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Is this jumper/tunic too mumsy?

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dellacucina · 31/12/2018 16:59

DH says it is, and not 'London' enough. I thought it would be nice for casual wear. Late 30s, am a mum!

Is this jumper/tunic too mumsy?
Is this jumper/tunic too mumsy?
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BitOutOfPractice · 05/01/2019 16:31

If I say I'm from Dudley I always preface it with "please don't try and say it back to me in what you think is the accent because I've heard it a million times before and it's so so old and annoying". If they do it anyway I just give them an icy stare. It's like a compulsion with almost everyone I meet. Now I usually just say Wolverhampton to avoid sounding like a mardy cow

BitOutOfPractice · 05/01/2019 16:37
Grin
Is this jumper/tunic too mumsy?
ElizabethMainwaring · 05/01/2019 16:40

I say that I'm from Stourbridge, which is true. But noone knows where that is, so I mention Dudley, and we go through that charade. I do blame Lenny Henry for a lot of it.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/01/2019 16:44

I went to 6th form in Stourbridge (king Ed's) and I'm from Sedgley. Nice to meet you. Ar bin yow?

ElizabethMainwaring · 05/01/2019 16:44

Well, actually I was born in Netherton. Schooled at Quarry Bank (the Bonk). Loving how we've derailed this. But it was a very boring jumper thread.

Kikipost · 05/01/2019 16:45

If I say I'm from Dudley I always preface it with "please don't try and say it back to me in what you think is the accent because I've heard it a million times before and it's so so old and annoying". If they do it anyway I just give them an icy stare. It's like a compulsion with almost everyone I meet. Now I usually just say Wolverhampton to avoid sounding like a mardy cow

I understand now

ElizabethMainwaring · 05/01/2019 16:48

I nearly went to King Eds, went to Halesowen College instead. Frank Skinner was my English A level teacher, and I had intimate relationships with certain members of Ned's Atomic Dustbin.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/01/2019 16:51

Kiki being openly hostile, mocking or generally nasty about accents seems to be a perfectly acceptable prejudice. I refuse to just put up with it any more. I've laughed it off for years but now I openly call people on it. I'm sick of being labelled and assumed about solely on the way I say bath or what I call my mother.

The mom thing comes up on mn so often I cannot believe people haven't read it before.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/01/2019 16:52

Oh @ElizabethMainwaring I think we must be near contemporaries because my friend also got jiggy with one of the Ned's Grin

tinytemper66 · 05/01/2019 16:53

I have just returned from a few days in London. Was I supposed to have 'the look' before I went?

Kikipost · 05/01/2019 16:58

If I say I'm from Dudley I always preface it with "please don't try and say it back to me in what you think is the accent because I've heard it a million times before and it's so so old and annoying". If they do it anyway I just give them an icy stare.

I doubt people are going to be thinking about your accent after this kind of initial interaction (bearing in mind you say it before they’ve said a word!)

BitOutOfPractice · 05/01/2019 17:16

Kiki they only ask where I'm from because, sleuth-like, they have been clever enough to detect I'm not from the south east. This immediately leads them to ask the question. Then, like a compulsion, they can't stop themselves, they say "dooooooodd-lay" and await, smirking, my delighted response. I just look at them.

I don't expect you to believe me. My dp didn't either. Until he'd heard it 300 times. Every time. I literally get asked 3 or 4 times a week. It's so boring. I refuse to laugh along any more.

If you (or they) think that makes me rude or humourless I don't really care. I'm just not prepared to be mocked and derided (because the reaction to a BC accent is never positive) for the way I speak any longer.

BedraggledBlitz · 05/01/2019 18:22

Could you team it with a busby hat to appease your husband?

CautionTape · 05/01/2019 19:51

I live part of the time in London and part in the country.
Oh and I spend lots of work time in the US.
Should I have separate wardrobes Confused

BitOutOfPractice · 05/01/2019 20:11

Well according to this thread CautionTape you need different accents, let alone wardrobes! Grin

katekat383 · 05/01/2019 20:16

You definitely cannot wear jumpers with a crisscross thing on the back. Cos do stuff with the backs of jumpers, too.
Wonder if they will be regarded as “not very London”.

ILikeyourHairyHands · 06/01/2019 03:49

Honestly mate. Your husband is a bell-end.

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dellacucina · 06/01/2019 03:49

Why is a crisscross off limits??? I suppose my backwater background is showing through...

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rededucator · 06/01/2019 03:59

The jumper looks like comfy lounge wear. You e a cracking figure and I adore your furniture.

Bloomini · 06/01/2019 10:11

WTF does he mean by "it's not London enough"?

Is he from London? I expect not as then he'd know that people tend to dress down there.

Please please post a pic of him wearing a "London enough" outfit and we'll be the judge of that.

You look utterly fab OP so wear what you damn well like. Don't listen to him, he's an arse. What an utter tool to think like that let alone say it.

He sounds petty and small-minded. I bet he's from some regional small town *shithole Wink

  • disclaimer: some people living in London have a massive chip on their shoulder about where they're originally from. I don't think regional places are all shitholes.
katekat383 · 06/01/2019 13:20

dellacucina

Why is a crisscross off limits??? I suppose my backwater background is showing through...

I was using irony.

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dellacucina · 06/01/2019 16:25

katekat383 Read your post too quickly! Got it...

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katekat383 · 06/01/2019 16:30

Cool! 🙃

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 07/01/2019 08:14

It’s ok for the house but with your figure you can wear glammer!