Am I alone in really disliking animal print?

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I really, really dislike it. I'm happy to see it on others but I just can't see myself in it. I got given a lovely Lola Rose scarf for my birthday but it's an animal print design so I'll never wear it.

KM is only a style icon for people who like her style.

I'd rather have stylish over mutton or mumsy

Well I like to think I'm uber stylish but what do I know. According to the many 'rules' on mn I am far from it. I wear animal print, I wear white jeans, I use fake tan and I love the ultimate mum boots 'pistols'.

Yes, I am Liz Hurley.

MrsCampbellBlack always did like your through a screen so who really knows? You could wear mum boots for all I know style.

Haha! Cross post MrsCB! Pistols are not mumboots and you knows it.

I hate it on me too, I think if one is norky it makes you look cheap.

Single - funny mum boots cross post

Am currently obsessing over control slip for slinky dress at party tomorrow - tis all glamour here

There's the line too animalistic=kat slater
Just right,funky

Seriously though, I do wish more people would just treat clothes as something fun. I hate all the rules people seem to have.

Some stuff doesn't work on me but I can appreciate it on others.

The constant judging is just dull really. Wear what you like and enjoy it be it a leopard print coat or a seasalt mac.

Are you calling my mum trampy?!

All personal choice innit. I love clashing prints, vintage dresses from the 60s and 70s, looking like a frumpy cartoon librarian or a 70s boy. If I think I look great, then I don't really care what strangers think. (My 3-yo DD tells me I look 'weird' sometimes. That's the highest praise .)

I'd rather wear things I find beautiful and interesting than a) what everyone else is wearing and b) things that are 'safe' and (that dreaded word) 'flattering'.

What Mrs CB said, too.

Quite Dancing lady. Trampy is a horrid work up there with mumsy and mutton really.

Interesting there's no male equivalent.

Jackie O wore a leopard print coat often, what a tramp. No style at all.

word not work - trampy work is perhaps a different subject.

Yes, poor deluded trampy Jackie O.

Grace Kelly and Barbra Streisand both wore theirs often, too. But then, Grace lacked elegance.

She did Bunny, she did.

That's it. It's the judging. My grandma judges people on appearance alone. She has nothing else to occupy her time with, never has had. She is not a happy lady, never has been.

I on the other hand, don't have all the answers but am pretty comfortable with my own choices (in clothes and other stuff). I may not have it right but I am fine with that.

I wouldn't take any of this personally. We ALL have preferences, and reasons why we wouldn't wear something. Whether we see the offending item as "mumsy", "trampy", "emo" or whatever.. I don't believe anyone is completely neutral about clothing. Doesn't make anyone "bad", though, unless they went around telling people how awful they look in RL.

I kinda like trampy chic,better than Asinine ugg boot skinny jeans mammy uniform

See, for me the Ugg boots are definitely not in the mumsy category- they are just fucking awful and trampy

Agree MrsAp. Enough with the judging. Fashion should be fun and I'll take mine with a dash of leopard print, thanks. And I love a bit of Rod Stewart whatever he's wearing!

Really - the stripey vest with matching pants do it for you ginzillas??!

I have a totally irrational hatred - I do blame Bet Lynch.

Thought DP had bought me a zebra-print scarf (which is not as bad as leopard etc but I still don't like), was composing my face into a "thank you darling" suitable response, when I realised it was actually a scarf with two zebras on it. Which is somehow better! And I do actually like it.

But it looks ok on others. I don't judge. Apart from the woman on the bus the other week - hat, shoes, coat, jumper, all different prints.

Ugg boots are v v warm though. Very warm.

Ps. Ginzillas, your name made me go and pour myself a G&T. Might as well just stick a label on myself saying, animal print wearing, ugg boot owning trampy lush.

At least I know what I am now