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?

Fabulous riposte, WWB!

this thread has got to ba a wind up. Trip effing trap.

I don't think so donnie, PPH I think knows the OP? And, oddly enough, the woman who is the subject of the thread.

If sh'e been wearing crocs instead of footglove shoes, whould this thread have ever started?

If she'd been wearing a Rigby & Peller bra, it would definitely never have started.

There are women all over the country like this woman. they just don't usually make it to the Science Museum. If she's been in Pontefract or Romford nobody would have blinked.

So are crocs in or out?

Footgloves are out. Nobody under 65 should wear them. Make up your own mind about crocs. It's a personal thing.

I think if you make so much effort with your children it is possibily more noticable if you dont make effort yourself as parents always seem to look at other children clothing etc then glance at the mothers.
I personaly try to make an effort, neverleave the house without make up and always make sure clothes clean and tidy and all matching. Just embarrased and feel shitty if look shitty.

It's easy with children, just stick them in a lean dress and brush their hair. They are already cut. YOu never see an ugly child, do you? Just ones with bad haircuts.

That should be clean dress.

A lean dress sounds like this Summer's must have--I can just imagine it demonstrated in the Style mag.

If this thread ahd started with Crocs Cod would've been here like a Shot!

Crocs in or out? I think given how many styles there actuallya re when you look into it, there has to be something that is 'in' there- their flip flops look pretty normal and still ahve the comfort thing. And anyway they're camping garb really, and camping is WAy in (mores the pity- far harder to geta pitch nowadays with all these honny come lately types

Camping is considered trendy now isn't it? Does that annoy the campers who've been doing it for years?

Erm.... only when its ahrd to get a pitch and the sun is out

other than that though its a more the merrier lifestyle

Dh and I have a dream of opening a camping and caravan site one day (won't happen)- so natch we'd like MORE trade LOL!

Aah, thought it might send the prices up.

(No idea how to steer the thread back to the OP now).

No I don't know the OP (could be Steve for all I know )
And I probably don't know the person the thread is about, but I know her absolute doppelganger and therefore have a bit more of an idea about where MrsS is coming from than I would do had I not a very clear picture of it all in my mind!

You see; there are lots of people like this out there, they just don't usually make it as far as the Science Museum.

Camping is trendy if you have a Cath Kidson tent.

No cf it really isn't
people with ck tents get lots of looks

Cmaping is trendy if you have a tentipi / outwell / Khyam (me!) / vango / outdoor revolution / certain gelerts and a few others

not ck

Surely a tent is just a tent?

I wonder if Ms Footglove went out wearing a wonderful coat? Wore plain stuff underneath on the assumption that no one would see it. Then got to the Science Museum and was forced to abandon beautiful coat in the cloakroom.

I always assume I will have to peel off my outer clothes whenever I go to the Science Museum. The temperatuer is way too hot IME. Might also explain the lanky hair - she worked up a 'glow' runnnig after her three girls.

I am toying with the idea of buying fake crocs for £5.00 from our local market. Is it more wiser to buy authentic plastic crocs or fake plastic crocs - and is there such a thing as a fake plastic shoe?

I think if she'd been wearing orange crocs with her tracky bottoms and shapeless top, the word "eccentric" would have sprung to mind, and she wouldn't have appeared to have given up on life quite so resolutely. Ditto if she had been wearing Birkies and toe rings or bright red polish on her toes - or really anything which lent a bit of colour to her.

I am not Steve, PPH! And I am not a troll either.

more wise, I mean, not more wiser - I have not let myself go quite that much.