Fashion expressions that annoy you

[MaryKateWA]

Does anyone have any phrases that make them twitch?

Mine is people saying they were diagnosed or self-diagnosed as a season. You don't have an illness or a problem. Colours are analysed or you can be draped as a season.

I'll ready the biscuits

Something I keep seeing is "buttery" to describe anything leather.

Any time a leather jacket is on a blog/ magazine/ Instagram, it's "buttery soft". WHY?? Get some new adjectives! It's a bit of a weird image anyway, makes me think the jacket is a bit greasy or something.

Buttery is the worst! Makes me think the handbag is slimy.

It's very specific to May books magazines and content, but 'painterly florals'. Every year, someone wangs on about painterly florals and I hate it each time.

Ooh, and ACCENTUATE.
People are always accentuating stuff with makeup.
No one else accentuates things outside of beauty.

Jean. What the fuck is jean??!!!

Trouser, tight and lip (the same kind of annoyance but not as infuriating as jean).

Buttery!! Jeebus that gets on my goat.
Totally agree with NotANotMan wtf does that mean. It appears to be the default descriptive term for a decent leather anything. Jeez. Stop. There’s plenty of words.

Soft supple moudable smooth easy flexible fine yielding velvety, even high quality would do for starters.

Stop with the buttery.

Off topic, but @MickHucknallsPinkPancakes — ❤️ Your name 😂. A phrase that still reduces me and DH to rivulets of honking laughter...

Also “swipe up” - I know it’s an Instagram thing, but I associate it with fashion bloggers and I hate everything it embodies

The phrase "off duty" which seems to just mean "casual" e.g "nail this season's off duty look" is just an article about jeans and leather jackets - what are we meant to be wearing when "on duty"?!

'Husheetas'

I'm really embarrassed for people extolling the virtues Hush's clothes on mumsnet.

Yes, apart from anything else, Husheeta sounds like an incontinence pad.

'Diffusion line'.

Read, cheaper than the main line, for those who can't afford it - but nowhere near as nice...

'Pre-loved'

Agree with this.

I buy a lot of my stuff on Ebay and laugh when I see "pre-loved" particularly when the tags are still on. Couldn't have been "loved" that much then . Why not just say second-hand (like we used to in the olden days)?

"A nod to"
"Buy into"

Both phrases used by the bloke on QVC (high fashion I know) when something has a random zip or stripe that's meant to be popular.

"So cosy" usually a huge padded coat or jumper that will make me look like I'm wearing DH coat , but I'll look cosy

Any words that come out of Dennis Basso's face .

‘A knit’

Ooh. I don't normally post in the "I hate" threads but I do really hate the infantalisation of clothing items, why when talking about a strappy top or strappy heels
Or "lippy" do we have to go all cutesy? That sort of thing.

Price point. It could be used to actually mean something but is usually used instead of just " price". Yuk!

‘Combo’
‘Accessorise’
‘Edgy’
‘Own it’

Yes buttery! Buttery-soft fecking leather! Not only is it the only word ever used to describe soft leather, it's also apparently the only type of leather at all. Just stop it!

It's the fashion-journalist equivalent of "The write stuff" invariably used about anything to do with writers, pens or stationery.

Also hate "teamed" and "the edit" / "curated". In other words, most of our collection is shite so we asked someone to pick out the nice stuff.

Product.

fash pack

I don't like rocking, rocks either. Or rocking up in...

@SplatPancake i shamelessly stole it from TV Go Home which was, if I recall written by Charlie Brooker as a kind of spoof Radio Times.

I used to howl at the weekly situations they'd make up for Mick to press his testicles on different clear surfaces.

I remember it only too well Mick! God it was funny!

Just for the record, 1980s clothing is vintage... vintage is up to 20 years before present day "widely speaking".

This thread is setting my teeth on edge with cringeyness!
I HATE when fashionistas describe a ‘simple white tee’ Aaaargh!
It’s a fucking T-SHIRT NOT A TEE!!!