are brora dresses frumpy?

[notanidea]

I have never brought from brora - who buys thm?

[CerealOffender]

are you refereing to teh dinner lady tea dance silky affairs? yes they are fairly frumpy. i imagine a beautiful willowy ingénue would look sweet in them.

[notanidea]

I was looking at their liberty print dreses

[UnePrune]

I have a linen one - it's ok, but then I probably AM quite frumpy! It's easy to dress up.
I think the liberty print ones are nice but I've come to the conclusion that their stuff (my dress incl) looks good on thin blonde twenty-year-olds.

[traceybath]

I don't know - I think they tread a fine line to be honest and would need careful styling to avoid looking frumptastic.

[purplepeony]

I think they are an acquired taste- a bit like Toast.
I can imagine some upper class gal wearing them for tripping around her parent's pile. A bit like Kiera Knightly in "Atonement" or Chariots of Fire stuff.

Don'tlook so good on a bus in Hackney.

[alarkaspree]

This season they are. They have had nicer dresses in the past I think.

[CerealOffender]

i would love to buy their knitwear, if i had a spare squillion billion quid lying round.

[faustina]

if you look at the photos they have of models wearing them, they don't look so bad, but then you look at the photos of the dresses on their own, and they do look a bit shapeless don't they...


they have a final reductions part on the website at the moment and there are some really really big bargains. I bought a lovely half price drapey cardigan and a blanket the other day. Their sales are always rather disappointing, but this one isn't.

[Autumndew]

I love the Liberty print one and would definately buy it if i had the cash .As i mentioned on other thread don`t like the model wearing it .Too hard faced for Brora

[faustina]

oh Autumndew I looked after you said that the first time, and I quite agree with you.

[BikeRunSki]

I loved the star print one this summer. Saved up for it. Tried it on. It looked like the love child of a a too-big lab coat and maternity top.