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Mary Portas - sexist old trout?

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Kalamiphile

Kalamiphile

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Like she is some oil painting!

Have been to her store in HoF and the space is good but the clothes awful. I am in my sixties with silver hair, part of the group targeted and would not be seen out in most of them! Rather go to the other franchises in the store such as Biba, Coast and away from there Zara and Gap and actually loads of others but not Mary's

Ladygooner

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I went in there today, I thought the clothes were nice but a bit too expensive for me. Interesting to see the guy who worked in evening wear (looks like the guy out of Sparks) with the funny mostache was now working for Mary and on the till. Also saw the Scottish manager and the guy who nearly got sacked for missing the train.
nashoi

nashoi

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"Can you imagine the kerfuffle if it was a male making such a comment?"


Depends on the man. If it was Gok Wan, no, if it was David Cameron, yes and everybody else somewhere on a scale between the two. I think most people would just think there's that fashion pr/women's fashion retailer trying to sell more women's fashion and that's it.

Sue

Sue

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Kalamiphile Wrote:

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> I am in my sixties

> with silver hair, part of the group targeted and

> would not be seen out in most of them!


xxxxxxx


Hate to break this to you, but she has said that over sixties are not her target age group, you (and I) are too old :))


I haven't checked her shop out but from the clothes shown on the telly I don't think I want to - most of them looked vile and like something my mother would have worn, and that's not a compliment.


Don't think she's a great advert for style either, tbh, in the first programme of the series she looked absolutely terrible in most of her outfits, looked like she'd visited one of those people who tell you to wear scarves with everything to "dress up" your outfit.


Bitch over :))

Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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What were the dildos like?


Seriously, she's big on all that stuff.


I think she's got to knock out about 400 a week to break even.


Imagine, that's 800 batteries each week going into landfill.


Or maybe there's a re-chargable one you can keep plugged in next to the Braun toothbrush.



It makes sense.


Nette:-S

Sue

Sue

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Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> What were the dildos like?

>


xxxxxxx


Quite pretty and very expensive.


But they wouldn't let her sell them, because "we're a family store, how will people explain them to their kids?"


:))


ETA: Bit bizarre selling dildos in a dress shop, no?

flapjackdavey

flapjackdavey

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maxxi Wrote:

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> Andrew1011 Wrote:

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> > Isn't "old trout" itself rather sexist?

> Especially

> > if a man is saying it about a woman.

>

>

> Quite - I think "Hatchet faced old bag" is the

> correct nomenclature. That or Taco Donkey.



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Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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Sue Wrote:

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> Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> > What were the dildos like?

> >

>

> xxxxxxx

>

> Quite pretty and very expensive.

>

> But they wouldn't let her sell them, because

> "we're a family store, how will people explain

> them to their kids?"

>

> :))

>

> ETA: Bit bizarre selling dildos in a dress shop,

> no?


No not really.


I often think dress-dildo.


I get dressed/dildoed up most mornings.


Often at the counter I say "Have you got a different size, this ones a bit loose"


Really, why not, I like to feel comfy.


Nette:-S

Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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As...


I happened to be working near-by today i just had to go in.


The entrance is divinely atmospheric & almost club like.


http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5803/photo1ju.jpg


http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg522/scaled.php?server=522&filename=photowe.jpg&res=medium And that cagey looking "sparks" guy was nervously working on the tills...



I can also report that the "arm-oury" ( tights for bingo-wings ) were selling like hot-cakes.


Indeed.


I did see a few ladies trying on the slash neck envelope dress too.


Put it this way......"Return to sender"


And on the show, I thought she was taking over the whole top floor. However, in reality "Mary" takes up a space not much bigger than the floor space of the Actress.


Oooo how that camera lies.


Nette:-S

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