Cath Kidston : love it or hate it? Opinions please

[Chelseamum]

I have had enough of it...
Not buying any more nostalgia crapola...

www.cathkidston.co.uk

I asked the same question the other day. I really don't know. Is it nauseating or enchanting? Probably the first. Odd stuff. Not my kind of thing at all and yet it's odd appealing.

It's just posh Laura Ashley if you ask me! I like it on DD but find it rather twee on me.

Clothes too much. It's the homeware I'm attracted to.

Not at all

The homeware is just a bit 'granny for tea' for me.

It's like the White Company, Laura Ashley and Age Concern vomited into a design studio.

there was a shop here full to the rafters of it, which was quite nauseating.

maybe one or 2 bits ad hoc, are ok, if amongst some really eclectic things in the home.

but tbh, its not very original anymore. i do like those 50's style bread bins tho, in fact so much so that I got a cheapo version of one a few yrs back.

Hmm. My three favourite shops! Especially Age Concern.

The soap costs nearly £5 a bar.

She must be laughing her arse off.

if i buy any vintage textiles, which sometimes i do for work, i prefer to look for the real macoy in charity shops and jumble sales. you can get some really good stuff really cheap.

thrifting is the way to go

Too much too much.
Been overdone now
Bit sick of seeing the orla kierly print too which is popular around this neck of the woods. It all goes downhill after a while

it's commmon (lots of peoplehave it not opposite of ponce)

it's commmon (meaning lots of people have it not the opposite of ponce)

I think a lot of the stuff is reasonably priced, but only own a makeup bag, which was a gift.

DH and I went into a Cath Kidson shop in London - just because we were passing (obviulsly I wan't shopping with my DH!) and he was not a tall impressed. Actually, he was quite rude!

The £100 dress looks like the overall my gran used to wear to clean her silver.

I mean FFS - Cath Kidson TENTS - how designer is it exactly to be sleeping on cowpats, regardless of how chintzy your groundsheet?!

Tombley ROFL!

A bit sick of Orla Kiely? but I'm still saving up for a bag!

(have a jumper though from TK Maxx)

Is Orla Kiely the whale in free willy? (I don't have a telly I'm probably being very dense and out of touch here).

hah hah no think its got lots of apples and pears in it? i seem to see the tablecloths at quite a few peoples houses.

I've got a fruitbowl like that!

how would I find out how big it is? (Been looking for a tea pot for ages and like that!)

lol @ your birkies Sobernow - part of me regrets DS's crocs for the same reason! (Got them for the ease etc - he can sit in all the puddles etc he feels like with them on without me having to worry about soggy socks).

Amazon recommends... bought the babywhisperer toddler book - they recommended GF!!! And they think they know me....

some things are nice, some aren't
I like this www.cathkidston.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=150-122 -1-2&language=en-GB but agree with lucykate, vintage textiles all the way.

I like the idea of vintage textiles. Does anyone remember that slightly brushed cotton bedlinen that was very fine stripes. Peppermint and pink I think? That pillowcase reminided me of it.

Ooh yes John Lewis still sell it. Goes very well with wincyette nighties and bedsocks