who is "Boden woman" do you think?

[DillyTantay]

what is her name
where does she live
what does she eat
what car dos she have

Ha! Hatwoman. I love the bit about producing strong and healthy children.

Feel I'm grossly underachieving because my life isn't like a Boden catalogue. Far from it. Quite seriously, the police came into the house when I was out the other day (long story involving a broken into car and a lost set of keys) I came home to find them going up the stairs, baton in hand. They were very very very very very young (and rather fine looking) and as they said 'we looked around, and assumed it had been burgled'......oh the shame.

I'm with hatwoman, seeing the catalogue makes me want to mainline Tizer into the kids while pureeing a Ginsters for the baby.

I'm amazed that so many have bought into the lifestyle idea and do love it.

But then I hardly see it in rl, people too fashiony at ds' school, see it more on mn.

PMSL

This thread is hilarious - it is obviously not written by my neighbours who all look like they have stepped out of the Boden catalogue (planning on moving!). They even ordered me a Boden catalogue because they felt that I look like I need it would love it!

So the Boden woman (here) is

Her name is Lexie, Lottie,
She lives in a brand new detatched 4/5/6 bedroom house in a village in a little road of 15 houses. They bought them at the peak of the market at £150,000 over price and now are struggling to pay the mortgage.
She has 2 children called Tarquin and Peaches
She doesnt know or speak to anyone else outside of the street as they are too common.
They know the Boden catalogue seasons and say to another mother... "ooh thats last seasons Boden isnt it? Shame they are not doing it this season!"
They make their children play in the garden in the rain because it is good for them. They dont allow them to watch TV. They have cleaners twice a week even though they dont work. They eat organic Waitrose food.
Their husbands work long hours so they spend a lot of time in the street waiting for someone to talk too!
They drive a BMW or an Audi.

We have been here 6 months... and you wonder why we're moving lol

Whoever she is, she buys clothes for her partner.

They have a men's shirt in a pattern called Ditsy Floral. This IMO is not an item a man would order for himself.

A long time ago Boden used real people as models. Ie. not professional models, ykwim. A friend of mine was in it - the blurb under his picture just said his name, his profession and where he lived.

Nowadays it has gone haywire with fucktwattericity.

This thread is making me laugh so much. Right, I'm about to get carried away:

Lifestyle package they're trying to sell you in catalogue: dreamy, willowy lady named Helena slides gracefully into middle age without losing her sense of adventure. Once smoked a few puffs on a joint whilst at Durham (where she did History of Art) but these days is more likely to be sipping winter Pimms in a velvet dress with two equally elegant girlfriends at a soiree she's hosting in her generously proportioned victorian villa in Dulwich. Married generic Boden man (his name doesn't matter but he plays Rugby and does something in the city) 10 years ago and is mother to Thomas, William and Sophie who attend the excellent local prep. Weekends and holidays are spent bonding blissfully in their second home in Oxfordshire where the wellies and fun fleeces come in very handy as the family throw themselves into the country life.

In reality: Harrassed, slightly sweaty mum of two named Karen living somewhere non-descript in suburbs. Financially not loaded but not struggling. Part time job in the public sector, tries to show willing by being on the PTA but feels a bit intimidated by the blow-dried uber-mums. Husband Steve works in finance marketing and needs an awful lot of looking after. Losing battle with the onset middle-age but desperately trying to get her groove back. Whatever it was. Exhausted and demoralised enough to be susceptible to Johnnie's 'way with words' and orders the 'fun' skirt whilst hoping for the drizzle to stop. Receives parcel a couple of days later and is gutted to realise that 'fun' looks like shit stretched across a size 16 arse. Decides to keep the brown cord bootlegs, though.

I once bought a Size 12 Boden dress - it was mahoosive. Does he still try to fool people?

roundwindow I have tears in my eyes!

"...is gutted to realise that "fun" looks like shit stretched across a size 16 arse"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too funny!

I often wonder what sort of woman buys their a-line knee length skirts with maaive applique shapes etc on them - wtf do they have to do with aspirational style?!

I think I move in pretty Boden-esque circles TBH - agas, Audis, black labs, etc etc and I don't know many Boden-buyers amongst them. One or two macs here and there, but certainly no head-to-toe Boden outfits.

I saw a woman on a family day out this summer - she was wearing a green halterneck sundress I had seen in the Boden catalogue. My reaction was first to think she looked nice, and then to think "oh, but it's Boden" and she went down in the style stakes in my eyes. Is that bad?!

I wonder if Johnnie will read this???

I'm just as bad with the Toast catalogue, though. The House and Home one arrived the other day and it was so beautiful it made me want to weep. I want to be on a mountain top in Eastern Europe somewhere looking wistful and other wordly in exquisite pyjamas and a cashmere shawl. Sigh.

In reality my life resembles the Bettaware catalogue.

I like boden but Johnnie boden doesn't half sound like the worst kind of upper class twat on their phone line. The kind of bloke who you'd hear being horrible to a waitress in a braying voice or shouting " come here, Freddie, Archie and Jemima" on a north norfolk beach.

LOl at you all.
i oft snigger that teh BOden distirb centre in in LEicester, surely the antithesis of all that is BOden.

ANd the stickers on free returns never seem to have the right addy on acc to my post office woman

have you seen the video on the toast website, i started watching it this morning. it is hilarious - wickerman chic

I once read an interview with Johnnie. He was moaning about dog poo on the pavement in Chelsea. I wanted to take him by the scruff of the neck and march him round Tower Hamlets

These boots are the definition of vile.

I love spotting Boden lady when out and about - they stand out like a sore thumb here oop-north.

God this thread is just spot on.

I quite like some Boden clothes but have to make sure I am carrying a Poundland carrier bag when wearing them in public as would hate to be thought of as a Boden yummy mummy brown lab type.

Johnnie= twat.

I thought 'Johnnie Boden' was some sort of slang for upper-class-twat until I came on here and found out it was a real man

roundwindow has it, I think.

I must admit that when I see a woman in boden I immediately suspect she is middle aged and life has not turned out to be all she had hoped for. I also assume that she probably finds clothes shops confusing. (Sorry to those lovely, busy GPs, who wear Boden 'cos they can't be arsed to think about clothes.)

If despair appeared before you, she would be wearing hotchpotch.

Rofl @ SamCam EVER wearing Boden.

yes i wear boden because i hate clothes shopping, i find clothes shops depressing and life draining

Oops. Feeling bad, now. I momentarily forgot that RL women wear boden (even some I know ... eek!) and posted straight from my darkest thoughts.

It's just why I can't bring myself to do it ... .

Sorry (grovel).

ha, ha KingRolo!

I've just been looking at that Toast website.

WTF?

Looks like they have been used as a car aerial in a previous life.

god don't apologise. it is not like i only wear boden but it is incredibly easy to wheel up at one of their jumble sales and get some work clothes for the year.

woman I know wears exclusively boden. She works for a charity. she always looks lovely - but then she is late 50s, and lives in a village and has breakfast tray with bud rose brought to her every morning by her adored dh...

That blows yr demographics out a bit...

10 wire hangers for £7.50???