fur gilets? has this been discussed?

[LetThemEatCake]

anyone getting/ got one?

what is the general opinion on 'em?

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are they "in" again? seriously?

is it some sort of sarah palin thing?

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the outrageously glam over size 16 is absolutely spot on!

I have this - fur on front and knit on back - and it looks great

I had a fur trimmed one a few years ago
Wish I'd kept it now

I have one that I got from Debenhams 4 years ago and I still love it.
It looks very much like the one in anna's link except its fur all over.

I missed wearing it last year when pg.

am not a bit gilet fan, can see the apres ski advantage. but not for your avg high street - would be redic

gilet and cardi in one

like them for a walk in the woods on a sunday kind of situation

they make people look a weird box shape

People who wear them make me think of the soothsayer from Asterix and the Soothsayer.

I saw a woman looking fab in one yesterday.

Kind of silky fur, slightly longer shape, not bulky, belted but open over skinny jeans with boots. Plain long sleeve tee.

She looked fab.

Helped that she was gorgeous of course!

You can't wear fur! It's too creepy.

I (misguidedly) tried a faux fir gilet a number of years ago. It was a mistake. Vile, IMO.

oh arse, have just got this (v cheap off ebay)
www.monsoon.co.uk/invt/37201413
will people snigger at me in the street?

Oh I think a gilet is the solution to my homeworking, my office is a big draughty room and always freezing and at the moment I wear the world's mankiest grey fleece and look like a style refugee
Am desperate to find a flattering one, I tried one on in top shop the other day which I thought would be the answer
I looked like the abominable snowman
Any suggestions so gratefully received

kt14 -no they will not, you will look as lovely as the lovely woman I saw t'other day.

oh bless you LTEC, I fear I won't at all.

Going to wear it open with plain t shirt, slim jeans and boots though but that's as far as the comparison goes!!

mrsshackleton - more gilets discussed here

Monsoon gilet arrived yesterday. Modelled it for my very diplomatic best friend and even she laughed. Openly. I looked like a furry barrel.
So it's gone back and that's the start and end of my relationship with gilets.