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neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

You should see what 12 year old girls wear to Batmitzvah parties; those dresses look tame!

I've never been to a Batmitzvah - I've been to 2 bar mitzvahs and 2 Jewish weddings in Israel, and the dress code there for girls aged about 11 upwards was ankle length skirts, long sleeves, and slightly droopy clothes all round. Certainly no cleavage.

Edited to add - OH tells me that as I've never been to a North London Jewish Occasion, my experience is limited. He reckons orthodox and conservative Jewish events in Israel are a sub-set of the Jewish whole, and that he's seen some serious bling and short skirts himself in other Jewish circles.

fc123

michaels wrote: »

FC - just checking, are you ok with us quoting/posting Q links?

yeah, just for 24 hours but the association could confuse internet stalkers as my work is very far removed from my chit chat and interests on here and in my personal life. The wonders of imagination I guess .....mind you I would have had an absolute ball if I could have run this business and created this work when I was 22......just taking selfies for a start. Wish we'd had them when I was young.
Having said that we lived and breathed the n=vintage business that we ran back then on every level.


My very good friend says the Q range is just my unlived wild twenties coming out in the product...which is true as I had a child at just 24 so clubbing and stuff stopped.


The original design references are very connected to music / sport references / SE London early 80's dance and the colour highlights I originally used 5 years back were referenced to neon light beams etc. Kind of like this YT clip of my brother's gig. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_mbfo8hoU @ 2.30m

vivatifosi wrote: »

Would you consider somewhere further down coast? The reason I ask is I quite like Bexhill on Sea. It is a small seaside town, quiet and retirement rather than brash. You can get detached for under £200k:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26650287.html

Detached, garage, space for outbuildings, nice garden...

I look occasionally at areas for post retirement me.

Bexhill was were my grandparents retired to and they loved it. Very nice town, lots to do and plenty of beach but very few tourists.

lostinrates wrote: »

I like the floral shift thing too.

Its funny about the lace FC, because I remember a conversation you had with a nice child last summer and your eyes went all creative while you were telling her why you didn't work with lace. ( she was wearing some as inserts in a top I think) and now I wonder if it was part of a creative process.

....well, I confess, I am still not a lace fan but DD persuaded me to do some...and she was right and it sold well.
My favourite this season was this...sold out on the big site we sell to
...so we made a few more variations as well




We do so little real life customer contact now that last weekend serving non stop was really interesting and all sizes do buy the product...(we sell up to an L). I would say age group 18 - 25, sporty/booty/confident. The overall image conveyed tends to depend on the styling the customer chooses.


We are running a selfie competition over Xmas / NY as I made a giant 2.5 m poster on photoshop of a selection selfies all in a big collage including celeb ones, for the show and we want to do another for the trade one. It's £100 1st prize if any NP's want to enter ...my smiley clicks aren't working....




Good luck with the house viewing PN.

fc123

I wonder if a reindeer will get posted on this board?


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4842855

vivatifosi

fc123 wrote: »

My very good friend says the Q range is just my unlived wild twenties coming out in the product...which is true as I had a child at just 24 so clubbing and stuff stopped.




Bexhill was were my grandparents retired to and they loved it. Very nice town, lots to do and plenty of beach but very few tourists..

Excuse the edit. Where did you used to go clubbing? Just wondering as I travelled quite widely in pursuit of a night out in my early twenties and we're a similar age.

Having said that, I have yet to break my Bexhill clubbing duck. I think the de la Warr Pavilion is stunning.

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've never been to a Batmitzvah - I've been to 2 bar mitzvahs and 2 Jewish weddings in Israel, and the dress code there for girls aged about 11 upwards was ankle length skirts, long sleeves, and slightly droopy clothes all round. Certainly no cleavage.

Edited to add - OH tells me that as I've never been to a North London Jewish Occasion, my experience is limited. He reckons orthodox and conservative Jewish events in Israel are a sub-set of the Jewish whole, and that he's seen some serious bling and short skirts himself in other Jewish circles.

I would repost some pictures of 12 year old girls from my facebook page, but I think it is slightly inappropriate to do.

google search bat mitzvah dresses

and remember these girls are just, just 12.

zagubov

Just saw a TV prog about Christmas food and how it gets to supermarkets. Very weird. Involved fertilising salmon eggs three years before they're needed and how they travel by lorry from freshwater lochs to sealochs to complete their life cycle. Also showed a giant tanker filled with collosal wine bags of Aussie plonk sailing down the Manchester ship canal to be bottled and sold in the UK. Solved the puzzle of how a heavy bottled product can be economically shipped around the globe.

