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Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: See life in pink, but do not wear it!

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botemp · 06/03/2019 15:58

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alldressedupinblue · 15/05/2019 12:58

There was a long segment on This Morning (ITV) covering instant tans, including Sally Hansen. The clips should come up online this afternoon.

XingMing · 15/05/2019 13:28

Love those sheer/embroidered organza jackets but as your dress has sleeves, Trolley, I prefer Bo's suggestion that you wear any jacket on shoulders rather than sticking your arms through. As if you had borrowed a kind chap's tux to keep warm...

TrolleyNight · 15/05/2019 13:29

Okay, so the majority opinion seems to be that I don't need to buy anything at all! I do feel the cold, but dress is silk and has a lining so I'll probably manage. Tbh I think I got side-tracked by all the glamorous options, when my real question is probably: what spring jacket shall I buy? And as an aside, would it look okay over this dress for a small portion of one day. Apologies for making such a fuss! And thanks very much for all the advice and compliments on the dress. I bought it a while ago so have had time to doubt it, and it's good to have nice feedback.

Bo, I tried the blazer both on and "shoulder-robing" and neither was right. I find that wide-shouldered mannish look hard to pull off, unfortunately. Effortlessly cool in a casual jacket would be my ideal solution, but reality may not cooperate.

Tan-wise, is instant tan essentially makeup? I use St Tropez mousse but do find it hard to avoid blotchy ankles and knees, so something to even it out could be useful. Elle, do you know how the VL 10 min tan compares to St T express mousse?

TrolleyNight · 15/05/2019 13:33

Xing I may indeed borrow my own kind chap's blazer on the day. Sadly not a tux but may work. And if I don't look in a mirror first then I can imagine it looks as nonchalant as I'd like.

XingMing · 15/05/2019 13:41

Lots of head-scratching by the kitchen-fitters this morning as they cheat mm here and there to ensure doors open and don't crash into handles. Tomorrow is the 2nd fix for power, gas and plumbing. Transport crisis has stymied today's planned worktop delivery and we have fingers crossed for Friday (but it's still uncertain). Plus the showroom designer "forgot" the serpentine shelves in the corner (pan) cupboard so those have to be acquired post-haste. Colour scheme is white American oak, (light but with lots of blackened knots and texture) Breccia marbled counter in taupe, and an elephant grey-cream pattern in subway tile splashback. White and black range and stainless trims. It's neutral with (I hope) just enough interest for long term pleasure but without dating much.

alldressedupinblue · 15/05/2019 15:53

Here's the link on instant tans:

www.itv.com/thismorning/style-beauty/beauty-live-get-the-perfect-pins-for-summer

banivani · 15/05/2019 17:57

All pointy toed shoes look off to me really so I try to be accepting. Wink

Floisme · 15/05/2019 18:21

Red wedding is in a couple of weeks thanks, and I've got several other big birthdays and milestone events stretching into the autumn. Promises to be joyous, exhausting, stressful and financially ruinous so I'm determined to only wear what's already in my wardrobe Halo

In fact the way things are going, there'll be no new clothes for me till 2020. I'm even being frugal in the charity shops. Shock

Anyway I'm going to wear the 60s suit to the wedding. It's at the dry cleaners this week but here's a pic of the last time I wore it. (Look away now Karl.)

Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: See life in pink, but do not wear it!
timeisnotaline · 15/05/2019 19:46

A couple of weeks! That came along quickly. I’d love to have some weddings and parties to dress for go to, our friends at this point are all married and talk more about poo than parties. Baby poo, I hope it’s a bit longer till we all chat about our poo.

XingMing · 15/05/2019 20:25

We're at the age of attending weddings as godparents and family friends, which is joyfully effortless. DS seems to be a long way from any serious relationship. Nephew's wedding comes up next, in France, June 2020, but I think fairly small. Likely to be very fashiony as niece-in-law works for a top London niche label as a designer. No real pressure, as I am 30 years too old to impress.

