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Original poster

pack it in with the vicious sniping about beatrice and eugenie

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springydaffs · 30/04/2011 00:51

they are 21/22, young girls, with the eyes of the world on them. I am horrified at the generally vicious comments about how they looked at the wedding. Leave them alone for goodness sake. Their mother is generally vilified and those girls have to live with that - not least at this wedding where she was notable by her lack of invitation, for whatever reason. How was your confidence when you were 21/22? Probably not that hot. HOw was your fashions sense at that age? Probably not that hot. Did you listen to any advice/advisors at that age? PROBABLY NOT.

fwiw I think they looked great - Eugenie's outfit was lovely and it suited her. Beatrice's coat didn't fit that well but the hat was fab and imo their outfits were a mature and respectful choice.

But I'm a fashion designer, so what would I know Biscuit

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Tortington · 30/04/2011 01:39

i dont have a say - where did i say i had a say? i didn;t say say that i had a say or i would have said i had a say. i dont have a say. but her peer group have a big say.

i really dont get how a 21 and 22 year old are too immature to know good fashion. i really dont get that at all

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springydaffs · 30/04/2011 01:41

My beef is not that they are royals fgs - I would much rather we didn't have a royal family, certainly not one as obscenely wealthy, on which our revolting class system hangs. My beef is that they are young girls, whether to the manor or palace or council estate born and girls that age are notoriously lacking in confidence. Would you rather they felt shit about themselves because people are jealous of their w&p?

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scottishmummy · 30/04/2011 01:41

daffs are you saying you are the honcho of what 20somethings wear?

grandiose

add that to sanctimonious,you are a ticket.you really are

Tortington · 30/04/2011 01:41

dd is eighteen btw. and i do have a say. i tell her she looks good and i tell he she looks shit. i think the princesses need someone to tell em they look shit

PuzzleRocks · 30/04/2011 01:41

SM on the money as usual.

GypsyMoth · 30/04/2011 01:42

what excuse should we give their mother then for the horror outfitts she's previously worn? cant use her age!!

and both girls have got form for this......where are the people who care about them,and can help steer in right direction??

that said,i agree op that the nastiness is wrong.....no need really

Tortington · 30/04/2011 01:42

you cant feel shit about yourself and wear antlers

savoycabbage · 30/04/2011 01:44

That was a statement hat. To be talked about. She was in no way trying to pass by unnoticed. You do not wear a giant wicker pretzel on your head if you are trying to blend in.

No they did not ask to born onto the Royal Family, but they did choose to dress that way. They are granddaughters of the Monarch, the same as Zara who is not a princess and does not have shed loads of security wherever she goes.

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springydaffs · 30/04/2011 01:45

as clary having a say etc. apolgoeis that I said you said what you didn't say when you didn't say it custy.

what's channelling cod - please tell. but be quick because I'm going to bed. I'm a fashion designer going to bed with a biscuit.

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GypsyMoth · 30/04/2011 01:45

what do they actuallydo? we never hear about them

Tortington · 30/04/2011 01:50

to chanel cod means to talk shit

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springydaffs · 30/04/2011 01:53

channelling cod = talking shit - no, don't get the connection. how does cod get to shit? But then I'm a fashion designer, what would I know?

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CheerfulYank · 30/04/2011 01:54

I can't stop looking at that hat...how wonderfully bizarre . I thought the other one's dress was ugly, though.

Tortington · 30/04/2011 01:55

its just MN slang that;s developed over the years

Tortington · 30/04/2011 01:56

we all say 'oh your chanelling cod' when we mean your talking shit

expatinscotland · 30/04/2011 01:58

Oh, c'mon, who says Isabella Blow's spirit is dead and gone?

For whom are you a fashion designer, Whoppie Goldberg?

expatinscotland · 30/04/2011 01:59

Stop being polite, CY, that hat was ripped off Bellatrix Lestrange prior to marrying Voldemort.

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springydaffs · 30/04/2011 02:01

'we' custy? the royal we?

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izzywhizzyletsgetbusy · 30/04/2011 02:02

The 'cod' being an abbreviation of 'codswallop' which means utter rubbish and is not dissimilar to what Beatrice was wearing on her head (loved the reference in another post to Bea 'channelling her inner reindeer').

Anyone else of the opinion that Mrs Beckham had stuck a feather in Charlie Chaplin's bowler?

Tortington · 30/04/2011 02:03

i mean't ;we; as in mn

however i do use the royal we as i am god

AgentZigzag · 30/04/2011 02:06

Grin at Whoppie Goldberg

Apart from not knowing what I should/shouldn't like when it comes to fashion, I'm with CheerfulYank.

I've opened up the picture link and shut it down a few times, thinking I've had my fill of glegging at it I've realised I have to open the picture up again just to marvel at it's bizarreness.

expatinscotland · 30/04/2011 02:08

Oh, custy is royal. I vouch for that. So step aside.

That hat belongs on someone's wrought iron gate, the whole outfit is ill-fitting and fug and let's cut to the chase: it's a good thing those girls are rich because they're no oil paintings and their brains around going to set the world on fire.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Rule no. 1 of fashion-designing, the best of them were seamstresses/seamsters first so they know how the hell to make a garment properly fit on their client.

expatinscotland · 30/04/2011 02:09

aren't going to.

Damn predictive text.

expatinscotland · 30/04/2011 02:11

Agent, she has to duck in the car because of that 'hat'. As one of my mates put it, somewhere, there's an ancient Chinese man who's been growing his fingernails for life who is now bereft and talonless.

She has inherited that Saxe-Coburg/Cro-Magnon jaw, too, same as her cousin Wills.

Morloth · 30/04/2011 02:16

Those hats were hideous though, so either the people around them really really hate them and want them to be laughed at so didn't say anything.

Or they knew they were awful and decided to rock them anyway. Now that is self confidence personified. It has to be the right thing to wear because it is me wearing it*.

*this is attitude that results in me still wearing my docs with short skirts at 34. Grin