Shallow I know, but Sarah Brown has appalling dress sense and a terrible figure.

[moondog]

FGS woman, loser a bit of weight and get some nice gear.You're supposed to be representing us.

what an unkind op.applying that logic size O is great and ok to judge on appearance only

is this the values you want to promote.want your children to judge on appearance rather than ability?

I don't think it is the worst thread in 2 years-I have seen far worse!!!
However-I would love to see photos of the 'style police' on here; but no one will, they hide behind comments of "it isn't relevant"!
I always take the view that those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

[i think Swedes was being sarcastic]

actually probably ironic. [brain hurts]

Big shart goin' art to Ronaldinhio, whose post I reprise almost in its entirety:

"She isn't a fasion designer or model, muse or face of a brand.
She's a mother and wife of someone with a high profile job.

She didn't turn up in a tracksuit or M&S jeans with yoghurt on them.
She, with justified trepidation, did her best

Stop being the worst of what we can expect from each other. "

Ah, but piscesmoon, they will argue that it's not 'their duty' to look good, like Sarah Brown because, after all, Mrs Brown is a model so should be judged solely on her appearance.

Oh except she isn't is she? She's the wife of the 'priminister' (from kitty - who really should spend more time learning how to spell than slagging off women's figures and dress sense). So her 'job' is, as well as to turn up to these events, to bring up her children and carry out her admirable charity work. Stuff we should see as mere trivia compared to the momentous decision of what to wear and how to comb her eyebrows or whatever you need to do to 'do your duty' according to the style twats mavens.

Fecking shallow indeed.

Ruty, I was being ironic..... well trying to be.

I was trying to make the point that overweight or slim, cheap clothes or expensive clothes, fuddy duddy clothes or hot off the catwalk, not caring enough or caring too much. It's impossible to get it right isn't it?

I think Sarah Brown is truly marvellous and I really dislike New Labour.

also, is it really bad to snoort at "She has a duty because her husband is the priminister."

Yes, you're right, it is. But, to follow Swedes on another thread today, "res ipsa loquitur".

Possibly the energy SB would have to expend on 'taking care of herself' would have a similarly negative impact on her thinking spelling.

ah, xpost with the oldest cat

priminister - a few bob more pricey than primark?

Priminister is utterly fantastic.

I can't remember Dennis Thatcher getting ripped to shreds for his dress sense.

We are in the middle of a recession (probably depression)and if Sarah Brown suddenly hired a personal trainer, stylist and started wearing designer clothes she would be slated by the press. She really can't win.

BTW, I can't stand Gordon Brown so I have no particular axe to grind.

LOL at the res being trotted out

Swedes I think Posh is your idol (thanks for tip on shower by the way - was a good thought)

[apols to swedes for being thick and not getting her irony]

i tired and my brain hurts

at Quattrocento - perhaps that's the 'problem' SB should have shopped at Primark rather than Priminister?

My reaction to this thread has shocked me - I'm usually a pretty easygoing, laidback type of a gal, but I've really lost my sense of humour on this one. The OP (the post, not the poster, I hope) is so depressingly shallow it's untrue.

But then, I 'let myself go' (a heinous crime, it would seem) a long time ago.

I'd rather be 'fat' and 'badly dressed' than get my jollies by showering the spite around. Goodness me, what a heart sinker this thread is. Sarah Brown ugly? Uglier than what the OP said? Think not...

for those who think british culture means thinner and thinner and thinner ??????????

teens these days are at least a size larger than in my day

the equivalent sentence should read fatter and fatter

20 years ago no one would have flaunted the flabby midriffs flaunted in 2009

not fatest - fact

Apols to Itchyscratchy for failing to get my irony across.

Who cares whether we are fatter or thinner as a nation/generation. The problem is not that, it is that women are very ready to criticise other women. It's horrible - stop it. At once.

It's not "horrible" to point out that people are overweight! What is really, really awful is the culture of collective denial of mass overweight and obesity.

Don't collude in this ecological disaster! Start speaking out!

Personally I criticise people not women per se

i would ( as i have said before) be free with my comments if Gordon looked shite

he never does

and 'yes' I would but that's a whole 'nother thread!

Oh, NAO - who cares?

In any case, perhaps the thinner and shriller the 'role-models', the bigger (and more anxious) the real girls?

Self-loathing has for some time been a hallmark of British female-oriented pop culture, hasn't it?

Gordon never looks shit?! He lloks like he's slept in his suit half the time

I have a child who is clearly underweight and we have to go to a feeding clininc and see a professional to help and yet according to the BMI index he is normal. He is gaunt and clearly underweight to anyone with eyes including his doctors (consultant and GP). His Dad who is also very slim and for most of our time together would be described as skinny recently went for a health check and had a BMI that suggested he was at the top end of normal 9one more point and he would have been in the overweight category). Again anyone with eyes can see he is very slim and some would say too slim. Makes me question the whole BMI calculation.

BonsoirAnna: let's not have casual, bitchy remarks (as the original post) masquerading as 'concern' about the obesity epidemic, eh?

There is no point being "concerned" about the obesity epidemic in a vague, general sort of way.

has it onebatmother?

actually as the mother of 3 teens I 'care'

I dont want them to grow up thinking overweight is normal