MN Vogue - volume 40

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40 editions and still going strong! All welcome to talk fashion, beauty and other random things. All tastes and all budgets welcome. Continuing on from here

SoyYo that pink biker jacket is absolutely fabulous. If it were mine, I'd wear all the time-good style and colour for me. I would be seriously tempted to buy but keeping hold of my cash for purchases in the US.
I won't give any fake tan advice as had a massive tan fail last week and still have a few dodgy marks to remember it by!

Sounds like you have a lot to remember Marsha although surprised you forgot about the delivery. My memory is awful atm, all hormone related. It drives dh mad especially when I phone to ask the cc PIN number whilst trying to pay for something - for the third time in a week!!

Bettyk I am with you on the ripped jeans thing and bootlegs. I haven't worn them for ages but can't quite bring myself to throw them out either - they are a flattering style on the vertically challenged.

Sorry you can't make the mu Amber. Hopefully we will meet another time. Oh and no idea if target ship but will check when I get a chance.

You have described my life Marsha always forgetting something...and I am really disorganised about finances and forget to bill on time for work and I am chasing £££ now - DH beyond furious with me.

I quite enjoyed being Shop's personal shopper - unfortunately I didn't get anything myself. PMT and started getting hot and bothered in changing rooms and nothing really appealed.

Nice to see you back SoyYo.

What a PITA re your top Sleep, I'd take it somewhere professional I think. It's really lovely.

I am aghast, aghast I tell you, at the number of women I have spotted in central London wearing opaques...they must be boiling.

Know what you mean about the opaques Liberty - and lots of black. It's summertime people :)
What a shame you didn't find anything for you. I feel bad now :(

Shop sorry for late response. Smart jeans are fine....whatever you'll wear will look fab. Take your AH bag for extra oomph

Now need to catch up.....

at opaques. I am dying today in a 3/4 sleeve shirt - got some kind of weird prickly heat rash/sunburn combo on my upper arms - all lumpy and red - despite only being out for an hour or two in the afternoon.

There are three things I really want in the NAP sale and I have no spare cash thanks to ginormo car service. S'not fair, I tell you.

Oh no Hopefully I saw the HL and thought of you - you looked amazing today BTW - hope first day back was fun.
Dry Last minute change into either Me&em maxi with GiGis or jeans, Madewell flats and a tee....

After my monumental delivery fail....

DHL came back!

Ah could have hugged him given him a pat on the shoulder.

I'd have snogged him!

lol

Yep I ah you came back! You were here earlier SO sorry I went out for some silly reason.

I think he was er yep

I was all happy and stuff, I meant to say

Thank you Fedup yes the Muubaa is lovely and I thought pale pink is so not "me" but in this style and shade it works with my dark hair/light olive skin and doesn't make me look remotely muttonish (which is always a concern for me at my advanced stage in life).

Opaques in mid summer= rank!! But then I see people/mothers with kids wearing hardly anything in mid winter gales!
So I just put it down to British eccentricity. And living in the provinces...by the sound of it London is not that far ahead either!

Have been distracted by work TC's all afternoon, just like Marsha can only concentrate on one task at a time (which explains why I am also completely unable to participate consistently on all your threads, but I do love them!)... And there is a white company parcel sitting in my hall waiting to be opened...

That was so lucky Marsha.

The pliage arrived earlier - ds1 took it to work as the delivery arrived just as he was leaving. He's just dropped it in now.

Shop meant to say that am sure jeans will be fine. They would be considered smart wear at the state school I work at. have averted eyes from overweight tattooed mum in tiny Union Jack shorts have nothing against any of those attributes but just not all together at parents evening.

Ds2 is causing me a headache yet again. Will probably not be able to return for 2nd year of college course. My 'little chat' earlier did not go well. .

Fedup I haven't been following all the threads, but your comment about DS2 resonates with me. Had similar issue with my DS1 if sharing experiences helps then PM me.
I'm sorry to say it was painful but he gave up after his 2nd year at Uni, so have had him back home since last summer, he made a lot of money on the internet (bit coin trading and other stuff all legal I am glad to say) and has now decided to re-start in Sept with a new course on Business which is evidently more suited to his entrepeneurial character than a Physics degree.

