TONIGHT________BBC1___8pm____WHAT NOT TO WEAR

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WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER

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What Not to Wear

8:00pm - 9:00pm

BBC1 London & South East

VIDEO Plus+: 5971
Subtitled, Widescreen

1/5

There were no preview tapes of the opening episode of this new series, but previous exposure to Trinny and Susannah's unique brand of sartorial self-help suggests it will entail more bracing candour and tearful self-realisation. Tonight's theme is divorce, with two freshly singlefied women encouraged to renew their dilapidated wardrobe and sagging ego by the bluff twosome.

RT reviewer: Sarah Dempster

Yes Bundle, agree - they could be sympathising with her and aware that it's making good TV at the same time.

Also, I guess, they presumably don't have much say in how it's edited, so the fact that it felt to me as if the shot went on a long time and emphasised the point wasn't down to them at all.

I really do like them, by the way, and would love to be 'done' by them, but am too much of a coward to expose myself on TV - very much admire those brave enough to go on.

she did look like joan bakewell when they finished and those trainers WERE ugly

Yes didn't really think the trainers were her. Or the green zip up top. But the other things they had her in looked good.

Do you think you dress badly enough to be chosen? I would like to be done by them, but am not sure that I dress sufficiently terribly. Oh I do have the odd gaffe but don't think its that awful. Maybe I'm flattering myself.

I can't believe Susannah is referrd to as the fat one she has a lovely figure!

I dont think I dress that badly but I think I just lack a bit of, I dont know, erm ...something!

The green zip up cardigan from zara looked horrible on her. Really cheap and nasty. And I usually like Zara but it was way too teen-y.

I thought the whole "how did it make you feel when he left you" etc etc etc ad infinitum aspect so tedious. I don't mind a few outraged comments about grey knickers and bad blouses, but all this pseudo psycology stuff is so boring. The show would have been better 30 minutes long and sticking to the basic idea - crap dressers pointed in the right direction.

God yes I'm bored with their tedious and badly acted 'oh this is the psychology bit' stuff. They know nothing about this! They do frocks! Also I hate the lingering shots of poor women whose bodies are past their best. I think it's hideously voyeuristic and, indeed, sadistic. This new format is (ugly) pants.

trinnys nipples fascintat me in an unhelthy way

tbh i'd rather see them in gorgeous pants and refusing to tell T&S where they got them from..

I adore T&S, especially T I have to say. I would be made over by them any day (although not on national TV). I don't know how they get the women to turn up in their non matching underwear though. I mean, I wear non matching underwear all the time, but if I knew I was going to be on What Not To Wear, I would dig out something matching.

I think the pop psychology is a bit naff, but I don't think there is much doubt that T&S do care about the women and want to do their best for them. I agree that the long shot of them wacthing the woman cry was probably the editorial department's choice, not theirs.

That said, I think they got the older woman entirely wrong last night. I don't think anything she wore looked right (with the possible exception of the evening dress) and she was right to resist trainers. The younger woman looked great though.

I hate to sy it, but I often think the real sucess of each programme is the hair styling and make up at the end, which presumably are nothing to do with T&S. That said, they could take me in hand any day. I wish they would. I have never dressed well. As a student, I wore jumble sale mismatches, as a teacher, I was reasonable but rarely smart, and as a mum, I live in my jeans and t-shirt. I told dh to turn down a Christmas dinner invite as I have nothing to wear!

I thought some of the posh woman's clothes were horrid (cheap looking green jumper for example) but she looked a zillion times better than at the beginning when she was beamed in directly from 1984. Esp liked her ribbon-tied jacked from Zara. Very pretty.
Hated the younger woman's ill-fitting suit though.
Also, I really hope they give the rejects some off-camera advice and hair and makeup makeover, because otherwise it's vile, getting them to spill their misery on national tv and sending them off empty-handed. Worse than the X-factor.

Aloha, i was thinking about the "rejects" a few weeks ago (sad life that I have!) and I came to the conclusion that they must get the T&S advice, just they are not filmed getting it and they don't get the money to buy stuff. They surely couldn't invite these women to London, make them talk about their personal lives on TV and then send them off empty handed.

i remember the leopardskin print woman vividly..she needed help. and the v tall one

yes suit wqs like a red coat uniform

Have I missed something Bundle? Are you connected to the show at all?

no lonelymum, just saw them in the one-way-mirror room and the leopard woman looked in desperate need of advice. (I'm in radio, not tv, the pictures are better )

You mean you saw them in RL?

no, on tv

Oh right. I must have missed that bit.

they were all lined up like an id-parade and they got the two "winners" to step forward

Oh sorry, I am on another planet. I was thinking you said you saw them in the 360 degree mirror room. Sorry, yes, I am with you now. I think they all look desperate (or attention seeking), but I suppose they must be, by definition, to be on that programme.

Does anyone know if this is repeated at all (haven't got cable listings in my tv guide).

Is it just me or is £2000 not that much money to spend on AN ENTIRE NEW WARDROBE. I mean coats can cost a lot of money and when you tot it all up its not that much is it? They act like these women have millions to go and spend. I loved that Zara jacket, I'm just looking for something like that at the moment, bet they don't have it in the one near me they never do.

No 2K is not loads. I could get quite a lot for it but only by buying in sales, Next to Nothing and the odd item in Matalan/Primark and not much at full high street prices.