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Original poster

to want answers to these S&B questions?

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HullyEastergully · 06/12/2012 10:17

Why are:

  1. Certain items of clothing = "mumsy" eg bootcuts, tunics, some boots but not others (forget which)
  1. Short wide jumpers are inherently better than others
  1. Anyone over a size 12 = fat
  1. Fat = mumsy
  1. That thinking the above makes you a cleverer and more knowing alnd all-round better person with a slight pitying disdain for those that don't agree.

Lastly I would like a definition of "Mumsy" and why it is an insult.

Thank you.

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fromparistoberlin · 07/12/2012 13:30

FWIW

I have nothing from prada. FUCK all, not even an eyeliner

I wish I did however

tethersjinglebellend · 07/12/2012 13:30

My jumper is quite witty today, but not my skirt.

You could say I'm half-witty.

FunnysInLaJardin · 07/12/2012 13:32

I love this

'Yves Saint Laurent model on their way to a mars bar party'

that is all I have to say. It is very evocative and an age since I heard the term mars bar party Grin

tethersjinglebellend · 07/12/2012 13:32

Love Prada. Can't afford it.

garlicbaubles · 07/12/2012 13:33

Harpy, your point's very telling, I think. "Showcasing the body" isn't the only purpose of fashion - or even the main one, really. I wouldn't call a society archaic for not wanting people to go around constantly hinting at their nakedness.

My body doesn't really seek to be showcased; it works best as a backdrop Grin What's more, have you noticed men's fashion going all-out to "showcase the body"? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places (ie, outside of gay pulling joints) but I'm not seeing male bodies pulled and pushed into form-revealing outfits.

If women who choose not to advertise the details of their bodies are considered "dowdy", perhaps it's time for a rethink on why that might be?

garlicbaubles · 07/12/2012 13:34

Prada's naff, paris, don't worry.

garlicbaubles · 07/12/2012 13:35

I liked the shoes, Harpy! They just looked shit with that outfit, is all.

garlicbaubles · 07/12/2012 13:37

Grin Tethers! I'm wearing witless today ...

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HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:46

I am in Melancholic and Feckless

would someone show me an eg of a "witty" jacket and explain why it is?

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SuePurblyFeltYourPresents · 07/12/2012 13:48

YY. Do let's share the mirth.
There was also a bad-ass jacket. I am not hip enough to find an example of a bad-ass anything, except praps an actually bad ass. That I don't have to go far to find.

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HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:49

I carry mine with me sue, don't you?

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lostconfusedwhatnext · 07/12/2012 13:51

sunset, I know, right?
What I meant with the slightly elliptical comment above was: while you are all archly giggling over the sardonic hats or the mildly resentful waistcoats and whatever, what you are deriving your pleasure from (while congratulating yourselves over it as if you are the first people who thought of it) is the ascribing of emotional content to clothes, personifying them, enjoying the absurdity of the transferred epithet while at the same time finding a kind of crazy sense in it. This is the whole point: this is what I was talking about the whole time.
(among other things)
the expression "witty jacket" attracted no derision on the s&b thread where I put it first, partly I expect because I hadn't annoyed Hully on that thread, but also because on S&B it makes sense to talk about clothes has having emotional content and personality, and everyone is used to it. On this thread, which was specifically put here to make the ascribing of emotional content to clothes seem more ridiculous (and by extension the people who do it) you laugh at it, yet.... you all enjoy doing it.

SuePurblyFeltYourPresents · 07/12/2012 13:53

No. We were mocking it. That's different.
HTH.

FunnysInLaJardin · 07/12/2012 13:53

my clothes are very serious at all times, they rarely show wit

Original poster
HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:55

yep

just mocking I'm afraid

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Original poster
HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:55

But there is quite a lot of pleasure to watch you twisting and wriggling away

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FunnysInLaJardin · 07/12/2012 13:55

wow lost did you study the emotion of fashion or summit. None of that made any sense at all to me

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HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:56

That was mean

soz. but true

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lostconfusedwhatnext · 07/12/2012 13:56

Hully, I can't find an absolutely witty jacket because as with so many jokes the wit is in the delivery

Original poster
HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:56

me, not funnys

tho she was quite mean too.

Sue's sticking to satraightforward mocking

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HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:57

A bit witty will do

just give us an eg

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lostconfusedwhatnext · 07/12/2012 13:57

Funny, no I am actually clueless about fashion in the formal sense. I do like clothes though. and I think it is ok to talk about things you like, like music, food, etc, and if you try honestly to do this sometimes you will get into a position that other people find funny (if they are mean)

FunnysInLaJardin · 07/12/2012 13:57

oi. Am off to source a witty jaquet

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HullyEastergully · 07/12/2012 13:58

I have to go out now, so you've got a while t find one.

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lostconfusedwhatnext · 07/12/2012 13:58

Hully I don't think you are enjoying this at all, I think you are finding a bit worrying as you are being much more than usually nasty. Note BEING nasty I did not say you ARE nasty