Floisme · 16/05/2019 07:25

Yeah I've been stressing cos I've not been to a wedding in nearly two decades. (Funeral dressing, on the other hand, I can do standing on my head.) But you're right - no-one, but no-one will be looking at me. I remember going to weddings in my 20s - even 30s - and totally ignoring the generation up (who had of course paid for the whole shebang). Karma.

banivani · 16/05/2019 12:16

I've always looked at older generations myself when at events, and been impressed at the ones who clearly just know which shoes to wear, and aghast at the ones who call themselves adults and don't Wink - and always hating my own outfits Grin

Am 43 going on 22.

Redandblue11 · 16/05/2019 20:07

I am wearing my pink gaucho trousers today, with a grey with pink pom-poms jigsaw scarf I had for a couple of years.
I have gone off summer scarfs in the last year, but this one seemed fun for the outfit (in my eyes anyway).

So next week is Chelsea flower show ... supposed to be 18 degrees, cloudy ... my option of pink finery dress might be not warm enough, back to the drawing board...

Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: See life in pink, but do not wear it!
Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: See life in pink, but do not wear it!
XingMing · 17/05/2019 10:00

Gauchos are looking good, and the pom-pom scarf makes it rather festive! Like that outfit, red.

ToEllewithIt · 17/05/2019 20:17

Trousers look great red I love the style of older women at weddings, particularly enormous hats.

The irony of all the pink on this thread! Your suit sounds very on-trend flo Mono coloured trouser suits are all over Instagram. www.hardlyeverwornit.com/item/158012/gabriela-hearst-pink-silk-woolblend-suit

I'll post on the terrazzo later.

Floisme · 18/05/2019 11:20

It's uncanny how fashionable that pink is right now Elle - Me and Em are all over it. It certainly wasn't the case when I bought it! They were all admiring it at the dry cleaners too.

Had a lovely meal out with close family last night. I tried to add up total age of my outfit but I'd been on the gin and kept losing track:
My Karate trousers from the mid 80s.
1960s silver top.
White patent brogues that I spotted, unworn, in a vintage shop in New York in the early noughties then forgot all about until I found them again a couple of years ago with the price tag still attached (10 Dollars). Blush
1950s/60s bracelet that I remember my mum wearing when I was a child.
The Burberry trenchcoat - probably 90s/early noughties although I like to think it's older.
Bag I bought in a Trastevere street market on my first visit to Rome in 2006.

Around 200 years I think? (Calculated with a bad head and pre coffee.)

XingMing · 18/05/2019 13:26

Thumb's up Flo! Have another cup of coffee or is it time to Plink, plink, fizz? That is a good total of years, but no, I can't be bothered to calculate it either.

ToEllewithIt · 18/05/2019 16:34

Right, bad news. You lots have proved yourselves far too full of useful advice and since no good deed goes unpunished you can look forward to a scintillating post about floors (please feel free to scroll on past this shameless derail).

So terrazzo. Who knew there were so many variable. In short I think we have 4 dials to move and I’d welcome any thoughts.
Dial 1 - background colour of concrete. I think we’re more or less set that this will be the colour shown in both samples above (natural).
Dial 2- Main aggregate. Here were essentially closing between marble (cool tones and grey) in photo 1 and limestone (Warmer) photo 3. I think marble works better with the other materials, but think the limestone is beautiful.
Dial 3 - size of aggregate. We’re thinking larger here so 8-12mm and possibly some 5-8mm. Photos 2 has different colours in different sizes so you can kind of see the impact.
Dial 4: adding coloured marble. So like sample 2. It would still mostly be limestone but small pieces think 5% of red Verona or green mixed in. No black. Oh and a small amount of mother of pear

We’re getting samples made up with Carrara plus mother of pearl and some blue, green and red marble ( each a separate sample). We have the samples above too. So that gives us 6 to work with! Any thoughts welcome. Kitchen is walnut with concrete wall etc so don’t want to go too dark. I’d welcome any thoughts. Will see them next to the other finishes next week so hopefully that’ll make things clearer.

Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: See life in pink, but do not wear it!
Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: See life in pink, but do not wear it!
Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: See life in pink, but do not wear it!
XingMing · 18/05/2019 20:03

I feel the indecisions Elle. I like the limestone, because it's a bit warmer looking on the sample, but I would be very drawn to a terrazzo with colours too. I like the inclusion of larger chunks of colour as well. As it's inevitably going to be random, you won't get pattern boredom. Against walnut and concrete, the simplicity of limestone would stop it feeling too cool.

