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Theresa may's awful awful red dress

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BananaMilkshake13 · 13/07/2018 06:39

AIBU?
I think she looked absolutely ridiculous in that red dress when she greeted Trump at Blenheim palace.

She looked out of place and was perhaps trying to compete with melania trump...obviously a formal event but that dress was a bad choice and didn't suit her AT ALL.
The slit....🙈

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thegreatbeyond · 13/07/2018 10:48

Melania seems to have been inspired by Big Bird, but I understand the show is quite popular in the USA.

GrouchoMrx · 13/07/2018 10:48

AlbertaSimmons Fri 13-Jul-18 06:42:59
It's not the dress. It's the scaffolding beneath. She has terrible posture and absolutely no muscle tone. Her body reveals that she is someone who is badly nourished, under-exercised and doesn't sleep properly. In short, she has an unhealthy lifestyle. That's why the dress (and the rest of her very expensive wardrobe) looks bad.

I wonder what the above post reveals about your brain.
Badly-nourished? Under-exercised?

yessirnosir · 13/07/2018 10:50

Maybe we should be talking not about the dress she’s wearing, but more about that ‘patch’ she’s wearing. It does indeed monitor her blood sugar levels and I am very the PM has access to it as she will definitely need it, given the stress of the job. Hard to negotiate when your blood sugars are low.

BUT that item has been approved by NICE for prescription on the NHS, but you can only get it on prescription if you live in the right place in the country. That is the underfunded, unfair, system she is presiding over while negotiating to make us all poorer due entirely to internal problems in the Conservative party. But yes, let’s talk about the other thing she’s wearing, because if we aren’t internalising our mysoginy, we aren’t properly supporting the patriarchy that got us here.

Gilead · 13/07/2018 10:50

FFS, I'm no bloody tory but leave the woman's dress sense out of it. If you feel the need to criticise then let it be about policy. I haven't seen anyone comment on Trump's ready made bow tie. Hmm

mikeyssister · 13/07/2018 10:50

Is the photo above the red dress this thread is about?

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/07/2018 10:50

I see we have a thread full of TM's best mates.
Yet only a few days ago we had a thread which torn apart Kate Middleton and her sister Pippa for what they were wearing.

underestimation · 13/07/2018 10:51

I am also not a fan of Theresa May's politics. But the view (for example) that we need 'somebody with stature' to do this job is just utter bollocks. What does that even mean? We really need to get away from aligning an individual's physical characteristics with their apparent leadership qualities. The fact that we do is one of the many reasons why tall, middle-class, men (often white) continue to have such an advantage in so many different spheres of life.

Lack of confidence? Maybe, maybe not. But although as I say I agree with very little that TM does, she must have some bloody confidence and stamina as I think most people doing her job would be in a crumpled heap on the floor by now.

Let's not lower ourselves by discussing her dress in such negative terms, it's so fucking depressing. I love fashion and clothes but this is SO limiting. As as a young women I talked myself out of going for a career I might have been good at because I didn't think I was pretty or thin enough and thought my appearance would matter. So I did something else. Now, much older, I am very occasionally asked to go on TV. I think twice because I can't bear the thought of my appearance being picked apart above what I say. I know that male experts on the same programme will not have the same issue. As a university lecturer, I know that students comment on women's looks and clothes both in formal feedback and otherwise - but almost never men's. And men get higher feedback scores because their expertise is assumed. My own mother in law constantly comments on women's appearance on TV, but again, almost never men's. What they say is not important to her, only how they look.

We need to stop this and challenge it when it happens. It is massively undermining. I do not believe that women should support women in all circumstances at all but I do believe that when we don't support each other, it shouldn't be on the basis of what we are wearing or how we look.

PaduaPanda · 13/07/2018 10:52

What about the suits that any of the men were wearing? Are you going to bitch about those as well?

Actually Margaret Thatcher was so good at evening dresses because she got as close to a man's suit as possible.

It wasn't a great choice of dress last night. Too young and revealing.

mikeyssister · 13/07/2018 10:54

This was Bertie Ahern, Irish Taoiseach, when he was representing the EU at G20 (I think it was).

