VB's dress on Mrs Burnham - horrible

[TheBlueKoala]

I'm not a fashion expert and I really don't care much for it but this was the most horrible dress I have ever seen. Even on a coathangar bodytype like VB herself it wouldn't look good but on an average body it's just hideous. That's 850 £ unwisely spent. She could and should have gotten a dress from M&S for 50£ and actually looked good.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/middle-class-mrs-burnham-dress/

Well… I hope your choice of dress won’t be publicly criticised. I hope you can wear what feels good for you. I hope you don’t have people you know going home and commenting negatively about what you wore - or other bits of your body. I hope you have friends who love and accept you just as you are. I hope sometimes you can dress “out of place” if you want.
What I object to is this culture of judging people on their bodies and clothes which really seems to be normalised, like someone in the public eye is considered fair game to be commented on and scrutinised - most often, let’s face it, women. What does this tell our children, boys and girls? That it’s more important to look pleasing to others rather than feel good in our own skin? How refreshing it would be if we could be much more curious about people’s minds and ideas than the bloody dress they’re wearing!

This is tiresome. Not Mrs Burnham and not Mrs Heel. I think you're being disingenious- we all know who we are talking about.

I find it quite hurtful the way you are mocking my taste. But I suppose it's only famous people's feelings that are important.

If you are finding it hurtful, you can perhaps find some empathy for Ms van Heel (see, not difficult is it?) who has had both her taste and her body pulled apart on this thread.

True. I have reported this thread. Thank you for your wise contribution. (Written in earnest)

Right. Nice try. Carry on having fun finding these awful dresses.
I'm not going to feed this nonsense anymore.

How is he a hypocrite for his wife's choice of dress? She may have bought it with her own money, or borrowed it or rented it? I don't think he has a say in the clothes that his wife wears. I think she deliberately chose a British designer, other than that the style and colour, etc. was up to her.

You don't think you have double standards? Telling someone her taste is awful while also telling her that she is mean for having an opinion on a dress (on a public figure)?

Thank you for taking in what I wrote and for not responding defensively. I get that we can all fall into this trap, it’s so widespread.

What a load of nonsense these "ooh he's such a hypocrite" posts are. Why on earth do posters think he doesn't know about cost of living problems? He's been in a very well paid shop and is married to a very successful woman. There is absolutely nothing wrong in spending money, earned honestly on expensive clothes.

I think that if you are happy to tear apart someone’s taste on a public forum, you should probably expect to have your own taste commented upon in return. I would expect someone who starts a thread like this to be robust enough to have their own taste criticised, otherwise the double standard is surely theirs?
I think people can and should wear whatever the fuck they feel comfortable in. If, for you, that’s a 95% polyester leopard print swing dress then go for it!

From the OP "someone's dress choice is neither here nor there"

And here you are starting a snidey little thread ripping a woman's choice of outfit to shreds?

How strange when VB's fashion business is totally build on vanity and pretentiousness. She couldn't have chosen a dress more symbolic of such superficialness. People in the public eye can should be talked about. It's an odd choice of dress, not rocket science, not that deep and thanks nor virtue signalling needed.

Disingenuous. That can't be a typo, if you're saying it like you spell it you're pronouncing it completely wrong too.

Spend more time reading properly written and edited text and less time scrutinising photos of women's bums in the tabloids.

What the actual fuck? You're worried that the (non-parliamentary) wife of the prime minister might be a bit mean to the menz? Not sure what the relevance of that would even be given that she has her own non-political career

it looks terrible on the nether region.
andy burnham’s mini shorts looked terrible too.
neither has good taste in clothes.
too bad.

You are minimising and dismissing my comments by saying I’m going too “deep” with it, criticising me about “virtue signalling” (maybe I am?).
I think we just have different ideas about this. You think the bodies and clothes of public figures should be talked about, I don’t. I think it’s really disappointing and quite depressing that women in particular are so often judged on their bodies and clothes (often due to envious attacks) and I would love this to change. I actively try not to do that, especially with people I love. I’ve done it in the past. If that makes me virtue-signalling so be it. I can deal with that.

How can another person's choice of dress be an odd choice? She didn't decide on a dress that would piss @sillsimcard off. She wore something that for her felt appropriate for the occasion, including meeting the king. I'm sure she hadn't taken into account that the gutter press would print the most unflattering photos they could muster. And they printed those pics just to stir up the negative reactions illustrated in this thread.

An £850 dress doesn’t match up with Mr Burnham’s values. It’s an astonishing amount to spend on a dress. Mrs Burnham could have looked very nice in a £48 dress from new look.

https://www.newlook.com/uk/womens/clothing/dresses/gini-london-black-polka-dot-v-neck-skater-midi-dress/p/955633709

but i think only someone like Gigi hadid and her half an almond regime would suit that VB dress.

i have no interest in style and dresses but even I can see that VB’s designs are quite strange. I actually think shein would have been a better choice.

Where would you have liked her to buy her dress ?

@4t4 First of all, why are you calling her Mrs Burnham?
Secondly, it wasn't her husband's choice to make. I imagine as a professional women in her own right she purchased the dress with her own money.

She's not Mrs Burnham. Does a wife have to share her husband's political values?

You know people can care about things and people and buy nice dresses.

It’s fine! My only critique is that it looks too big in some places but fitted in others. Maybe that’s intentional. You’re just being unpleasant.

It's far too tight which is why it's all riding up at the hip and creased across the lap. A line with an inset pleat like that needs to lie flat.

His suit jacket is too tight and wrinkled up too.

If you’re going to be rude about her, you could at least get her name right.