Middle aged women (aka you lot) please desist form following crimes against fashion

[moondog]

1. Dying your hair a matte brown or black. So ageing and unattractive especially when also sporting bed flattened crown at which white roots are visible.

1. Long skirt, jaunty jerkin and medium helled boot ensemble (this particular species' natural habitat is M&S).

1. Not getting your teeth scaled and polished on a regular basis.

1. Wearing too many gold rings at once.

Oh and please stop dragging your sheepish looking dhs with you around the lingerie dept. Haven't they got shelves ot put up or lawns to mow?

Well I've put a shout out on the style and beauty topiccalled 'who shall I wear' It's been a bit quiet for answers. Perhaps all the fashion police here could answer me please. (See thread for details I'd really appreciate it!!)

Fat is against the law in Paris.

I've seen fat women in Paris. Honestly I have, in Galleries Lafayette amongst other places. They were definitely French, although they may not have been Parisiennes.

They would have been arrested shortly after you had seen them. It is simply unacceptable.

hilarious

I didn't get arrested though. Mind you I was pregnant and they might have thought it was triplets in there (it wasn't).

Carla Bruni has a lot to answer for.

There was only one fat person in Chamonix the whole nine days I was there in August and none in Normandy in May. So it must be true fat is a French issue

In Limoge (in-laws live there) there are loads of fat badly dressed women. I think Bonsoir would be shocked.

But where is Limoge? My French geography is shaky. Thanks to Tricolour I can point to La Rochelle and Paris and that's about it. Is it the cultural equivalent of say, West Bromwich?

I went to Paris loads of times a few years back (my Dad lived there) and I never noticed anyone looking any better than anywhere else. Though I was younger then so didn't pay that much attention to the older women.

Everyone just looked the same. I've seen fat women in the La Defence shopping centre. And bakeries.

lol at annas use of a
while being uttetly insulting!!

"whereas my formerly better endowed contemporaries have swollen to unmanageable and barely dressable proportions
"

She's one classy femme.

I am surprised you didn't see any fat people in Normandy! I find most people there are very short and round!

barely dressable .Anna is either perfect or typing from the nut house

Normandy's not really France.

Flat brightly coloured shoes that are like children's shoes, teamed with "perky" short haircut, glasses with coloured frames and a stupid and enormous necklace. This year madam will be completing the ensemble with opaque tights, a droopy long skirt and a chunky cardi with short sleeves over a polo neck. Every slightly overweight woman over 50 working in social care will be wearing this outfit.... and inciting derision left right and centre. If you are a little younger you can get the same effect with a straight short skirt and a Boden"fun" tank top.

bonsoir you don't look 43 - I thought you were much younger! She dresses very, very well, ladies. Listen to her (and copy if you can!).

Even 'fat' French women dress well to hide it, though. Tis all about dressing to suit ones shape.

DISCLAIMER - in Paris I lived in jeans, hoodies and army surplus stuff because it's all extremely warm, hard wearing and washable. It's only having moved back to the UK that I'm training my inner Parisienne for a life of French fashion.

How do you know what Bonsoir looks like then?

can i just add that there are worst things in life than being fat bitchyness for one is not an attractive quality in any woman whether they be in Peckham or Paris

and that was not aimed at you Jajas you sound lovely

I have a fleece but then again, I defy anyone to go on holiday to Cornwall in the summer and not come back with a fleece from somewhere like Peacocks

I also find myself in the white haired bit of M&S every now and then. Is it called Classic? It's that and the comfy shoes section I have started to gravitate towards (footglove or whatever they are called). Once you start there, you know you are officially middle aged I reckon .

When I was in my 20s/30s I don't remember even looking at an old person (50s+) let alone wasting 2 seconds thinking about their fashion sense. Give us a break you youngsters, let us enjoy our elasticated trousers and Footglove shoes - you'll be us one day!

lol at footglove cross-posting!