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?

If you look up the 17th Arrondissement on wiki (ok I know 'tis not gospel) it gives the impression of it being somewhat erm a) suburban (not as chic and central as perhaps we have been led to believe) and LOL appears to be an extension of the red light district....

I can see that Boden would be out place there.

All my preconceived images of bonsoir are shattered

My Dear Sister lives in the 17th and is not a prostitute and does wear the odd bit of Boden.

LOL

The French are putting on weight, according to newspaper reports this week.

France is also the AD capital of Europe for women and has a high number of teenage girls with eating disorders. It has a high suicide rate among European countries, too.

So...while I love going there and shopping there and admiring the well-dressed people, I am always a little wary of all the 'French women are so chic and we should be more like them' stuff. It comes at a bit of a price! I'd be interested to hear Bonsoir's take on this.

I met her, purple - in Le Bon Marche no less!

Practically every Parisian arrondissement is 'central'. Paris is tiny compared to London...

Abraid - I always take this "French women are so chic" with a pinch of salt.

Mcdonalds profits are higher in France than UK

Might explain why French people are getting fatter.

Oooh, TheCrackFox--that's probably it. What a shame, though, in France of all places.

We have threats of a McDs opening in our local town and I will fight in on grounds of health. Teenagers in particular seem to balloon wherever the Golden Arches are to be found.

frakkinaround -

sorry phobic but I am def. 50+ and wouldn't be seen dead in elastic waist trews of footgloves- skinny jeans and biker boots today for me.

By skinny, I mean straight leg- not tight as my 21 yr old DDs!

My Dear Sister lives in the 17th and is a prostitute and only wears the Hotchpotch for certain clients

This whole idea that French women are all chique is guff. Paris is full of severe-looking, chain smoking harridans with too much make-up on.

Anyway, why aren't we talking about middle aged men? They commit the real crimes against fashion.

If I see one more 45 yr old man wearing jeans and a formal jacket with colourful 'Dr Who' scarf and thinking he looks shit hot, I will scream. Trinny and Tranny and 'Aunty' Gok have a lot to answer for.

WHY OH WHY ( points of view emoticon) do threads abotu fashion end up a bou frigign paree?

spec as we all know Anna lives in Bloxwich

start a new thread then MrsM!

Young french women are lovely but agree the post 35 ones are skinny haggard over made up bags of bones with dodgy handbags

all angling for a date with JOhnny allyday

arfarfarf

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.

guilty. I took my mothers advice and went lighter as i got older, but i hated it. so have gone back to looking gorg with long dark brown locks.

but thee is a presumption that everyone goes to the hairdresser or can afford to regularly 'do' their hair.

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

'helled' is right, i can't wear heels for toffee. but have no idea what jaunty jerkin skirts are - example please.

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

again this costs, there is nothing wrong with flossing and brushing.

1. Wearing too many gold rings at once.

AGREED. hideous.

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?

If i had a shelf to put up or a lawn to mow, why should dh alone be capable of this? Is this only reserved for men becuase women are too busy at the hairdressers, shopping and having their teeth scraped?

i this this is demeaning to both men and women.

Regarding lingerie dept. Of course i am going to take DH ( who isn't sheepish) it is important to me that i buy a fuckable outfit that we will both enjoy.

Stop showing off peony! Just cos you've got a good figure still

I'm not completely elasticated, just a devout M & S shopper. I do have Uggs or is that a no-no for oldies as well??

ROFL at custardo's "fuckable outfit" - that's so fab

For the good of mankind please will women stop wearing crop tops and low slung trousers or skirts showing acres of belly flesh.

It is not care what size you think you are or how 'all over' nice your tan is. It really really is not a good look.

Agree with each and every one of Custardo's points.

Especially the hair one. - I'm about 70% grey with very dark hair (well 30% of it anyway), dark eyebrows and very pale skin and blue eyes. My choices are:

a) go Alastair Darling-esque by not dying it at all. Being as I'm only in my mid 40's I'm not prepared to go there yet.

b) get a middle-aged lady cocktail of 'soft browns and blondes' at £70+ a pop. Have done this before, it was incredibly ageing and didn't suit my skin tone at all

c) dye it brown/black myself, extremely regularly, ie about every 2-3 weeks.

So I go with option c) and if I slack on the regime by even a few days, yes, it does go badgery around the parting. If anyone's got any better ideas, I'd lurve to hear them?

Some crackers

'Alistair Darling' 'badgery about the parting'

'not completely elasticated'

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I get so wound up by blokes shuffling around underwear departments, perving (obv) but trying to pretend they are not.

Saddest are craven old duffers with wives fingering hydraulics that could raise the Titanic, watching young lovelies wafting by with little frillies out of the corner of a wistful eye.

cider- you should go for B.
In the right hands you might only need top-ups every few months, if the right shades are used, so regrowth isn't that obvious.
all-over helmet colour looks aging and false.

oh god i hate men in lingerie departements.

lost sad souls.

girls its 2009 - you want pants? buy your chuffing own.

moondog/malibu - I assume you are joking aren't you? What is wrong with blokes in underwear depts with their DW/DP or just going in to buy something?

Didn't realise there are 'no men allowed' areas in dept stores. Wonder what those, women wandering around the blokes underwear dept are doing lingering slightly too long over boxes of underpants with images of perfect torsos on them.

Perverts every one of them!