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

[Amblin]

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

etcetc


BUT STOP WITH TH TUNICS FFS

[Caerlaverock]

I think he looks delighted

[MysteriousHamster]

It's not 'valuable because it's truthful' utter bullshit. It's your truth, no one else's.

Yes, constructive criticism is useful and I'd expect S&B to be quite hard on fashions but you can see just from reading a handful of comments that sometimes it's hard to tell a tunic from a dress.

Unflattering tunics might be rubbish, but many are essentially dresses. Others look decent with a nice belt.

Stop trying to be clever and acting as if you have a pure, true insight into why fat mumsy mums should fuck off to tunic land or nod and go 'okay then, no more tunics for me'.

[Northernlurker]

Really elevating the debate there Bella. Nice one. That'll have them wiping their eyes on their tunics alright.

[OliviaPeaceOnMumsnet]

Peace on earth

[Caerlaverock]

We need a tunic with an olive branch print

[Bella88]

Good lord, some of you do take yourselves seriously, must be exhausting.

[OliviaPeaceOnMumsnet]

[HullyEastergully]

who would have thought the tunic would be so emotive?

[Northernlurker]

Well that's the thing about tunics. Covers up a seething underbelly you see.

[ClaraDeLaNoche]

Shoot just realised my nightie is a tunic.

One good tunic look is the Hush girls. Usually grey, with wooly scarf, cute hat and squishy boots.

Anyway I am fed up with this thread as not one of you vipers said Oh Clara that link you posted was the nicest tunic I've ever seen, I take it all back, tunics are a la mode. Huff.

[OliviaPeaceOnMumsnet]

Love those hush girls
They are mostly in cashmere though

[AmberNectarine]

Olivia's input on this thread is making me wonder what the HQ ladies wear...

[florenceuk]

mm 339 messages on tunics, and the fish has managed to offend everyone bigger than a size 12 as well - that's some going.

I personally don't like tunics worn with seethrough leggings (just put some trews on please) but a long loose top worn with skinnies is a basic (at least for now) which is why the more fashionable are touting wide legged trousers and blouses instead. But nobody who is not pregnant or a Jane Austen fan should wear empire line tops (I realised it made me look 5mths gone despite my belief it was making me look a size smaller).

[TuftyFinch]

I'mnot reading he whole thread. I can't. I skimmed and scanned. Skimming and scanning.

An alternative tothe tunic?

I wear great big men's jumpers. The biger the better.

I'mnot drunk its my keyboard and i know there should be an apostrophe < i just cant (and there

[Djembe]

Mysterious

Sorry tunics

[OliviaPeaceOnMumsnet]

Hq with Miranda Off The Telly

[TuftyFinch]

Waterfall cardiagnas induce sickness in me. They're just so. Waterfally and they don't doup.Whst the point of a cardigan if you can't button iyto.
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it'smy keyboard. not me.

[MysteriousHamster]

I just don't understand why leggings are bad and tights good. I only wear leggings when they are essentially tights anyway. Thin cheapy ones as trousers are 'orrible.

Tights make my skin itchy and/or sweaty (maybe I'm just wearing them wrong) and yet leggings don't, so even with a dress I often choose leggings over tights.

[AmberNectarine]

Oh my cod, they're real people!!

[MrsBucketxx]

i can count at least 5 tunics in that pic olivia.
i wont do tweed no no no, it looks wrong on me.

[PerryCombover]

The saddest thing to come out of this thread is my realisation that the other fat lady is dead
RIP
Although where I imagined she was.....?

[MrsBucketxx]

she died ages aho, she was a real stunner in ther youth too, clarissa however was not.

[echt]

What gets me about this thread is the angst against tunics by those who don't like them; it's not as if they're offensive per se. If you don't like them, don't wear them.

I speak as a late 50s woman whose knees no longer bear scrutiny, and would rather cover them with tights or leggings. Having said that, looking around my workplace, I see a good number of younger women whose knees/legs are no better than my own, yet they flash it. Not judging them, just wondering about my own reticence.

[HullyEastergully]

Right. I have thought about all this over night that is a lie and I would like to know the evidential basis underpinning the assertions as follows:

1. Certain items of clothing = "mumsy" eg bootcuts, tunics, some boots but not others (forget which)
   

1. Short wide jumpers are inherently better than others
   

1. Anyone over a size 12 = fat
   

1. Fat = mumsy
   

1. That thinking the above makes you a cleverer and more knowing alnd all-round better person with a slight pitying disdain for those that don't agree.
   

Lastly I would like a definition of "Mumsy" and why it is an insult.

Thank you.