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The TOAST catalogue..anyone else fall for it every time?

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BeenleighOfTheDead · 04/10/2007 13:12

The majority of the clothes I could live without, although there are some really nice pieces (pyjamas, tank tops and jumpers mainly), but I am always left with a longing for the lifestyle. The photographs are so lovely, and I so need to do my gardening in a party dress and sit in the pub with a pint of bitter in a lovely toast jumper.........oh for the lack of clutter!

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Boycodd · 04/10/2007 13:12

i htink they are really reall y odd clothes

Boycodd · 04/10/2007 13:13

www.toast.co.uk/product2.aspx?categorypath=daywear/dresses&productid=C1B5R&categoryref=%2fcategory2. aspx%3fcategorypath%3ddaywear%2fdresses
er my hosue mistress at school wore this

Boycodd · 04/10/2007 13:14

www.toast.co.uk/product2.aspx?categorypath=daywear/dresses&productid=C1P5M&categoryref=%2fcategory2. aspx%3fcategorypath%3ddaywear%2fdresses%26nopaging%3dtrue

WHO will this suit?

scampadoodle · 04/10/2007 13:22

I always used to fall for the catalogue though I never bought anything as it's so expensive. Then they opened a Toast shop very near me & in the flesh the clothes are really, really...

ordinary

reallysad · 04/10/2007 13:24

red jammies lovely

BUT £49
I DON'T THINK SO

hippipotami · 04/10/2007 13:31

boycodd - I saw someone with the grey pinni in town the other day. She had teamed it with a white shirt, red tie, black tights and black knee-high boots. It looked good, but disturbingly like a schoolgirl at the same time!

Boycodd · 04/10/2007 13:47

fancy dress fashion?

Tinker · 04/10/2007 13:54

I want to like this stuff but it all looks so drab or trying too hard to be quirkyish

flowerybeanbag · 04/10/2007 13:57

I have recently discovered a good technique for not being seduced by glossy catalogues.

I now put them in the recycling without allowing myself to open them - if I do, I'm bound to see something I like, but if I don't, if/when there is something I need, I can always go on t'internet to find it, but I am not seduced by lovely photos into buying things I otherwise wouldn't.

Takes a lot of willpower though, I love looking at catalogues.

Tortington · 04/10/2007 14:12

fucking hideous

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BeenleighOfTheDead · 04/10/2007 14:46

Cod, I love that grey tulip dress, but the printed silk dress is very odd, however they had a skirt in the same print which I thought was quite nice, love the idea of the literal 50's print.
Scamp, yes, been in the shop on Upper Street and it's rubbish rubbish rubbish. I guess that this is what I mean. The photography is so lovely it makes me want the clothes.
I hate all those jersey tops as well, they're really horrible.
This is the sort of thing I mean.
Stripey pyjamas christmas present. Can;t wait

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Sheherazadethegoat · 04/10/2007 15:25

this shirt should be £12 in lidl or some old fashioned menswear shop. they are totally taking the piss.

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 04/10/2007 15:42

The toast catalogue makes me want to go and shoot myself. It's so depressingly dreary.

margoandjerry · 04/10/2007 15:45

I wondered if I was missing something with Toast so I made a special trip to the Toast concession in Selfridges. And yep. It is indeed all really drab and ordinary.

Just nice photos.

MegaLegs · 04/10/2007 15:47

It's all very neutral but I do like thisbut £89.00

MegaLegs · 04/10/2007 15:48

My DH wears these to work

MyEye · 04/10/2007 16:10

LOVE these but don't have anything they'd go with

MyEye · 04/10/2007 16:12

here is Toast's answer to the MN hooded waterproof jacket dilemma
Yours for £155!

puppydavies · 04/10/2007 16:13

clothes are mostly sackish (albeit well made, quality sacks) but photography and styling is exquisite. nice to see the catalogue team have found their way back from morocco at last

scampadoodle · 04/10/2007 19:39

Beenleigh - I'm near Upper St too!

Beenleigh · 04/10/2007 20:02

Are you? I love Islington. Do you go in to Diverse? I love that shop, although can;t afford anything from there! I'm Crouch End, but not that far. Where are you?

moondog · 04/10/2007 20:03

It's Frump Central.

LadyMacbeth · 04/10/2007 20:07

Oh god, swoooonerama, just to go against the consensus here, I love Toast.

Although I have to admit some of the clothes are pretty awful, but the ones that are nice (about 25% of them IMO) are enough to make me wet my knickers.

They are too expensive too, ut the sales are good.

I just love the photos and the settings, I like to think my house loks a bit Toast-like (especially when I screw my eyes up after several glasses of red).

TheStepfordChav · 04/10/2007 20:12

Gosh, I feel so much better after reading this! They've just opened a new shop near me. I didn't know them, just seen the name in the Telegraph sunday supplement a few tims and thought I should therefore aspire - (sigh) - but was shocked at the prices in the shop. Now I know they're 'dull, dull, dull' and 'Frump Central' I can stay happy with New Look & Primark!

norkmaiden · 04/10/2007 20:16

Love Toast (not all of it, but there are bits in the catalogue that I am hankering after like mad)

I get you Beenleigh, it's the lifestyle they sell and I'm a sucker for it (or secretly part Amish, not sure which)

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