Pointy birds

[Moos]

Enough of this Soldiernitsin.

What I'm really concerned about is this. I've been having a good laugh over the last few months about this kind of thing appearing in fashion magazines, and on the shoulders of unwise famous people:

But the other day on the 48 I saw a perfectly normal girl wearing one, in a rather attractive shade of royal purple. Admittedly, she had a slightly defiant, sheepish look on her face, an expression that said Look, I've paid ?140 for it, I'm going to wear it. But it felt like a watershed moment.

Will we all be taking one another's eyes out with these shoulder mountains in a few months, and giving flat shoulders the cut direct? Or is this just another storm in a teacup, like the so-called trend for tights with spots on?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

My ears hang low - does that count?

[Moos]

Unless you have to tie them back, then I think not.

[HAL9000]

Moos Wrote:

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> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?20,file=7661

You've linked to the image attachment without editing the post - how?

[Moos]

Must be the champagne, HAL.

[woofmarkthedog]

If only "Di" was still with us.....Hmmm

W**F

[HAL9000]

Moos Wrote:

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> Must be the champagne, HAL.

Of course, that must be it. Remember, though, all good things in moderation :)

Za zdorovie!

[Sue]

Get a grip you lot :)-D

[SteveT]

Big shoulder pads were done in the late seventies and early eighties so its all a bit yawn yawn for us elderly forumistas.

[Brendan]

Well I don?t get it.

I?ve never understood why women insist on wearing clothes.

[Moos]

Because we don't want people using us as hatpegs.

[Brendan]

Then why did you start a thread called, Pointy birds?

[HonaloochieB]

"O pointy birds, o pointy pointy,

Anoint my head, anointy-nointy"

Steve Martin from some film.

[Brendan]

Ver poetic but the last line doesn't really rhyme.

[Moos]

It was The Man With Two Brains: I love that film, hence the title. Which also, rather neatly I feel, answers Brendan's question.

[SimonM]

I saw the thread title and feared this might be about the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. ( The on dit is that this is a splinter group of the ED WI...)

[ianr]

I'm not sure sheepish is the right word. But it is almost a mini-masterpiece in its way. Apart from the elephant's ears and trunks, the emergent part of the bodice seems to me to vary between a somonolent hippo and a meditating duck. And I first thought the superstructure around the bust was a reference to a turban-like hat. But now it seems more like a bra-like structure designed to hold the breasts and stop them from floating upward.

[HonaloochieB]

By Christ Ian, I think you're onto something there.

[rcmacf]

Moos Wrote:

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> It was The Man With Two Brains: I love that film,

> hence the title. Which also, rather neatly I

> feel, answers Brendan's question.

It also makes an appearance in LA Story.

[Annasfield]

Pointy Shouty Man

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/28/article-1202671-05D5C2D7000005DC-770_468x286.jpg

[giggirl]

I've been avoiding this thread because I thought it was about ornithology or some such rot (the toenail clipping thread was bad enough). But I'm at home waiting for the UPS man and so the barrel must be scraped.

I've just bought a coat that is ever so slightly a bit pointy on the shoulders. It wouldn't take anyone's eye out or anything, but it's erring on the pointy side. I adore it but now I'm afraid that people might laugh at me openly on the bus. I don't have a "defiant look" in my repertoire. I love it. It's Westwood.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Ho. Ho. Ho.

[giggirl]

Is that you PGC or an early appearance from Father Christmas?

Oh no please don't laugh. I really like my coat. I shall wear it to Cafe Nero after the UPS man has been and see if I can spot any admiring glances.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Sorry - couldn't resist word association. I'm sure you look lovely in it. Which pointy shoes does it go best with?

SPOILER ALERT

PS: Santa isn't real

[giggirl]

Well that's my bloody Christmas ruined then.