How to dress like a frazzled English woman?

[MademoiselleFrenglish]

Looks like the latest trend is the "Frazzled English woman" and I for one; am ecstatic.

Bridget Jones, Love Actually and the Holiday seem to be the inspo, so tell me, what are your tips for being frazzled English women?

So far mine are:

• not brushing my hair for 24 hours
• only having enough time to put on mascara and nothing else
• wearing my one scarf that's far too long for me
• having my long socks peak out the top of my boots because it's bloody freezing
• forgetting my glasses and spending my day squinting seductively at my computer screen

Toast have this look down to a tee. The eccentric younger sister stomping around the faded grandeur of the family pile wearing a silk dress with numerous large woolen items to compensate for the fact that the mater can’t pay for the heating

Oooh I'm a very good handbag rummager. Bought an even bigger one than usual the other day to ensure an even larger rummage at the Lidl till.

I was also going to throw out my grey cardigan that has one arm longer than the other, but it might be vital to my look. Will have a rethink.

I’ve been capturing this look for years, it’s effortless now 😊
At least living in the countryside I fit in with almost everyone else!

Toni Collette in About a Boy.

There's an episode of Fags, Mags & Bags where they take the piss out of this genre. "I had to watch a British ROMCOM and the woman in it wore a handknitted pink hat".

Ahhh my people. I also lean in to a slightly librarian/ geeky vibe. Tweed, roll necks and ugly glasses at work. Barbour and ancient Woolies at weekends whilst trying not too look too unhinged.

Rosacea or windburn

Just checking in with my specs on the top of my head, or on the end of my nose, or lost. Sometimes they are lost on the top of my head. Usually they have the DCs' grab marks on them and hound drool.

I have found my people.
I'm currently wearing a wool cardigan I inherited ten years ago from my mother. I wear it a lot.
I also have numerous pairs of woolly socks, clompy boots and sensible dog walking coats. All pockets have tissues, dog biscuits and poo bags. All outfits have a coating of dog and cat hair.
My hair is always frizzy and clipped up on top of head. Last week I did the entire supermarket shop before realising I had two pencils stuck out the top of my head.
I caught sight of myself in a mirror and saw my slightly eccentric mother looking back at me.

A couple of weeks ago I was in a hotel where a lot of American women were also staying. I overheard a conversation between them. One said ‘Why do British women have such good skin?’ Quick as a flash her friend replied ‘It must be all this rain’ 😄

My boots are strangers to cleaning and polish.

I think you need to be slightly skew wiff. Like you shut your coat in the car door by accident, gave it a yank, and didn't sort out the wonkyness.

Also should look like you're about to drop one of the many things about your person - hat / scarf / something tucked under your arm or trying to free up a hand to rummage in a bag.

Hair that is escaping whatever tie or clip you hastily used to stop it blowing over your eyes while you tried to cross the road.

A child trailing several feet behind you, (because of afore mentioned bags and droppable items leaving no hands free) while you're rushing somewhere, so you're constantly half turned backwards saying 'will you come ON dear! Please leave that stick / rock / dead rat alone, we're late!'

My handbag- cross body style but chunkier- contains cough sweets rattling round in their cellophane, a big Liberty hankie that's always in there, a hair band, old pale pink slightly frosted Mac lipstick, half a crunchie, about £5.50 in pound coins and 50ps, a packaway shopping bag, painkillers and a facemask from the pandemic in a pocket. Just tidied it and threw away the old receipts and tickets rattling round.

I can’t believe this actually a thing!
https://www.byrdie.com/frazzled-english-woman-trend-6890257

The mother in Paddington is a good example of this.

I naturally veer towards the unkempt look.

Rain + tea + cheese

A good figure under bad clothes.and no makeup.

on the continent it’s the opposite, they tend to coiffure and dress up way worse lookers to look swish

the dog hair and smells though, yuk

This is literally my most dispised look Globally this is the worst look ever short of people who actually live in rags

worse than elderly couples in bondage gear?

worse than men in a Homer Simpson tie and Tazmanian devil socks?

No, the worst look is apparently lip filler and fake eyelashes if you check out AIBU.

The girls in that link look waayy too put together imo.

Julia from Motherland= style icon.

Molly Weasley = style icon

I do actually quite like Julia from Motherland’s style….. Reminds me of a lot of my friends!

Rain + tea + cheese + dog + mud

Plus a certain eau de vintage jumpers / tweed supressed by raincoats
aka a little whiff of sheep

I'll add in .... mud , wet horse smell

I don’t meet the criteria then, I’m just incredibly knackered but beautiful and I don’t own any ugly glasses. However I wear small cross body bag which contains a lot of various things and adore cardigans. Maybe it still counts…