Yes, beanies and knitted gloves and scarfs became fashionable a few years ago, (OK, probably not in Queensland). This meant they were always sold out at Kmart and I'd have to resort to spending $30-$50 for some plain navy ones for my sons to wear to school. Which of course they would lose almost immediately.

I thought the beanies and knitted gloves fashion was great. It gave nana (my mother) something to keep her fingers occupied at night - no more knitted ill fitting, badly chosen colour jumpers for me - lots of beanies and scarves for the kids and her friends kids, etc. What a pity you can't knit thongs - LOL.
I even took on a few of those fuzzy soft scarves myself - 14 roughly, counting 2 tiny ones for GS's teddy bears. Ended up with tendonitis in the shoulder again :-(
Never mind - thongs will be out of fashion again. Perhpas try a good pair of gumboots by the door. They are my all season fashion item for the garden. Hot, cold, wt, dry - dash outside in the gumbies.
Fashions I am looking forward to include - baggy T shirts, is practical colours, with naturally frayed seams as opposed to the made frayed look.
Elastic topped jeans with deep pockets, patterned in green and brown stain marks, with threadbare knees.
Straw hats.
and of course the gumboots.
I won't have to go out and buy any of the above. Infact I might just have a road side stall and make a killing.

Lamb shanks - before they were trendy, you would get two huge ones in a tray for 50 cents. Made a lovely cheap meal. Then they hit the nouvelle restaurant scene and suddenly they were 'lamb drumsticks' and were $9.00/kg!!!

Gees, Sparaxis, 'straw hats' sounds a bit posh... Don't they have a bit of binder twine to tie them on to your head on windy days, and a raggy fly net hanging off one side? ;-)

I buy those cheap canvas slip-on shoes from K-Mart and have a pair at the back door and a pair at the other back door... They last 2 years and cost about $9.00/pair. They are faster to put on than gumboots, and cooler too.

I wear gumboots in winter but find thongs the easiest thing to slip on in summer.

Sparaxis, those clothes are fashionable at my place. My round-the-house clothes are jeans in winter, shorts in summer - both usually holey and stained - with baggy T-shirts or my husbands cast-off work shirts. He wears long sleeve work shirts all year and when they have started to get holey, I just rip the sleeves out and claim them for myself. As they are a couple of sizes too big for me they are nice and cool.

My other fashionable clothing complaint is jeans. I like basic straight leg jeans (preferably stretch) but I have trouble finding anything but 'muffin' pants (hipsters), and they usually have holes or that pre-washed look when you buy them so they don't last very long as work pants. I prefer to wear my own holes in them.

I wear the K Mart canvas slip ons too, tried thongs but if you want to get going quickly [snakes] i found I usually left them behind.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Lamb shanks, the best part of the Roast Leg of Lamb and always mine as I am the cook round here !!!!

I wear those Best and Less cotton slip on dresses, round the yard, but if we moved to town I guess I would have to look for something more lady like when bending over, no one close here to see the other side of me LOL.
AND I found the very best large straw hat ever at Bunnings, with the elastic trim round the head line so you don't have to wear the string to hold it on, and only $3.95.

Marion