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Promotional Codes and really dodgy jumpsuits

So fashion, then.  I know I’m not particularly trendy (I blame four years of living in rural Ireland for the whole jeans/wellies/big jumper look), but since being back amongst my beautifully turned out friends (yes, Tums, that means you).  I’m beginning to feel slightly like Worzel Gummage on dress-down day.

Righto, I thought, I’ll have a little looksy on the Next website and spend some of my Christmas money; bring myself kicking and screaming into the twentytens (or is it the twentyteens?).  But seriously, I suddenly feel really old: I don’t know what ‘treggings’ are, and I’m not sure if I’m quite ready for ‘hot florals’.  I was particularly taken by this 100% polyester little beauty.  My oldest child said ‘erm, is that a ladysuit?’  Well quite.

Next printed wide leg jumpsuit (c) Next.co.uk

I mean, I have no words.  Except maybe: ‘Oh. My. God’.  Would you wear it?  Would you?  Is anyone out there in the 18 – 24 age bracket?  Would you wear it?

Happily, there is some good news.  The lovely chaps at Promotional Codes have contacted me to let me know that they can give us all money off a new wardrobe.  Sadly, there’s no current Next ones, so I’m afraid if you want a jumpsuit with scarily positioned flowers adorning your crotch, you’ll have to keep popping back to the Promotional Codes website to check their latest offers.

But if ladysuits aren’t your bag (*cough*), then happily there  are money off codes for Laura Ashley, Wallis and even Comet if you’re a boy (I know.  Sexist.  Slapped wrist.)  There are codes for hotels, for shoes, for insurance, for restaurants, and pretty much everything else too.

I also noticed there’s a 20% code for Dell Vostro laptops.  So maybe I’ll persuade my Hubby to buy me a pink laptop for my birthday.  Happy days.

I’ll pass on the jumpsuit though, thanks.

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36 Responses to “Promotional Codes and really dodgy jumpsuits”

  1. Townygirl says:

    lol. I know exactly what you mean. sometimes i get off the plane in england and my sis says “don’t worry we’ll go shopping.”
    i agree with you about the ladysuit (love the name). i’m even more jealous you now, youi have like shops and everything…xxx

  2. Townygirl says:

    soooooooooooooooo jealous.
    look what i gave up for love…. i mean really, is it any wonder i sometimes question my move here!!!

    http://www.thecentremk.com/Store-Finder

  3. Laura Driver says:

    Ladysuits, apart from looking wrong … sound so very wrong.

    I would look like I’d been wrapped in a curtain, a badly fitting one.

    I bet they don’t make them in an XXL, with extra boobage room.

    … and with that I shall be off.

    • English Mum says:

      Exactly. And what if you’re a bit long in the body – will it be like those dreadful ‘bodysuit’ knickers and vest all in one things of the 80s that cut you in half vertically?

      Ouch.

  4. jennynib says:

    What’s wrong with wellies, jeans and a big old man jumper?

    I wore those Keraaaaazy floral Hunters you bought me with a long velvet skirt and got LOTS of admiring glances!

    (well, lots of glances, anyways…)

    You never looked finer than tramping about all rosy cheeked and mucky, Missus! (‘cept in THAT blessing dress, natch!)

  5. Grandma says:

    The mental picture of Jen in floral wellies with a long velvet skirt is awesome!! Where was she for heaven’s sake?

  6. Brighton Mum-Teenage Angst says:

    Yup…think I’ll pass on the ladysuit too! Unless of course they have it in a size 16 that can make me NOT look like a rolled up pair of chintzy curtains..no, didn’t think so…

  7. Brings a whole new meaning to the term ladygarden for me! ;-)

    I’m in my 20’s and wouldn’t be caught dead in that “ensemble”. Frickin horrendous!!!

    ooooo and what about camels hoof??? Not a good look either……

  8. Townygirl says:

    do you really? that’s the very stuff that drives me nuts. i know i’m a weirdo. i wonder could i cope if i did go back to a big ole town…..
    are you settling in any better?

    ladysuit….lol. just can’t stop chuckling at that.x

    • English Mum says:

      Yeh thanks. I’m quite lucky because we’re not too towny (see what I did there?) here, just a happy medium. Get your ladysuit order in now, girl. They won’t last now I’ve publicised them x

  9. Tummy Mummy says:

    Ladysuit! Yuck, just the name (i assume it’s a made-uppy by you?) is awful. It looks ok on Next girl with the very long, thin legs but what about your average 5ft 6″ lady? Imagine walking along and tripping over the wide legs. Stick to jeans I say! xx ps those dreadful ‘bodysuit’ knickers and vest all in one things of the 80s that cut you in half vertically are BACK! M&S had some and made me LOL reminiscing about Ab Fab when Patsy fell out the car with hers undone after a night out! pps thanx for the compliment x

    • English Mum says:

      No way I can’t believe it! First leggings, now ‘bodysuits’? I’m going back to the 80s and staying there :)

      PS: You’re welcome – this is all your fault in the first place :mrgreen: xx

  10. Littlemummy says:

    This would drown me, do they do them in extra short?

  11. Townygirl says:

    lol. ladysuit mania is about to hit.x

  12. I had a floral jumpsuit ……when I was about 8. I can’t vouch for the scarily positioned flowers but I really hope it didn’t have them …xx

  13. Grandma says:

    You had one I know…in a sort of light corduroy [I can see it now]….must look out the pic…

  14. !!!! And there’s something a bit Hart to Hart about the jumpsuit, no?! … Just posted something on treggings this pm, so I’m catching up, too! XX

  15. - me again, sorry. I think my Bionic Woman doll used to have a blue one just like it, too. With red plastic heels. I’m going now, promise! X

  16. Love the new ‘ladysuit’ term. Sounds fabulously wrong. My legs would look like a pair of curtains walking down the street, and I won’t be drawn any further on the matter! M&S online is worth having a trawl though for the odd on-trend but not scarily so number, and the sizing doesn’t make you have to breathe in tooooo much.

    • English Mum says:

      Really? Thanks I’ll go have a looksy. The sizing in some shops is madness – you can be a 12 in one and a 16 in others – I know you shouldn’t go by what it says in the label, but it’s slighly demoralising!

  17. Baino says:

    Just when I think ‘that’ll never come back into fashion’ it does! I’m quite comfy in tracky daks and thongs thank you.

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