Do I give in and buy Boden?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I'm not really into catalogue clothes, but I don't have time to shop. Are Boden clothes actually nice? Do they wear well? What are their sizes like?

(I'm tempted by some trousers, and there's a special 15% off thing for Ocado customers ... I'll put the code up if anyone's interested.)

And why does everyone use "Does anyone have the number for Boden?" as a way to stop an argument?

scummy, that silence says it all...

ooooops... sorry Enid I'm sure you were very good at it...
I was just looking at the catalogue last night and it was making me slightly nauseous:
B is for : boys! burp! bottom!
don't make me eat : anything gooey!
these are grown women fgs...
maybe I am just a cynical hardened bitch.
oh yes wait a minute I am.

It does, doesn't it, bundle?

I didn't think my mumsnet claim to fame credentials could get any better than knowing the woman who named "Twister' (tigermoth)! Now I can tell everyone I know the mouth of Johnnie Eejitsmarm Boden. I am a v happy woman this day.

I tell everyone I know the person who named Twisters as well!

The game or the green and yellow ice lollies?

Do you mean twister, as in the game?

My kids were SO impressed with that. They asked me what icecream I'd named and looked crestfallen when I rervealed that I had named nary an ice cream in my whole life ever...

Green and Yellow ice lollies.

The Boden clothes my mum has bought are beautiful and go on and on and on. I pass them down. Some are on their fourth child and still the colours are bright and the seams are straight. I love them.

Do you think she called them Twister because they send your children round the...

(I like Boden too. But feel Sainsbury's range this season pays a certain homage to Johnny. At a third of the price.)

and hennes

I think Johnny pays homage to Hennes rather than vice versa actually. Esp. with the boys clothes.

ooooh controversial scummy. I think the Boden "look" has certainly been picked up elsewhere

I hear the clothes wear very well, NQC. Go for it!

Hennes has been doing great kids clothes for years. Way before Eejitsmarm was on the scene!

scum, the girls clothes were particularly fab this year, got dd1 a dress, hoodie, 2 pairs trousers and a tshirt for £24. you could barely get the dress for that from johnnie..

Sopunds lovely bundle. I bet she'll look gorgeous. I used to love going to Hennes with my mum when I was little.

like hennes for kids clothes, they do some really good bibs, plastic backed but are quite small with velcro, perfect for ds who's dribbling all the time.

personally i find the fact that a next directory costs £3 more annoying than all the captions in the boden catalogue

oh scummy, I never knew Hennes existed when I was little (but then, you are a lot younger than me )..M&S was glam when I was a kid..

OMG! Ds' favourite ice-cream. My respect and adoration for Tigermoth has reached a new plane!
I never knew that.

I'd like to see PregnantandRantingEnid flex her copywriting muscles on the latest catalogue...

"Sophie, 23: preferred thread "Am I pregnant?" Sophie is wearing a boxy little top that can't be tumble-dried and cuts anyone over 5'2" right in half. WTF doesn't this patronising git make clothes for properly proportioned people!"

I like Boden's clothes actually ; but not as much as Twisters, which is why I am too porky to fit in them.

When DD1 was tiny (1983-4) she had a few gorgeous things from Hennes - cotton tights!!!! everywhere else was nylon! - but the nearest shop to us was Nottingham I think

Am personally contemplating buying a Boden cardie if I can wear it in sufficiently nork-exposing manner; but the Inferiorettes get Sainsbury's and Hennes

the catalogues are exceptionally good for cutting out and sticking games (different heads, bodies and legs stuff, all good fun)

I have a green cardi from Boden which I've had for three years and still looks like new. Agree though on the short and wide comments....