can someone tell me what is so bad about waterfall cardigans...

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Seen various comments on here along the lines of burn it and hideous.

What is so bad about them. I always think cardigans can risk looking mumsy but think these look nice and go with anything from dresses to jeans.

Someone enlighten me...

I'm wearing a waterfall Cardigan today in honour of you all. It's short lightweight and brown. Bought it from the shop Forever21 in Birmingham. I'm going out in it in a bit. Wish me luck.

Throwing them in the bin is cruelty to cardis.

I saw one in Fat Face today it was nice. FF is for young people isn't t...or for 40-somethings who think they are still 20....maybe

Fat Face makes me shudder.

How ludicrous, depending on what you wear with anything anyone can wear anything.

Seriously, I have several and they are gorgeous. It's all about how you wear em girls

It's all in how you wear them. I have 3 and I more or less live in them in winter because I'm always cold - they look fab with skinny jeans and knee high boots. DH loves it, he calls it my yummy mummy look.

they are way too mumsy, and remind me of carol jackson in EE

It's just about knowing what suits your own body shape. On some women they will look great when combined with the right trousers (they would look hideous with a skirt), and on other women they look horrid and frumpy. I have a black flimsy jersey one that I think looks great over the top of a tee-shirt and trousers. Sometimes I tie it at the front to make it smarter for work with black trousers. I think it looks slimming and goes well with some of my print tees. And if you don't agree, well .

I'm 58 and no way would I touch them with a bargepole either.

Read a review where someone felt hers sat lopsided. So she got out the inch-tape and yes, had been made shorter on one side. She sent it back. Didn't ask for another.

Those ruffley waterfall things (especially in unfortunate shades of pink) always make me think that someone is dressed up as a vulva.

They should be called labia cardigans.

Could someone post a pic so we know exactly what we're talking about? I'd hate to chuck out half my cardies for no reason

Heh @ Himalaya.

I do not like them. Boden did one last season and it looked like one of those things when Boden don't quite get it right...unlike their lovely boyfriend cardi :)

am I the only one who thinks this picture makes the cardigan vaguely resemble a vagina?

or perhaps I have serious lady-garden issues...

IvaNighSpare - yup that's what I'm talking about. Good pic.

It is out of stock...the vagina cardigan must be popular

its like everything that was once the preserve of fashionistas, bodenators (i like boden but -come on)and (self appointed)"yummy mummies", the minute an item of clothing becomes popular, and "fat" (ie-any of not the above) people start wearing them (cos they can be quite nice)they become uncool.
can I detect little touches of (whisper it)ageism,and body fascism?(no offence to anyone to whom that does not apply-just a thought)

Wear what you like sisters, as long as it fits fowgowdsake(what is it with otherwise tiny people wearing skinny jeans a size even smaller and getting a muffin top, hey?)

amyway what are jeggings all about-- they seem to look weird on everybody?(except tucked into boots-perhaps thats the point?)

Himalaya - I am so glad someone else thinks that, and it's not just me! And IvaNighSpare.

I have a theory about the abundance of ruffley bits on, for instance, Per Una, clothing (and the odd bit of Monsoon, too). i think it all ponts in that direction, in a lightly fetish-y way. And one of the reasons it's viewed with horror, and as frumpy, is because it seems to be an announcement of insecurity about sexual identity. ie - I am now wearing a vulva, in the form of flounces and frills, because I am, secretly, a little worried that society no longer recognises my possession of a vulva.

OMG Animula...your theory is both hilarious, and kind of actually fitting to a person I know 8-/

am reading this with interest as just bought an asymetrical cardi today, and have realised that it will dangle below my coat, bu i still think its nice:)

and a quick question, but why is boyfriend cardi deemed a must have then? before dh, my boyfriends would not have worn cardis even if paid- and dh wouldn't be a cardi guy either. have never actually seen a man out and about in a cardi..

didn;t frank bough wear zip up ones for his coke fests with naked ladies:)??

Do you lot think you hit 50 and overnight become a frump?

A woman in her fifties is in the Prime of Life I tell you....Prime of Life!

As you were.

PS I hate waterfall cardies.

I am waiting for some company that gives its clothes funky titles to bring out a waterfall cardie called 'beef curtains'.

Fwiw, I don't see a bf cardi as a must-have - the shape is too boxy for me, and squares off my shape. I look awful in anything manly.

Short fitted is the way to go for me.