Designer labels - who cares?

The absolutely funniest thread from here. Have a pain from laughing - wondering if that's ok or some rare and possibly fatal reaction!

Mrs Music, 58, was seen doing housework this morning in her oldest M and S trousers and a Joe Browns gold top. In the afternoon, she was treated to afternoon tea at a posh hotel. For this occasion, she wore her best Seasalt dress, navy with blue and white flowers, a pretty Woolovers white cotton cardigan and a dark pink tartan Ness handbag with purple handles. All these were bought new with or without tags from eBay. An orchid necklace and co-ordinating brooch complemented the outfit beautifully. To complete the outfit were her best silver and bronze Hotter sandals. When she returned home, there was an appointment with the ironing board scheduled so it was back to the old M and S trousers and gold Joe Browns top.

Mrs H was spotted leaving the garden centre, she was wearing navy linen trousers by matalan, cream and blue top from Phase eight sale, and her bargain priced Ugg flip flops. Her bag was a hessian shopper from Holland and Barrett ( which was secreting a pot plant that she hoped Mr H wouldn’t notice).
Her jewellery was minimal, pink diamond stud earrings, wedding and engagement rings and a full Pandora bracelet, all bought by Mr H and other family members.

Pee pee hastily wonder webbed an ancient kaftan expressly chosen for it's ability to swiftly reveal her shapely ( think ten pin bowling) pins at the unsuspecting GP who would be giving her a much longed for steroid injection in her knee. Her underwear was clean, if uninspiring: white cotton so as not to divert the Doctor's attention. Her shoes were flat Clark's, donated by a nonagenarian of her acquaintance; all the better for limping to the surgery. She took a final glance in the mirror and deftly painted on a pained expression. She was ready to face her public.

Sazz1 was wearing a beautiful blue, denim, sequinned, panelled, midi skirt from Next priced at £4 from ebay. She looked delightful in a black floral chiffon top from topshop via ebay at £2.50. With a beautiful Next white summer jacket with turned up sleeves draped across her arm she entered the restaurant with her family for a Sunday carvery lunch. Jacket was priced at £40 and complemented her clarks black gladiator sandals from ebay £30 and black handbag £6 from BHF charity shop.

Now, this isn't fair! Yesterday I went for a private lesson on my ancestry, wearing Boden jeans, Jack Wolfskin fleece, Hotter walking boots and carrying an Eastpack bag. All fairly respectable, I thought. Half way through the 2 hours' research, the nice lady said to me, "Why aren't you stonking rich?" Obviously going by my attire!!

If you are really into this nonsense all you have to do is go on a particular well known Chinese site, write in the name and hey presto you can get the brand name for a quarter of the price. Maybe illegal, maybe not but they don’t care, obviously.

You might be missing the point nanna8
For myself (lady lining ) I am currently wearing a mis matched pair of ancient pjs with slippers, Asda (£5) .
Sir L is in an even more ancient and extraordinarily thin white tee shirt which refuses to fall apart and shorts artfully tailored ( by me) from an old pair of long trousered pjs, because he gets hot, ( not that sort of hot) at night these days.
We will get dressed shortly displaying charity and supermarket purchases with style, as we try to avoid the inevitable papps who patiently wait on a regular basis outside our door.

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Mrs H was spotted leaving the garden centre, she was wearing navy linen trousers by matalan, cream and blue top from Phase eight sale, and her bargain priced Ugg flip flops. Her bag was a hessian shopper from Holland and Barrett ( which was secreting a pot plant that she hoped Mr H wouldn’t notice).
Her jewellery was minimal, pink diamond stud earrings, wedding and engagement rings and a full Pandora bracelet, all bought by Mr H and other family members.

Today Ms Callistemon also is wearing navy linen trousers by Matalan which started their life as full-length trousers but are now ankle-grazers, the housekeeper having inadvertently put them on a 40C wash.
(I sacked her)
A t shirt by Cotton Traders @ £22 (for three), a navy M&S cardigan bought? years ago in a Swindon Designer Village, socks from Crazy Clark's and a favourite (ie old) pair of trainers.
Hair by Scissor Happy Salon.

She is ready to face the window cleaner and the postman 🙂

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Ronib is wearing an ironed (for once) Avon dress from the Jeanetic range - an immaculately tailored dark blue denim dress with long sleeves, casually turned up at the cuffs. Grey leggings and bamboo socks with Joya leather boots and Senso soles plus extremely expensive orthotics perfect the grunge meets designer look. She thinks…..

Baroness Audun is wearing her delightful £10 denim dress from the closing down sale of M and Co. She has deliberately washed it at boil, in order to give it that fashionable above-the -knee look. It is accessorised with a pair of flowery loose-topped socks, and nine-year old Mary Janes, and her hair, naturally wavy, is benefitting from its au naturel uncut look... The Baroness feels expensive jewellery is utterly ostentatious, and keeps her gold in Coutts Bank.. sporting instead, her great-aunt's wellworn signet ring. Having enjoyed a mug of Horlicks for elevenses, she feels able to hang out the washing, unselfishly sparing her daily help.

