Aaaah Autumn...BESH style. Join the MAD and may your loins be fruitful.

[Ariesgirl]

Aaaah Autumn...

Season of jizz and menkul WOOFLing,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing ovaries;
Conspiring with him how to SWI and bless
With baybees the hags that round the thatch eves drink gin run.

Join with us in making this MAD season very fruitful indeed.

Meant Salts.

But the question can go to HB too!

I am a recent convert to wrap dresses. I was always a bit wary of jersey as it clings to me in the wrong places but I got a really nice one in a sample sale, the material is fairly heavy so its not as clingy and also its a little on the large side so not really tight across the belly. I don't know if I will ever find another like it tho.

and re LR, my approach to it is somewhat the same as my approach to TKmaxx, as in try on 10 things to get one, and I ended up getting some quite nice stuff a few years ago. But recently the stuff has been getting shiter and shiter. I won't be sucked in again.

Anyone got any dress suggestions for women with ver small shoulders and boobs? Apparently I need Frills and Busyness round the bust.

How about this Rie?

Oh that's lovely! Thanks Pol!

Maybe I'll ask the gurus in Style and Beauty.

Looks like one of my Nanna's old housecoats! I was trying to be helpful, honest. I looked at Very and searched on ruffles and that came up. I couldn't resist.

Bless you. I luffs you as well

I am slim up top, and big hipped, and jersey wrap dresses work on me too, Aries.

though I must stress, I don't know what your bottom half is shaped like.

what about this

its ruffley but not frilly and will defo widen those shoulders?

oh, that's pretty, and would be a good pregnancy evening dress too.

HOw come I have only just learned that you can hide threads - I could have hidden that horrible thread slagging off my first name if I had realised.

but spennie tho :(

Actually this is a good one for skinny lanky beanpoles very slim ladies

yes that lovely, complete wrong neckline for me tho, would make my boobs look like they were round my waist. Borrowed lovely monsoon dress for this wedding that had similar neck line and it just doesn't look right :(

What? A horrible thread about your name, Meds? Show me where!!

Muse I am not only skinny slim, but bony. I can't wear V necks. Bottom half is obviously bigger - I am British after all - but not v big. Generally I wear 8-10, but when I was shopping for a dress for my sister's wedding the lady in Monsoon said "You're a 6 really". So I said "Show me the 6's" and she said "We don't do them." . Stupid woman! Twenties style dresses usually work well on me, though to be honest I don't much get the opportunity to dress up (not really called for in my line of work!) When I get diffed I'm going to be one gigantic stomach.

It was a while ago in the baby names folder, someone getting opinions on it, and I made the mistake of posting on it, so saw every subsequent post saying "{Medee} that's so 70s/naff/etc." Its what comes of going into the Baby Names folder!

Pol you've the patience of a saint to have dealt with that lot without having some sort of banshee moment.

Medee I think your congrats were meant for Twink although I did for a nano second wonder if I'd drunkenly announced somthing on here last night

Am enjoying lovely lazy today, planning to test out my newly mobile back and legs (I luffs my new physio) by walking to the pub. That way if it hurts I can self-medicate on arrival

To contribute to the wrap dress convo, I'm top heavy and tend to avoid wrap styles as they make me look like I've got nana boobs. I do however love the jersey dresses in M&S that have a drapey top half and fitted bum area. I could spend my entire disposable income on the M&S autograph and portfolio collections.

Duh! I meant Medeee not Muse in response to the bottom half question. Everyone always suspected you were the same person!

Oooh, I like the shape. I find slash neck type things are good for balancing small top, bigger bottom half. And I favour an a-line skirt due to childbearing hips.

Monsoon tend to be a bit generous IMO though. Their things tend to drown me a bit and I am a hippy size 12 (usually a 10 but still carrying weight from The Baby That Never Was. And the comfort eating. Really).

oh, sorry, Truff, I really meant to avoid that, I said it to myself as I was mentally composing my post.

Too many confusing names!

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!! I want to shower in bleach! I just had a tickling feeling at the very top of my thigh and I thought it was a stray piece of cotton from my knickers and then I felt it on the back of my knee and so I shook my trousers hard and then....gulp...an earwig fell onto the floor! I am SO revolted!

Oh Aries yuk, am not surprised you feel that way

polly Your christmas presents sound wonderful - I once made a Nigella chutney from apples from the garden and it was gorgeous. As for the accident... I once had a mastiff who would eat anything . A colleague had got me a 1.7 litre bottle of Jack Daniels from the NATO base and I'd left it on the kitchen table in a carrier bag. As I left the house I sort of half thought "I should move that", but didn't. I came home to a billion shards of glass but not one solitary drop of bourbon. Dog was fine and showed no signs whatsoever of inebriation.

head I got a yellow string when I got diffed. Mind you, I got one the month previous too. Maybe it's something I'd always had but until last year wasn't examining each and every think which came out of my foof.

Aries - being modest of chest you can wear the Trinny-type dresses, you know, slit down to here. And smart trouser suits with no blouse on. Congrats with all the shagging though.

Before I ate the entire contents of Tesco I used to like strapless dresses. Tits & arse, tits & arse.

Truff there was a distinct lack of patience this morning, combined with lots of hushed swearing through gritted teeth, whilst Boo kept saying 'What did you say mummy?'. If I hadn't been on my own I think I'd have just cried and got TG to help or preferably take over while I wailed. But as the stoopid fucker is in oxford playing with little metal soldiers I just had to do it.

at the JD-loving mastiff Pone! Our dog is also of that ilk - we cannot leave child's toys, or handbags, or cups or in fact anything within her reach. Luckily she is is not as big as a mastiff, but she did once eat a whole pack of 50 jay clothes. What made it worse was that when she did a poo, the poo fell off and left yards of jay-cloth-string hanging out of her arse. I had to pull it out. I swear it was like a bloody magicians trick but instead of pulling out brightly coloured handkerchiefs, it was 10 feet of poo-covered cloth. Urgh. I had some family staying at the time - one of them (male, 30's, never left home, always single) is still traumatised by the sight of it about 10 years later. [proud emoticon]