To think the Lionesses' Outfits in this Picture are Ridiculous?

BasilParsley · 2025-07-28T21:13:29+00:00

OK, so they go to Downing Street to celebrate their win with the high and mighty of the land ... But who the f**k thought that combination of baggy trousers, grey, black, long shorts, low heeled shoes, a bit of white here and there was The Look? Are they trying make them look like men because women's football shouldn't be allowed? Did any of them have the opportunity to say "actually, those big, baggy trousers don't suit me"? Because they don't for a lot of them...

TaupeLemur · 06/08/2025 09:17

LittleBitofBread · 06/08/2025 08:00

I like the style – clean, quite masculine, interestingly cut and shaped clothes – but the M&S iteration of it is in dull colours and badly made. Somewhere like Cos does this sort of look a lot better.

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Maybe, but Cos wasn’t paying a fortune to sponsor the team! Now they’re undeniably successful perhaps they’ll have more choice re sponsors though I would imagine would always try to use U.K. companies for some stuff at least

LittleBitofBread · 06/08/2025 08:00

TaupeLemur · 06/08/2025 07:56

I love the fact they aren’t conforming to some old fashioned beauty standard of what a woman ‘dressed up’ should look like… ie dresses, heels, clutch purses etc like they’re aunts at a wedding! They’re young athletes and can dress how they like.

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I like the style – clean, quite masculine, interestingly cut and shaped clothes – but the M&S iteration of it is in dull colours and badly made. Somewhere like Cos does this sort of look a lot better.

TaupeLemur · 06/08/2025 07:56

PaleRosePlease · 05/08/2025 08:16

I think they look insane, I actually love the looks and they all look streamlined and uniform and not trying too hard ❤

I love the fact they aren’t conforming to some old fashioned beauty standard of what a woman ‘dressed up’ should look like… ie dresses, heels, clutch purses etc like they’re aunts at a wedding! They’re young athletes and can dress how they like.

TizerorFizz · 05/08/2025 16:56

M&S has some pretty decent clothes now. These were not their best offering by a long way. My 30 year old laughed!

Mothership4two · 05/08/2025 13:13

I asked a 21 year old woman and she loved the trousers

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 05/08/2025 09:51

To be honest I think it's more a reflection on the crap quality from M&S than the Lionesses.

PaleRosePlease · 05/08/2025 08:16

I think they look insane, I actually love the looks and they all look streamlined and uniform and not trying too hard ❤

Itiswhysofew · 01/08/2025 17:35

Yeah, they're pretty awful outfits.

TizerorFizz · 01/08/2025 17:23

@angela1952 Yes. Agree. I suspect some of them are only comfortable in sports clothes but good sports clothes look better than the suits, in my view.

angela1952 · 01/08/2025 17:14

TizerorFizz · 01/08/2025 17:10

@angela1952 An opportunity lost I feel.

I feel it's a shame they didn't have something that befitted their status to wear for such an occasion.

TizerorFizz · 01/08/2025 17:10

@angela1952 An opportunity lost I feel.

angela1952 · 01/08/2025 17:01

TizerorFizz · 30/07/2025 20:15

I think the FA pay for most things! Sarina for a start! I thought they might be the M&S suits on their web site. Just not flattering for many of them. Sadly. You need to be very tall and willowy. M&S could have made alternative trouser shapes available and beige is …… beige. Poor choice of colour.

The waistcoats were alright, and some people might look OK in the shorts though. like the trousers, they were not well cut and as you say you'd need to be very tall and willowy to wear this assortment. The trousers were absolutely shapeless, I can't imagine that anybody would feel or look their best in them. willowy, athletic or whatever shape you were. And, again as you said, beige is .... well, beige. Few would choose it.

Mothership4two · 01/08/2025 02:45

BasilParsley · 30/07/2025 19:58

I rest my case...😀

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Hardly. You/we have no idea what the team members thought - they may have loved these outfits and dressing as a team. But I imagine that, whilst celebrating a hard won prestigious trophy, they would think this a pretty trivial thing for someone to focus on.

usernamealreadytaken · 31/07/2025 13:30

BasilParsley · 30/07/2025 19:00

Absolutely not - but it should be THEIR choice. It's the blandness and starkness of the colours along with the ridiculously unflattering bagginess of those outfits which I bet they wouldn't have chosen if they had been given the chance....

