the style shop - wiht malory gorn who is going to be head guru

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i htink olive

Is this turning into the Devil Wears Prada, MrsB? What sort of coffee can I get you ?

Do you need a Work Experience person????Perhaps I can learn Style through osmosis.

got that all wrong, didn't I? Will make coffee myself as penance.

Bet they look great with boyfriend jeans - I'd carry on regardless and leave the leggings to wear under skirts.

Haven't especially noticed different coloured tights and shoes apart from the 'black / grey / brown tights with funky ballet pumps' look, which is all the rage and v easy to get right with slim calves. Smarter types of shoe are riskier.

Ooh they are everywhere, like green tights (they look woolly) with brown shoes, or brown tights with turquoise shoes - have seen it with ballet pumps but also clumpy high heel sort

it sort of looks fab and sort of odd

I don't think I will be able to pull it off actually

but I would like to know where they are getting the coloured woolly tights

Not woolly, but loads of colours .

Some woolly ones here , but mostly muted colours)

Also these , but they're expensive.

(can't resist this link - notice that one of the colours is called 'Brenda')

I've seen them in magazines etc but not seen anyone wearing them as yet (suspect I live in a provincial backwater).

Tightsplease is worth a look, but all the ones on the fashion mags seem to come from Wolford

Ooh you are both marvellous

they have suddenly appeared everywhere on my high street Mrs B

we have a lot of young arty students around

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I have to admit I have gone as far as buying a tunic, but I have not yet managed to wear one. DH hates them and I feel weird - a bit muttony (being ripe old age of 41). The only people who wear them in my office are all a good 10-15 years younger than me.

Anyway, wasn't somebody? Cod? looking for a summer dress - I saw this on the Miss Selfridge site: dress

ooh
not bad
not sure if it's too 50s for Cod though - seem to remember she favoured the non-waisted type but they have some nice ones of those too.

i have several tunicy/dress type tops (primark and top shop)

I wear them with jeans and have recently been shoe horngin myself into skinnies - am sure they do not suit me but do not care atm

i not sure trousers under dreses dont make you lloo litke th michelin man unless oyu are VERY slender

i think we will piss ourselves at ahtat fashoin VERY soon

I wondered what you'd say of that top, MrsB, because I have got it already and have had Compliments about it.

And I don't think they laughed behind my back when I went to the loo

but Franny is very slender

well you obv wear it well, Hunker.

Cod, what did you reckon to the Miss Selfridge dress?

Very diplomatic, MrsB.

Did you run shrieking from my footwear thread?

i dont liek pregnancy dresses on the whoel when i amnot withc hcild

what? it had a waist and everything, cod

Hunker, I coudn't think of anything useful to add to what had already been said - my feet are just as awkward as yours only in the other direction (large, blubbery and flat with fallen arches) and I live in either boots v like the shorter ones linked to or in Merrel-type urban trainers.

no belts under norkage
oh THAT dress
tjogh yoiu emant hte one for big boobers
yes its ok
flared skirts dont suit me ont he whoel
also ownder if the top woudlbe a leetle risque ofrt he shool run! thnask anyway

risque is good
will keep looking

actually if you're a 10 you can borrow all mine as I'll be too enormous to wear them this year

Cod, are you typing with your face?!

no am tired na pissed off
ma off to haev lunch

Ooh, get Cod. Not liKe you, luv.

My question - I am hankering after a pair of Doc Marten Mary Janes.
Am I -a)going to look cool and with it in a trendy-without-being-mutton way
b)going to look as if I am trying in vain to recapture my yoof (am 34)
c) Just look crap!

I couldn't do them myself but they could conceivably work in informal situations, esp if you are a slightly alternative type already.

I do not think they will look at all cool and with-it though I am afraid.