Glamorous Grannies (or not!)

They look like G grans or even GG grans. Who on earth is going to buy this book? Who on earth would want it as a Christmas gift ?
Visions of thousands of copies getting hurled with deadly accuracy across festive scenes at insensitive gift givers.

Why was that 'pink' granny lying on her bed surrounded by hat boxes? Most of those look more like great grannies or ever great great ones.

Was this book promoted by GNHQ some time back - or is that my imagination?

This is surely a man's idea of how grannies dress. Male transvestites always seem to wear very strange combinations of clothes that no woman wouls be seen out in, and rather overdone hair and makeup. I always want to go up to them and say "Haven't you noticed that women actually dress quite like men, but just have longer hair and more jewellery?"

You reckon they just might just possibly have been "styled" by a male "stylist" deeda

AKA I'm up for a gransnet calendar only I'll wear the wackiest clothes I can find and maybe dye my hair pink too !

Riverwalk - I have been a fan of Tim Walker's photos for along time - his work is far, far better than what is shown in this book and usually very imaginative, particularly the sets he dreams up, which is missing here anyway (apart from the bedroom which is probably not a set at all!).

I'd be available to pose on a Harley Davidson - in leathers, if I could find them to fit.

January - G in thermals and fleece
February - G in cosy outdoor walking gear
March - what the well dressed gardening G is wearing in cold weather
April - G in easter rabbit costume, complete with ears and a painted on whiskers
May - what the well dressed Gs of the bride (or groom) is wearing this year - trouser suits? Monsoon?
June - the flattering one-piece swimsuit shot (off peak holiday season of course)
July - what the well dressed gardening G (or lying around in the garden) is wearing in hot weather
August - G on the beach building sandcastles or shrimping. It is now drizzling so summer weight waterproofs and plastic sandals de rigeur
September - G at the school gate, NOT in her nightwear
October - G at the school gate in Boden, with new boots not uggs
November - G in winter work clothes giving a powerpoint presentation
December - what is this sexist thing about father xmas bringing the presses? - all the Gs dressed up in red suit but no scary false beards in sight.

JessM - Boden - never in a million years!

January - kinky boots, fish nets and short faux fur coat
February - red silk PJs and glass of red wine
March - Easter bunny outfit with ears
April - London Marathon gear
May - maypole dancing
June - raunchy BBQ apron and tongs
July - sun dress and fake tan
August - backpacking in Cumbria
September - haystack, jeans and pitchfork
October - more fish nets, boots, short skirt and broomstick
November - cavorting with guy
December - sitting on Santa's knees

I like Boden! Not everything, admittedly but it's very well made. I think they are great grannies, surely. One of my grandmas dressed rather like no8, and I have a very elderly village friend who is rather like no7. I wonder how old Tim Walker is. Maybe it's his view of an adult's granny.

Just read you're post Anno like it...choose your month.

That's just reminded me of my friend who is just coming up to her 60th, and having a mid life crisis. She has been having motorbike lessons and is about to take her test. If you met her you would think she was a quietly glamorous mouse. Can't wait to see her in her leathers! As her OH is the type that always wears a tie when out of the house, he is a little disconcerted.

Offensive and patronising. I find the very description of older women, with or without grandchildren as 'grannys' offensive. It is fine as a name within a family circle, but as a generic, unacceptable.

Cliched, shows only very elderly and mainly disabled women. 'Grandmothers come all shapes and sizes and there are plenty who even in old age are upright fit and well

I am getting more and more angry about the way being old is being equated with being disabled. Nowadays to be the first is to be assumed to bethe second. There are old people and there are disabled people and there is a big overlap, but not big enough to consider the terms synonymous.

risque Gs aka .

At least two of them have my MiL's cast off handbag and stick and she died 30 years ago

Risqué Can be fun Jess ... As the WI discovered!!

Cavorting with guy sounds more grotesque than risqué!

Ana

depends on the guy doesn't it?
Maybe this is meant as a joke gift book for youthful looking Gs of 45-50 do you think? Not a funny joke, but then men often aren't, very, are they.

JessM not so much styled as stereotyped I fear

Deedaa absolutely.

AKA

I'll be Mrs February

November - Hmm line dancing in a stetson and cowboy books or fifties style jiving in jeans and glamorgran top?