Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

Mr. Jim

i love how my mam convinced me to buy a proper bow tie for uni and now i want to kill myself.

serious to god if anyone's thinking of getting one dont. after my 15th go i sat there in despair wondering how the hell anyone could have thought up the bow tie since it's hardly like they could have come across it by accident. EVIL!!!!!

*sulk*

You should be grateful that the male wardrobe is so simple nowadays! Just think back to the Georgian era... big hair, big colours. Pastel blues, greens, pinks, purples for men as well as women. That went out of fashion during the Regency, and Beau Brummell popularised what is the embryonic form of men's formal wear nowadays. He based the suit on Eton school uniform and soldier's uniform. And he spent HOURS tying his neckties (usually with a devoted audience--Beau was famous for being famous). They had extremely complicated styles with names like The Waterfall and The Oriental with varying degrees of difficulty, which also went in and out of vogue. The necktie, coupled with the highly starched turned-up collars meant that men couldn't actually look down. The trousers (well, knee-breeches if you're going for the formal wear) were EXTREMELY tight (hence the origin of the Prince Albert) and the suit-jackets were so tightly fitted your valet had to help you get into it.

Anyway...

Reply 7721

Ditting Suck

8

Very true, but SOMEBODY needs to bring yellow to full acceptability. It's the best colour in the world, and deserves to be worn with pride.

Errrrm....

Reply 7722

friendlyneutron

11

Mr. Jim

i love how my mam convinced me to buy a proper bow tie for uni and now i want to kill myself.

serious to god if anyone's thinking of getting one dont. after my 15th go i sat there in despair wondering how the hell anyone could have thought up the bow tie since it's hardly like they could have come across it by accident. EVIL!!!!!

*sulk*

Oh hush, I bet you'll look dashing!

Reply 7723

Ruthie_J

Ditting Suck

Very true, but SOMEBODY needs to bring yellow to full acceptability. It's the best colour in the world, and deserves to be worn with pride.

Errrrm....

Yellow is the new black :cool:

Reply 7724

friendlyneutron

11

Monochrome all the way.

Reply 7725

Robob

17

Ditting Suck

Very true, but SOMEBODY needs to bring yellow to full acceptability. It's the best colour in the world, and deserves to be worn with pride.

Errrrm....

Yellow car

*hits*

I agree :p:

Reply 7726

sassygirl

Ditting Suck

Very true, but SOMEBODY needs to bring yellow to full acceptability. It's the best colour in the world, and deserves to be worn with pride.

Errrrm....

I'm a firm believer in wearing bright colours. Come to think of it, I only have one yellow item of clothing (but it's a jacket). I do wear orange though. And I have an orange handbag. I also wore orange to my leaver's ball. I was the ONLY person wearing that colour so I was quite happy about that.

Reply 7727

Gael

8

i think i was the person in the cheapest dress at my leavers ball...by a long shot.

Reply 7728

sassygirl

drsmeeth

i think i was the person in the cheapest dress at my leavers ball...by a long shot.

I got my dress from TK Maxx for £30. It was a nice dress though.

14.99

oh yeh.

You is one classy lassy :wink:

Reply 7731

sassygirl

drsmeeth

14.99

oh yeh.

That's impressive! I always feel guilty about spending money on clothes. Food and books are my life essentials, so I tend to think about clothing, music.. everything (apart from food) in terms of books. On amazon, I can get books for approx £4, so a £40 item of clothing is going to be 10 books. As soon as I think of that, I just can't bring myself to buy it. Unless it's REALLY needed. Or my mum's buying it.

Reply 7732

Ruthie_J

My mum made my dress! It was £18 for pattern and material! Not quite levelling your achievement drsmeeth but I felt pretty classy! Wooh!
Who needs designers eh.

Orange rules. I have an orange sequinny handbag from Asda. haha, I'm starting to sound like a right fashionista aren't I.

Reply 7733

Robob

17

My mum made my dress aswell :smile:

Reply 7734

amaryllis

my dress was from karen millen.

but to be fair, it was the most expensive item of clothing I've ever had/ever will have in my whole life, by a long shot.