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Acne Pistols - Mum boots, surely

145 replies

PippiLongShocking · 20/08/2012 18:05

Very expensive mum boots, non?

Is it just me, but they are just like the noughties horrors aren't they?

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noddyholder · 20/08/2012 19:48

Anything loose women wear is dreadful They re the queens of nude shoes my personal horror

PippiLongShocking · 20/08/2012 19:49

If you can't see that the acne ones are nearly the same as the M & S ones you are deluded.

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MarshaBrady · 20/08/2012 19:49

Ah that makes me happy, people loving Meryl. And the beginning sequence with them all getting ready for work in NYC. With music.

noddyholder · 20/08/2012 19:51

Nearly the same? That is what fashion is there is no nearly the same Grin

MrsCampbellBlack · 20/08/2012 19:51

Yeap that's just like me in the mornings Marsha.

MarshaBrady · 20/08/2012 19:52

Yeah me too Grin

dexter73 · 20/08/2012 19:54

Happy Birthday MrsCB!! (It's my 40th next year)

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 20/08/2012 19:56

But that's just silly, Noddy. Are you saying that for something to be 'fashion' it has to be the expensive version, rather than a similar-ish cheaper version? And that if it's 'nearly the same' then it's somehow intrinsically not 'fashion?'

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 20/08/2012 19:58

Or that the expensise and the name (Acne fgs!) somehpw make it 'fashion' just because and that Next (I hate Next but that's not the point) will never be 'fashion' just because it is Next?

noddyholder · 20/08/2012 19:58

No thats not what I am saying but I am silly. The m and s ones i would rather go barefoot, so you see i really am daft

noddyholder · 20/08/2012 19:59

There is no ish for me similarish would not work Price irrelevant

MrsCampbellBlack · 20/08/2012 19:59

ACNE is a swedish brand - presumably they didn't name if after a skin condition.

MrsCampbellBlack · 20/08/2012 20:02

Oooh its Ambition to Create Novel Expression - learn something new everyday.

I just know Remus is going to love that brand even more now Wink

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 20/08/2012 20:02

I know that Acne is Swedish - but it's still a silly name. Did I miss the M&S link?

MissBeehivingUnderTheMistletoe · 20/08/2012 20:09

This thread is soooo TDWP - the part where Anne Hathaway smirks because they're talking about skirts and she thinks as a proper journo, all fashion is beneath her Grin

"You see that droopy sweater dress you're wearing? That blue was on a dress Cameron Diaz wore on a cover of Runway - shredded chiffon by James Holt. The same blue quickly appeared in eight other designer collections and eventually made it's way onto the secondary designers, the department store labels and then onto to some lovely Gap outlet where you know doubt found it" God Meryl is a marvel Grin

faustina · 20/08/2012 20:10

happy birthday MrsCB - forty is NOTHING. Here: buy some of these from J.Crew - they are lovely!

MarshaBrady · 20/08/2012 20:12

This is the one I remember, are there two bits

I've got This... stuff? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St. Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.

MrsCampbellBlack · 20/08/2012 20:12

Thank you!

You see I'm too short for kitten heels but I do like them on other people. I also have a tendency to make things look mumsy if I'm not careful and fear they'd tip me over the edge.

I do love j crew though.

noddyholder · 20/08/2012 20:13
Grin
MarshaBrady · 20/08/2012 20:13

I've seen it so many times I can hear Meryl's voice when I read it. Grin Love it.
By all means move at a glacial pace; you know how that thrills me.

MissBeehivingUnderTheMistletoe · 20/08/2012 20:15
Grin
faustina · 20/08/2012 20:20

with capris or rolled up skinnies, and a blazer, in scarlet or bright pink? No way could they be frumpy! they have a slightly higher version too - not v practical, but still .....

MrsCampbellBlack · 20/08/2012 20:21

A scarlet blazer - something like this perhaps . . .

MrsCampbellBlack · 20/08/2012 20:22

And that blazer illustrates Meryl's point exactly as I first felt the yen for a red blazer when I saw Gwynnie wearing her boy by band of outsiders one months ago but have had to wait for the less £££ high street version.

faustina · 20/08/2012 20:23

yes. and faded jeans, white tshirt and shocking pink or red pointy shoes. How could that be frumpy?