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If Mary Portas is so knowledgable about fashion why does she...

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 13:53

have a stylist on 'Mary Queen Of Shops'? I like her and want her to be able to dress herself. I can. And nobody laughs so it can be that hard.

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/07/2008 17:10

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ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:11

Yes, I agree with you. I think they do too - but maybe not all of them.

I follow both statements below when I go out.

TheProvincialLady · 18/07/2008 17:12

Maybe she just needs to know what looks good on telly as opposed to in RL. It's not always the same thing.

ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:13

They often seem to have gone into business with surly men in bad jumpers too don't they? Also without exception - very dry hair.

I like 'on trend' and 'fashion forward'. I like the word fashion.

ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:13

Nah. It's so that someone does her shopping and has a rail of clothes for her to pick from. Makes life easier that way. I use Cod for similar purpose.

nailpolish · 18/07/2008 17:16

dh gets turned on by the girls singing "ahhhhh FASHION! at the start of the new Gok programme

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:20

I don't really like Goks new programme. Why can't he just find high street tat clothes to go up against the vastly overpriced tat designer clothes? Instead of going all Blue Peterish.

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nailpolish · 18/07/2008 17:21

i think gok is just trying to get people to be a bit imaginitieve intead of taking it off the hanger and putting it on

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:21

Oh they're playing The Ramones on Scooby Doo. Cool.

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:22

Sorry that was a bit off topic.

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nailpolish · 18/07/2008 17:22

i still find it hard to believe she is an alcoholic

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:23

Who?

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nailpolish · 18/07/2008 17:23

trinny

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ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:23

I don't.

They aren't fit to hold Mary Portas' necklaces imo.

Fimbo · 18/07/2008 17:25

Yes to Trinny.

Rebecca Wilcox on How T L G Naked, is she the daughter of Esther Rantzen?

mandymac · 18/07/2008 17:25

Apparently she was married and has grown up dcs, but now lives with her female partner. (Bloke at work is friends with her brother and knows her too - says she is lovely).

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:26

Wasn't Trinnys DH addicted to painkillers or some such. She was photographed in Hello without her ring, my Mum told me. She's so skinny it probably fell off.

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ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:28

They never said 'fashion forward' or 'on trend'. They just grabbed people's tits and made them feel bad in a mirror.

Now our Mary says things like 'I'm not your fairy godmother, you have to work it.'

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:28

Mandymac tell your friend to tell his friend that your new friend, ie me, hearts her. And can I have her cast offs? Ta

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