i know i've harped on about this before, but aren't per una clothes GOPPING?

[Tutter]

i shuddered non-stop as i weaved through the aisles of frills, tiers, sequins and PRINTS (oh god the prints) en route to the collections desk

my oh my

if you saw my legs ddg, you'd know why lol

crem, i wouldnt wear it, as i like showing some cleavage, but i can think of many people who would wear somethign like that as it covers them up, and they like prints.
delgirl, that skirt is gorgeous.

high heels or boots

dg, i'm unsure

part of thinks it's gopping, tbh

but part of me thinks it's vaguely reminiscent of a funky boden print

it would be the rest of the outfit that would decide whether that skirt tipped towards GOP or NOT on the tutter patented gopometer

delgirl (hey that's IT - youy are the demographic - only people with initials DG) - it's just ok for me dawg (sorry been watching too much american idol)

Cremola, you are going camping I suspect. It is a wear-and-sleep-under garment.

pukka i understand the arm covering thing (the world rarely sees mine)but honestly that kaftan is horrid.there are so many other places doing very nice long sleeved tunics or blouses.i thinkit is the colourways at per una thatdo nothing for me.

Well, having absolutely no idea about style at all, when I bought the skirt, I bought the jumper and jacket that they had it with on the dummy. (Beige jumper and brown corduroy jacket). I wear it with long brown boots. At the moment, being a complete clothes slob, it is the nicest outfit I have in my wardrobe.

It's one of those shops where you walk past a rail, see a perfectly pleasant plain brown skirt, think 'Ooh!' and then you take it off the rail and turn it round, and it hasd a HUGEEEEE crochet lime and pink peony stuck on the front. Like a sort of disease has struck or something.

Why?

at flightattendant

I am rolling off my chair at Tut's links, Greeny. Cruel we might be but blimey. I like the skirt/jacket combo, Delgirl, that's really inoffensive. It's a shame they don't push that normal, nicer stuff rather than the hideous brown swirly prints.

I LOVE per una.

Yrs,
GoppoliSpears

in the dress it's even worse

fa, you are spot on re: stricken by disease corsages

sorry

but THIS is shocking
i mean, someone was PAID to put that girl in that dres with that hair and those shoes

and stand like that

rofl at flightatten
especially the sleeping bag to campsite cafe
chic

When I was five, my mum had several umbrellas. I have found prints resembling each of them here.

This was 1978.
M&S wonder where they are going wrong.

Goppolispears, I heart you

perhaps it is a cunning plan to make you buy more chicken kiev.you are meant to just bypass the peruna stuff at speed a get ye immediately to the chiller fridge.

yes your eyes have swirly patterns in front of them so you accidentally knock a lobster into your basket inthe food hall

Lots of those skirts were very Bodenesque I thought - particularly the circle/applique hem ones and the knee-length black skirt with white embroidery hem.

cremolafoam - in that yellow garment you could only be going to an aspiring suburb of the 70's?

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I have found the per una demograpghic

they sit in front of me at choir

The whole of M&S needs torching and starting again

apart from food, obv

knickers have been crappy for ages, nightwear is like wandering into a horror movie - all wincyette old lady nightdresses or else nightshirts with winnie the pooh etc on them - I mean who BUYS that stuff let alone WEARS it in BED. Children's stuff is just insulting and everything else has a revolting print or a revolting fabric or both AND is badly cut to boot.

Actually their cashmere can be OK, I'd save that from the fire.

lolololol at choir

YES! front row of the sopranos. They aren't sopranos, but they are damned if they are going to sit in the altos because then they wouldn't be able to sing the TUNE.

I bet they wear the nightwear too.

oh these are altos

they are 50+, won't wear trousers
think they look arty and bohemian in per una stuff
often add a 'daring' corsage, hat, earrings etc
ride bicycles in long skirts

many have long hair, either loose and witchy or chignoned into a handcarved ethnic clip

god I love Oxford