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are brora dresses frumpy?

11 replies

notanidea · 29/08/2010 07:53

I have never brought from brora - who buys thm?

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CerealOffender · 29/08/2010 08:00

are you refereing to teh dinner lady tea dance silky affairs? yes they are fairly frumpy. i imagine a beautiful willowy ingénue would look sweet in them.

notanidea · 29/08/2010 08:04

I was looking at their liberty print dreses

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UnePrune · 29/08/2010 08:08

I have a linen one - it's ok, but then I probably AM quite frumpy! It's easy to dress up.
I think the liberty print ones are nice but I've come to the conclusion that their stuff (my dress incl) looks good on thin blonde twenty-year-olds.

traceybath · 29/08/2010 09:20

I don't know - I think they tread a fine line to be honest and would need careful styling to avoid looking frumptastic.

purplepeony · 29/08/2010 10:22

I think they are an acquired taste- a bit like Toast.
I can imagine some upper class gal wearing them for tripping around her parent's pile. A bit like Kiera Knightly in "Atonement" or Chariots of Fire stuff.

Don'tlook so good on a bus in Hackney.

alarkaspree · 29/08/2010 14:42

This season they are. They have had nicer dresses in the past I think.

CerealOffender · 29/08/2010 15:21

i would love to buy their knitwear, if i had a spare squillion billion quid lying round.

faustina · 29/08/2010 15:27

if you look at the photos they have of models wearing them, they don't look so bad, but then you look at the photos of the dresses on their own, and they do look a bit shapeless don't they...

they have a final reductions part on the website at the moment and there are some really really big bargains. I bought a lovely half price drapey cardigan and a blanket the other day. Their sales are always rather disappointing, but this one isn't.

Autumndew · 29/08/2010 18:29

I love the Liberty print one and would definately buy it if i had the cash .As i mentioned on other thread don`t like the model wearing it .Too hard faced for Brora

faustina · 29/08/2010 20:42

oh Autumndew I looked after you said that the first time, and I quite agree with you.

BikeRunSki · 29/08/2010 22:36

I loved the star print one this summer. Saved up for it. Tried it on. It looked like the love child of a a too-big lab coat and maternity top.

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