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?

But is she so anonymous? Because I can certainly relate to being less than groomed at my lowest.

Perhaps thats why I don't like this discussion, its just too close to home. I'm thankful I'm out the other side, but it wasn't a good place to be with zero self-esteem/time/etc etc.

and on that note will butt out.

Lol at the sisterhood on this thread!

MrsS I know you aren't a troll!
Was just trying to illustrate that I was backing you up because I felt you were being unnecessarily bullied, not because you were my Best Friend in the Fictional Mumsnet Clique

(or indeed in real life, come to mention it)

ooo peahead, come and puke at my umbilical cord thread...

[shameless self-thread promotion]

Spider grey tracky bottoms are good, Birkenstocks are good. Just not together.

Nail on head foxy.

Sorry you're pissed off with how you look. It's no fun I know.

Thanks Spidermama. I won't ever go back to that place, it was grim!

Luckily it's not cold enough for socks with the slacks and Birkies chocolate. My outfit this evening is expressing something of how I feel. It's saying to DH 'Keep away from me'.

hello soph!

sounds revolting. where?

wanders off to look

Me and my innocent Croc's are constantly slagged off .

I feel bullied.

Croc's never did anything to anyone, so why all the grief?

What's that you say expat? 'Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy'.

Expat when both your chic and estimable mother AND the chic and estimable princess tell you Crocs are a croc'o'shite...you really should listen

Spider, if you just made the switch to Croc's, you'd never go back to those fugly Birks again.

Your sox would fit just fine with your Croc's.

I love the way my mother purses her lips whenever I wear them in her presence.

Sometimes I do it just to evoke her disdainful look.

i do not understand crocs.

they are plastic clogs with a strap at the back.

why would you wear them? because your wooden ones were at the carpenters?

your mother and I are twin souls expat.

soph you can join our "disdain crocs" club too. BUt I can't find your revolting thread and have to go to bed

I'm off to clean the kitchen and make some biscuits in my pink Croc's.

Another great thing about them is that you can just give them a wash in hte bathtub if they get mucky.

it is the scifi umbilical cord fantasy one in chat.

but don't worry pph. it had no punchline anyway.

Me either Sophable.

They remind me of the hygiene shoes that Surgeons and Theatre staff wear in hospitals.

In fact, that is what they are, isnt it?

VVV that's it godammit! you've discovered how they were invented!

people wear them so they might get mistaken for brain surgeons!!!!

So many mums wear crocs. I wonder if it's cos they're wipe clean so pelvic floor shoddiness doesn't matter...

hunker!

crocs catch wee wee!!!!! that must be it (love you expat btw! imagine you get away with it in some way by being thin and foxy)

my dh has a pair of crocs.
he believes that they are really helping his bad back.