Three guesses which one is Bertie

Theresa may's awful awful red dress
MonkeysMummy17 · 13/07/2018 10:55

I've just watched that clip of them arriving at the Palace, and above all the thing that stood out for me was that Donald trump didn't even have the common courtesy to walk with his wife. He just strode off with Teresa and left his wife to it.
I couldn't give a hoot what any of them were wearing, I just think it's a disgrace he drags his wife to these dinners and then buggers off and leaves her to walk alone. And I know she's old enough to manage walking into a Palace on her own, but he should have more respect for her than that
misses point of thread entirely

Motheroffourdragons · 13/07/2018 10:57

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RedToothBrush · 13/07/2018 10:57

I see we have a thread full of TM's best mates.

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Brilliant.

Only the other day I was 'one of Corbyn's disciples'.

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2018 10:58

Is the photo above the red dress this thread is about?

Yes.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/07/2018 11:02

What a stupid, vacuous thread. I might have a modicum of respect for you OP, if you had something to say about her policies. But you don't. You were just needy so started a bitchy thread about how another woman dresses. I'm sure you look divine.

Pathetic. You; not the dress, not Teresa May, you.

MonkeysMummy17 · 13/07/2018 11:03

Just watched it again and you're right motherofdragons ignore me, probably just looking for more reasons not to like trump Grin

SilverySurfer · 13/07/2018 11:04

Pathetic - no not TM's dress.

DontDrinkDontSmoke · 13/07/2018 11:05

if I looked as good as that at 60

Is she only in her 60s 😬

I don’t like her politics but don’t envy her impossible job. Fancy having to entertain that odious wanksplat Trump as well as trying to negotiate a Brexit deal while your incompetent cabinet are busy back stabbing you and jostling for power. Then there’s the running the country bit...oh and brushing all the child abuse scandals under the carpet to be getting on with.

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coolncalm · 13/07/2018 11:07

I never see people slagging off what the male mps are wearing.
It shouldn't have to be explained why this is so, but unless men start wearing something different from their uniform of shirt, tie and trousers either with a jacket or without it ain't going to change any time soon.

MonkeysMummy17 · 13/07/2018 11:09

Grin I doubt anyone needs any more, but it can't hurt to keep looking eh! (not sure why there was a dragon on my last comment, it was supposed to be a grin!)

Arthuritis · 13/07/2018 11:11

@underestimation

It was me who said we need someone with stature.

I am not really talking about in the physical sense but more about her body language and whether that is a reflection of how she conducts business on behalf of the country.

Maybe my opinion of her is wrong. Maybe as a PP said, her posture and mannerisms are simply a result of her being tall but, and I am in no way a body language expert, she seems very quick to cow tow to other leaders. Watch her when she greets them. Why did she hold Trumps hand? I cannot imagine Tony Blair or David Cameron holding his hand can you?

I cannot abide Trump or his politics but when you listen to him talk about the US he is always asserting how they are bigger and better than everyone else. I can imagine him demanding in negotiations that they get exactly what they want.

TM on the other hand, strikes me as giving in and inviting everyone else to go first. Being grateful for any little thing on offer.

Just my personal opinion but body language is a very real thing even if it only affects us subconsciously.

derxa · 13/07/2018 11:12

OP you've started a thread to attack TM. I don't know how she has the strength to put one foot in front of the other never mind worry about dresses. Will we have Emily Thornberry as PM? What might you say about her dress sense?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/07/2018 11:15

Why coolncalm, who makes those 'rules' then? It really doesn't need explaining at all, it's neither explicable (because not all women do this) and nor is it excusable.

Why is it just some women who get their jollies from critiquing what other people - particularly women - wear? The reason why they don't attack what men wear is probably because those that live to bitch need to compare themselves constantly and when they invariably fall short themselves, out come the knives.

longwayoff · 13/07/2018 11:21

I remember when trump rolled up for his inauguration. He leapt out of the car and galloped up the steps like a starving dog leaving Milania unescorted to trail in his wake. Total utter pig as evidenced again today with his disgusting comments on TM.

mikeyssister · 13/07/2018 11:26

Nothing wrong with that dress. It's gorgeous.

I think a serious bit of cop on is needed if that's all you're worried about.