AIBU to think that the Debenhams window that I've been staring at all day, contains the ugliest shoes I have seen in a long time!

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

here the pink ones look like they are made of plastic. I'm sure Barbie had some like that...

Yanbu.
But I saw a girl wearing the world's ugliest trainers today. Big red bastards that looked like rolls of Edam with laces.

All of those clothes look hideous. Who the hell styled that lot?

lol at 'big red bastards'

I would love those shoes but I am erm not always a subtle dresser...

My mum dug out my old barbies for my dds to play with and there were about twenty pairs of shoes most of which looked exactly like that. I wouldn't wear them but wish I could walk in proper high heels without looking like a complete tit

AND the middle dummy has her socks on the wrong feet!!

saggy why are you staring into the Debehmams window all the day long?

I worked as a visual merchandiser for debenhams and I had a degree and industry experience and it's all governed by head office and you have no artistic license

I remember those Barbie shoes.
I am disliking lots of shoes at the moment. Ridiculous platforms mainly.

Agree about the ridiculous platforms.

I like platforms - they are usually a lot more comfortable anyway, but a small platform. Those great big 2 inch platforms which are everywhere now are so unflattering.

Socks have feet? Since when?

Agincourt I was going to go into that sort of design before I learned what you know. No thanks!

The socks have bows on the outside. Everyone knows that the bows go on the outside!

Getorf, I'm working on the market. Outside Debenhams.

Some kid just asked his mum if she looked like that once!
I told him we had better taste in those days!

No we didn't saggy.

Not if I remember what I used to troll around in in the 90s.

And watch Working Girl to see what was considered the height of style in the 80s.

I can't even see the bows! ::old lady, bad eyesight::

I wsh they would stop employing young girls who can affoird to take internships to design their main collections aimed at women of all ages and practicalities
meks me sick actually

Is that what they do agincourt? Crikey.

god yes, loads of graduates work for basically nothing for loads of companies on internships basis
I thought that was common knowledge

Also LOLing here at 'big red bastards' and 'Edam'

Oh yes, I know that internships are hugely prevalent, but I was referring in particular having interns to design dresses for free which they then sell in their shops. It just seems particularly crap.

well it is for free really, most interns only get paid for their expenses

I think this is a different threadthough

but iirc I designed stuff and pattern cut for design houses for free when i was at university. I think most of us did!

Well I'm going to go against the grain. I quite like the shoes - are they supposed to be some sort of Vivian Westwood rip off? Can't remember what they are called.

I wanted some of the real mccoy in red. I am far too old and dowdy to pull them off but I just wanted to own a pair (VW not Debenhams).

How strange. me and DD have recently got home from shoe shopping. After the experience, I took her to MacDs.
We were eating and both looking toward the till. I nearly choked on my own tongue when we saw a girl with black boxes on her feet. I think they were wedges and heels, but they just looked like solid black rocking boxes.
Hideous, especially since the wearer was 13-15 and had a lovely orange face.