When I am bored, I read Boden reviews and mark them ALL as unhelpful.

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Especially the ones containing the cliche "dress it up dress it down" ( which I recently saw in a review of some pleather trousers - HOW do you dress them down?!)

You take off your diamond necklace of course and throw on a sweater

ah right
I like the ones on Amazon that say " I havent read it yet but delivery was fast'

well thats RILLY useful!

use them when cleaning one's chicken igloos

aha. You do live and learn on here.

this for skinny jeans ( just this)
'Just right for weekends.'

'I love all things boden but these were too tight in the calves and would not go up any further. I am a 14 in most boden clothes but these are not true to size.'

LADY - you are a 16

Comments about Boden Women Skinny Jeans:
Perfect!

SOMEONE has taken time to write that. "perfect" - for what? Chicken igloos? Sex games? Paintball?

that might have been me...

for years my friend designed for them and it makes you a bit more positive
she doesn't now...

nepotist

Did she say what the three line whip was, design wise? " thou shalt not be sexy'? "there shall be no lycra in Pencil skirts'?

The fit was great but I'm sending it back because I already have a top in this colour. Three stars.

SNORT

thanks for that morris. What was the point of that?!

There are some helpful reviews on there - eg, which say whether an item comes up big/small etc in relation to other Boden items, or that a particular colourway looks different from the image on the website, with details of why.

And then there are remarkably unhelpful efforts - often just obsessed with the writer (eg, 'I got lots of compliments'), without explaining at all why the item is a good (or bad) buy. Particularly annoyin are those where the writers wax lyrical about what a lovely colour a garment is, then don't tell you which one they bought!

'Really unusual fabric'

Haha - I have to go to work but i want to be doing this instead

Oh, and there also seem to be a lot of people who praise the 'bright cheerful' colours of pieces I've immediately ruled out as horribly garish.

agree pOly - they can be good. I also hate the ' my husband says' ones.

and Poly " cute squirrel design'

( I am imagining a hoard of squirrels with design boards and pencils behind their squirrelly ears)

Oh goodness yes - some of those make me wonder whether feminism ever happened.

Right I TOO need to work.

The DH ones, not the squirrel ones - though the love of cute animal patterns among those reviewers does seem to be much greater then mine. One garment I've just reviewed was like by everyone else and only I out of dozens thought it looked as naff in RL as I'd feared.

I wrote some trying-to-be comic ones once (even though I love boden) and complained when they were not accepted. They denied all knowledge!

I had said that a particular shade of beige cardigan had made me look as if I should be sitting in an armchair sucking a Werther's Original.

yup - comedy buttons are a MINUS for me

brow

often they made lovely things...some hugely hugely flattering but they were decided to be not boden enough and ended in a friends bedroom
nicest jeans I had for years were Boden throw aways. far better than baxters. somehow made my sliding no arse look like an arse and legs longer

but what were the rules form Johnny?