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

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That sounds great Poppy, love it when a new item gives life to some neglected pieces. I'm impressed btw that Oxfam had some understanding of the value of it, it's not the most known brand but I guess they actually do a bit of research.

TBH I haven't seen much of skirts about, except the denim maxi ones but those don't appeal to me at all.

(Bani, I hope you set up your search for Sofie and Sophie otherwise it probably wouldn't show up much, although someone else might make that mistake and you could score a bargain, have both names 👌)

It's been snowing/raining for days and it has given me cabin fever, today's the first normal dry day. I'd normally avoid the busy city centre on the weekend but not today, I need to go and see things, anything, I'm still feeling spring-y despite the snow of the last few days, questionable purchase probably incoming

*Sofie and not Sophie but this correction is rather redundant considering what I said after...

Good to hear about the skirt MmePoppy, and especially that it fills a wardrobe gap. I'd never come across either Sofie or Sophie before but I've added her name to my mental list.

I've just bagged a Toast jacket for a tenner but it may yet end up on my mistakes pile at the end of the year. It's wool and linen, half lined but not tailored and it looked just the thing for dressing down some of my former officey clothes. But I saw the dry clean label, thought 'bugger that', washed it ever so carefully on a cold wool cycle, and now the sleeves are a bit short - and not in a 'bracelet sleeve' kind of way, just a bit short. There's enough spare fabric to let them down a touch but I don't know yet if it'll be enough. What an arse I am.

Fantastic news poppy!
I am also making a mental note of Sophie.
Here the weather seems to be composing itself after a few days of horizontal sleet/snow. Which is good as I also want to dust off a few clothes and wear them more.

Bugger! Flo, just read your post … snif snif at your jacket. I have done that mistake in the past , easily done, although I learnt at the time and I have not repeated it.

The thing is Red, I've done it before as well, and yet here I am

I don't know if you remember about a year ago, I was obsessed with finding a 'dress down' kind of jacket. I even tried a sales Margaret Howell and it didn't work. Well this might have been the one. Right there. But it would have cost more to get it cleaned than I'd paid in the first place and I thought I could get away with it. And to be fair, I still might get away with it!

I spent the morning snow cleaning our rugs Flo, that would have been a great option for your poor jacket! I’d have tried washing it too, I think wool and linen should be able to take it. Poor show rather.

Bo, I set up a search for d’Hoore, ambitiously 😂

Alright, I’m just back from watching Tár at the cinema - anyone seen it? The clothes!

bani I agree, the clothes were the real stars in that film. And d’hoore, s - good luck - I found first discovered her via a charity shop, so it can be done.

flo! I feel your pain. The dry cleaning / washing dilemma (apart from woven wool which I almost always dry clean or freeze): of course I wash and then 😱😱😱 - this happens more often than I care to remember. And so I swear off treasure hunting until all the stars align and I find something perfect and I’m hooked all over again…. So 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼you manage to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

poppy’please post a photo of Oxfam sofie d’hoore so can live vicariously

I've been meaning to watch Tár (for the clothes only, tbh) but haven't got round to it. Can we have a watching/viewing party?

Ah Flo I know that false economy, I remember putting in shoddy hand seams because I didn't want pay out more on a tailor than on the actual trousers (new but drastically reduced in the sale), although sometimes I was just too impatient and wanted to wear something now, there may have been an occasion where I went out with pinned hems Could you alter it with some sort of contrasting fabric layered underneath, maybe a contrasting texture, a bit of suede could be nice.

Didn't woollite make some special dryclean at home kit? It was a bag and you stuck it in the dryer? I think? I never bought it but I wonder if it still exists. I'd really like in on the secret of what makes something not shrink at the drycleaner, I know it's not traditional washing but it still gets wet and goes in a machine.

Snow cleaning rugs, just randomly drop that in why don't you Bani . Our snow was not nice snow, it was just sleet that made the roads a mess, I'd love a pack of proper snow even if it did involve my least favourite activity that is cleaning.

City centre brought no questionable purchases, very little spring stuff in yet. Boo. Did see a nice cropped jacket at COS but it was a beige very close to my arch nemesis colour of butter-y yellow and it was just an awful colour. There was also a nice scarf at Arket but it looked a bit Boden on (nothing wrong with Boden you're just not expecting it in Arket) and also €90, no way am I paying that for a scarf on probably one of the last days of winter temps.

I missed the snow cleaning rugs post, that sounds amazing, of course it never occurs to me to do this on the very rare occasions we have enough snow + low temperatures. One day I’ll manage it!

