Fashion speak that annoys you?

[Britpopbaby]

Obsessed as I am obsessed with this top.
Cute to describe nearly everything.

Loads of things could be "difficult to wear". I'm sure there are plenty of posters who have bought something, particularly separates, because it looked fabulous and then either couldn't find anything to go with it or there were limited occasions to wear it.

On "easy to wear" there was a long thread about a dress from Nobody's Child, which several posters, including me, called "easy to wear" because if you liked the dress (many didn't, but that's another matter) it could be worn with boots, flats, heels, trainers, sandals, clogs, stick a polo under it for warmth if needed, stick a jumper, just about any jacket or coat on top.

Pre-September 11th fashion

@IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle , we agree. I think there's a word or term for a pull-on dress that Alyson Walsh used but I can't remember what it was.

I had a look at her site and found this: The wonderful, oh-so wearable waistcoat — That’s Not My Age (thatsnotmyage.com)
The waistcoat in question can be worn as part of many different outfits.

I suppose the opposite would be something like half of a 'coord', e.g. a top that doesn't seem to go with anything other than the skirt, or a backless dress that you couldn't wear a bra with.

Ugh, I know it's not the same, but I just read a headline talking about Reese Witherspoon's lentil soup recipe (I'm not making this up), being "cozy", and I'm afraid I'm unable to stop doing my Dowager Countess of Grantham face.

What does this mean?

I remember right after people saying heels for work were out because of the women who had to take them off to run from the ash clouds. That's all I've got lol. Post COVID fashion would make more sense.

Spendy

'Drop/drops/dropping' in the context of the release of something. Ie: "...dropping 31st Jan"

I raise you ‘spenny’

An apartment pant

ie a pair of black trousers

Oh that's a weird one @GothConversionTherapy post-Covid definitely seems more relevant!

Didn't "apartment pants" come from a joke on Friends?
Are they an actual thing now and, if so, are they the original "Don't you want to rent me this apartment?" pants, which I suppose would be fairly smart, or the - misheard - "apartment pants", which I presume would be more casual for wearing around the apartment?

And have "I don't need a job, I don't need my parents because I've got great boots!" boots become a thing too?

Yeah I think that's where it came from.

There was a thread here many years ago where people were describing their style in the most florid terms.

Someone said their's was "classic, with a twist."

A twist of what? Fucking lemon?

Curate. So wanky.

And when people do a chef’s kiss (annoying) and feel it necessary to say ‘chef’s kiss’. Morons.

Annoying. But not as annoying as ‘spenny’.

It was more the use of the singular "pant" that made me eye roll

Anything "crisp". Usually a "crisp white shirt"

Anything described as "buttery soft". I really don't want to wear butter on my skin thanks.

My butter ain't soft either. Like a brick of concrete today.

hogmanayhoolie

It was more the use of the singular "pant" that made me eye roll

Ah! So in the same vein as the other "pair as singular" terms: apartment pant; red lip; smokey eye etc
I think "a black (or whatever colour it was) tight" wins the prize for that.

I still think the idea of taking a joke from a sit com (where the joke was that Rachel was pretending to have heard of "apartment pants" when they didn't exist and the concept was supposed to be ridiculous) and turning it into a real thing is more likely to produce an eye roll from me.

No doubt the boots I mentioned will be a thing soon except they'll be "a boot".

You must have missed the "chunky/clunky boot" up thread.

istoodonlegoagain

You must have missed the "chunky/clunky boot" up thread.

No.
I was referring to another joke from Friends that I'd mentioned in the original post that hogmanayhoolie replied to.

Rachel says: "These are my 'I don't need a job, I don't need my parents because I've got great boots" boots!".
I wondered if, like apartment pant(s), the IDNAJIDNMPBIGGBB may become an actual thing rather than just a joke, pointing out that now they'd be a boot.

(Btw, I didn't seriously wonder - it was meant to be lighthearted.)

Also don't get me started on the mandatory 'v' peace sign & leg flick ......😫
FWIW - anything described as 'effortless' can get in the bin 🚮

That's not fashion speak tho?

I've never seen them anywhere but on here. I've never heard either of them spoken.

"Dated" , "frumpy" and "mumsy".

None of them mean anything more than the person using them doesn't like the item but "I don't like" carries no more or less weight than "I like" so adding "dated" or "frumpy" is presumably meant to sound somehow objective.

"Mumsy" is patronising and misogynistic.