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

[cocolepew]

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.

She like Fern Britton, I think she would make a great mate

who else remembers cringing at the man who got a stiffy behind the screen?

i bet he never lived that down poor bloke. i thought that was in such bad taste - put me right off trinny and suze for life

He got a stiffy from T & S?

I think 100x describes Mary's oeuvre very well. But I'd tweak it slightly and say she is about shirts with good cuffsand excellent collars. Her hair is always lovely; a really good cut. She always looks finished doesn't she?

Cod - My statement when going out these days is: It suited me in the 80s and I'm sticking with it. If I am particularly poorly turned out, I rush towards a red wine moustache. It works very effectively as a "don't look too closely at what I'm wearing" distraction. If one is dressed in full Per Una though, the red wine moustache is insufficient distraction. A Frida Kahlo monobrow works but possibly not for the Per Una Summer 08 collection.

NP - Was he the older wee guy married to the tall willowy woman with dc who had sn?

i cant really remember
wasnt he quite small but his wife was even smaller? or was that someone else?

anyway whatever it was awful to watch

and werent t&s sniggering?

thinking on it maybe you were right fimbo

He looked like Norman Wisdom.

nice collars

Nailpolish my dh loves that 'aaaahhh fashion' thing too! I don't get it....

It was a big mistake for Trinny and Susannah to go to ITV inmho.
Keep thinking Paula Reed or someone like that would be good on What Not to Wear,if they make another series.
Never really got the Mica Paris thing.