Mumsnet Vogue - first edition

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For everyone who wants to harp on about their new purchases, enjoys links and some chat. Here is to new beginnings!

on perfume, I find it so evocative that I tend to gravitate towards scents that remind me of particular times. Having a tough time at work so am using Bulgari jasmin noir as it reminds me of a great winter two years ago

Thank you....I think I'm doing okay and then the pain hits me like a truck. A very silent and unpredictable truck. Never, never did I imagine this.

But threads like this help. My Father loved his clothes; he wasn't profligate but he had such a cool style. He was a 'Mod' in the early sixties, rode a Vespa and wore the narrowest cigarette cut pants, a thin tie and this fabulous flannel Crombie style coat. His shoes were always polished to an opaque gleam with the laces tied just so. He was and remained so handsome.

He kept everything and wonderfully, my DS can fit into some of his clothing.

How did / does your Father's dress? What was his 'look' during adolescence and young adulthood?

your dad sounds fabulous mignonette

Oh I bet, it must be so hard. Your Father sounds really wonderful.

Mine is very English and does wear great clothes - wears strong colours, including pink or whatever, white straw hats and a shock of white hair. Very slim when young he looked very 60s/70s. There are also really beautiful photos of my mother in long socks, and auburn pigtails and an old fashioned pram.

I'm really sorry, how lovely your ds can fit into some of his clothing.

Hi all, too busy to write a lot but enjoy reading.
Mignonnette very :( about your father. I've never had any shoe related drama in funerals but once stumbled on a set of very pink-gummed false teeth.

I was given different versions of Black Dahlia at Neiman Marcus last April - smells classic but a bit naughty, like a lady who does not bother to wear knickers under her Chanel suit

Those of you who need a good train read, I can also really recommend the Turin & Sanchez Perfume guide. It's very funny and absorbing - not anything like the boring lists of notes you get at department stores. Plus one of the five star parfumeurs is a personal friend ;)

Champagnes: Louis Massing Brut Reserve (the budget alternative) is a happy young girl, perfect for summer picnics. Pannier Brut Blanc de Noirs 2005 is a va va voom lady with curves in just the right places (I say J Lo). Both clearly tastier and more balanced and cheaper than Moet Chandon. We also learned some pro vocabulary - Marie Antoinette glasses and that "brioche" and "white toast" are magic words. Even more magically, no hangover

Slightly obsessed with cute younger men at work - is this bad?

Will savor a chapter of You Are What You Wear before crashing. Shop at Anna has some great stuff on sale - red Saloni dress tempting but I have enough clothes.

Today's outfit? Watermelon short sleeved knit shirt (found in our city apt) and neon coral Zara jacket and MiH skinnies and pseudo Acnes. Pareto rule rules

Summer almost over. It has been a lovely one... Almost ready for the mellow Italian fall. Waves to all - your posts are a delight to read.

Am only managing the occasional lurk in between assembling ikea furniture, but just wanted to say mignonette I'm so sorry to hear about your dad . It must have been an awful thing to go through, and I'm sorry too for being rude back to you last week.

Sorry to hear about your father Mignonette.

I love any citrusy perfume. And Samsara for evening, that I have stayed faithful to for 20 years. Scent is so evocative- I only have to smell Fahenheit and I am instantly zoomed back 20 years to a VERY handsome dark haired young man with killer cheek bones.....

Great to see you here Hopefully! I thought of you today after my double Cardio Abs and Pure Cardio session....

Amber both options fabulous - I'd do midnight because I associate 50 shades of gray with work.

Mignonette, so sorry about your father.

Glad you had a good weekend away, Mintgreentiger.

My grandfather was very dapper and my brothers used to wear his old Crombie coats and one or two of my dad's.

I am quite boring with perfume, I usually stick to Chanel No 5 or No 19.

Amber, I vote for the grey dress too.

Lots of lovely links!

NY, Paco Rabanne has the same effect on me!

Mignonette really beautiful clothes. I adore it all, and love the Preen skinny pants, the L'Agence dress and yes go for the Anise Jbrand coat.

Great to see you Hopefully.

Dona my very favourite thing is parties with champagne and nothing else. A very good friend holds these types of gorgeous parties. And you're right no hangover.

Good workout NY!

Mintgreen glad you had a lovely weekend away. Sorry to hear work is tough.

Bless you all. Don't want to turn this wonderful thread into my own personal therapy session but I will urge you all to not hold back words of love and appreciation to your parents. Try not to hold back on discussing any issues which still cause an 'ouch' either.