Still... it has been a very painful journey...and most of his sixth form friends are graduating this summer.

Oh yes and DS2 also gave up his A'levels last summer having scraped through his AS exams to take up a new college course in Music Tech (of all things!). He is very very happy now, and has a band/music to keep him off the streets...still not sure exactly what he will do long term but hey he is only just 18 and has a dream.

All I can say is having gone through the pain of both DC's last summer changing their minds about what they want to do with their future (and so not being able to plan with DH for ours) has given me a new philosophical approach to life. Que sera, sera!
I keep reminding myself they are lovely kids, healthy, relatively well adjusted and hope they sort themselves out eventually.

betty less of that "I'm old " talk thank you
marsha oh no! then yey! I adore artichokes btw
hopefully I do that too....ESP when roasting chicken breast. Then I have to eat super dried out, cardboard chicken ....yuck!

Not in the least bit fashion related...

But I found lots of films on youtube by a group of Aussie boys called 'How Ridiculous'

They do amazing trick shots with a variety of balls.
Both my ds's have been glued to the tv watching them.

Ds2 is now bounding round the room, leaping on the sofa and trying to score goals :o

Well worth a watch if you have dc or bored dhs as mine loves it too

Correction: not "kids" anymore, "young adults" is more appropriate and need to remind myself that even if they have not (yet) flown the nest I have to trust that DH and I did a good job over the last couple of decades and they will be Okay in the end.
BUT we also gave them a deadline: 1 more year and then we are downsizing so you will have to share a bedroom in the next house!

Thanks SoyYo. I think our dc's must be similar ages. Ds1 also gave up school after AS's to do something he wanted to do since he was about 4. He is now qualified and loving every minute of his job and building a good reputation. Ds2 however, still needs to mature a lot more and make some decisions. Ds3 so far is doing what he should be doing! I think you worry just as much at this stage of your children's life as you do when they are babies.

Sorry all, not at all fashion related but just needed to verbalise.

Just opened white company parcel.

Dresses I linked to earlier nice cotton jersey, definetely Not worth the full price so glad I got them on discount.

The navy blue has no substance and not at all suitable work wear...the black (low neck) could work for holidays and weekends at the beach, but not convinced either.
At least one (if not both) will make its way back to TWC...at least the runner I ordered for hall is staying.

I am in London on Sat meeting an old friend at the Tate (to see Matisse exhibition)... maybe I should make time for a quick look/try in shops too as this internet shopping is so hit and miss.

Indeed Fedup not all fashion related but always good to share

Shop don't feel bad that I didn't get anything I had fun trying on (until I got too hot).

So opaque watching gets worse - one woman on tube on way home was wearing knitted dress, opaques, ugg style boots and carrying a cardi and a coat . It was a bit chilly this morning but not that bad.

It's totally unfair that you can't buy clothes Hopefully

I feel for you Fedup and SoyYo. I am from a big family and while I did the dutiful eldest daughter things and trotted off to uni and then straight into work all 4 of my brothers took much more circuitous routes to self sufficiency. My Dad says it never gets easier especially when offspring you are worrying about have kids themselves!!

I've tried a new fake tan today and it's looking quite nice (just developing now)
It's Rodial brazilian tan in light.

I've only done my face, neck, arms etc.
But it's looking quite natural and it doesn't have much of a smell thank god

Oh good to know Annianni, I will report on the Clarins "delectable" one when I master enough courage, can be bothered to do it

Thanks Liberty it doesn't get any easier. And grandchildren!! OMG...some of my old schoolfriends are now grandmothers and I just cannot get my head round that one yet (I hope not for a while either!).

Maybe I am too old to participate on this stylish chat. The only thing I will say is much younger colleagues (32 is 2 decades younger than me) do ask me frequently where I got this or that, so I might still have a tad of fashion je ne se quois...

SoyYo I think age has nothing to do with style. I always assume younger women will be more stylish than me, not always the case. Similarly I always assume men in the gym will be fitter, hee hee stealth boast but I often kick their arses not so stealth

Not fashion, but perhaps style, this cutie arrived today. It's so lovely and smooth and curvy, I keep stroking it I do think mundane things should at least have some style. Don't get me tarted on my bin....I luffs it and polish it a lot heat is getting to me

"Tarted"!!!!![shick]