They were showing giant cold stores that seemed to stretch for miles - must be out in the country somewhere where land's cheap!

Nikkster

Oooh, FC - that dress is gorgeous! The ones posted yesterday were also v nice but I could never ever have worn them ever. That one on the other hand, with some serious diet and exercise...

Edit: this its the dress I wore last week to my work xmas party. It was a bridesmaids dress from last yr: http://www.jjshouse.com/A-Line-Princess-One-Shoulder-Floor-Length-Chiffon-Bridesmaid-Dress-With-Ruffle-007004153-g4153

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Good luck with the house viewing PN.

While a nice gesture, I think I need miracles more than luck

neverdespairgirl

There's something about me, I think, that attracts drunks and / or nutters.

Tonight was a bit of a dressy-uppy occasion - we went to a place on High Holborn so much frequented by barristers I know that it's nick-named "the library", so that the clerks in the bad old days before mobile phones could say to solicitors / wives / etc on the phone, "I'm sorry, Mr. Smith's not in Chambers, he's in the library".

Chambers drinks and nibbles therefore demands a certain standard of dress (women) and smartest suits and nastiest ties (men). I wore a dress I'm rather fond of, that is definitely evening only as it's dark grey but scattered with small sequins and has some silver thread embroidery, as well. Might as well make the most of my nice clothes while I can still wear them, another few weeks and this dress definitely won't fit.

I've also cracked out my cream mock sheepskin and furry winter coat, and some knee high leather boots with nice but not ludicrous heels.

After 3 hours standing, chatting and having a great time, I thought I'd call it a day. It wasn't late night thing, really, and there were spicey sausage nibbles appearing which didn't do my stomach any favours.

So I got to the bus stop, and attracted (lucky me!) a nearly but not quite paralytic drunk. He joined a queue of 20-odd people, and homed in on me.

I never quite know how to deal with very drunk, definitely out of social norms, but not actually rude or threatening people. And he was in that catagory. "You're show gorgoush. Isn't she gorgouesh?"

That was addressed to the whole queue. Half of it obviously looked at me and realised the beer goggles were well on. The other half developed an intense interest in their own shoelaces or the chewing gum stuck to the pavement.

"That makesh her boobs all shp--- shp.... sparkly, that dress. Doesn't it?"

At that point, I opted out and grabbed a taxi. I couldn't handle any more conversation on the bus (-:

OH thought it was funny - he said I did look lovely. But somehow, out-of-skull-drunkdom doesn't seem terribly flattering, does it?

Edited to add - there were a couple of other comments he made, but it was all along the same lines (-:

michaels

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There's something about me, I think, that attracts drunks and / or nutters.

Tonight was a bit of a dressy-uppy occasion - we went to a place on High Holborn so much frequented by barristers I know that it's nick-named "the library", so that the clerks in the bad old days before mobile phones could say to solicitors / wives / etc on the phone, "I'm sorry, Mr. Smith's not in Chambers, he's in the library".

Chambers drinks and nibbles therefore demands a certain standard of dress (women) and smartest suits and nastiest ties (men). I wore a dress I'm rather fond of, that is definitely evening only as it's dark grey but scattered with small sequins and has some silver thread embroidery, as well. Might as well make the most of my nice clothes while I can still wear them, another few weeks and this dress definitely won't fit.

I've also cracked out my cream mock sheepskin and furry winter coat, and some knee high leather boots with nice but not ludicrous heels.

After 3 hours standing, chatting and having a great time, I thought I'd call it a day. It wasn't late night thing, really, and there were spicey sausage nibbles appearing which didn't do my stomach any favours.

So I got to the bus stop, and attracted (lucky me!) a nearly but not quite paralytic drunk. He joined a queue of 20-odd people, and homed in on me.

I never quite know how to deal with very drunk, definitely out of social norms, but not actually rude or threatening people. And he was in that catagory. "You're show gorgoush. Isn't she gorgouesh?"

That was addressed to the whole queue. Half of it obviously looked at me and realised the beer goggles were well on. The other half developed an intense interest in their own shoelaces or the chewing gum stuck to the pavement.

"That makesh her boobs all shp--- shp.... sparkly, that dress. Doesn't it?"

At that point, I opted out and grabbed a taxi. I couldn't handle any more conversation on the bus (-:

OH thought it was funny - he said I did look lovely. But somehow, out-of-skull-drunkdom doesn't seem terribly flattering, does it?

Edited to add - there were a couple of other comments he made, but it was all along the same lines (-:

Just got home from a night out in London, a bit tipsy and all I can remember is failing to score with this really hot girl in a sparkly dress - did I miss anything here?