I wish, how I wish that I had said what I needed to say. If I can help anybody else to avoid this, then some good has come.

Donana - Can you recommend an alternative to Prosecco? I also love Italian Eau De Vie (sorry for not knowing Italian name of equivalent) liqueurs and digestifs such as Frangelico and of course, Limoncello. Any suggestions for some more unusual flavours?

We recently bought (and swiftly imbibed) a bottle of Saint Germain Elderflower Liqueur. It is divine- I imagine it as what Fairy folk might drink in the hedgerows, . Anything similar would be appreciated.

Marsha your Pa sounds great too-bright colours look especially stylish against a shock of white or silver hair.

I have photo's taken at Heathrow in 1970 just before we boarded the BOAC plane taking us to our ex pat life in Central America. My mother is wearing a belted Gabardine raincoat exposing a great deal of thigh. She has her hair up in a modified beehive and on her feet are a pair of 'Belle De Jour' style flat buckled pumps. She was and looked so young. Dad wore his Mod overcoat with narrow 'drainpipe' pants exposing a little ankle. They were so sharply tapered, those pants and I'd love a pair just like them. I cannot find the 'exact' cut.

Hopefully I deserved what you said. Thanks for the kindness in your last post.

Mint - Perfume is so evocative isn't it? Some scents haunt me in both good and bad ways. Bonnie Bell skin cleanser's scent takes me straight back to wiping off my make up in the park on my way home because I wasn't allowed to wear any until sixteen and nail polish never. Not until I left home!

Open a bottle of any Hawaiian Tropic product and I'm transported to the cement terraces of our local Lido, the triangles of my terrycloth bikini top pulled apart as much as I dared, exposing nothing more than a flat hand span of chest.

Anais Anais, Joven Musk Oil and Charlie were the scents of the school changing rooms. It seems like I can actuallytaste them still so liberally were these perfumes sprayed in the air - we were told by 'Jackie' and 'My Guy' magazines to spray then walk through the cloud of scent.

Ooh, Cool Water for me, the only time I've ever dated a younger man. He was 17, I was 19 and he was an Adonis. Unfortunately he also spelt the word soon S-O-N-E, so it wasn't going to work out. Fun summer though.

at the dumb Adonis.

I went out with a semi professional rugby player who literally had the body of a Greek god (and was handsome to boot.) My friends were aghast when I mentioned that he was a bit....dull. Until they spent much time with him. It lasted 6 months though- I had to give him a chance .

Anais Anais was my first proper perfume.

My dad was also v cool in the 60s. Not a mod- more of a fitted trousers and suede boots kind of look. With the occasional cravat.

Oh yes, cool water and Eternity take me back.....

mignonette, it had long been forgotten and I'm so sorry to hear about your Father.

My Dad I'm afraid is a bit of a car crash style wise, I still shudder at the memory of him picking me up from school in tartan flares and meeting the first boy I brought home wearing a tight brown tshirt with a huge 70s collar . He's going through a pretty tough time at the moment and he suddenly seems very old and fragile.

Mignonette so sorry to hear about your father. Give yourself time and accept all the feelings that come your way. My dad died when I was young and I still miss him 30 years on. I smiled that you could relate to him through clothes - my father was a scruffy academic who was totally disinterested in clothes and his appearance. My mother, who died more recently, wasn't interested in clothes either so I have had to learn about dressing well as an adult - still stumbling around trying to find my way :). The French thread really resonates with me - mothers who teach their daughters a love of clothes and dressing! That's why I lurk around on this thread - so much more to learn than to offer - so keep it coming girls!

Should just add how much I love, and miss, my parents. Badly dressed but bloody wonderful.

Aww I bet. I don't see mine very often. Twice a year at best. They live where I grew up and I live where they did. Will remember to treasure it more.

NY I start Insanity again next week (unless I have been buried for good under a mountain of Ikea boxes. I am bloody going there again tomorrow). So excited! Have put on 6lb over the past few weeks with being disorganised over food while training/moving. Feel really blobby and awful, but hoping at least half is just carb-induced bloating. Can't wait to exercise again!

The upside of temporary weight gain is fitting into my J Brand Marias. So comfy and high waisted and holdy-inny

Mignonette sorry to hear about your Dad.

Both my parents have always been into 'style', my mum puts me to shame with her shopping stamina! On Saturday we went shopping and after trying on what felt like the entire stock in House of Fraser she bought 2 Whistles blouses and a Maxmara padded coat and was ready to keep going at 78! I was exhausted!

I too love citrusy perfume, Hermes Eau de Pamplemosse being a favourite, I also like D&G Light Blue.