Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: JesusFlo Superstar in a Back Lit Kaftan (Toyboy Not Included)

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@MmePoppySeedDefage

Ooh, I like both. Couldn't get away with either, but would admire them on someone else.

For what it's worth, many of the teachers at my kids' school (kids are out, but I'm involved on a governance level) dress really well. Not necessarily expensively, but stylishly. A lot of them are young enough to not be bound by rules or what mumsnet would have to say and I think they look fab. I often feel staid and dull by comparison.

Buying and returning seems to be my thing right now. Ordered this from Matches and am sending back as it's really strangely proportioned and has a very long strap. Great if you're 5'10", but sadly, I'm not.

Heh! Someone chic whom I used to follow on a knitting thread bought stuff from Seasalt which changed my attitude towards it - they do have the occasional nice garment - my fun colourful skirt that I am having to retire as it's too big, is one such.

I'm loving the bright skirts from afar. I really can't carry off a full skirt, but will enjoy them vicariously. I'm in an ancient white with black stripe dress from hush, as it's hot. People always seem to notice me in a dress. I bumped into a friend who thought I looked well and then I got asked out by the Big Issue guy, not sure whether to be flattered or offended!

I navigated the hottest day of the year in wool - and felt happy with my choice.

The Sofie D’Hoore skirt mentioned above turned out to be wondrously light, so was a last minute switch. Paired with a knitted green cashmere camisole (The Elder Statesman - and no I definitely didn’t pay the original price!).

Full credit to ‘Rolled up sleeves and laying waste elsewhere’ @Floisme for spotting the potential of the skirt - (only 20th c language will do) it’s one of the sexiest outfits I can remember wearing ever. There was definitely something ‘extra’ in the reactions I had from people (male people) over the weekend. Not that that’s why I get dressed, of course …

Footwear was an at least fifteen year old pair of DKNY flatform sandals in red, white and gold. They’ve managed to avoid being thrown out by never wearing out. And the ancient stripy Toast basket. Nothing matched. But it was perfect.

Everyone on the train platform who wasn’t in crop top and shorts was wearing a (by evening) slightly limp cotton dress or skirt in a ditsy print. (Seasalty! )

Hello! I have a lot to catch up.
I love a full skirt, but I have missed the mini heatwave… unless it carries on for the rest of the week.
I have a vintage jaeger one that has a nod to African print that I need to take for it to be altered as is a bit too big.
I did not have a lot of time for shopping during my trip, but there is always some time 😉
so I got these off white western boots, they are the most comfortable thing I own now (other than trainers and birks) and the leather is gloriously soft.
I was trying them and I happened to have white socks on.
I share another lot of boots I saw in a different shop too, they were not as comfortable as the ones I got but were lovely too. In that second shop I got a pair of leather trainers from Clara Barcelo , the o es I got are not on the website but you can get an idea of the style they do. https://clarabarcelo.com/zapatos-de-mujer/zapatillas/

What lovely boots!

Today I'm wearing my Sophie d'Hoore fine black cotton full skirt that was a bargain from Oxfam vintage, discovered thanks to my doing a link to her for this thread for some reason.

I love those boots too Red, and the ones in the pic. I think that, if I ever get properly back into wearing skirts and dresses again, I might well start craving cowboy boots. I know I could wear them now with cuffed jeans but I don't think it would show them off properly.

Well I sat on my hands for 4 days but in the end couldn't stop myself weighing in with my experiences of Seasalt. But I will be very happy to be proved wrong MmePoppySeedDefage

4 days Flo, you're practically a tantric master. Which leads somewhat to quirky's marriage proposal, my grandmother used to say something, I can't repeat it exactly as it was in another language I don't speak and only vaguely understand, but it basically boiled down to white (N. European) men go crazy with just a little bit of heat in the air, super horny and can't drive for shit. I'm still stuck in the heat, and it remains as true as ever, I'm actually rather nervy on my bike atm, it seems worse than normal, I nearly got mowed down by a fat bike (super fast electric bikes with really fat tires).

Welcome back Red, I was wondering if you were in Argentina when you mentioned you were away and the boots seem to confirm it. I hope you managed to help sort the things with your family.

