I saw a woman in the Science Museum today, who really could only be described as having "let herself go"

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Grey streaky "hanging" hair, huge arse and fat tum in grey tracky bottoms, footglove shoes, shapeless burgundy tunic top and hanging tits. She really looked like she had given up on life. In contrast, she had three dear little, divinely trendily dressed girls with her. She had obviously put a lot of thought and effort into what they were going to wear (down to the very funky hat one of them was wearing) but hadn't even spent five minutes on herself.

Why?

I like the lime green ones, Greeny.

They look SO cool!

I want some!

I may ask for some from my sister.

She will understand.

She has orange ones.

But she also has a great tan.

spidermama I've reported your post to MN with a demand that it be made quote of the week IMMEDIATELY

Herdy gerdy with a touch of widow twanky I like that spider I shall base my whole summer look around that very theme xx

Can't they do something for that, Spider?

DD1 has long, skinny feet. Cringe.

The rest of her is long and skinny, too.

She even told me the other day, 'I have a skinny bum.'

She may have the curse of no tits!

right children. I'm going to put a Croc on one foot and a Birkie on the other and go upstairs and leap on my DH. Lucky man he'll think he's being attacked by a German/Dutch lesbian couple, probably his wildest fantasy

goodnight, all!

Yesh. Vee shmoak jointsh, roide boikes end wear theeshj pretty Crocsh.

Not without removing bone expat.

She'll perhaps have to opt for a punky look. That was my option. Thank God for DMs and lacy skirts in the 80s, big wedges in the 90s and now I have kids and have trapped my man I can wear Birkinstocks without fear.

Mwahahahaha!

To be fair, I suppose Mrs Schadenfreude's judgements on this woman are no worse than mine in reverse - by which are mean I am generally secretly sceptical of very well turned out shiny, gleaming mum's (harbour - I'm sure, completely unfounded suspiscions - that they are superficial / don't put that much time into their children and / or there house is probably a mess )

Mmmmm, baby. Fuck me shoes.

Those are Dutch Dyke Delicious.

Mmmm baby. Come to mamma frau.

I had those very Birhemstocks whilst pregnnt. When I bought them the sales lady informed me that I was the first person to buy the form Ballantynes in Christchurch. The excitement!

Then had to put up with DH singing 'lesbian shoes' to the tune of Jimmy Nail's Crocodile Shoes every time I wore them >

bloody comfy & practical though and I can comfort myself with the thought that the v.stylish and cool Harpsi wears them too

back too pushing double pushchair around in wedges now in pathetic attenpt to look taller/less fat

buy then from even

god ut takes ages to type witj one hand

Now, if you hadn't mentioned the three girls (I have boys) I'd have told you to say hello next time you saw me.

Is it just possible the girls are interested in clothes and she isn't? Some of us aren't.

I had some wedge trainers (sorry all) back in the mid-nineties.

DH and I were playing kick-the-can on the way back from the pub.

I fell of my wedge trainers and onto my top lip and put my front teeth through it.

'Twas very sore.

I take it that the extra-wide footgloves would be a cause for even more derision then?

I'm an even more hopeless case than I thought I was.

I was in London last week- never really been, am a complete yokel and at 8 months pregnant I am to be found dressed entirely in clothes fulfilling the following categories (in order of importance):

1. Whatever fits and covers the epic mound that is my bump

1. Whatever is comfortable- it's hot atm and I have minced feet

1. Whatever covers me up- it's hot atm and I burn

So, adorned in a crinkly skirt, hemp jacket, floppy straw hat and birkenstocks, I wandered round the Tate Modern last week and heard a woman whisper to her incredibly smartly dressed and lithe friend 'look, she thought it was fancy dress'.

Oh the cruelty of London fashionistas...

Bloody hell! . YOu must have been very bored to have paid so much attention to a random stranger.

she sounsd bonkers (hanging hair woman)

I would suspect depression

Perhaps she hasn't let herself go. Perhaps it was a 'look' she really liked. Well...you never know .

As the child of a mother who used to pick me up from school (posh girls school) in wellies and muddy trousers with, literally, straw in her hair, I don't find it that shocking.

oh I do wellies and muddy trousers

that looks as though you have been doing something though

On the subject of shoes, I think I have 4 pairs incl running shoes. Ooh..tell a lie, 5!DH bought me some Converse trainer thingies at the weekend because he despairs of my lack of style and total lack of interest. Very nice they are too....and sooo comfy

WigWamBam,why do you have such a masochisitc streak in you??????
You don't have to set yourself up quite so helplessly y'know.