How the style and beauty thread has changed over the years.

[MadSprocker]

I was thinking about this the other night, about the trends in threads over the years.

When I first joined I remember learning about sock buns. I had a break for a long while, then it was all about skincare, Caroline Hirons, exfoliating toners, but that has tailed off recently. Now it seems to be about haircuts, particularly whether people should have a pixie cut, lots asking how to dress their body shape.

HOC and CMB thread still occasionally appear, as do bra interventions, but less than they used to.

Hoping this all makes sense, am slightly hungover 😀

What other thread trends do you remember?

True about celebs. I was so tempted to start a thread about the awful dress Kim Sears was wearing yesterday during the final but resisted.

But come on - it was way too dressy surely?

I remember one that made my jaw drop, might not have been in S&B, but clothes/wedding theme.

Poster wanted advice on a dress to wear to a wedding, that would enable her to breastfeed in church. Baby quite big, 12-18 months or something. She had chosen a fitted shift dress in a stiff fabric that zipped up the back, very office-wearish.

People were asking her in horror how this dress to the wedding meant she couild breastfeed, and she was adamant that she could just wiggle the whole lot up above her boobs. In church. Because, you see, holding the big baby would cover up her tummy and pants whilst it was feeding so no one would see anything.

I think she was talked out of it. But God, the thought of this woman in a church wedding service with her dress bunched around her neck, and a baby hanging off her boob, artfully draped across her tummy and pants....

Omg I had never heard of sock bun, I have just tried it, this is going to change my life (at least until ds grows out of the hair yanking phase, when does that happen?).

I can't believe I didn't know about this before, why isn't it covered at NCT classes?

MrsCB yes awful dress - way to old for her. As was the monstrosity that she wore to the after party. I did wonder if maybe the MILs dress had been sent to the wrong room and vice versa

patiently awaits flaming

Loads of threads about clogs - Swedish Hasbeens, Lotta from Stockholm, Maguba. I loved those and bought quite a few some clogs on the back of those.

I'd always click any link posted by Tethersend - somehow she knew every piece of clothing ever on the internet and remembered all the good ones.

Nowadays too many threads about skincare and foundation. And far too many threads called 'I'm 29 and worried that I'm becoming an old hag/I'm 30 where should I shop now/Women who are 31 and over are such old hags aren't they' - or variations of this.

What's the mumsnet scarf? I didn't like Kim Sears party dress either, but then, I didn't like her wedding dress either.....

I enjoy a rousing "Is it ever alright to wear boot cut jeans? thread and I sorely miss the days of " Can I wear this skater dress to my office do?" Good times.

Off to google Kim's dress. She often gets it right, no? clearly not this time.

Yy and those awful 'am I too to wear x' threads.

The "Is this Mutton?" threads still appear regularly and can be guaranteed to divide the responders down the middle, with each side getting more vehement as the thread grows.

I still wear my leopard print scarf.

And yy to "Is this mutton?". A few years ago it was "Is this frumpy?"

The mutton threads have gone a bit crazy now though. Basically according to many you could be 70 and go out showing your knickers and it is fine.

It may be fine but it sure isn't stylish

I avoid those threads as they get too shouty.

I love tethers but haven't seen her on here in ages.

Babyliss big hair anyone???

There are also a lot of weird 'I'm 30, do you think I'm too old to wear X/shop in Topshop etc.'

I love my Babyliss Big Hair!

Love my BBH too

Oh, has Tethers gone? Or just NC'd?
Agree, her encyclopaedic knowledge of All The Clothes was incredible. And she was always jolly helpful.

Thank god for S&B or I would never have known about the BBH which is a godsend to making my bushy barnet look somewhat tamed.

Lots about Korean skin care.

Yep sheep like about Korean skin care here.

When I first started reading S&B it was all about tea dresses worn with biker boots.

Caitlin Moran must have been around then.

She didn't post much

Caitlin Moran must have been around then.

In the days before she divided S&B over the topic of shorts worn over tights.

I think I remember a big mint velvet sale thread a few years ago.

Floisme please tell me how I can wear my whistles tube skirt? I'm a size 16 apple shape SAHM if it makes any difference. The skirt is navy and as I said above, I don't know how to stop it looking officey. if you can think of anything.

Floisme please tell me how I can wear my whistles tube skirt? I'm a size 16 apple shape SAHM if it makes any difference. The skirt is navy and as I said above, I don't know how to stop it looking officey. if you can think of anything.