Well to be honest it was a smidge warm for the snow cleaning - we dragged it all out at noon and the sun was warming the snow a little too much even though us was technically below zero. I don’t know if it’s made a massive difference but it makes me feel better, and by getting mr bani to help me I’ve laid the groundwork for next year, when we’ll do it properly by letting the rugs freeze overnight (surely good for killing potential moths if we had any) and then brushing them through when it’s properly cold. Need to get myself fitter too, bloody hard work.

At the dry cleaner items are soaked in a chemical solvent, which means that the fibre doesn’t strive to return to its original shape the same way as it does in water (this is the explanation I was given) which is why it twists etc. However there is “wet dry cleaning” when you water wash but add chemicals to prevent shrinking - its super good and much cleaner than traditional dry cleaning - but I can’t remember the name of the additive…. Surely google-able though.

Bo sure I’ve seen Tár now, and frankly it’s a tad too long so I don’t know if I want to see it again? But Cate Blanchett is fantastic in it. It might be the only film I’ve ever seen that manages to feel truly gender neutral without in any way pretending people aren’t men and women. Quite extraordinary.

Ah well I've got a <taps nose> copy so I could screenshot and we can discuss the clothing. Although the clothes better be good because any movie with the tad too long comment really makes me dread watching it...

if you’re aware of how long the film is I think it’s better - I was blindsided, hadn’t checked. ;) A break for a cup of tea would’ve been nice I mean.

Tea with Tár, noted.

Remember when they still had intermissions <she says as if she's stepped foot inside a cinema these last ten years>.

Only from old people telling me about them 😶

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Well we never went to the cinema growing up, so there's that. My first cinema visit (besides a community centre thing) was at 14, when a friend treated me to Dead Calm as a birthday present. I do remember something about Out of Africa having an intermission, but only hearsay. I've watched my fair share of superhero films, they could bloody do with intermissions.

Re: Tár, the clothes are nice but it's more about how they're used. Although there is a scene where she's walking away from the school yard and you see her from behind, dressed in a navy suit, slightly slouchy jacket, one hand in her pocket, that is Style Goals for me and I just refuse to accept that I do not have that body type. I want that.

Who else remembers the double feature then? Anyone?

I've not seen Tár but I was very struck by Kerry Condon's outfits in The Banshees or Inisherin. How authentic they were for a woman living on an island off the coast of Ireland in the 1920s in anyone's guess, but I thought all those mustard yellows and deep pinks she wore were stunning. In fact I thought of you bani - no idea whether you'd have liked them but they weren't sludge.

Intermissions were great I remember sitting through Moulin Rouge and at the intermission my mother tentatively asked what I thought and I nervously said it's like one really long perfume ad. She was instantly relieved because it meant we could go and not be tortured by more of it. I think there was definitely a time where we went to the cinema at least once a week, my parents would take turns taking us individually. I remember always checking the upcoming schedule that came out on Wednesday. There was also one cinema that showed only older movies (but not vintage classics, just a couple year's old) for like a Euro in today's money. I wasn't allowed much TV so maybe this was the trade out 🤔

Never had a double feature, and I always wanted to go to a drive in cinema.

There was an article in the Guardian about the clothes in Tár, I may have linked it on here previously. When I get round to watching it, I'll definitely report back.

Can I please ask all the MH lovers on here for their experience of tracking the availability/ price of her cloths/shoes over the season and over the years? I love her new sandals. Does her footwear ever get to the point of sale or is it too risky to wait? (not that I feel I can afford them, kind of a mute question).

microbius from what I've seen, I'd say that many / most items do make it through to the sales but that some sell out in my size (typically S/XS) before then, and that once sold out, they don't seem to get restocked. I think the items that sell out across all sizes are often in non standard (for MH) colours. I don't know specifically about MH shoes as I've never bought them, but I've seen them in the sales.

Thanks, Floisme! I noticed red sells out very quickly.
The prices have increased crazily, no? It seems what was £600 a year ago is now £900. Clothes and shoes seem to have increased 30-50% across what I am looking at. My salary hasn't!!!

Flo I agree about Banshees, Condon had lovely clothes and in general I thought the costumes were great. She was a great contrast to the more traditional women. There are some YouTube films showing island women in the 20s specifically and it’s quite typical. The old woman’s cloak might have been more a mainland thing, not sure (I’d only recently been idly looking at photos of traditional Irish clothes recently compared to folk costumes from Sweden/Norway/Poland etc).

I remember the days of double features, Flo, but you and I are definitely the dowagers here. Many a Wednesday afternoon was whiled away in the local Odeon watching 1970s low budget independent American movies while I should have been cracking the books.