will we EVER rid the concept of a TUNIC from S&B?

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no its none of my business
no there is still world poverty to worry about

etcetc

BUT STOP WITH TH TUNICS FFS

yup what hully said.

A Tunic is essentially straight and mid thigh length. A dress can have a different silhouette.
I teach history of fashion. Lots of my budding student designers wear woolly dresses and leggings.....and they are 17 and 18. Clothes tend to reflect the beliefs, lifestyle and attitude of the wearer. I am ancient and wouldn't be seen dead in studs, leather legging or anything like that. True style IMO opinion flatters the wearer gives them confidence and isn't about being in the height of fashion. In fact the word fashion victim can spring to mind.

I think fashion is awful at the moment and have thought that for about the last 5 years. Studs, polyester, sequins, drab colours skulls.....I just don,t get it

The only angst on this thread is from defensive tunic wearers.

Assumed superiority and a little light sneering tends to bring that out in people, don't you find?

I think you're trying to analyse and attack fashion in general Hully .

Do you? How strange.

I would like answers to my questions above. I'm not sure if that constitutes analysis and attack on the entire fashion industry.

I agree with Hully. Those who believe they're fashionable have quite snotty attitudes to others.

If you don't like tunics and leggings, don't wear them, don't bitch about other people who choose to wear them.

Those who believe they're fashionable have quite snotty attitudes to others.

That raises another interesting question:

1. Can one be "fashionable" and enjoy clothes WITHOUT sneering at those that don't, or is feeling superior an essentail part of feeling ahead of the curve and in the know re "fashion?"

Again, from Djembe, a massive generalisation. Yawn.

I wear mine very happily, with leggings ( shock horror...not).

Being 6ft with wide hips and long legs, buying clothes can e hard, but this style suits me.

Mint velvet do a few lovely, fitted style ones.

I also have " mum boots", I am a mum, so maybe I dress like one.

yes one can be fashionable and not sneer. its called being nice.

Hmm well I (petite) tried on a lovely (on the hanger) almost hip length fluffy jumper last week and it looked far worse than a longer slim style (tunic) one. Its all to do with getting the proportions right for our shape (IMHO) and for me slim and long works better than short and wide tops.

I don't want a fight. I just want my questions answered because I'm interested. I would like to understand (so yes, in that sense I am trying to analyse what is behind the assertions, although not the industry per se)

I mostly think 'fashion' is up it's own arse. As an adult and a child I've just worn what I fancy. DH once said 'you look like you've walked into a charity shop with your eyes closed and picked the 3 closest things'.
I would never sneer or judge what other people wear. Mostly.

I love the idea that someone is paying attention to what I wear and critically appraising my use of tunics and leggings. How funny. You do not even appear remotely anywhere near my radar and yet you are thinking about what I wear. That's really weird.

George Orwell invented the tunic.
If you spend more time thinking about what to wear than actually wearing it the balance is wrong. If you wear boots and don't want to get them muddy why are you wearing boots? If you take children to a farm in their best clothes and then won't let them run around and get muddy why did you take them to a farm? Clothes are clothes. Wear them. Wash them. Have fun with what you wear.
Why would you sneer at someone wearing a tunic?

OMG. I'm off.

But please do note that there's no bitchiness on this thread except at tunics (not the wearers of them, crucially) and from people appearing here to have a pop.

Won't you answer the questions?

Will anyone?

Djembe- so tunic wearers being called mumsy and fat isn't insulting or bitchy? Okay.

Also, that is illogical. If you sneer at tunics, you are by implication sneering at somebody's choice in wearing one.

And if you won't answer or engage, then aren't you just answering "6" with a "No, one can't"?

wewerehere quote where that was said, please.

I think the whole tunic debate is a question of wearing good quality, nice clothes. Some tunics are nice, and a woman will look a lot better wearing one in comparrison to a woman wearing trendy, but naff clothes of an inferior quality.

It's also about how you wear it and self confidence. Some people just seem to be able to throw an outfit together and they look amazing, but if anyone else worse the same they'd wouldn't look as good.

Btw, I still see plenty of youngsters 20's and below showing my age who wear long jumper/cardigany things, leggings and knee high boots. If knee high boots are such a fashion faux pas, how come all the stores are still selling them?

I don't understand fashion btw and that's probably obvious. I'm going to go and put my green wide leg tweed trousers on, with an orange and grey stripey sweater. So fashion - stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

I've started hundreds of them. The Po, I think you mean.

But I'm not angsty, I'm interested. I want to understand.