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[nannyo]

Help me friendslist, you're my only hope! I went into Dorothy Perkins today, on my walk around at lunch time hour, and I'm being sucked in. LOOK!! Shift dresses, with patterns! and waist shaping! combined with leggings! And my big clompy boots! IT'S THE NINETIES ALL OVER AGAIN. I LOVE EEEET. Ahem. It is possible that I am beyond help. I didn

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[pink_weasel]

I'm doing these trends in separate grown up style - leggings with knee lenght skirts & boots and the shift dresses with jeans.

Leggings and pretty shifts looked divine when I was 17 and lithe and sweet. Now I'd look like Mavis from Willo the Wisp if I tried it.

And I care, but only in that I like to buy clothes lots and if the shops are full of things that don't suit me then I get cross.

[nannyo]

Very good advice. The Weasel is the dress up doctor!
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[faerierhona]

If you get Cosmo they have a voucher for 20% off at Dotty Ps in there...

[badasstronaut]

Ooh, nice! I might check out DPs this weekend.

[jennaflower]

Shift dresses? Is that just a dress with an empire waist?

I'll join you listening to James! Oh the memories of the Folger days!

I remember having several of those dresses that year and the first two years of college...there still might be some in the closet at home!

[elliphant]

Wow that's it I am going tomorrow.

[nannyo]

yup! "Right here, right nooooow, watching the WOORLD wake up from historrrry".

I really like the black pink and orange one, and the blue pattern one too. I think I will get them.
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