Who wears this stuff?

The magazine on a Saturday for the DT will sometimes have a fashion special.

The prices are often ridiculous, ditto the clothes, when you can actually SEE them!

Sometimes the photography is so over the top arty farty, that it is hard to get an idea of the proper line and shape of the garment.

Just been to the UK for the first time in years .....my 'fashion' buys ? a lovely jumper in Tesco reduced to £9 .....its soft and a gorgeous colour ....another oversize grey jumper in M & S for £19 and a long blue 'jumper' tunic top ...that'll be me sorted ...should be enough to see me out !!

Some terrible clothes in these magazines. Occasionally I will see the odd nice dress or skirt or something and look at the price, some over £1000. Not sure who can afford that.

"" jeans with holes and rips" "
My dh (always) will ask "how much were they.....oh, you could have got a new pair for that""

It was funny the first time he said it.......

People don't actually wear it though, do they? Isn't it 'art', like pickled cows and bags of rubbish at the Tate Modern?

Last time I was in M&S there was a shapeless dress (remember "The Sack" in the 50s?) displayed on a dummy which was wearing clumpy black boots. Even the dummy looked like a bag lady, God knows what a normal person would look like.

Have you noticed how any mixture of horrible patterns in awful colours is now described as "exciting" instead of hideous?

There's a so-called fashion expert who has a column in the Saturday Guardian. She chooses awful clothes: all mismatched in dreadful colours: fussed up mauve draperies last week. I would sack her as there can't be a single reader who would take her advice.

All rather unwearable agreed, but it is more about showcasing, and having designs discussed, and it is good to remember that the British Fashion industry is a major contributor to the economy. I am more astonished at handbags, sitting flicking through GH at the hairdressers, and saw a rather insignificant, brashly coloured, fabric bag for £4000. Hmm.

I think HM is unlikely to have had a conversation (about her catwalk trip) with the D of E. She's far more likely to have laughed about it with Angela Kelly, her dresser, clothes designer, and confident, as Ms Kelly was with her on the front row.
I remember my mum having a seasonal job as a kind of personal shopper for an 'atelier' in the 50s when moneyed ladies would have the season's newest fashions paraded by mannequins at private showings. These were proper clothes worn by women who had proper figures and mum would list those outfits her client(s) wanted to purchase and organise the packing into tissue lined cardboard boxes bound with ribbon for the appropriate chauffeur(s) to collect.
All a world away from the way clothes are stuffed into bags nowadays.
I even voiced my objections to a manager, after my Primark purchases were carelessly ravelled and stuffed into a carrier.

My DH likes the Sunday Times for the Crosswords. I always skim through, sometimes finding interesting comments on the news. There are 2 magazines the fashion one is rubbish! It used to have a Q&A section on what to wear for certain occasions which was quite fun but that has gone now. The other magazine has articles and photographs, “A day in the life of -“ and an article where two family members talk about their life so that is interesting too. I personally wouldn’t buy it!

I look at the fashion pages in Metro paper, and think to myself that the cost of one dress costs more than I can afford for my clothes spend for a year. I am not including shoes or underwear in this, as they are necessary items, but most of my other items are from charity shops or very special offers. I think that most of the clothes on a catwalk are ridiculous, and feel sorry for the models who have to wear them.

No longer look at fashion in Goodhousekeeping or Woman and Home, they were ridiculous prices. Recently bought a Prima, not exactly a 'premium' mag, and their prices were almost as bad- at this rate being naked will soon be the only affordable option! ???

I feel the same when I see those 'torn to pieces' jeans. Emperors new clothes come to mind. How people can waste money on such things defies imagination.

I thought the Queen’s visit to Fashion Week was ill-judged in the current climate, with so many in poverty. I agree with all the comments about the weird clothes and ridiculous prices, and feel she could have made a visit somewhere less blatantly elitist. Am now donning my anti-flack jacket.

" they really ought to rename it 'Fashion Victim' and have done with it."
What a brilliant idea for a fashion website/magazine....

Rosieroe

Even the weekly magazines which have a style page have some awful styles I wouldn’t be seen dead in them.
Looking on line at white stuff and joules, Boden etc are expensive for me I look for the sales if there is anything in them I can afford I will buy something.

To those of you who have mentioned it, you’re absolutely right about the Sunday Times Style magazine. It plumbed the depths this week, causing even my 21-year old granddaughter to screech with ‘shocked’ amazement at one article’s highlighted extract about legalised pot in LA. Having said that, I, too, screeched in amazement when I saw that one of the ‘Editor’s Buys’ was a floral dress from hm.com at £35 ......

The Victoria Beckham look anyone? Complete with ‘duvet’bag - a bargain at just under £600.

For me the whole fashion industry stinks... read the bestseller ‘Size Zero’, about a young catwalk model who got out in time. She survived by eating 3 apples a day, to achieve the required sceletal frame of a size 6/8. She describes an anorexic model collapsing and dying backstage...but it was hushed up. Some of these fashion designers know they cannot produce clothes which will look good on a normal woman with curves. It’s a deadly toxic racket.

Puffy sleeves, lace, bows, tight trousers ...says it all, doesn't it? No offence, NotSpaghetti.

Some other supplement magazines also show overpriced unattractive clothes that no one in their right mind would want to wear. It's all bonkers! Maybe I'm out of touch though, - there isn't much call for Haute Couture down here on Dartmoor.

I wonder what HM the Q made of the fashions at the recent London fashion event she attended. She is of course well known for her ability to keep her views to herself. Bet it would have been interesting to hear her remarks to the D of E when she returned home though.

I can't remember who it was on the radio some weeks ago (senior moment) but the discussion was about fashion, and the general consensus was that the whole point of fashion writers, designers etc is to convince the public that they 'need' to keep buying new clothes that they don't 'need'. Some of the catwalk fashion over the last few years has been enough to reduce us to hysterics - and the sullen, anorexic and zombie like models are probably the complete opposite of what the average woman wants to look like. I really don't know how this whole bandwaggon keeps rolling, given the prices quoted for some pretty nasty looking designs; it seems that £4,000 + is an acceptable price to ask for a dress - who pays this kind of money?

One design shown on the catwalk was a model with her head through a paddling pool..........not sure if it will suit me, but it is washable and affordable.