come and snigger with me at what Eve magazine thinks new mums should wear

[Cappuccino]

okay the fun starts with:

'A super-stylish maternity leave' - after the birth buy 'an oh-so-soft tracksuit in velour or cashmere (go on - it's an investment buy'

okay so when can a velour tracksuit ever be right?

and how is buying a piece of clothing in a size you hope you'll never be again an 'investment'

it goes on

'wear your jeans with a 'wow' top that you can dress down with a vest underneath'

and there is a picture of a woman in a white top costing £95 for her baby to puke down

doesn't look particularly washable either

by the second page we are wesring the most hideous dress imaginable in a vile print because it 'hides a multitude of sins' (?!) and then we see a lovely woman in her trenchcoat and Mulberry bag which doesn't look a) like it is holding any nappies or b) like it is going to be looped over the handle of any pushchair anytime soon as she doesn't have one with her

oh and as if we hadn't thought of this, in the summer we should 'wear a sundress'

and buy waterproof mascara for the 'baby blues'

[Cappuccino]

enid what irritated you?

am very much up for being irritated this morning

[PinkTulips]

pmsl anchovy..... to do that you must have had clean clothes that actually fit which was so far beyond my powers to accomplish it's frightening

[Cappuccino]

I do think that it used to better in the old days when it was owned by the BBC

[WideWebWitch]

I like Eve usually but I'm a bit fed up with all the women bloody doing it for themselves who have amazing lifestyle and hardly seem to work at all a la the french boutique example already given.

[maisym]

lol www & capuccino - saddly yes & it annoys me (why I read it I don't know). I get Easy Living & Eve mixed up - the most annoying feature is fashion maths - wear the item a million times to justify cost - investment buy - what rubbish!!

[cupcakes]

I only bought Eve once - it had a free umbrella - and that was it.

EL is the best glossy.

[ssd]

like this thread!

read this in the magazine a while ago and thought what a load of crap!!

and of course the "model" was 6 feet tall and stick thin!

don't any of these writers actually have kids?

or do they dump them on the nanny ASAP and go back to their exciting jobs and never deal with the nitty gritty of babies?

[WideWebWitch]

It was better before, is it not owned by the BBC anymore? Who then, Emap?

[fairyfly]

Does it really say Red Flares for the extra bloody days?

[WideWebWitch]

I buy
Eve
Easy Living
Red
Hello sometimes
OK sometimes
Heat sometimes
The Economist sometimes
The Eclologise sometimes
NW sometimes
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
WOMAN & HOME
Both of which are surprisingly good, I really like them but wish they'd both change their names, I feel frumpy the minute I put them in my trolley

[Cappuccino]

Haymarket Magazines it says

[ssd]

yes it used to be good

load of sh*te these days

what planet are these people on?

[taylormama]

i have PG tips full strenth and white bread with lard ...

[ssd]

whats easy living like then?

I've never seen it

[TinyGang]

Haha! What's the point of writing books for new mums? It was two years before I read a proper book again iirc.

Cashemere track suits indeed!

When our first was due I remember looking through the Mamas and Papas book for a pram. Not in all the years that followed did dh or myself ever resemble the parents in that book.

[Cappuccino]

good god www! that's quite a list

I get this sent through the post by my dad

[WideWebWitch]

And The Observer every Sunday and The Sunday Times only if I'm job hunting
And read the ft.com jobs online

[Anchovy]

Pink Tulips - with each child I think there was a 4 month period when my day wear and night wear were indistinguishable.

The key is getting the right type of pull on trousers: stripy cotton pjs = slattern still in bed in the afternoon; plain black or grey cotton pull on ones = anytime wear. Think I had 2 pairs from Knickerbox and 2 pairs from Primark.

Can I put this advice in a book and charge £12.95?

[ssd]

www I'm impressed you could actually qualify for those jobs in the Sunday Times!

I read that paper every week and don't even know what most of the jobs in the job section are about!!

[DebitheScot]

I have a subscription to eve but am still not quite finished January's one. Just went and dug out March's so I could look at that article. I think to be able to (and want to) buy all those clothes you need to be one of the women in the article that is next in the mag. And who the hell has a "nappy bag beauty kit"??

I also spent the first couple of weeks in maternity clothes (which were not gorgeous, glamorous, sophisticated....) or dhs t-shirts. That's if I even got dressed at all. DS is 9 months old and I still answered the door to the postman in my pjs this morning at about 9.30.

[DebitheScot]

Tinygang- I remember looking at the mams&papas catalogue before ds was born and laughing at how I was never going to look like the "parents" in it. The car seats in the front seat of the open top sports car driven by the rather sexy man were the best.

[Cappuccino]

ha ha yes deb the 'trophy wives'

[TinyGang]

Rofl!