I had never heard of Seasalt before, it just looks like another catolgue brand which you lot over the water seem to have so many of. I don't know if MNers really like their catalogues or if it's a general UK thing? I'd struggle to name one here (that's not a put down, I just don't think they're a thing here, no one really lives rurally in the back of beyond and it's a small market anyhow. I think there might be some German ones that deliver here?).

Well I had a rush through the shops yesterday looking at all sorts of raffia or raffia-like bags. I was briefly tempted by the Prada one before finding my sanity again and I've decided I don't like raffia bags at all. They're not particularly nice on a bare shoulder and they sort of move oddly against the body. So I'm back to digging up links about Furoshiki, a Japanese method for tying cloth into bags (originally bento boxes). The Row has those silk bags that are heavily inspired by it, I'm going to the Dries fabric sale next week so hopefully I'll find some nice fabric there if I don't have something in my own stash already...

I love the western boots red. My contribution to footwear are these red, Mary Janes, which are actually Tai Chi shoes that cost £8 in the local hippy shop. I used to wear some years ago and had forgotten how ridiculously comfy they are! Much cheaper than the versions I've seen online.

It was more of an ask out than a proposal, bo. The fabric bags look lovely, too.

Sorry, quirky, seems I'm not immune to loopiness during the heat either, I had already married you off in my mind

Heh! Flo. I do generally agree with what you say you about SS, and suspect that that skirt I've ordered will be unflattering because there are little gathers at the front and back, but we'll see.

I've just had a message from the MaxMara skirt shop that they don't have it in stock after all. They have it at Zalando but there are more photos there that imply that it will drown me. Maybe I'll go to Liberty and buy some fabric...

I was thinking of you last week when I was at Fenton Barns Farm Shop and café. As well as being a lovely café the shop had a very nice selection of woven tote bags and straw baskets. Unfortunately it was a business pre- meeting meeting so I couldn't go browsing. They don't have them online.

They are made by the Braided Bag Company.

Fenton Barns Farm Shop

Braided Bag Company

Loving the wafty skirt chat, shame about the MaxMara one MmePoppy. Hopefully you find it elsewhere or are inspired to create your own.

I think it was@microbius who was looking for a vibrant yellow skirt pages and pages ago and was cruelly mocked for sharing a rectangle posted a simple drawstring style. I spotted this at Toast (not Seasalt 👵🏻) and wondered if it might be worth a look?

The colour is listed as dhal, which is a little cutesy but it really makes me crave the amazing coconut milk based Sri Lankan dhal DH makes. Is anyone else in the ‘eat spicy food when it’s hot to sweat it all out’ camp?

<ahem> I didn't mock micro for posting a rectangle skirt I was just rather lofty about whether a rectangle and some elastic constituted a sewing pattern. Joke's very much on me though as all I seem to like at the moment is rectangles with some elastic...

I thinkmicro managed to find a nice yellow skirt with some actual pattern drafting involved on Vestiaire in the meantime.

I do wonder what you make of me in your memory Shangpie , didn't you also decide I was a peshmerga out of nowhere 🤔

I don't like spicy food when it's hot, I drink lots of hot tea though as that's a fairly solid strategy from the tropics. I actually have little desire to eat (no appetite) or cook at night, it's quite annoying.

Thanks, @SHangPie for thinking about me! That skirt was an open invitation for pondering the balance of cost versus effort put into pattern and design :) I beware Toast; because I am so tall this skirt will probably be knee-length on me (which might not be a bad thing)

I am loving your chat, and Red's boots (!). The summer heat for me is the prime sarafan wear time, which in my head is a weird merger between a traditional french summer countryside dress and a thin flaring dress on straps (sometimes sewn in, sometimes one would tie them over the shoulders) I wore all summers as a child. Somehow in heat no fashion rules apply and I dig out my various sarafans or what would pass for them, some from very unfashionable brands...

I LOVE these threads.

I don't join in often as I don't know enough but

I BLOODY LOVE THESE THREADS.

As you were.

I BLOODY LOVE THESE THREADS

They feel like an oasis of calm in a mad world. And a mad Mumsnet world too, come to that.

