can you wear those litlle empire line smock type dresses without looking pregnant?

[isaidno]

there's loads in the shops and I have bought a couple, but I can't help feeling like I am wearing maternity clothes again!

Oh yes the pixie boots!

lol isaidno. the 80's and 90's were a baaaaad time for style i reckon. 90's almost worse coz we all thought we were sooo much more stylish than the bloody awful 80's!

funny the comments about not being able to shop - i was pg for 3 yrs almost solid, so by the end of that, i only knew where to shop for maternity stuff! have had to re-train myslef to look at 'normal' stuff again lol.

pixie boots!!! we used to throw midget gems into our french teachers pixie boots!

My hairdresser told me that they are going to stop calling them perms as sounded uncool - not sure of new name though LOL but he did say I would suit one!

According to 10 years younger on TV perms are BACK - except they're better now (obviously) .

I'm starting to think that if you're old enough to see a fashion come around a second time maybe it's time to give up & shop in Country Casuals !

Liath - Oh Shit - I will really turn into my mother - dh said I always would

princesscc and Willywonka - me too! (well, 12 in 82 anyway)I tried one on, lovely green colour but I think the gathered bit was in the wrong place for the norkically-challenged. I looked like a pregnant 11-year old (who'd had a hard life )

Octo, I think I must be morphing into mine too seeing as I'm wearing 70s style maternity smocks! Aaaargh! Next thing I'll find myself in Jaeger.

LOL fmv!!

Jumpers - the shop ROFL

"Perms were wrong then and they're wrong now" said she with poker-straight-hair-that-would-never-take-a-perm-so-leaving-her-an-emotionally-scarred-small-haired-teenager-in-the-stupidly-big-haired-80's. Bitter, moi?

LOL FMV !!

and did we really think we looked good in leggings! I had maternity leggings for crying out load!!! I must had looked like i'd swallowed a space hopper! (those of you born post 82 won't know what one of those is!)

Remember Sweater Shop?

Everyone had an awful patterned jumper from there.

Jeans with white or red piping around the pockets and down the side of the leg. Those jumpers with a black background and brightly coloured picture of an animal (usually in fuschia, jade green or turquoise)...please don't bring any of these things back, they're not good for the soul.

Oh god, my brother and his new wife bought me one of those god awful jumpers and I had to wear it all day! Oh the shame!

Batwings!!

Really sorry, isaidno, we've turned this thread into an MN equivalent of one of those "I remember 1983" programmes...

All those colours are back! I was in New Look yesterday and its all there. Bags, earrings, necklaces, all to match. I used to have a black skirt and I alternated my jumper in one of those colours and had tights to match. What was I thinking, jade green tights.

I had a gorgeous reversible sweatshirt with 101 dalmatian design on it ....

rofl fmv

Yes, its a bit off isn't it? Should we butt out and start a thread of our own?

Oh the value of reversible sweatshirts - they were as thick as duvets!