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to think that Boden wearers are not horrible people??????

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Jazzicatz · 15/05/2007 15:35

I am fed up with being made to feel like I am a real cow because I buy clothes from Boden, it isn't as if I am stealing the food from a child is it????????

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eemie · 15/05/2007 18:16

Are these the same people who go on holiday to the Hebrides and bray in yellow wellies? The ones we used to call The Yellow Wellies?

Hope not - have just spent ££ buying new summer clothes for dd from the catalogue. Wouldn't want her to be mistaken for a YW

MaloryTowers · 15/05/2007 18:17

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FredAdair · 15/05/2007 18:19

Just to go back to Blu's spot-on image of the Boden Brayer ... we don't have a 4 x 4 but do have a Volvo estate .. will that do?

I'm afraid that not much of Boden seems to fit me but I did succumb to a sort of woolly gillet (right word or no?!) - I thought I looked pretty cool at the time of purchase but now realise that I do just look like a dirty blond (well, brown haired if I'm being honest) sheep. Baaa (which isn't that far off braying now, is it).

currantbunmum · 16/05/2007 07:56

apeainapod- Yes I'm in Cheltenham, are you close by? Am I going to have to elbow you out of the way next week in the scrum for reduced brushed tartan baggies?

Judy1234 · 16/05/2007 08:32

It's just a bit dull for adults, in my views, that's all but I always shop on line and I've certainly used them for the boys' clothes.

apeainapod · 16/05/2007 16:00

currant - we're in the Lechlade area - we'll be there for 7 weeks over the Summer and then for 3 months from September. Moving back permanently next Summer!

If I wasn't abroad right now I would be attending in full battle gear!!!! A friend went to one last year - she said it was absolutely manic, however she came away with things that didn't even fit her - just because they cost £5!!!!

dionnelorraine · 16/05/2007 16:15

Im sorry everyone But I must be living in a cave or something
What is boden? Never heard of it before.

Go on,you can all laugh at me now!

Gobbledigook · 16/05/2007 16:18

I find the tops fine length wise - I'm 5,6 so not a short arse

Kids wear Boden
I have a few things - summer dresses, couple of tops
Dh has one shirt

It's fabbo quality. I like it. I don't mind paying for the jeans/trousers cos I pass them down from ds1 to ds2 to ds3. Oh yes, I get my money's worth!

Summerfruit · 16/05/2007 16:25

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Jazzicatz · 16/05/2007 16:26

Dionnelorraine - it is a clothing company that appeals to thirty something yummymummies, it seems to cause a furore everytime it is mentioned, and I would equate the negative reaction to that of skinning kittens or pushing over a toddler or somthig equally horrible!!!

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Gobbledigook · 16/05/2007 16:29

I'd spend a small fortune if I had dds

Well, I do anyway, it would be even worse if I had girls!

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Tommy · 16/05/2007 16:34

I would love top wear clothes from Boden and spent an hour this morning online trying to find some but they seem to be sold out of everything I like...

Judy1234 · 16/05/2007 16:46

They advertise on this site I think.

I'd rather mumsnetters wrote about how they could set up clothing companies like the Boden one rather than how frilly dresses look. But there you are.

Gobbledigook · 16/05/2007 16:49

MT? Ignoring you where?

Gobbledigook · 16/05/2007 16:50

Oh sorry, there!

Yes, fine on me. I've got the hotchpotch top from this catalogue (go on, everyone pounce!) and it covers teh top of my low rise jeans.

hatrick · 16/05/2007 17:04

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sparklesandwine · 16/05/2007 17:07

lol - i'm thinking of buying something just so i can join in

flyingmum · 16/05/2007 17:24

Does anyone else get six million catalogues through the post - I'm sure we could rebuild our front garden wall with them by now? Just realised son 1 has galloped outside in Boden shorts but Tesco top - I wonder what dear Johnnie would make of that in his blurb . . .

sparklesandwine · 16/05/2007 17:37

thats a mortal sin he should at least have a gap top on!

Anna8888 · 16/05/2007 17:42

Boden's adult's clothes - especially the women's - are seriously frumpy IMO.

bossykate · 16/05/2007 18:01

ime for the adults clothes you have to look for the jewels in the dungheap. not all the women's stuff is frumpy by any means but some of the items are indeed frightful.

xenia, where do you buy your clothes may i ask? there aren't that many on-line options that are exciting...