AIBU to think Sam Cam wears horrible clothes?

[MissBattleaxe]

I have seen her in about two nice outfits ever. She seems nice enough, but for someone with such a high public profile I just think "Um...is that the best you could come up with?" The shirt waister she wore on Voting Day made her look like a 70s beautician. She has the height and a great figure for clothes.

Miss Battleaxe pray do stick up some photos of your goodself for us to comment on. I think this is a very bitchy thread - compared to every other Prime Ministers wife in recent times I think she looks pretty amazing.

Being aware of v being publicly snidey and critical of are two quite different things though.
I see nothing wrong with buying a dress seen on a public figure - no different to seeing it in a magazine and liking it. These things do not trouble me since Norah Batty died

That Daily Mail article is foul.

I see it as expressing an opinion, not making a judgment on her personality, work, or otherwise. I think she looks like a very nice person.

But probably if she saw me she would be saying the same.

Problem is she may well read this website, so in fact, it might be quite hurtful to say things like this.

I do think she could look a lot lovelier than she does, but then, so could I. I just don't care enough to try. Probably she has other stuff to do. And if she likes her clothes then that's what matters. Loads of people have different taste to me. It doesn't make them wrong.

sorry, if she saw me she would be saying the same about my clothes, ie how ugly they are

But she would probably be too nice to start a thread about it on MN.

farfromanyroad

I love the way she dresses and am always bemused by the way she gets slagged off on here. I always imagine that the people criticising her must shop in Per Una or somewhere like that.

Per Una?

how very dare you!

I like her clothes choices, I think they sometimes jar with people as she wears more high fashion outfits (eg the hi-viz dress) or wears them in a more modern way (shirt dress buttoned right up to the neck). It's quite unusual to see a woman in a conservative (small 'c') world dressing because she likes fashion and art rather than to look 'nice', but then high fashion often isn't about 'looking nice' at all, it's about being new and modern. I like the disruptive nature of high fashion especially when I see a pic and think 'oh no!' then a few months later am wearing a high street version of it myself ??.

The press like her though and she's often given fashion plaudits for her outfits when if Justine Milliband was wearing the same she'd be mocked mercilessly.

I don't like the way the press criticise female politicians or politicians' wives (often done to get at the husband which is sexist in itself) but I find it bizarre that we are not supposed to comment on the style choices of a woman who has been a fashion designer and is now a fashion ambassador. Or are we allowed to comment as long as we just say nice things?

That's a horrid post for many reasons.

Oh, sorry - my post was to the one that's just been deleted.

Appalling.

How come it's only Samantha Cameron's frocks we can never criticise on MN?
I've seen threads on here slagging off numerous female slebs' appearance but when it's SC, who, frankly, always looks like something out of a 1970s Freeman's catalogue, it becomes an intellectualist diatribe.

I have never publically criticised another woman for her dress unless it's so outlandish as to be obviously inviting comment - like Lady Gaga.

You can call it pious all you like but putting a woman down for her very suitable but not to your taste dress makes my teeth itch and will continue to do so until we are equal opportunity looks critical - yes even in day to day life.

To be honest I'd much rather criticise her for being a fashion ambassador at all.

Is she a fashion ambassador? What's one of those? Is it an official thing?

Oh just googled - sorry I clearly don't keep up.

Does she get paid to look nice or just to wear British clothes?

I'm afraid if this is her official capacity then honestly, it would put me off buying anything British. She chooses some very peculiar things. I do remember her wearing a Toast dress once but it looked very odd under a coat.

I don't really get what she's meant to represent in this role.

SamCam's fashion sense or lack of it is the least of my concerns.

Her Husbands policies however...

I think her clothes aren't necessary good or bad taste. What they are is to her taste. And that's what matters.

What should she be wearing then? Who should be her style icon? Kim Kardashian? Angela Merkel?

Exactly MrsIts
Its up to her what she wears-her husband however is going to inflict his policies on all of us.

I'm still trying to work out what her role is as 'fashion ambassador'.

Does anyone know?

Because if she's supposed to be promoting British fashion, I think she does need someone else to tell her what to wear. She seems to have some idea of what's nice but it isn't always things that really suit her.

Just seems odd to have someone doing this without some sort of stylist or team of stylists giving advice.

It might just be using her influence, connections and "name" to host and appear at events for fashion people. Not wear "fashionable" clothes but to help new designers get ahead etc.

Yes, I imagined it might be that. I just wish she could choose things that worked really well on her. That would sell them far better than things that are nice in their own right but the wrong sort of shape or style for her figure.

Does she actually have a formal role as "fashion ambassador" or does that just go with being the PMs wife?