what will you NEVER wear because it will "make you your mum"

[MaureenCognito]

Always remember laughing at noddyholders posts about her mum and her penchant for silver chunky jewellery and flicky hair.

what item epitomises your mum?

Let me know when we do a thread on homes. I have just only just realised how bonkers her taste in interiors is. She loves a nice thick carpet. Even in the bathroom.

Dexter - what's a sholley?

Here you go LittlePandaBear!!

£96! A massive £3.99 saving!

No, she doesn't have one of them, she's only 60. but maybe in 10 years or so!

Youth Dew and a diamond ring given to her by my great grand-dad 32 years ago for me.

Gold slippers, in a mule style. Always gold and always replaced with exactly the same ones. Why??? She worked in the City eons ago as a secretary and always wants to know why I don't have a lovely Hermes scarf like she had as that is what all the "chic" (her words not mine) women in the City wear. Not in my lifetime they haven't.

Beige from head to toe here as well , and classic collection trousers

I think of how she has dressed at different stages of her life. When I was little - she was very slim and elegant. I think of how she used to look on holidays to France - slightly tanned, simple sandals and mid length skirts - very chic. Much better looking than I am now.

When I was a teenager she was all power suits and shoulder pads and court shoes. Now she is all about comfy trousers that are just slightly too short and frumpy fashion trainers. Although occasionally I will buy something and she will claim that she'd had her eye on it and then rushes out and buys it.

I have to say, this is one of the funniest threads I have read in a long time, I am sitting here absolutely wetting myself infront of x-factor

Brightly coloured leather flat shoes, she thinks if they are orange they aren't as hodeous

Same to Per Una! My mother buys everything there, especially those skirts that reach the ankles. She literally covers herself from head to toe, even in the height of summer, not a top button undone nor a rolled up sleeve, just fingers poking out and a tiny bit of neck.

suede tassley jackets & cowboy boots. she is not a cowboy.

Embellished jeans. I love my mum and all, but she will insist on rocking the trailer trash look!

she also has every inch of her floor covered in THICK carpet.
if you were to faint, my mother's house is the place to do it, for the amazing landing you'd get.

I am obviously the same age as some of your mothers

My mum is really stylish, just always looks well put together. She doesn't spend much, often wears New Look or Matalan but looks like she's head to toe from John Lewis age appropriate departments. Costume jewellery but done tastefully and usually from TK Maxx! She shops like you're meant not to, ie spends frequently on cheap clothes. She just seems to have an eye for stuff that looks more expensive than it is and wears stuff with attitude.

If I'm umming and ahhing over whether to buy something, I always without fail try to imagine what mum would think of it.

I should tell her this actually - she's no style icon but I really value her in this way

Mine goes in for comfy handknitted "cardis". My big dread is having said that the latest one is a nice colour (true, it was turquoise), I'll get one of my very own for Xmas. The one thing I will never wear is the shawl which she got me as a special present for my 50th: as a pal of mine said, it would be ok if you were 80.....I am told it was v pricey which in mum speak could mean £10 or £100 (looks like the former).

Men's clothes.
Clothes that are four sizes too big for her (body image ishoos....)
Bras that basically keep her boobs warm but do not hold them up at all and no underwire ever.
Trouser suits.
She wears a lot of navy, grey or brown despite having the tanned/olivey colouring and now the white grey hair that make her able to wear things blonde women could wear. She looks like a nun.
She won't wear eye makeup. So a bit of a washed out nun at that.
She wears knee high tights under her trousers, claims she can't find socks that are not binding at the ankle.
I had to talk her into wearing a pair of jeans that fit her fabulously -- she just couldn't see what I was getting at when I told her how well they flattered her..

I wear pretty much the opposite (decent bras, clothes that fit and flatter as far as I am aware anyway, no trouser suits) and lots of eye makeup. My shopping philosophy is ask 'WWMD?' and then I do something else.

She does have nice taste in jewellery and wears it well. I do wear a bit of navy but only with jeans, and grey too but only close fitting jumpers, etc. I never wear brown. I have the pale, freckled colouring of my dad's mum and would give anything to have the easy to tan skin my mum has.

Back in the 60s and early 70s she was incredibly stylish (as opposed to fashionable) and made every stitch she wore. I remember being dragged around fabric shops while she examined every single bolt of material and went through the pattern books, for hours on end. She has a great eye for colour and pattern but you would never guess that from what she dresses in every day at home. Mind you, when she ventures forth even to post a letter or pick up a pint of milk she changes clothes and puts her best foot forward.

Oh yes, 'smart trousers' and Gabor shoes, though to be fair she has problems with her feet and they are comfy.

And she put looks right up there with functionality when it came to buying a pair of snowboots when I finally convinced her that her old wellies were downright dangerous and she needed a pair of boots specially built for snow.

Ah my mother wears pop socks under trousers and always dresses like a lady should . Think mid length skirts fitted trousers very lady like and yes she another has a nice collection of scarfs to finsh a outfit

Where at almost 40 I wear jeans and new rocks or Dm plus t shirts and have long hair which she is forever nagging me to cut ladies of my age should not have long hair . it's long and red no grey at all which when she nags I occasionally rub in .

Mind I suspect some point my kids be like mum dress your age but at the moment they don't seem to mind ( dc are 18,15,9 and 7 ) and ds2 friends love my boots keep trying borrow the new rocks

Estee Lauder perfume
Large gold hoop earrings
Always just above the shoulder bobbed hair with a heavy fringe and blonded
Fleeces
Pop socks
Per Una jeans
Slippers with little heels

Her 'holiday wardrobe' is my fave. She has clothes reserved for holidays.
Pink 'pedal pushers' as she likes to call them
White leggings
bejewelled sandals

Bright pink lipstick.

House coats.

Oh God, so much of my wardrobe is described here. I thought scarves were de rigueur for the fashion conscious! Still at least I don't wear jogging bottoms and jumpers yet but fleeces are really comfy and warm. Guess I'm s
the same age as a lot of your mums anyway, sigh.