Page 3 | Mary Earps' dress on SPOTY

UsingChangeofName · 19/12/2023 23:48

crumblingschools · 19/12/2023 22:37

To be fair if you wear a dress that looks like your pants are on show people are going to comment on it. Same as if a man walked up onto the podium showing their pants.

I thought her skirt had fallen down (probably showing my age!)

Really happy she won the award

This.

If any winner, whatever their sex, turned up to an awards evening in their underwear, then I would notice and comment.

It is just so sad that anyone feels they have to catch attention this way. Alex Scott turned up somewhere in something just as ridiculous somewhere recently, didn't she ?

I'm thrilled Mary Earps won the award.
She is a fantastic sportswoman and also has acted as a real role model - calm, well spoken, funny, appealing to masses. She has no need to strut about in her underwear and it is sad that a few individuals think going back to the early 1970s is a good thing.

MargaritaThyme · 19/12/2023 23:51

It is perfectly possible to admire Mary Earps as a sportswoman, and think she as a deserving winner of SPOTY while disliking the awful dress she was wearing.
In just the same way I disliked the ridiculous suits worn by many of the men a few years ago when the fashion was to wear super-skinny styles two sizes too small which they appeared to have grown out of.

PaperWalkAndTalk · 19/12/2023 23:52

If I was going to pick up an award I wouldn't buy my outfit from Ann Summers.

I thought she was having a Judy Finnigan moment on stage because it looked like her skirt had slipped down.

PaperWalkAndTalk · 19/12/2023 23:56

ElaineMBenes · 19/12/2023 22:55

Am sure it would have garnered same amount of interest if Gary Linekar wore a suit that showed his pants

Im pretty sure it wouldn't.....

Tom Daley usually wears something pretty awful, usually something to show off his body.

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MaggieFS · 20/12/2023 00:03

MargaritaThyme · 19/12/2023 23:51

It is perfectly possible to admire Mary Earps as a sportswoman, and think she as a deserving winner of SPOTY while disliking the awful dress she was wearing.
In just the same way I disliked the ridiculous suits worn by many of the men a few years ago when the fashion was to wear super-skinny styles two sizes too small which they appeared to have grown out of.

Yes, this is why I posted in S&B. I don't like the dress. And I wouldn't like the dress whatever the occasion it was being worn at, and it wouldn't make any difference who was wearing it.

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KissTheRains · 20/12/2023 00:09

It looked a bit like a Body Suit type top with a skirt, but the bottom of the body suit popping above skirt hem made it look like knickers.
I think she looked great, though I'd not have the Foot balls to wear that dress, not without a jacket.on top.. nice blazer.. or a big fluffy cardie, she'll catch her death.

Staniam · 20/12/2023 00:26

It's so unflattering.

abbse · 20/12/2023 00:28

HeddaGarbled · 19/12/2023 22:35

But a man winning SPOTY wouldn’t be exposing lacy knickers. It’s not anti-feminist to point that out.

Exactly this. It’s really disappointing and didn’t look at all good. Looked like some tat off the market.

HeddaGarbled · 20/12/2023 00:42

There was a story in one of the tabloids last week about the Clooneys “braving the cold weather” at some do, but of course Amal was the only one in the skimpy dress. George was wearing a suit. It’s enraging.

Lightbulbspark · 20/12/2023 00:43

She looked amazing and glowed with good health. I was hoping she'd win. The dress added nothing except maybe to show off her lean, trim body. It did look like a thong was trying to break free though. Overall she was a glorious winner.

Hols24 · 20/12/2023 00:56

Not my favourite dress ever but nowhere near as shockingly inappropriate as some are making out. Very happy she won.

crumblingschools · 20/12/2023 01:01

I hadn’t watched the programme from the start, only caught the end when she was announced the winner, so hadn’t seen her to do the red carpet/photos. So when she stood up I really thought she was having a wardrobe malfunction and her skirt was falling down!

penjil · 20/12/2023 01:02

If you've got it, flaunt it.

She has, and she did.

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penjil · 20/12/2023 01:04

MaggieFS · 20/12/2023 00:03

Yes, this is why I posted in S&B. I don't like the dress. And I wouldn't like the dress whatever the occasion it was being worn at, and it wouldn't make any difference who was wearing it.

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Calm down, dear. It doesn't really affect you. Stop clutching those pearls!

HeddaGarbled · 20/12/2023 01:11

“Calm down, dear. It doesn't really affect you. Stop clutching those pearls”

First sentence:misogynistic.

Second sentence: it does, it really does, affect all women.

Third sentence: misogynistic (with a side-order of ageism?)

BeadedBubbles · 20/12/2023 01:15

@penjil - the op sounds perfectly calm to me. Unlike you.

SwedishEdith · 20/12/2023 01:16

It's dreadful and doesn't flatter her. She looks stooped and self-conscious. Why do so many women feel they have to wear such uncomfortable clothes?

crumblingschools · 20/12/2023 01:48

If she has commented on how she doesn’t feel comfortable in heels and tight dresses, why does she feel she has to wear them?

StarlightLady · 20/12/2023 04:33

Here is a fantastic role model, demonstrating that women can do everything from gracing a muddy goalmouth, to adopting her own very different evening style. It’s not about liking or not liking the dress, those who don’t like it don’t have to wear it; it’s about achievement and showing that there is more to her than just pulling on her keeper’s shirt.

Congrats on a fantastic achievement Mary 💕

Mummyoflittledragon · 20/12/2023 05:09

What a fantastic achievement. It is a shame that being such a role model to young girls she’d make this choice of outfit.

MindHowYouGoes · 20/12/2023 05:27

That is so unflattering on her. Good on her for her achievement but let’s stop pretending that the expectation a woman be good at her job and must be sexy at the same time is a good thing. If even she was hinting she was uncomfortable in her outfit maybe the naysayers have a point eh?

ISpyNoPlumPie · 20/12/2023 06:04

StarlightLady · 20/12/2023 04:33

Here is a fantastic role model, demonstrating that women can do everything from gracing a muddy goalmouth, to adopting her own very different evening style. It’s not about liking or not liking the dress, those who don’t like it don’t have to wear it; it’s about achievement and showing that there is more to her than just pulling on her keeper’s shirt.

Congrats on a fantastic achievement Mary 💕

Here is a fantastic role model, demonstrating that women can do everything from gracing a muddy goalmouth, to falling for the same old misogynistic bullshit that says that the most important thing about a women is that she appears sexually attractive by wearing revealing, uncomfortable clothes for which no male equivalent exists.

shearwater2 · 20/12/2023 06:08

Wouldn't be my choice, but I was just thinking last night good on her, she loooks amazing and the choice of outfit will really piss off some people.

Puffypuffin · 20/12/2023 06:11

Slothsandspiderman · 19/12/2023 22:24

FFS she wins SPOTY and we are slagging off her clothes.

A new mumsnet low

Agreed.

shearwater2 · 20/12/2023 06:13

ISpyNoPlumPie · 20/12/2023 06:04

Here is a fantastic role model, demonstrating that women can do everything from gracing a muddy goalmouth, to falling for the same old misogynistic bullshit that says that the most important thing about a women is that she appears sexually attractive by wearing revealing, uncomfortable clothes for which no male equivalent exists.

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So fucking what?

Men are NOT the default agsinst which all women's fashion choices should be compared, contrasted or measured up.

That is highly misogynistic in itself, as if nothing that she wore which is in any way traditionally feminine would do and she is no good unless she dresses like Gary Lineker.