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Theresa may's awful awful red dress

356 replies

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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NoelHeadbands · 13/07/2018 07:59
  • haven't meant to offend anyone this morning but I am allowed to share my opinion on the dress. I am simply stating that I think it was a poor choice and not particularly flattering*

While there are people like you who will fall over themselves in their ‘right to comment’ on women’s looks before all else, misogyny will continue to prosper.

HairyToity · 13/07/2018 07:59

Dress is irrelevant. She is PM and has a much more important job than looking pretty.

petrolpump28 · 13/07/2018 07:59

ghastly woman.

Onwhitehorses · 13/07/2018 08:00

What a mysogynistic load of bollocks this thread is.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 13/07/2018 08:00

What an erudite commentary on Trumps visit. Hmm

haverhill · 13/07/2018 08:01

I don’t like May’s politics but her appearance apart from being clean and smart is utterly beside the point. She’s the PM for fuck’s sake.

TheCag · 13/07/2018 08:02

This thread is horrible. She looked great! And rather her than me having to hold that tiny hand...

Fresta · 13/07/2018 08:02

If what people wear is irrelevant then we would all be wearing nothing.

The OP's talking about fashion, not the PM's politics. I don't see why she should be shouted at for expressing an opinion on someones choice of clothes. What she does for a living has nothing to do with whether we should be allowed to discuss what they are wearing.

SandyFagina · 13/07/2018 08:02

To be fair the Hunchback of Downing Street looked better than the -fascist dictator- President.

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 13/07/2018 08:03

I agree with haverhill

(But she did look great, beautiful dress...i know im shallow Sad)

MimpiDreams · 13/07/2018 08:04

I think she looked really good (and I can't stand the woman).

Peregrina · 13/07/2018 08:05

I thought she would have looked better covering the top of her arms, and not having such a high slit in the dress.

Kingkiller · 13/07/2018 08:05

Fgs don't be so shallow and sexist. I haven't seen the dress and am no fan of Theresa May. But stop doing women such a disservice by bitching about what they look like instead of focusing on what they are doing. Who the hell cares about her dress or her bloody posture etc?! And you'd have to be an idiot to be surprised that she doesn't have time for a lot of 'beauty sleep'.

LakieLady · 13/07/2018 08:05

This is so sexist.

My only thought on the dress was that red wasn't perhaps the best choice of colour for being photographed on a red carpet.

I thought Melania looked ridiculous - her dress looked like something a Disney princess would wear.

Abra1de · 13/07/2018 08:06

I think you’ve got mixed up and think this is a Kate or Meghan thread, OP.

AndhowcouldIeverrefuse · 13/07/2018 08:06

FFS with everything that is going in the world and particularly in the UK we have a thread bitching about the PM's clothes Angry

Jillcrewespony · 13/07/2018 08:06

What a pathetic thread.

Threewheeler1 · 13/07/2018 08:08

Well said NoelHeadbands!
The older I get, the less patience I have for this kind of nasty 'observation'.
It's suffocating to think that, no matter what you do, the measure of a woman is in how she physically presents herself.
Not to mention other people exercising their supposed 'right' to comment on it...Angry

theworldaccordingtome · 13/07/2018 08:10

OP you are part of the problem. While I am not a fan of her political stance, I also don't think this thread or anything like it would appear if she were male. Stop contributing to the way women are mistreated in the workplace by perpetuating this appalling attitude.

Peregrina · 13/07/2018 08:10

I thought Melania looked ridiculous too, and she hasn't got the excuse of needing to run the country and having other priorities than her clothes. Her sole function is to be arm candy for Trump. (Not saying that being arm candy is the role of all First Ladies - mostly they have found causes to espouse.)

3stonedown · 13/07/2018 08:10

Ignoring horrible thread but I think it was one of her better looks

Lweji · 13/07/2018 08:12

I am allowed to share my opinion on the dress

Definitely.

The thing is, OP, other people are also allowed to share their opinion on your opinion.
How is that working out? Grin

Peregrina · 13/07/2018 08:15

Corbyn had to put up with a lot of criticism for his dress sense. As did Michael Foot in his time. He wore what some regarded as a donkey jacket to the Remembrance Day parades and was not allowed to forget it, even though it was actually a good quality coat. Then there was the newsreader, shock horror, who wore a maroon tie when the Queen Mother died. It was a wonder he didn't get cast into the Tower for this most heinous of crimes! So yes, men do get criticised.

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 13/07/2018 08:16

With the caveat that it obviously matters not a fig what she wears, I like how she dresses. It's refreshing to see an older woman in a position of power who appears to enjoy fashion, and doesn't dress like she's trying to blend into the background or adopt "safe" neutral colours echoing what the men wear, as older women are generally expected to.

NoelHeadbands · 13/07/2018 08:16

What she does for a living has nothing to do with whether we should be allowed to discuss what they are wearing

Yes you’re ‘allowed’ to comment. You’re ‘allowed’ to comment on what men wear as well, but people rarely do- certainly not to the same extent, and usually only if they are particularly different, a la Corbyn ^^ up there.

That is the difference. It’s insidious.