short people got no reason (to shop)
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partheniaSo I went to Southampton for a 9.30 meeting.
AAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHH
Had to get dressed in the dark at 5 am for posho meeting involving jacket and skirt. Could not find sheer tights in the dark so ended up wearing Geek Shoes with dark brown fishnet tights. This worked strangely well.
Met client's scary boss in Southampton who immediately bearded me about results and complained about the lack of my mentioning AGE as an important factor blah blah age age age age whyhaventyoumentionedageyetyabitch? (Possibly because, not important?)
On the way back through London, I went shopping. First I trawled through House of Fraser (kill me now), Mexx (mm mocha cotton posh drainpipes), French Connection (INVISIBEL PROFFIT WRNING); Selfridges (pawed Miu Miu and Kenzo; mewed at overpriced DKNY; breathed on Vivienne Westwood - seriously, if I ever come into a fortune, I will start there); and then found myself next door in Marks and Spencer's flagship branch at Marble Arch, which - if there is any justice in the world - must be about to experience its grand recovery stumbling.
There aren't many outlets that are prepared to sell me petite fit anything, so I have always maintained a certain level of low key loyalty to M&S. Seriously though, I have never seen such a fugly bunch of garments...their head buyer's left, hasn't she? They've gone back to the nasty hard colours. There was an entire half floor devoted to trousers: a sea of navy and black, not styled, not mixed and matched - nothing. Just - crammed on racks. Random sizes, as well, like 15 sixe 8s and then an extra long size 30. T-shirts in awkward shapes dripping with rhinestones. And bloody linen everywhere. They probably have linen in the sandwiches. I love linen on other people, but srsly, no. And M&S linen is especially thick and heavy and crumples damply on your body like elephant hide.
What COMPLETELY pisses me off is that M&S have their 'groovy' Autograph/Limited ranges, and they have deliberately designed the whole lot for tall flat-chested people. You know what? I'd like to kick people who design Petite ranges and clearly spend their lives going 'Ooh, short people! They're so ickle and cute. They can't possible just want short versions of regular fashion! That would be too easy! Let's give them nasty nylon 1980s power suits!'
M&S have brought back tapered cropped trousers. All by themselves. In fucking beige linen.
And - it's not like that they can't do it. This is the shop that brought us late night couscous salads at major train stations. Prawn laksa. Honduran prawns. Just - swap them round!! Make the foodpeople do the fashion and vice versa, and then we'd have ripoff DKNY fitted shirts!! (And 1970s motorway service station sandwiches, and boil-in-the-bag cannelloni!)...
Anyway. I went back to Jigsaw. *cough*.
AAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHH
Had to get dressed in the dark at 5 am for posho meeting involving jacket and skirt. Could not find sheer tights in the dark so ended up wearing Geek Shoes with dark brown fishnet tights. This worked strangely well.
Met client's scary boss in Southampton who immediately bearded me about results and complained about the lack of my mentioning AGE as an important factor blah blah age age age age whyhaventyoumentionedageyetyabitch? (Possibly because, not important?)
On the way back through London, I went shopping. First I trawled through House of Fraser (kill me now), Mexx (mm mocha cotton posh drainpipes), French Connection (INVISIBEL PROFFIT WRNING); Selfridges (pawed Miu Miu and Kenzo; mewed at overpriced DKNY; breathed on Vivienne Westwood - seriously, if I ever come into a fortune, I will start there); and then found myself next door in Marks and Spencer's flagship branch at Marble Arch, which - if there is any justice in the world - must be about to experience its grand recovery stumbling.
There aren't many outlets that are prepared to sell me petite fit anything, so I have always maintained a certain level of low key loyalty to M&S. Seriously though, I have never seen such a fugly bunch of garments...their head buyer's left, hasn't she? They've gone back to the nasty hard colours. There was an entire half floor devoted to trousers: a sea of navy and black, not styled, not mixed and matched - nothing. Just - crammed on racks. Random sizes, as well, like 15 sixe 8s and then an extra long size 30. T-shirts in awkward shapes dripping with rhinestones. And bloody linen everywhere. They probably have linen in the sandwiches. I love linen on other people, but srsly, no. And M&S linen is especially thick and heavy and crumples damply on your body like elephant hide.
What COMPLETELY pisses me off is that M&S have their 'groovy' Autograph/Limited ranges, and they have deliberately designed the whole lot for tall flat-chested people. You know what? I'd like to kick people who design Petite ranges and clearly spend their lives going 'Ooh, short people! They're so ickle and cute. They can't possible just want short versions of regular fashion! That would be too easy! Let's give them nasty nylon 1980s power suits!'
M&S have brought back tapered cropped trousers. All by themselves. In fucking beige linen.
And - it's not like that they can't do it. This is the shop that brought us late night couscous salads at major train stations. Prawn laksa. Honduran prawns. Just - swap them round!! Make the foodpeople do the fashion and vice versa, and then we'd have ripoff DKNY fitted shirts!! (And 1970s motorway service station sandwiches, and boil-in-the-bag cannelloni!)...
Anyway. I went back to Jigsaw. *cough*.
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Date: 2008-04-29 09:06 am (UTC)Will bear Next in mind.
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Date: 2008-04-29 09:20 am (UTC)It's non-jeans that are the problem, really.
Heh, I need more fashion icons.