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

Love this thread.
Played the 'Spot the Boden Game' a lot on the beach this summer.

I got 25 points from one family on Southwold Beach.

Mrs Boden listens to Radio 2 in the kitchen and likes a bit of James Blunt on the car CD player. Mr Boden doesn't like to say but thinks James Blunt is dreadful - secretly enjoys playing The Killers/Fratellis/a bit of Stereophonics from student days etc rather Too Loudly when he gets a chance to drive the car alone.....

What is so wrong with wearing Boden? My 4th for a £1 order arrived today, everything was beautifully cut and made and very becoming for a thrity-something Mum-of-two.

Personally, I find it appalling that just about everyone in my town seems to have the same few tops from Next - you know, the ones with the lairy flowery prints that have been everywhere this summer.
I don't care if wearing Boden makes me aspirational, it makes me feel good so there!

BTW - I do drive a people carrier, don't have an Aga, am not called Felicity and have a cat, not a dog.

Here's others talking

Mrs Boden is already fantasising about the homely Bonfire Night party she's planning on throwing this year. There will be a couple of carefully selected families invited. On the menu will be jacket potatoes, sausages (Waitrose organic), and Nigella's chocolate brownies for pudding (she does like to show off her homely baking skills.....). She will nervously try to enjoy Mr Boden's firework display but will quietly disapprove of anything bigger than a sparkler and will be glad when it's all over. Her plan is to recreate the Sainsbury's Magazine photoshoot: finger-less gloved hands round steaming mugs of soup, Mr Boden and his friends Dan and Will looking cool but casual round the barbecue, children having a wonderful time with baked potatoes wrapped in tinfoil and running about with sticks looking gorgeous in their fun scarves and bright knitwear, while all the while she looks cute but sexy wrapped in her cosy checked blanket and giggling with her girly chums. In reality the night will not live up to expectations and she will be disappointed.

rofl that they're talking about boden on the wsc site! madness

southeastastra - shall I admit to being the GLW in the OP?

LOL ! I felt a bit sick there, MakeMineaGandT. Sort of eaten too many marshmallows sick.

What would MrsBoden's Christmas be like...?

or there's more

Now there's a thought GentleOtter. Obviously there will be blazing fires with log baskets aplenty, feet stretched out in colourful cashmere socks, trees decorated in tasteful style (she's binned the silver/purple decs circa 1999 and gone back to ivory/red/green...), the children aren't allowed chocolate advent calendars but have to make do with one of those giant things with felt pockets full of small gifts and suggestions of making paper chains (such fun!), she'd like a garland going up the stairs but just can't get the hang of making the darned thing, she puts the classy cards in prime positions (we have such Fabulous Friends!), she'd like something lovely for Christmas like a bright pink Smythson notebook or cashmere jumper - instead she has to make do with Mr Boden's offering of the latest Nigella cookbook ("well you DO like her recipes!") and some dodgy undies from Agent Provocateur. She spends Christmas Day in a quiet huff with her mother in law (yet more nasty In the Night Garden pyjamas for the children - doesn't the old bag have any taste?!) and she consoles herself that the Boden January sale is about to start....

boden mum does not have enough to do hence she spends her days decorating buns, walking dogs and browsing the boden website which leaves her a tad tardy on the school run

she grabs the dog (brown lab) called 'Worcester' and rushes to school arriving red faced and out of puff

this creates the impression of a full and busy life

this is a funny thread. cant believe the wsc site. also cant believe the irony of some the posts

Eve4walle, how just appaling that you even have to live with people who shop at next. in my town we arranged to have said people exterminated.

Personally, I find it appalling that just about everyone in my town seems to have the same few tops from boden - you know, the ones with the embroidered flowers that have been everywhere this summer.

Her, that's a bit harsh. Did I say shopping at Next should be a punishable offence? As it happens, lots of the kids clothes come from Next. I just don't fancy wearing the same things that everyone else does. Can't see what's wrong with saying that?

boden womn -

amuse dat 'the might have had a spliff once at Durham'

i went to Durham

Boden woman would have been a heavy cane artist, piss ant and all-round slapper until time came to go into her graduate job with PWC.

then she would meet the man of her dreams, marry him, have three children, (fewer would be common, more would be in poor taste) forget her wasted youth and start buying a small library of books about parenting, whilst in fact employing other people to do most of it for her.

she'd eat meditteranean stuff, on a 'diet by calendar' basis, and keep at work because she enjoyed it, whilst claiming it was to cover the cost of the pleasantly bland executive home she & Mr Boden purchased.

I don't think she'd Coke it up, except perhaps whilst visiting ex-uni friends at new-year. That said, when the white stuff comes out, it's always suprising whose head is first in line as twere.

i have a Sportmax skirt from a charity shop. though i'd prefer it a bright colour....

boden mum probably smokes like a chimney
apologises profusely for it but will never stop

I ordered my first Boden item today - will I be laughed at when I go out wearing it?

Nosey - of course not. If you like it, then who cares?

All I know is that she is richer than me as I can't realistically afford anything off that site

Good thing I don't really like much of it then I suppose.

eve4walle, similar to you, I live in an area where most people shop from a few stores as that is what is available. So I like to wear some Boden (note the 'some') so I am not identikit MOM. But I also wear FC, Mango, Next, Gap, Dunnes Stores, Asda, Benneton, Hobbs- what ever I can really that looks good and is not easily identifiable. I appreciate the concept of Boden mom. To be honest, the mumsnet obesssion with Boden is putting me off a bit. Off Boden and Mumsnet. Can't we talk about some other online catalogues- I would be happy to be inspired to broaden my shopping range
I have to add that when I went to Legoland at Windsor, I could spot Boden clothes on kids and moms and it made me realise how much more popular it is in the south. So I will need to look for a trendy dress for my trip to London next week that is NOT instantly indentifiable as Boden

Oh. It seems we are all wrong. They live on the Isle of Boden

Lick those abalones and as for the 'Shags'....

Boden woman is pedantic and likes to tell people that the Boden sale actually starts in December before Christmas (and i wouldnt turn my nose up at that xmas description i think it sounds quite good minus dh and mil)

Mrs Boden doesn't let her children have lunchboxes with TV programme characters on them - yuk.

She dresses her children in cutesy white frilly nighties with collars (Sophia/Isabella) and blue-checked brushed cotton PJ's (Oliver/Freddie). They'd really prefer something emblazoned with Hello Kitty or Lazytown but that would be naf.

Shite this is me I love those cutesie nighties and once chucked some upsy daisy pajamas that dd loved but they looked like shit/faded/mishapen after a couple of washes.

I did let her have the princess lunchbox though so all is not lost

short
fat
big tits
doesn't iron
one smelly dog
4 cats
makes bread and jam and sloe gin