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People in professional positions are expected to dress or behave in certain ways in certain situations. When the men's team undertake formal occasions, they wear suits.

torkandgrunt · 31/07/2025 13:26

You have been so conditioned by the "Because you're worth it" of modern culture that you persist in judging women by their appearance.
These women have performed physically and have won. They do not need to look pretty for Downing Street.

carchi · 31/07/2025 10:47

Hunstanton · 29/07/2025 19:38

I thought this too. Woeful choice of clothes. Makes no sense at all.

Well maybe you should focus on their achievement rather than their outfits. This is about sport. Not London fashion week.

Radioundermypillow · 30/07/2025 20:39

Steelworks · 30/07/2025 20:09

But the styles were bang on trend - waistcoats etc. , and by having a neutral palette, an overall cohesive look was attained. I thought the overall look and photograph looked good.

I thought the photo of all of them together looked great!

Radioundermypillow · 30/07/2025 20:38

TizerorFizz · 30/07/2025 20:15

I think the FA pay for most things! Sarina for a start! I thought they might be the M&S suits on their web site. Just not flattering for many of them. Sadly. You need to be very tall and willowy. M&S could have made alternative trouser shapes available and beige is …… beige. Poor choice of colour.

Beige looks lovely against black skin.

TizerorFizz · 30/07/2025 20:15

I think the FA pay for most things! Sarina for a start! I thought they might be the M&S suits on their web site. Just not flattering for many of them. Sadly. You need to be very tall and willowy. M&S could have made alternative trouser shapes available and beige is …… beige. Poor choice of colour.

Steelworks · 30/07/2025 20:09

But the styles were bang on trend - waistcoats etc. , and by having a neutral palette, an overall cohesive look was attained. I thought the overall look and photograph looked good.

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BasilParsley · 30/07/2025 19:58

Cariadm · 30/07/2025 19:37

How many times do you need to have to have it explained?! Most of the clothes worn by the team for their visit to Downing St were by M&S who are one of their MAJOR sponsors!! 🙄
Your are possibly right in saying that the women themselves would probably not have chosen the outfits themselves BUT they will fully understand that without sponsors they would not be going to Number 10 in the first place...Wise up FFS!!! 😏

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I rest my case...😀

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Cariadm · 30/07/2025 19:37

BasilParsley · 30/07/2025 19:00

Absolutely not - but it should be THEIR choice. It's the blandness and starkness of the colours along with the ridiculously unflattering bagginess of those outfits which I bet they wouldn't have chosen if they had been given the chance....

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How many times do you need to have to have it explained?! Most of the clothes worn by the team for their visit to Downing St were by M&S who are one of their MAJOR sponsors!! 🙄
Your are possibly right in saying that the women themselves would probably not have chosen the outfits themselves BUT they will fully understand that without sponsors they would not be going to Number 10 in the first place...Wise up FFS!!! 😏

Cherrytree86 · 30/07/2025 19:27

Thatsthesizeofawatermelon · 30/07/2025 17:05

All of that is only relevant if you believe all of those things to be true. Many don’t.

More’s the pity.

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@Thatsthesizeofawatermelon

it really doesn’t matter that she swore! Get a grip!

EviesHat · 30/07/2025 19:24

BlueyNeedsToFuckOff · 30/07/2025 19:20

However, I now see that no one should have commented AT ALL, because who cares that young women were made to parade in such inappropriate attire, yes?

There is a big difference between clothes that some people think are unflattering (and where there isn’t even consensus on that) and clothes that make the wearer look half naked

And yet, so many people are saying WGAF about what corporate sponsors provide for women to wear.

Either we are allowed to care what women are instructed to wear in public, or we are not.

Incidentally Mumsnet keeps removing the links to articles criticising the 2014 kit, but you can find them everywhere from pro cycling websites to the Guardian.

BlueyNeedsToFuckOff · 30/07/2025 19:20

However, I now see that no one should have commented AT ALL, because who cares that young women were made to parade in such inappropriate attire, yes?

There is a big difference between clothes that some people think are unflattering (and where there isn’t even consensus on that) and clothes that make the wearer look half naked