fleming as Fiordiligi, Anne Sofie Von Otter as Dorabella and Sir George Solti conducting. It was recorded in 1996. This opera is really better seen and heard than just heard though.

[Swamp Rat]

73. "Ah, guarda sorella!"

È amore un ladroncello." :D

[TrogL]

39. Leather jacket

[Patiod]

40. My favorite sweater is pretty comfortable, too

It's definitely turtleneck weather today

[La Lioness Priyanka]

41. not clothing but i find make up comforting

[khashka]

42. My ex-wife's shirt......

It still smells like her. It was originally her Dad's, so it's a man's shirt, I'm not cross-dressing.

My sister's leather jacket, although I just gave it to her son.

No photos, sorry. I hate having my picture taken.

Khash.

[bikebloke]

46. Shorts

This is the only one of myself I have in PhotoBucket right now.

And yes, I died.

[Scout1071]

65. Great pic!

I would have shat myself.

[Left Is Write]

47. Jeans, mostly. Lounge pants in the evening.

I'm not sure I have the kind of picture that conveys comfort.

ETA: and aprons. Aprons give me comfort. I was just wearing one while whipping up a chocolate swirl coffee cake (baking now), but no one took a picture.

[skygazer]

50. An ancient old quilted flannel shirt

That was my best friend's and for a long time I could smell him on it. Sometimes I still think I can (he's not dead or anything, just 3000 miles away).

[LynzM]

58. Jeans, a hoodie, and my bandana

[fizzgig]

66. at home

my boyfriend's robe and nothing else (at least right now, that won't last once it warms up)

during the summer, if i'm not at work, 99% of the time, i'm in these shorts



black, baggy courderoy...i've had them so long, they are so comfortable

[Scout1071]

67. My blue Hawaiian print Vans.

But I can't find a picture.

[KitchenWitch]

68. Either pair of my Chucks!

And a baseball cap!

[fizzgig]

75. i love my chucks!

i wear them every chance i can

those shoes have seen quite a bit

[Reverend_Smitty]

69. I like wearing baseball caps too

except I never wear them out in public. I usually wear my beat up Mets hat around the house just to keep the hair out of my eyes when I'm doing stuff. In fact, I'm wearing it right now

I love wearing pajama pants too, my roommates make fun of me because I'll come home from class at like 2pm and if I have nothing to do for a few hours I'll put on a pair of my comfy pants

[CaliforniaPeggy]

71. I am happiest when wearing my slippers....at home, in for the day!

[enigmatic]

72. these shoes

No lie; shortly after I came up here to Canada, Mrs E and I went to Zeller's (think K-Mart) to look for some shoes for me; the ones I were wearing were on it's last mile after being my road shoes for over 10 years and many, many road trips.

We get out of the car and about 10 feet in front of me on the asphalt parking lot(w/ no cars around at all)are these Converse tennis shoes. Hardly worn; they looked like they had been worn a few times. I picked them up and took a look at the size; they were my size. I take this as a sign and pick them up and take them back to the car and go home.

5 years later, and I still wear them everyday, and they are the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn. I've always wondered who left them there, though...

[JVS]

77. pants/shorts

[GalleryGod]

78. Hmmmmmm

[hyphenate]

82. Jeans

I'm so comfortable in them that I wear them 90% of the time. And tee-shirts. I quite happily would survive on them year round, except I'd been much colder in the winter, when I finally put on a fleece jacket or two.

[Ally McLesbian]

83. What my nickname suggests...

Of course, I don't wear this when lounging at home...

But given my nickname and all, miniskirt suits make me feel (mentally) comfortable. :)

[japple]

88. I think I can explain why wearing hats make you so calm.

In former lives, you probably wore a power hat of some sort, maybe a pope, cardinal, member of royalty.