I’ve been meaning to say how stupendous @Redandblue11‘s western outfit was. White socks with the boots is pure genius - and they do look wondrously comfortable.

Decades ago I spent six weeks on a ranch in Wyoming and recall being very envious of the one person in our (more or less starving artists) group who was able to buy a pair of cowboy boots in the nearest town. Kind of ruined the ‘fashion’ version for me for years as I wanted the genuine article, but I think I’m over that now. This year …

I’m sure the little booklet that came with Hermès scarves used to contain instructions on how to fold one into the sort of bag you mean, @botemp. No idea if that’s still the case as I haven’t bought one since I left the City a million years ago - but I think I tried it once or twice, before deciding it was a reckless way to ruin a scarf. (If you used it as an actual bag, rather than just decoration.)

What's with the sudden love in are they being mean about us somewhere or is this to be blamed on the heat, too? And what's with all the not joining in because you don't know enough. I talk rubbish on here 99% of the time...

Well I suspect Hermes no longer offer that booklet Crkd as they've cut out the middle man to sell you another overpriced bag, this one, it's even called fusoshiki handbag, I'd like a picture for someone to model it though. I've never been a huge fan of their scarves, I mind the bag less though 🤷

It appears I'm on a floral binge, found a silk Raey dress in a sort of 70s wallpaper pattern (and colour wat) on Vinted for €10, my hair's a bit 70s atm and I bought a very 70s style pair of sunglasses from Linda Farrow a few months back so I figured at that price I may as well embrace it for a bit. Also ordered the floral blazer that matches my floral platform sandals from Dries as it was 70% off. I'm not entirely convinced it's the same blazer I tried on when I bought the sandals so here's hoping it's as good, looks to be the same fabric but different length and buttons.

Do post a link to your blazer, Bo.

In more prosaic/mumsy news, I like the boat-patterned SS skirt. It's more flattering than I had feared and the material is nice. It has a bit of texture woven into the fabric and it doesn't crease too much. And it's lined in cotton.

I have a 20-year Paul Smith cotton skirt, patterned with old powder compacts which I love, but it's got a synthetic lining so it's not as nice to wear on a hot day as it could be. It's just occurred to me that I could have the lining redone

Here you go Poppy

https://www.24s.com/en-nl/bowy-jacket-dries-van-noten_DVN3NT25

Love us and join us please! In all honesty I have no clue about fashion, other than I am a magpie for stuff.

thank you for the very positive comments on the boots.

I am still catching up here, but was reading upside down and nearly fell off my chair when I read a hint of quirky becoming engaged 😁that would have been fabulous. Sadly I kept reading …

I saw that Bani said hello briefly here too?! Come out of the lurk Bani!

70s look now Bo? And florals 😍

I have been keeping an eye on dries stuff for a while but have not seen anything worth the punt here on uk preloved sites.

Cross post with poppy glad that you have a skirt now.
if you really like the Paul smith one and see yourself wearing it, then I would reline it.

I think the love is about the fact that on other threads everyone seems to take umbrage at the slightest thing and it gets really nasty very quickly. I like very much that this thread allows for differing opinions apart from most of us worshipping St Margaret of Howell and we want to get on with each other! 😍loving all the new looks Red’s boots (white socks and all 😉), bo’s 70s summer print fest is shaping up nicely. Micro please post some photos of your sarafans, I’ve been trying to Google but can’t really see exactly what you might be wearing, IKWYM about there comes a point when you are so hot you no longer care about style (hell has officially frozen over) - I am wearing denim shorts and a tank top, a look (for me) that is definitely not fit for public consumption as it’s not terrifically flattering but oh so comfy atm! poppy that skirt sounds so lovely, perhaps in the meantime you could cut out the lining - it is so weird how they line with synthetics- definitely worth getting your skirt relined so you can wear it in the next heatwave!

ps bo I love how you have dismissed raffia bags - I bet there will now be a wave of articles in the press about how baskets and raffia bags are over and those fusoshiki will become the next summer it-bag. Can completely see why Hermes would get behind this but how will the other houses approach it? Eg will Loewe just stick its leather logo on a silk fusoshiki 🤡 (a bit like it did with the basket bag)?