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Brangelina · 22/01/2009 21:51

Aka le Patatine

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Brangelina · 31/01/2009 22:02

OMG, am I mutton dressed as lamb? I still go into Top Shop. I find Next and French connection too stuffy and grown up for my taste, and as for Wallis and Principles

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SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 31/01/2009 22:03

If you have the legs, no prob!

will ring them tomorrow, thanks

SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 31/01/2009 22:05

my skinny jeans, and my boycut jeans are topshop.....

Penthe, just wear wide boots if you feel self-counscious

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Brangelina · 31/01/2009 22:05

You should try them on, you never can tell how something is going to look unless you try them on. I used to have a horror of tops with ruched bobby bits as the made by booby bits looked like a giant sausage, but I recently was persuaded to try a designer one on and it wasn't bad at all. I didn't buy it thoug, far too expensive and in a flimsy material that doesn't go well with cats.

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Brangelina · 31/01/2009 22:06

that should be booby bits....

I now wonder if I should stop looking at Miss Sixty stuff as it's not really aimed at my age group, is it?

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Penthesileia · 31/01/2009 22:08

LOL @ Wallis and Principles...

Thanks for the tip, Sunflower.

Thing is, though: how do you know if you've got the legs? Half of Britain wears skinny jeans, and I'm pretty darn sure that those flabby, pasty, muffin-topped mingers think they've got the legs...

Penthesileia · 31/01/2009 22:09

Ruched booby bits... Hilarious!

SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 31/01/2009 22:10

Wallis and principles, brrrrrrrrrr, maybe ok for my mum.... Next, no, I like low-rise (no belt-rise mind you) plus they dress too big, so they don't have stuff for me, French connection, they occasionally have some pretty things (they had a '60s style very short dress last winter I just loved (but not for the pregnant me!), so I stick to Miss S, Wearhouse and TS

SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 31/01/2009 22:10

LOL penthe, skinny jeans are not their only problem!

Penthesileia · 31/01/2009 22:12

I think I am very boring and untrendy: wear a lot of Jigsaw and Noa Noa. I think it's because I work around 18-21 year olds, so don't want to look like I'm trying to compete or fit in... [sad old git] But, perhaps I am old before my time...

Penthesileia · 31/01/2009 22:13

True! I am like this: a lot of the time when I'm out in town... People are so weird. And deluded. And fat!

SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 31/01/2009 22:17

and my manager used to tell me I would have ended up like typical "big italian mammas" after DS!!.

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Brangelina · 31/01/2009 22:18

at the memory of huge muffin top in the first few months after DD's birth, when I was so determined to get back into my size 10s I just lopped all the excess over the top. Oh the wobbliness of it all I'm so ashamed now, what was I thinking?!? I blame momentary loss of the taste section of my brain due to screaming hormonal situation.

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SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 31/01/2009 22:21

me too... try to cover up, plus when I'm out I'm normally wearing wrap sling with baby, so lots of layers around shameful muffin...

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Brangelina · 31/01/2009 22:37

Oh yes, slings always managed to make nay tops I had on ride up shamefully. Ooh, it was bad!

Off to bed now, we have an early start tomorrow. Notte!

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Penthesileia · 31/01/2009 22:48

I'm sure that any muffin tops you ladies had pale into insignificance in comparison to some of those on show by the UK's finest...!

Notte!

SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 31/01/2009 22:54

notte

PippiCalzelunghe · 31/01/2009 23:58

penthe FGS I thought you were going to say can I wear skinny jeand and I'm 50. If you don;t wear them now when are ya girl?? Okay maybe not with a tight over-the-belly-button top unless you are 15 but with a long shirt/jumper/dress and chunky/uggs/biker boots.

ah ah ah look at me I think I am Jess Cartner-Morley .

night night.

(back from babysitting - dh and I drinking wine with cheese and buisquits....)

Rosa · 01/02/2009 08:36

I cannot wear skinny jeans ..As I would look like a gelato with a muffin on top no make that a double muffin!
When working I used to wear Wallis as I could race in when in the Uk and grab and run - I had a lot of suit wearing kind of work. could not afford the Italian stuff. Now I buy anything that fits - quite sad really but my clothing standards have dropped I fall into the category of a slummy mummy - jeans jumper , jeans t shirt, scraped back ponytail and then have a total panic when I have to go somewhere and wear something other than the old faithfuls- I need Trinny and Sussanah.
Its snowing here and we have a party this pm will I need chains for the pram ???
I am going to cut ans paste the 2 cakes and try them when I have excess of Bananas and I must get some Molasses.
If anybody wants pics of minirosa post your e mail addresses . She was a bit of a monkey last evening but the night she behaved!

Bucharest · 01/02/2009 10:30

I'm a boy really. I hate clothes, and shoes, and make up. (my Mum made me start wearing it, and made me buy a handbag when dd was born as it was time I Grew Up and Became A Woman now that I was with child.....)

Almost all my clothes are Per Una (we have a factory shop near my Mum's) and I have one pair of shoes! (when they break, I buy a new pair...)

I also have no waist but small hips (told you I was meant to be a boy) and am nearly 6ft tall so any length skirt is wrong.....

gio71 · 01/02/2009 11:22

Was faithful devotee of skinny jeans in 80's but sad realisation that have huge arse and short legs means boot cut all the way for me now , would love to wear them and am very of you that can still wear miss sixty

PippiCalzelunghe · 01/02/2009 12:48

per la cronaca: I am a slummy mummy too. yesterday while writing post like Karl Lagerfeld I had black cord trousers tshirt and gray jumper all covered in dried milk/pasta etc and pony tail. what's make up? ahhh that stuff you put on that on time when you go out with dh like anniversaried or smthing???

Rosa · 01/02/2009 12:53

I look lovingly at my must be expired makeup - As I was always in and out of duty free I have a selection of the nice brands.
MInirosa discoverd her fist and her thumb comes out every once i a while does that mean she will become a full time thumb sucker- I have to keep rolling up her sleeves as she drools all over them.
Party this pm is one I like all older mums sheer co oncidence we were all at same swimming group. So lots of grey hair , bumpy bits and no fashion statements . Next fridays party is another matter !!!!
Snow now sleet and rain so dh and I will get soaked !

monkeysmama · 01/02/2009 13:02

Hmm. I am now very worried! I am 32 & live in skinny jeans & leggings. Am I mutton dressing as lamb?! I had never even considered being too old for skinny jeans! What else would I wear? Leggings or skinnys, polo neck & cardi/dress/jumper/shirt and long boots is my uniform. Oh no.

As for makeup, I am every advertisers' dream. I wear light make up every day & have a particular mascara obsession. How shallow do I sound!? I am not a bad person really.

Someone mentioned Jess CM. I read what she writes but then look at her photo in said clothes & think she looks wrong.

beforesunrise · 01/02/2009 13:07

Bucharest, my mum bought me a hairbrush when dd1 was born/my 30th birthday (the events more or less coincided), with the words: You have reached the age where you must brush you hair in the morning... I never owned a hairbrush before!

DD2 loves chewing on it

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