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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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Solonga · 04/09/2024 07:54

I didn't wear them first time round so won't be this time either

Rumshotsandrainshowers · 04/09/2024 07:55

I’m not sure why you’d care if it was in fashion, are you a dedicated follower of fashion and feel compelled to wear anything on trend? Otherwise who cares.

CandleWick4 · 04/09/2024 07:58

As someone with a rather large chest I will be steering clear of this trend! Ties, bows etc around my chest just make it look larger and I look incredibly frumpy.

I did notice a low rise jean trend around town last time I went. Lots of young women with low rise jeans. I was hoping that trend was long dead and buried. My belly needs a high waist and industrial strength buttons 😅

Butterflyfern · 04/09/2024 08:05

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 03/09/2024 10:47

This is the lady in question. To be fair, I love that shade of blue.

As an outfit it's baaaad, imo.

Everything is too statement and loud. The blouse is the faux demure trend, but then the statement suit is modern power women and the glasses clash with it all. Your eye doesn't know what to look at.

A plain pussybow with high waisted wide leg jeans though, I think that can look lovely

ThePrologue · 04/09/2024 09:23

Rumshotsandrainshowers · 04/09/2024 07:55

I’m not sure why you’d care if it was in fashion, are you a dedicated follower of fashion and feel compelled to wear anything on trend? Otherwise who cares.

Lighthearted thread!! Good grief. It isn't on the level of world politics...
Of course it's none of my business, except I have to look at such nonsense

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RaraRachael · 04/09/2024 10:50

GoldenSunflowers · 03/09/2024 21:02

Oh, and thin eyebrows coming back too.

Great - no more slugs crawling across people's foreheads!

henlake7 · 04/09/2024 10:56

RaraRachael · 04/09/2024 10:50

Great - no more slugs crawling across people's foreheads!

As somebody who was born with slugs crawling across my forehead this saddens me....
(not enough to thin my eyebrows tho, I feel like once you go skinny for brows its hard to get them back again!).

LoobyDoop2 · 04/09/2024 15:45

henlake7 · 04/09/2024 10:56

As somebody who was born with slugs crawling across my forehead this saddens me....
(not enough to thin my eyebrows tho, I feel like once you go skinny for brows its hard to get them back again!).

Me too- I’ve quite enjoyed being a style icon for a change, and watching other people pay to get a less good version of what I’ve spent my life trying to tame 😂

LochKatrine · 04/09/2024 17:39

CandleWick4 · 04/09/2024 07:58

As someone with a rather large chest I will be steering clear of this trend! Ties, bows etc around my chest just make it look larger and I look incredibly frumpy.

I did notice a low rise jean trend around town last time I went. Lots of young women with low rise jeans. I was hoping that trend was long dead and buried. My belly needs a high waist and industrial strength buttons 😅

Oh my goodness, me too! I never liked that trend.

greengreyblue · 04/09/2024 17:40

Been back a couple of years.

Ladymeade · 04/09/2024 18:06

That's a huge pussybow! I have some Hawes & Curtis pussybow blouses that are a lot more subtle than that (unlike my colour choices in this image) 😁

Please assure me that this 'look' isn't back on trend...
LochKatrine · 04/09/2024 18:16

That's not a pussy bow. That's a tie neck.

Thevelvelletes · 04/09/2024 18:19

I just noticed the indifferent doggy.😁

LochKatrine · 04/09/2024 18:25

LochKatrine · 04/09/2024 18:16

That's not a pussy bow. That's a tie neck.

Ps I do like your outfit!

Stresshead84x · 04/09/2024 18:57

I don't hate her outfit- I think with the glasses though it looks to gimmiky. I think it can be a really nice look if done well.

ellyeth · 04/09/2024 20:41

I hate those fussy sorts of clothes. I noticed in John Lewis the other day that there is a brand of clothes with dresses that are very puffy in the body and in the arms. There was a girl on the Great British Sewing Bee who wore clothes like that and I thought they looked awful.

DodoTired · 04/09/2024 20:47

oh I love pussy bow blouse, but better a GIANT one, in bright/jewel colours. Jean and no jacket

I used to wear ruffled shirts with velvet jackets in my 20ies 🤣

henlake7 · 04/09/2024 21:12

Stresshead84x · 04/09/2024 18:57

I don't hate her outfit- I think with the glasses though it looks to gimmiky. I think it can be a really nice look if done well.

I just don't think it went together well. The big bow was competing with the brightly coloured suit and it was just a bit much.
I think those types of blouses look good as the PP is wearing, with a pinafore style dress. Also think sweater vests or waistcoats look good with them.

If it was me I would of picked more of a cream for the blouse as the white is very stark. Worn with a tailored waistcoat and trousers co-ord.
That suit needed something like a very simple silk blouse instead as well IMO.

anon666 · 04/09/2024 21:27

I think it's the jacket that lets it down.

Sadtosaythis · 04/09/2024 21:29

I love them. If I didn’t have so many chins I’d love to wear one but I think the bow just draws attention to the multiple chin situation 😂

BlueFlowers5 · 04/09/2024 21:49

I liked that look the first time and like it again now! (Ducks).

MotherOfCatBoy · 04/09/2024 21:58

No one’s mentioned Sybil Fawlty yet - now she ROCKED a pussy bow blouse!

TessTimoney · 04/09/2024 22:36

Pussy bows have never really gone away!

redtrain123 · 04/09/2024 22:49

Thevelvelletes · 04/09/2024 18:19

I just noticed the indifferent doggy.😁

Probably looking for really life pussies! (And I mean cats)