The Labour shadow Culture Secretary - wearing this in the HoC?

On this very site Nicola was slated for her clothes,If I try I can even remember the posters who did it ..in relation to Mrs Mays "immpecable dress sense" Nicola wore "garish too tight weddingy outfits and (god forbid) HIGH HEELS "

I think she has actualy come out of it very well. She has expained the situation (She shouldn't have had to) and responded with humour, and now is selling the dress for charity. End of as far as I am concerned.

It will probably be bought by the same person who put in a successful bid for Princess Beatrice's silly Pretzel hat!

Oh you mean she won't be wearing it in the HOC again?

Anyway, the good news is the dress is being auctioned by Tracy and will raise over £1000 for Girlguiding UK

Ooo sour grapes

Some people just like to criticise.

Nicola Sturgeon is constantly criticised for the way she looks

Really? She always looks impeccably turned out. What's to find fault with the smart suits and professionally turned out appearance?

Twin set and pearls ?

Maybe these supporters of Braben's disasterous outfit choice disagree with school dress code/court dress code/wedding dress code/funeral dress code/any dress code?

Some people take a pride in being well turned out. Others, not so much.

Any gender wearing that outfit would have breached the HOC dress code.

And made a fool of themselves, too.

Blimey - I find it hard to believe that she is deemed by some to have damaged her reputation just by making one small clothing misjudgement.

My thought when I saw the dress was "hmm, that's not a good choice", but nothing more.
Certainly no worse (and in my eyes more excusable) than BJ permanently tugging at his ill-fitting clothing and deliberately ruffling his hair to make it look as scruffy as possible.

Brabin hasn’t damaged her reputation - unless you’re the sort of person who judges appearances rather than deeds and words. If anything she’s done a huge amount to highlight and challenge the nonsense that female politicians face on a daily basis from some sections of society.

Nicola Sturgeon is constantly criticised for the way she looks - she may wear suits but she faces the same sexist claptrap about her appearance as other women politicians.

Just a thought. Do there exist women politicians who have not had their clothes choices criticised? And, if so, who are they, and why not?

It was seeing a pic of Nicola Sturgeon just now that made me think of this question. She always looks smart. Ruth Davidson? Angela Merkel? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

I agree Chestnut. By looking like this she has damaged her reputation (this picture will always be trotted out by the Press) and overshadowed her Speech. Ill done.
People like to denigrate image but it is a powerful force in Society.

Justbecause some women conform to the patriachal norm doesn't mean we all have to.

This lady is not a book, she's an MP who should adhere to standards of work dress. Then people would take her seriously and listen to what she says without all this distraction. I don't see Sturgeon or Merkel ever coming to work in anything but suits.

Google about the bars kept open for late night drinking in the Brexit debate Chestnut do you really thin they are on Diet Coke?
Perhaps some want to go back to this!

Some people can’t look beyond the cover of the book and that’s certainly evident on this thread. Many of us have no such problem however, and judge by actions, expertise, deeds and words instead.

Maybe she had the dress on and a sort of outdoor jacket which would have been hot and looked silly.

I suppose that foot must be painful, very actually and therefore she made an error.

Remember " Legsit? "

trisher
I really commend your principle of looking beyond the cover of the book, but we live in an age that does not do this. Image is now the name of the game in all walks of life. I grant this is unfortunate but it is the way it is. Have you seen the Erin Brockovich film? You would like it.

trisher I can't see any MP turning up in the HoC in her dressing gown and slippers ? and she'd be an utter fool to do such a thing. What a ridiculous argument.

trisher of course it's not acceptable for an MP to turn up drunk. Can you quote examples of MPs turning up with 'a few whiskies and a bottle of wine' in them? By the way, TB wasn't breathalysed was she? That's a whole new debate ?

RLB was on tv this morning and said she gets comments tweeted every day, even on her eyebrows. This is ridiculous.

jolbrook but a man in a dress suit with a few whiskies and a bottle of wine in him is acceptable, because he looks smart????