Is Sloane Ranger style at all relevant these days?

[Janegrey333]

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What do you or don’t you like about this style which is set to make a comeback due to the Diana portrayal in The Crown?I love so much about the original look that the young Diana exemplified: knitwear, ballet pumps, pearls etc. Your opinions would be welcome - which is why I am placing this in AIBU...

Yabu!

Hideous look, Daina looked awful in her early days in the public eye she got more stylish latterly.

Sloan Rangers look was only every popular with Sloan Rangers for a very good reason !

@Janegrey333 I was for a long time - and if I pitched this any editor I work for would laugh in my face. The only reason you get from Mumsnet to the papers if you're doing something Penis Beaker levels of interesting, not because you're asking whether pie crust collars are back. It's amazing how paranoid some people are. Or perhaps how interesting people regard themselves as being!

@Sewrainbow

Yabu!

Hideous look, Daina looked awful in her early days in the public eye she got more stylish latterly.

As long as those awful pie-crust shirts/blouses don't come back, if you had anything like a normal neck they looked awful, you needed to be a giraffe to look good.

Ghastly! The male version was even worse. To eaches own though, I'm still sporting the checked shirt and leggings look from the 90's which comes and goes in fashion, I don't care

I dislike pretty much everything she wore and she never had a good haircut so the style icon status she is given baffles me. I do have some so-called classics like a Burberry camel coat, but I can do without massive matching decorative buttons covered in material, blazers with calf length skirts and chunky tartan.

I hate the Sloane look. It was the height of frumpiness in the '80s, it made the wearer look like they'd stolen their clothes from a washing line belonging to a middle aged couple. It originated with people who literally dressed like their parents.

Pre and post marriage, Diana looked shapeless and bland, which was shame because I suspect that she would have liked to be more stylish.

That doe-eyed peering out from under her ludicrous fringe! Absolutely not my kind of style icon.

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel

God no, the quickest way to make a 25 year old look a matronly 55.

Absolutely this! It looks awful on anyone not pushing retirement in my opinion

she never had a good haircut

so not true, I am not a fan of the early years (looks far too old for me), but she had some hair styles that looked really great on her.

and for someone who liked short hair, so many different styles!

Diana was very slim (and very tall which people forget) - many of her outfits and fashion at the time would look ok on similar silhouettes, but horribly matronly on someone a little bit more.. curvy.

The Guardian article has cherry-picked some of the less offensive examples of the style. Most of Diana's frocks (and I use that word deliberately) looked like they were straight from Marks & Spencer's range for the elderly.

Wot, no caterpillar eyebrows and white stripe down the nose? And exposed arse string with bit of shit on?

It will never catch on.

@Haffiana

Wot, no caterpillar eyebrows and white stripe down the nose? And exposed arse string with bit of shit on?

It will never catch on.

I don't know where you live, but you need to move.

I don't know where you live, but you need to move.

Quite near Sloane Square as it happens

It’s not just about Diana, though! Cressida Bonas was once one too - and may well still be, deep in her soul!

I haven't followed her very carefully, but with what little I have seen of Cressida B, I can't think of anything she wore that would look remotely matronly on anyone.

Really? I always think it looks like young people cosplaying their mums.

I hate it personally.

Diana was a beautiful woman but was hard to see underneath all that.

I've always been utterly repelled by posh style and manners anyway. The English upper classes have a knack of taking nice, elegant, high quality things and making them look dowdy and sexless.

Part of the reason Diana helped revive all this was because most of the people she hung around with looked so dreadful IMHO. She was the best thing to happen to the aristocracy since the First World War.

God I hope it doesn’t. All the prefect/head girl sixth formers at my school dressed like that, the whole look gives me awful back at school getting into trouble for wearing nail polish vibes (the prefects were in charge of enforcing that kind of thing). The non prefect types all dressed like Banarama, much cooler.

I never really got the Saint Di thing anyway, she always looked gormless to me.