To be considering buying something from Boden?

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Ten years I've been a Mumsnetter, and I still haven't worked it out: is Boden OK, just naice expensive clothes, or are they somehow the badge of something shameful, and wearing them will brand me forever?

(And in any case, being a size 20/22, is there even any point trying to wear Boden?)

I have got loads of boden dresses and also tunic tops.The dresses always get loads of compliments.I am wondering now whether people are being sarcastic

But if you do buy Boden , but only in the sale , can you still be working class, PLEEEASE?

Are Boden to blame for 10 year old boys being dressed in old man flat caps?

helen I have that skirt in the rose. And I had last years tweed mini. They are great, I wore it yesterday with opaques and knee high boots.

No pockets though, which is a PITA.

OH THE SHOES!!! I ventured onto the shoe bit. Oh my eyes. Oh my eyes!

Moaning gave me per-miss-ion

OP YANBU then

Can we compare dresses, Spiderpig...

I have a lot few.

Having analysed the data Bogey asked for....

I conclude the OP is BO-curious

Get yourself an anonymous Twitter account and search for like minded people

Drat... Worra's seen me here now. I should have name-changed for this thread.

I refuse to believe you're a Boden wearer Lying

In my mind, you simply woke up in a drunken haze...Boden clad and missing an eyebrow.

That is all.

That's it! That's what happened Worra, exactly like that, just as you said.... the bastards filled my whole wardrobe with it as well...

[boden smiley]

Won't somebody think of the footwear?!?! :(

Oh we so need a Boden smiley

And a couscous smiley for packed lunch/kid's party buffet threads.

... and a flashing blue light one for the thread politzei...

coraltoes... I think of the footwear, I really do. I worry for it and wonder how it's getting on without me... and then it ends up in my wardrobe, safe from peril.

Worra,

I give you the couscous smiley

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What a load of inverted snobs!!

OP, I love Boden. I buy mostly through the sales though as they're a bit above my budget usually. As with any clothing brand, you have to pick and choose what you get as some things are better quality than others. However, generally I find their clothes great quality and as stylish as you want them to be.

For the record, I wear my Yummy Mummy badge with pride. Sheesh!

It looks a bit small and miserable coral

Boden wearers will naturally have God awful Crocs on their feet....

I absolutely DO love my 'flutter tops'... I wish I'd spied them earlier and got one in 'ink'.

No Crocs here, Worra but ballet slippers abound...

I don't know what I was thinking last year about duvet slippers though... feathers flew out with ever step..

the quality is cr@p and its all cut for tall people!

I was sucked in, bought about 6 things, 3 were returned, 2 looked tatty very quickly and sit in my wardrobe winking at me to make me feel guilty for spending so much, and one cardigan is actually functional and semi-smart looking!

I have just bought my first Boden order (cause I looked at the website and liked the clothes). That's it. :)

I love a bit of Boden me, strictly codes and sales only.

Went for a walk last weekend and realised all four of us were wearing Boden shaggy lined zip throughs, the kids in mini boden, us in Johnnie B.

Oh how we laffed at our matchyness.

Couldn't give a rats arse what anyone thinks of my Boden wearing and cannot be a typical bodenite as have mahoosive tattoos.

Hm. I just looked at the Boden website - for the first time ever, as it happens. Scrolled through a few pages, and the clothes seem rather... well... ordinary??? Certainly nothing to get very excited about either way - I even noticed a cardigan that I wouldn't mind wearing.

Then I looked at the prices and fell off my chair in horror.

I'm never sure if I like Boden or not.
DH hates it but he would like to see me in the Adidas Originals and levis of when we first met and frankly I'm just too fat to pull it off without looking butch.
I don't think I'm middle class enough for Boden, I don't have the pink cheeked freshness that sets off the hotch potch prints.
There are only two Boden mums at school and bother are much older and slimmer than me. Maybe in a few years when I've lost a few stone.

Grumplestiltskin.. I don't know how tall you are but I tend to buy the 'L' rather than 'R' dresses and I'm 5ft 6". They come to below my knee, sort of upper shin, which I like.

There's a dress I like on there at the moment, it's £99, which is steep so I'm holding out until Johnnie sends a voucher.

I agree that it's overpriced, I think it is - some of the clothes I've bought have been nice quality, others not so much. Saying that, I've bought t-shirts in Asda that just keep on going, so it's really quite arbitrary.