XingMing · 18/05/2019 20:07

I look forward to the next pictures. Some pictures of my kitchen coming via the mobile app, where the pix are stored, so you can judge what's happening in my kitchen. (It's going slowly, thanks to some delivery issues, and an obsessive perfectionist fitter... his OCD matches mine, so a happy relationship!)

botemp · 18/05/2019 20:54

Pfft, am I the only on struggling to reach MN these past few days? Seems to be a morning thing mostly.

Anyhow, enjoying all the pink and the enviable chameleon that is Flo.

WRT terrazzo floors, well I'd like some more info because for example black walnut is very different from European walnut and concrete comes in many shades. I'm assuming slightly ashy not the high gloss deepest rich walnut and a slightly deeper concrete to pair with it? Are countertops in concrete too? Appliances, taps, and hardware in stainless steel and/or chrome?

Essentially you have a cool and warm pallette going already by the sound of it, and the flooring will be a large deciding factor into which side has the edge. Since it's an extension I'm assuming there will be at least one wall with a large expanse of glass and probably a good sized sky light. Which means for most of the year, even if it's dead south facing, it'll be flooded with relatively cool light (as there's so much of it and life is pretty grey in Northern Europe). On account of that I'd be inclined to push for the limestone aggregate (provided it works well with the other chosen materials and finishes) as the flooring will be a large reflective surface due to finish and colour and the cooler colours will enhance the cooler light as well as making complexions look like death warmed over in the midst of winter. Born and bred Northern Europeans instinctively aren't big fans of cool light to begin with so it can also feel subconsciously uncomfortable, especially if the space is large.

WRT aggregate size, from my personal experience, smallest spaces like hallways and toilets work best with a smaller aggregate, medium spaces with few elements like a bathroom over 10m2 suit larger aggregate where it's the standout feature, large expansive spaces look best with a medium to large sized aggregate with a few larger almost oversized pieces mixed in just to give it a bit of scale, provided the rest of the space is pretty cleanly designed, it can't compete with too many other elements, a large kitchen island to break it up is fine, but various elements, level changes, etc can get pretty messy and then smaller aggregate is better suited.

Which brings me onto extra colours, variety, etc. I'm generally not a fan of opening up to option c,d,e, and f when a and b haven't been properly discarded. When there's a myriad of choices it's really easy to get seduced in wanting to explore it all in the name of interior design FOMO but it usually just tends to muddle up the decision process. In my view even though it's all terrazzo, options a and b are an entirely different species of floor than the additional options, the former is a clean seamless almost industrial floor with a strong horizontal presence at first glance that lets other elements of the design shine, whilst the further options are more of a feature in itself and is very much defining the space, in which case that should be dictating the material choices of the rest of the space rather than the other way round.

Saying that, the light flooring alongside the other materials do feel like they could do with tying together with a darker colour. I think it would be lost as a small element in the floor and better suited to artwork, feature lighting fixture, window finishings or similar. A bit of statement greenery also won't go amiss.

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Redandblue11 · 19/05/2019 09:49

Decisions, decisions ... I am drawn to the limestone. I think is beautiful. However, mine is not a professional input whatsoever, nor I am seeing it against the rest of the room, etc.
But somehow I imagine the chunks of darker colour with the walnut and it does not convince me, as if it was not strong enough, or trying to tie in something, but not sure the small random pieces in the floor will do that. But as I said, maybe I am wrong as I have not seen the rest and how it really looks like.

Floisme · 19/05/2019 10:08

I like the marble colours but I think I'm instinctively drawn towards cooler shades (even though I've never understood this warm-cool business). And if it's for a floor, I have to say my decision would be largely based on which would show up the dirt least.

And that, I'm afraid, is the extent of my interior design skillset Grin

banivani · 19/05/2019 10:16

Oh red I love those trousers on you! They look so good!!!

timeisnotaline · 19/05/2019 13:30

I am still a fan of gaucho trousers too! And pom poms :)
I think the warm limestone is beautiful. I’m a terrazzo fan generally and being an Aussie I like bringing a bit of warmth into the plan, when it’s so often grey and dark here. Think winter lights on and curtains drawn... I know any house I had would be too cluttered to have the mix of colours and sizes and would need a floor to be understated, but you may manage that much better than I.

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