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

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MrsSchadenfreude · 16/04/2007 21:59

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?

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littlelapin · 17/04/2007 20:39

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MrsSpoon · 17/04/2007 20:39

I don't know Tigermoth, you certainly get fake plastic trees.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 17/04/2007 20:40

No - no bra, remember? But perhaps she had racy red crotchless panties on.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 17/04/2007 20:43

That's possible but the nipples were placed rather lower.

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NorksBride · 17/04/2007 20:44

Niiiice

batters · 17/04/2007 20:46

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Heathcliffscathy · 17/04/2007 20:57

ROFLMAO at the intimation that MN isn't about judging.

chocolateface · 17/04/2007 21:09

You see it's just that she was in the Science Museum, you're not supposed to look like that in the Scince Museum.

Nemo2007 · 17/04/2007 21:11

OMG I just read opening post and thought rplace one the girls with a DS and it could probably be me.Was just thinking to myself how pathetic I have gone..

Spidermama · 17/04/2007 21:16

LOL that this thread's still going. That pooooooooooooooooooor woman. Face facts girls that could have been any one of us on a bad day. Well, except Northerner and expat of course.

mummytosteven · 17/04/2007 21:17

oh phew, seeing as I've got crocs I would merely be eccentric!

Heathcliffscathy · 17/04/2007 21:17

[spider did you get your car fixed?]

NorksBride · 17/04/2007 21:23

Spidermama - shiny new shoes thread

Judy1234 · 17/04/2007 21:28

MrsS, you're being terribly sexist though and saying that appearance of women matters and that say women have some sort of duty if everyone over 40 in the UK dyes their hair to follow suit.

" Oh durr, it's obvious. It was Xenia!" - not me... I do dye the hair actually at home which is cheapest and I don't at the moment get it cut.

I went out last night looking pretty awful to the shop - we needed milk. I'd had a shower, wet hair, just pulled on a jumper and skirt, no bra. Couldn't care less.

Some women have an insecurity that means they feel their looks are the key thing and perhaps that is because they define themselves by their looks and their principal achievement in life as they have no career to speak of is their hooking a man and then living off his earnings for the next 40 years. For those women their looks have been what's got them that dependent meal ticket for life. If women have interesting careers looks can matter less.

Heathcliffscathy · 17/04/2007 21:30

cor blimey xenia i had you down as a cross between joan collins and liz hurley looks wise!

chocolateface · 17/04/2007 21:39

Spider- It cdould never have been me,ene on a dreadful day as I always dress up for the Science Museum, and would never, under any circumstances, ever wear footglove shoes. I would be the mad barefoot lady in the Science Museum.

chocolateface · 17/04/2007 21:41

Xenia, your right, social workers have very interesting careers.

Spidermama · 17/04/2007 21:50

I spent a few years grunging round the school playground with a shuffling gait looking like a bag of old laundry. I didn't care because I didn't have time to care. I had young babies.

Now my youngest is two, I've done the old boiler thing and come out the other side. I've seen other women come out of the shadows when their babies get a bit older too.

I'll probably never give up my Birkinstocks comfort is also paramount, but I'm quite enjoying making the best of myself until it all goes for good.

Actually Xenia IME career women make more far more effort over their clothes. It was the major reason I got a sartorial kick up the lard arse.

moondog · 17/04/2007 21:52

I love the expression 'old boiler'.

Spidermama · 17/04/2007 21:52

I hereby swear before all MN witnesses I will never wear footglove shoes.

Soph, the car trouble is not quite over but it should all be in the past by this time tomorrow. I had a very shit time.

2shoes · 17/04/2007 22:05

is it me oris xenia just jealous of woman who have got a man

Judy1234 · 17/04/2007 22:18

Sometimes I don't look too bad but I don't define myself by my looks. The person I am and the career and intersts I pursue are things I can do at 70 as well as 40+. WOmen who put their all into how they look get fed up as they get older. It's a shame.

foxybrown · 17/04/2007 22:22

ditto spidermama - sometimes we just have to go through the process and come out the other side.

find this sort of judgemental op very upsetting.