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Please assure me that this 'look' isn't back on trend...

112 replies

ThePrologue · 03/09/2024 08:58

...on Monday Susanna (GMB) wearing a very large-pussy-cat-bowed blouse with a powder blue jacket. It looked just like a 1980s Lady Di ensemble.
Please don't let this be coming back into 'fashion'!!

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StormingNorman · 03/09/2024 20:56

Do s hard hat: I quite like a pussy bow. I don’t wear them though as big boobs 🤷‍♀️

GoldenSunflowers · 03/09/2024 21:02

Oh, and thin eyebrows coming back too.

Nellieinthebarn · 03/09/2024 21:03

StormingNorman · 03/09/2024 20:56

Do s hard hat: I quite like a pussy bow. I don’t wear them though as big boobs 🤷‍♀️

Same, I like the look on the tall and skinny, but I'm short as well as busty, so its hard not to look matronly with any kind of embellishment in the nork area.

LochKatrine · 03/09/2024 21:11

GoldenSunflowers · 03/09/2024 21:02

Oh, and thin eyebrows coming back too.

Thank. GOODNESS.

Smittenkitchen · 03/09/2024 21:21

free79 · 03/09/2024 11:26

She looks like willie wonka there

That really made me laugh. Thank you!

InSpainTheRain · 03/09/2024 21:29

I saw one on my commute into London today! Woman wearing a green trouser suit with beige pussy bow. I rarely notice anyone but I did say to myself "crikey are the 80s back?" Apparently they are! I will never wear one again!!

icelollycraving · 03/09/2024 21:49

buntyreturns · 03/09/2024 20:39

I don't hate them, but it puts me in mind of Mrs Slocombe, who was fond of a pussy bow blouse.

Style icon imho.

KateMiskin · 04/09/2024 05:08

Omg no! My eyes.

ForGreyKoala · 04/09/2024 05:29

spanieleyes22 · 03/09/2024 13:45

Agreed! I think if you wore it the first time around it should be avoided when it comes back into fashion lol

I'm 65 and have never worn one in my life - and I won't be starting now 😆

Lostsadandconfused · 04/09/2024 05:46

I love them, fully embracing the 70's secretary aesthetic.

Babyworriesreal · 04/09/2024 05:51

AnchorWHAT · 03/09/2024 12:56

Or austin powers

My 1st thought too

AuntieJoyce · 04/09/2024 05:56

I still have mine. I might wear one to the office tomorrow and channel my inner Mrs Slocombe.

did you know by the way that she was in her late 40s when she filmed the first series of Are you being served?

ThePrologue · 04/09/2024 05:57

GoldenSunflowers · 03/09/2024 21:02

Oh, and thin eyebrows coming back too.

Ooh, at last I am on trend!
Altho mine are thin by age rather than design!

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ThePrologue · 04/09/2024 06:01

Thank you, everyone for your replies!
I am stunned at the fondness for pussy-bows.....
I may have to emigrate as a consequence for fear of infection...
😁

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AuntieJoyce · 04/09/2024 06:32

ThePrologue · 04/09/2024 05:57

Ooh, at last I am on trend!
Altho mine are thin by age rather than design!

I’ve noticed that the caterpillar eyelashes seem to be on their way out as well, thank fuck

ThePrologue · 04/09/2024 06:38

AuntieJoyce · 04/09/2024 06:32

I’ve noticed that the caterpillar eyelashes seem to be on their way out as well, thank fuck

Agree!
If only the barrage-balloon lips were going the same way!

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AuntieJoyce · 04/09/2024 06:42

ThePrologue · 04/09/2024 06:38

Agree!
If only the barrage-balloon lips were going the same way!

They probably are. Unfortunately anybody with them needs to wait at least 18 months for them to deflate Grin

ThePrologue · 04/09/2024 07:17

AuntieJoyce · 04/09/2024 06:42

They probably are. Unfortunately anybody with them needs to wait at least 18 months for them to deflate Grin

🤣🤣

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leapinglizard1234 · 04/09/2024 07:28

Yep . They are back!

leapinglizard1234 · 04/09/2024 07:28

Doesn't mean you have to wear it though 🤷‍♀️

LochKatrine · 04/09/2024 07:36

AuntieJoyce · 04/09/2024 06:32

I’ve noticed that the caterpillar eyelashes seem to be on their way out as well, thank fuck

They're extraordinary. All my yr9 girls look like they've been attacked by a host of angry spiders in the eye area.

Spiderwmn · 04/09/2024 07:41

Yes, Mrs Slocombe and Elsie Tanner in the ?60s.

What goes around comes around..

Please assure me that this 'look' isn't back on trend...
LochKatrine · 04/09/2024 07:42

Elsie had great eyebrows.

Ghilliegums · 04/09/2024 07:43

KreedKafer · 03/09/2024 10:05

Pussy bow tops have been back in the shops for about five years.

This. I bought one two years ago from m and s

I love it, it makes me feel dashing.

LemonyCoughSyrup · 04/09/2024 07:52

these blouses have been back a few times, in the late 1990s early 2000s with the 60s mod revival, and been back for a while this time.

They can look very chic! But done wrong… very Thatcher

I agree, better on younger women