Angela Rayner ghastly trouser suit

At 77 there are days when I feel as old as the hills. Oh to be a young and sprightly 44 again! 😂

Callistemon213

Calendargirl

Doodledog

I felt young at 44. What can I say?

So did I, but sadly I now realise probably no one else did.

Cherie Blair had another baby when she was a year older.

If you stick the word "almost" before year, so did I.

You're right, doods, but I do get tired of disagreements of opinion being called "unpleasantness". Life would be very dull if everyone agreed on stuff. 🙂

Fair point.

Cherie Blair had another baby when she was a year older

Apparently due to embarrassment when staying at Balmoral, with the dubious privilege of staff unpacking your suitcase and seeing your birth control ‘equipment’, (whatever that was). So she left it behind at home?

Mrs Starmer had better learn from this.

Calendargirl

^I could not imagine Angela Merkel in that colour or suit^

Oh, I could. Well, the colour, certainly.

She always wore very bold colours as I recall.

She certainly did:

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/sep/24/someone-who-knows-who-she-is-the-staunch-subtle-style-of-angela-merkel

I felt young at 44, married my husband at 47.

I think Angela Merkel’s choice of clothes was restricted by her build, but she wore some very colourful, yet appropriate, jackets.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13606593/Keir-Starmer-Health-Secretary-Wes-Streeting-junior-doctors-pay-NHS-PM-Cabinet-EU.html

here is Angela this morning! a lovely photo.

What I find strange about the way that female politicians dress is that most don't carry a bag. Where do they keep their purse, keys, phone, etc?

Are they worried that they might look like Margaret Thatcher?

I did notice Yvette Cooper had a tiny shoulder bag but most of the others carried nothing.

Yes, I already said upthread that she is wearing a nice dress this morning, and that Rachel Reeves is wearing a nice suit.

lemsip

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13606593/Keir-Starmer-Health-Secretary-Wes-Streeting-junior-doctors-pay-NHS-PM-Cabinet-EU.html

here is Angela this morning! a lovely photo.

Very nice, Angela! 🙂

Hope she's warm enough, it's 12C, feels like 10C here 😯

Perhaps it was silk,,thats why it looked so crumpled?
Mrs Sunak looked startling

Mrs Starmer looked lovely,

varian
Rachel Reeves is carrying a shoulder bag today, and Angela Rayner has one of those little cross body phone bags with her.
I’d be lost without my too large bag with all the assorted junk items I can’t live without these days.

maddyone

varian
Rachel Reeves is carrying a shoulder bag today, and Angela Rayner has one of those little cross body phone bags with her.
I’d be lost without my too large bag with all the assorted junk items I can’t live without these days.

As I'm on crutches at the moment, I'm carrying a very small cross body bag.
It's surprising what you can do without when needs must.

I’m a scouser and I share a family name with AR so I’m quite fond of her and have watched her progress with interest. I thought she was wearing quite sensible shoes. My Dd has always gone for the stiletto style as a woman working in a man’s world but has recently needed crutches and I saw her chairing a meeting in trainers and made the stiletto look look dated. I was rather impressed. I remember my Dd buying her first designer suit and asking what to wear with it. The reply was Mr. So and so ( I forget who it was) always advised a very high quality white t shirt,presumably one of his make,and I think the advice was good. I always hate the way the cost of people's clothes and the make is plastered about. Nothing looks as good as when the model is just standing about being photographed.

My daughter and DIL rarely use bags. My daughter has a small satchel-type thing that she uses sometimes, but not when she's going out. She keeps her phone in her pocket and uses that to pay for things. I have always favoured a tote bag with a juggernaut behind me to carry all my stuff. I feel uneasy when I don't have a bag with me.

It’s great seeing so many women in the cabinet ousting the talentless bunch that came before. Yes we are going to notice what they are wearing , shallow as it maybe. Men get comments too - scruffy Johnson and Sunak with his short tight trousers, not as much though as men are more limited in their outfits , whether that is right or wrong is open to question . Maybe we should discuss their outfits in the Style and Beauty section so it doesn’t become political points scoring .

I agree. I have never seen so much bitchiness on a thread in GN. I am totally shocked!

Oh get over yourself!

Joseann

The last two posts show this discussion should probably be under Chat or Style. I just want to discuss clothes and fashion, related to the wearer's shape and colouring.

Exactly what I was thinking, Joseann. Hardly a serious topic for News & Politics. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Didn’t like AR’s dress today either. I think she’s in need of some advice and a full length mirror.

All I can say is, if me and my daughter went for the same job at the multinational company she works for I doubt she would get through the front door whereas I would.
Why? Because she has multi coloured hair, a leg and arm tattoo. I don’t 😂
But she’s paid for her skills.

Okay you are angry at the result so you look for something to criticise but nastiness is not what I have come to expect on Gransnet. I hope this kind of rhetoric gets reined in. It sounds bitchy and Gransnet is not bitchy.

I don't think it is shallow to judge the appearance of important public people. Looking smart, whether male or female, is traditionally seen as showing some respect to the people you are serving.

I also don't find it surprising that women are judged in a different way from men. Men basically wear a uniform. Women don't really have that option even in the modern world.

The Times headline this morning about Victoria Starmer's "pitch perfect fashion: aspirational and approachable" is a case in point. Would anyone regard that 'judgment' as sexist? The sexes are different, after all, and we value their differences for good evolutionary reasons.

AR was being criticised a long time ago. The only connection with the election result is that now, in Starmer’s absence, she will represent this country and judging by what I have seen and heard so far, we will be a laughing stock.

A little lesson in the role of the deputy prime minister.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/deputy-prime-minister-first-secretary-state

petra

All I can say is, if me and my daughter went for the same job at the multinational company she works for I doubt she would get through the front door whereas I would.
Why? Because she has multi coloured hair, a leg and arm tattoo. I don’t 😂
But she’s paid for her skills.

Personally I think tattoos look common, at first when only a few had them perhaps they looked edgy. I think a lot will regret them when they get older. At least Rayner hasn't got any, well that you can see anyway.