"Don't You See Some Sights, When You Haven't Got Your Gun?"

I may have mentioned that phrase before. I first heard it as a comment by one of the women who worked in the general office of a store I'd just taken over in a city North of Manchester. The office had floor to ceiling windows on one wall. It was at the side of the building and had a view of a quiet side street. The comment was on the appearance and fashion sense of a young woman who was just passing by.

So I thought I'd start a thread with it. Feel free to add things you've noticed. It's just a bit of fun.

I've just watched on TV Ashley Barty beat Venus Williams in straight sets at the tennis tournament in Birmingham. Make no bones about it, Barty could be Women's Tennis No. 1 by the end of the year.

Now I believe Venus and her sister each have their own fashion lines.

I'm wondering if what she wore was suggested by an adviser, or she was wearing it for a bet.

Today Venus had a "hair-do" which I could only describe as looking like a petrified tornado on the side of her head.

She wore a lime green top and matching shorts. Protruding from the shorts on each leg was a 1" band of lace which formed the cuffs of her knickers.

As the game progressed, the shorts rode up and she then appeared as if she were wearing a long-leg, lace trimmed, panty-girdle. (Or "Spanx" for those who want to pay a lot of money for the same thing)

My only comment on this look is.

FFS.

 

My old dad use to come out with that phrase all the time.
As to Venus, not seen her lately but I better not say what I think of her or her rather large sister.
Too risky.

 

There you go. The hair has gone rather limp here, no longer above her head.

 

Dear DHR, you must be old for your years

• "Lime green" does not exist. It's Neon Green and it's retro from the 80s. 1980s that is.
• That's not lace. That's Subtle Animal Motif
• "Spanks" is a very nice try, clap clap. Actually it's called bodyconwear on this side of the century, decade, sorry, year. Edit- "Week" apparently.

If you have any questions or need support, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

 

Err.. I was just having a laugh. I said it was just for fun in my first post.

Do try to keep up.


If you're a Venus fan, I don't mind.

You can call it what you like.
I bet they charge more calling it "neon green" rather than lime green eh?

I think it's Venus Williams who needs the "support."

Oh! Hang on! She's got it hasn't she?

 

Reminds me of the swimming suit I bought some 5 years ago from M&S. It's fine and does the job.

Later on, I read the description online and discovered that my humble swimming suit, sorry, "one piece", has supporting mesh panels, secret support patches and wires and other high tech solutions to apparently adjust pieces of my person into an attractive composition whilst being comfortable and environmentally friendly.

I'm attempted to wear it the wrong way around to discover which bits the suit holds back and which ones are pushed forwards.

 

We're not talking about mankinis again are we?


On the subject of "neon." Thinking back, for a few months neon coloured socks were en vogue..... (hang on, I've a couple of their albums somewhere) anyway... yes, this would be around 1957 when I was sixteen and at school. They were so bright, I think they must have been radioactive.
They were banned as schoolwear by our headmaster. We'd only been wearing them for the "annoyance factor."

 

That's just between you and me, DHR...

 

I cannot abide seeing overly large women, especially those with a Michelin middle, wearing skin tight tops and leggings, often in neon colours with glitter or diamantes.

 

I know the one you mean, her name is Beryl Cook. She also wears shorts sometimes.

 

I had never heard of Beryl Cook. That is miles away from what I have seen, maybe because I am in a hot climate where tourists abound ib the summer skimpily dressed. Tyres hanging out of the middle, belly jewelry and tattoos!

 

The late Beryl Cook was an artist who produced endless numbers of paintings, many of women, "unsuitably dressed."

Your post just reminded me of her.

beryl cook paintings at DuckDuckGo

 

Beryl Cook is great! True celebration of people happy in their (ample) skins. I like that much better that the new body positivity which seems a forced smile on bodies gone wonky thanks to takeaway-sofa-netflix- lifestyle. Sorry, that sounds awfully petty... and I do acknowledge that it's just a small, loud minority. We come in all forms and shapes and that's good.

But the style sense! Victoria is so right, some shapes should not be wrapped in too small patches of low quality clingfilm. During my unfortunately frequent visits to Primark (as the mobile cash machine) I can't help wondering why cut-out crop tops are even made in sizes 32-to-1million.

I'm writing this wearing my gardening shorts that almost fit, fluffy socks and a charity shop tshirt, crowned with a 10 years old Asda bathrobe. I'm just about to get out to cut the front lawn...