Boden dress. Would anyone wear this?

[StPaulandTheBrokenBones]

www.boden.co.uk/en-gb/tulle-ruffle-midi-party-dress-onyx-green/sty-d0361-grn?cat=C1_S2_G360

Because I think this is not nice. It makes the lady look like a doily.

Too many horizontal lines going on.

She looks like a toilet roll dolly in that! Remember those?

I like the idea of black tights and gold shoes, agreeing with a tiny number of pps here, as I've seen that look elsewhere. Though not those particular gold shoes used by Boden.

No.

So a new generation can look stupid, probably. Most of fashion is stupid anyway.

It looks like a party dress my mum made me when I was a kid in the 70's.

Agree.

There was only 1 or 2 items I'd remotely consider buying and even then it was difficult to see what they'd actually look like because of the low lighting they'd used. There was a reasonably plain black dress but it seemed to be very textured fabric, but you couldn't really see how busy it looked in that light.

I know you're expected to look on the website for more pictures and the mailing is presumably designed to inspire you to go to the website. It didn't though.

Also got my fairfax & favor mailing, altogether better (everything is well lit so you can actually see the items).

This.
Although turns out the Lettuce Sea Slug is solar powered.... How clever!

Thinking about Christmas party and New Year's Eve and need a party dress.

What's everyone wearing- I need inspiration

I'm a size 16 aged 50

Yes, I love frills. But I’d wear it with ankle boots and I wouldn’t spend that much on it.

Didn’t know people over 9 years old still wore Boden.

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I know. Thought I had but obviously hadn't. I have since started a thread. Sorry 😉

It could be nice on a different model with a smaller chest. The look of an old-fashioned doll, but exaggerated, and an odd colour too, is part of the aesthetic. I think it is to look like ‘vintage’ chic, or pulling things out of an attic dress -up box. There is a touch of Miss Haversham about it.

Was watching What We Do In The Shadows, and this is a full on Nadia dress. If you enjoy gothy accessories, it probably would look great (the lace up victorian style boots, etc) - not sure this is Boden's usual customer base though :)

Yeah, I was just thinking you could pin tinsel and baubles to it for full fancy dress.

Hideous and very unflattering. It's a no from me!

It has a Victorian lady-of-questionable-virtue vibe.

I don't mind the frilliness, but the torso and waist are just really unflattering.

Is this thread promoted by mumsnet?!

Hate the dress. Colour is nice.

Hideously unflattering , and the styling is horrendous. The shoes don't even fit the model! And thick black tights with those shoes??

I think they usually have at least one badly styled horror to generate publicity.

I think they usually have at least one badly styled horror to generate publicity.

Well that would explain a lot. Imagine being the designer tasked with this year's monstrosity. "Nope - still not garish enough. Add some more pom poms. Make it more hotchpotch. Come on, I want SASSY."

That would actually quite suit me but not with those awful shoes and black tights.

Didn't they have a jumper with a weirdly placed giraffe or something on it one year?
Didn't a different clothing brand (FatFace?) have a christmas jumper with what looked like dangling nipples all around the yoke one year?

£220 for 100% polyester is laughable. For that money I'd expect good quality materials.

Also it's very little Bo Peep, and misshapen around the boobs - the tailoring makes the chest look droopy even if it's not.