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.

Many, I haven't been catty today

It is a horribly ill-fitting dress and I am surprised that she has no advisor to gently push her towards a different choice.

I think if you are going along to an important work do with your spouse (as this kind of is) then you should look your best.

I think she just has no clue about clothes.

Think it is pretty mean saying she has an awful figure though, she isn't a lingerie model! She has an average woman's figure and could look attractive if she wore something that fit!!

Addendum: What in the name of fuck does an ill-fitting dress have to with feminism? Do you think they're going to retract our vote?

I think Moondog has an investment in asserting an image of someone rather incisive and avant garde

However it comes across as facile and bitchy most of the time.

i think she likes being contentious.

It's a disgusting OP and really just irrelevant, Christ how can we teach our kids about judging by appearance if we go on like this/

Beyond embarrassing to see this on MN. Grow up FFS.

And fwiw I think they all look fab.

Jeez I learned when I was about 13 not to have a go at someone for what their figure was like. Or what they chose to wear. Some of my best and loveliest teachers taught me that, by being who they were, great people, usually the worse the clothes the more their priorities were in the right place.

I felt so ashamed of how I had been until then. It was liberating.

This article by Alice Miles is very thoughtful I think. It touches on the Sarah Brown thing about two thirds of the way down

"I heard a story this week that made me think about the extra costs and pressures that we pile on to our political families. I realise that the climate is not right to ask for sympathy for them, but have a think. There was an article in The Times during the G20 summit, applauding Sarah Brown for wearing a ?£9,000 top?. Idly I wondered how she could afford to pay for that.

It turns out that she couldn't. She has no income of her own, having given up all paid work when her husband was Chancellor to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. She is not allowed to receive gifts, nor to borrow clothing, not even for a summit.

So to look the part for Britain, Mrs Brown has to rent these outfits, the ones that we all scrutinise so brutally, paying a tenth of their value (excluding shop mark-ups) each time. She paid hundreds of pounds of her own money to rent that top, and returned it afterwards. "

moondog used to post nice stuff and come across as fun and, well, kind! No idea what has happened over the last X months, but I am finding myself annoyed and disgusted by more and more of her posts. Why the change in style? Why so negative, judgemental and so.. bitchy?!?! Honestly, reading moondog?s newer posting style is like watching a car crash in slow motion. Bit over dramatic but I am sure you all know what I mean.
Moondog - if I knew you well enough for it to matter/you give a damn - I would send you a virtual shake and wake up. Being a smart mouth and posting edgy/cynical/spikey comments doesn?t suit you and is not winning you any popularity. If you are trying to emulate some long gone but not forgotten old mnetters, you are making a big mistake.

End of lecture, glasses pushed back into place and tutting stopped ;)

moodog has never struck me as the sort of person to court popularity!!!!!

There much more bitchy and offensive posters on MN than her and I see them applauded for their honesty.

oh i LOVE moony, my first ever ruck on MN was on a thread she posted, not on the same topic but with very much the same delivery. that was about three years ago, i don't think her style has altered an iota.

don't go changin' moondog.