Fashion speak that annoys you?

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

An investment meaning just anything expensive, not an actual classic piece. Also, mixing up expensive with sustainable/ethical- just because it's not Primark or Zara doesn't mean it's actually ethically produced, companies can charge whatever they want even if it's made in a sweatshop.

Shopping your closet - you're wearing your clothes ! No one buys something to wear once except a wedding dress !! Ah felt good to get that out.

Also - endless gift guides on 12am Dec 1st. I don't need a guide, especially if they're £25 recycled polyester socks, or sunglasses carved from bamboo.

"Also, mixing up expensive with sustainable/ethical - just because it's not Primark or Zara doesn't mean it's actually ethically produced, companies can charge whatever they want even if it's made in a sweatshop."

@GothConversionTherapy you are so right...

A pop of colour.

The Christmas gift guides where the prices start at £150 and don’t stop annoy me. If you can afford to spend that much it is surely extremely easy to think of things to buy. It’s when you’re trying to do the lot for £150 that you need inspiration.

"Must have"
I think you'll find most of us manage to live without it, whatever it is.

“Pop of colour” drives me insane.

All I hear when people say it (either about interior design or fashion), is “I don’t have a fucking clue what I’m on about because I have absolutely zero taste”.

Usually followed by “add a teal or dusky pink cushion”.

🤮

Entry level
pop of colour

I'm in a lot of FB groups for CrossFit/weightlifting and every time clothes are commented on or asked about everything is 'so cute!' or 'super cute!'. It's such a twee, childish word to use in that context, I hate it.

Also 'romper'. Brings to mind a channel 5 'documentary' on adults who like to dress as babies or some such.

Also “fun”. Frequently found in the Boden catalogue. I’m a grown woman. There are many things I want to convey through my clothes. Elegance, sophistication, sexiness, even practicality. “Fun” is not one of them.

Hmm, not sure about that. I've got clothes which are fun to wear as there's a touch of explosion in the dressing up box.

I've no interest in clothes expressing sexiness. I'd buy something described as "fun" ; wouldn't buy something described as "sexy"

Edit, as in "The holiday edit" etc.

Things "dropping" as in "new winter coats have dropped". Dropped from where?!

Faking a mess to look more authentic... 😫Dear god that is a pathetic and tragic non article. I mean how much time do people have on their hands?

"We are loving " instead of "We love" in relation to any new fashion item.
Eg "We are loving the new trouser from the M&S edit".

It's amazing how fashion talk changes though. My late DGM (born pre WW1) would talk of wearing "a costume" to a smart occasion. She meant what we would consider a skirt or trouser suit. As a child I had visions of her dressed as a clown or butterfly at weddings etc.

I just watched an Emily Wheatley video which ticked off almost everything listed in this thread with the added glory of 'a sock moment'.

Not restricted to fashion speak, but that's not as annoying as "gifted" being used as a verb.

“Glow up”

"Mummy makeover"

It's amazing how fashion talk changes though. My late DGM (born pre WW1) would talk of wearing "a costume" to a smart occasion. She meant what we would consider a skirt or trouser suit. As a child I had visions of her dressed as a clown or butterfly at weddings etc.

That's interesting. When I was growing up, I remember older people talking about their 'Sunday rig' when referring to the clothes they wore to church. I suppose they were 'rigged out' in their finery!

Agree how language has changed. My mums were

Rigout
Wine
Fawn
Airforce blue
Off white

Mine too, apart from I imagined a swimming costume (although of course she would have called it a bathing suit).

Probably even "swimming costume" marks me out as old; is it a swimsuit now? Although only old ladies like me wear them, a bikini being de rigeur for younger folks.

"It's very easy to wear." As opposed to what? What is 'difficult' to wear?

Thanks to this thread I've now started noticing websites talking about "shop the edit" and it's now annoying me.

@Wishimaywishimight , I'd take it to mean something that you can just put on without needing to think how to style it or worry about what goes with it.

I'd think of something like a dark indigo shirtdress I have as 'easy to wear' because I could wear it most of the year (add thick tights and a long sleeve t-shirt in winter, plimsolls or sandals in the summer).

'I am loving' irritates me too. And 'coords' for a two piece.

Rigour brings back happy memories of my nan as that’s a word she used to use.