Through their long lenses, the eager snappers by the gate were able to see Lady Scribs (as she is known in her intimate circle) open the door to the postman this morning clad in her trademark ancient navy blue yoga pants (Amazon c.2015, price long forgotten) cunningly teamed with a Seasalt teeshirt in a not-quite-matching shade of navy and a pair of purple moc-Crocs from The Range. She sported a tousled pixie cut and her vintage gold hoop earrings (understood to have been abirthday gift from the late Lord Scribbles in the early 70s).

Of the mystery companion - rumoured but not confirmed to be the reclusive baronet, Lord (Aloysius, known as Al to his friends) Ponsonby-Smallpiece) - there was little sign except for a glimpse of a handsome, bearded man with charmingly disarranged collar length iron grey hair. He appeared to be sporting a burgundy coloured polo shirt (M&S c.1989) with three small holes in the midriff - believed to be the result of a mishap while welding two of his classic Bentley cars together during a misguided attempt to create one roadworthy vehicle.

Dr Biglouis was seen climbing somewhat akwardly into a taxi wearing a black and white zebra striped kaftan, black socks and flipflops. We suspect from the fall of the ample garment that she was not wearing a bra or any underwear beneath.

Today Mrs G.O.D. is ringing the changes and sporting as an underlayer, her tastefully (?) wrinkled birthday suit, as she believes it looks better that way than trying to iron it. Clearly a vintage item!
She is hoping the paparazzi will not be hiding outside of the house when she ventures out, necessitating a fast walk (if such a thing is possible with her sound-effects knees), to her 19 year old Jag. Mrs G.O.D. feels her car's vintage elegance is the perfect pairing for her similar state, though there are malicious reports that it is only the car which has attained that status. It certainly moves a lot faster than she does.....

Walking billboards… idiots, all of them. They’re lucky they’re not attacked and ripped off‼️
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Rumour has it that Lady M was seen supporting her daughter, the Honourable FC, at a Cumbria Horse Trials on Sunday morning. She wore a red Regatta jacket, a Factory Store bargain, age unknown, price forgotten, covering a faded navy Musto bodywarmer (ditto) , navy cord trousers, £19.99 M&S c. 2018 and surprisingly waterproof battered pair of white Reebok Classics, M & M £27, 2 years ago. Luckily the really heavy rain held off until her daughter's class was finished as the jacket isn't very waterproof.

She didn't look her usual glowing best, having had to rise at 4 a.m to sort out the picnic lunch (smoked salmon sandwiches we believe) before departure at 4 a.m for an hour and a half drive in the far from comfortable cab of the horse box...

Mrs Lester was feeling a little under the weather today so opted not to hit the lights of the nearest metropolis.

Instead, Mr Lester went to collect the top of the range, designer label jogging bottoms from the upmarket store where he was also able to purchase the bread which is made for his wife especially by their highly trained bakers. Mrs Lester has declared this bread 'the best oaty sliced bread of all time' (well this week)

Meanwhile, the lady herself sat under a blanket, specially made by those weavers of note, Dunelm.

She had been shocked to notice a very similar blanket on the floor of her neighbour's garage which had been laid there to catch oil drips from the neighbour's classic car.

Today, the Dowager, Anno, has been spotted in public, clad in designer wear by Marks and his sidekick Spencer. Midi length navy linen culottes are topped by a bright pink v-necked top. Pearl stud earrings are reflected in a double rope of mixed pearls. also by M&S. Her feet are encased in practical but smart navy trainer-style zipped shoes from Hotter's 2022 collection. The ensemble is completed by a white(ish) zip-up hoodie, from her favourite designer emporium.

Today i was sporting the latest in beachwear, as DH and DD disported themselves in the Channel off the fashionable northern f\rench coast.

I was wearing jeans(Lands End), Shirt(Tui, cardigan (M&S) and anorak from a fashionable beachwear, bucket and spade and souvenir shop in our local French seaside resort.

We lunched at the internationally well-known beach shack, La Cale, (well, that is true) , his menu, is as they say honest and simple: moule, sausages, pork chops and pancakes all served with chips, no starters, no desserts and no cards taken. We reserved using the loo until we got to the supermarket.

But, oh, we were so achingly on trend, where were the paparazzi?

Crochet was sitting on a 30 year old discount sofa, in clothes from the flea market, sipping Euro Shoppe latte (£1.25)

Later today she will water her plants and watch some Benidorm

I don't get why, whenever a public school (major or minor) is mentioned, the fees have to be quoted either!

We do not have any public schools any more . Only state and private.

I would add how often we will be told the value of someone's house. The Chairman of Blogs Blatter is paid £5 million and lives in a £300,000 house, beside the A1 in Hertfordshire

Well sort of M0nica.
Technically, there is still a small group of public schools - like Eton, Harrow Charterhouse, Shrewsbury, Winchester etc. What sets them apart is that they are more selective and tend to have a longer history strongly associated with the upper classes.
All public schools are private schools, but not all private schools are public schools. They are all fee paying.
The term " independent" school is used more often as an umbrella term these days.

What joseann said.

I stopped using the phrase 'Public schools' some years ago because whenever I did so, someone in that sector told me that the phrase was no longer used and all fee paying schools, no matter what previous description they had used, were now described only as either 'private' or 'independent'.