Louise McSharry Moaning Michael her brows are a fright, views so left, she's always right

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I’m convinced her children are still going to crèche if they were at home with her all the time we’d know all about because she’d be on nearly in tears about it moaning non stop like she was the last time on the first lockdown. Or we’d hear them in the background on her stories. How is her work essential she only works two mornings on the radio. She’s little to be moaning about miss misery guts.
 
Interesting discussions on here. I used to follow Louise but unfollowed a while back, I think because she was increasingly tagging brands in stories and I hate the whiff of desperation of that kind of carry-on. I do agree she loves to miserable and loves a good moan, which maybe was part of the reason I unfollowed. I don't know her from Adam and yet I know her 4 year old is apparently a nightmare, which doesn't sit right with me that I know that. I'm a parent and I totally get it's not fun all the time but she really goes on. She has 2 x 2 hour shows at the weekend - she hardly works 9-5 all week to prepare. I get she does some other bits of freelance writing (the Adele piece for example 😬) but still, she appears to have more flexibility in her work than people who work a more traditional office based job or indeed a frontline healthcare. In relation to the H&M thing, I will let her off with that one, because regardless of that particular designer's aesthetic (and I'm not familiar with her at all, though I gather she is probably some relation of John Rocha), it was explicitly stated in the marketing material that it was for every size and it blatantly wasn't, so that was fairly low-hanging fruit for Louise. In general, I think it's unrealistic for all brands to offer an extremely wide size range as it may not be financially viable to do so. I don't know how wide a size range would be acceptable to her. Up to size 24? 30? 30+? Surely as you go up the number of potential buyers goes down. There's not an easy answer to that conundrum, and I'm certainly not saying that 'just lose weight' is it, just that there may be economy of scale related reasons not all brands cater to a large range of plus sizes.

Anyway, I think overall she could tone down the generalised outrage, it would do her good. She doesn't seem to be the kind to give a tit what people think though so I'm sure she'll carry on with the status quo.

Edited to add: Moaning about people not knowing the difference between 'body positivity' and 'self-love' is, in my opinion, a sign she needs to chill out a bit. She says herself it takes her to a bad place. I follow Catherine from Dainty Dress Diaries, who I really enjoy, and she has a great saying about drama you have no control over: 'you don't have to dance with it'.
 
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Dailychat said:
Whole heartily agree with the constant misson to be offended about everything and everything you have here. She seems desperate to be happy with her weight but not quite pulling it off.
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I get it.. but I think the part she finds hard about it is she can't buy clothes like a straight sized person. Iv recently gone up to a size 16 thanks to my inability to be organised with food prep and im finding it so hard to get clothes! I know that's due to lockdown but im now in the plus category and unless you have a rake of cash to spend you can either buy massive baggy crap or crop tops/blouses. 🤮
 
SkylarWhite said:
Size 16 isn’t considered plus.
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Well thats what I thought too!! I havent been able to shop in an actual shop for months, like everyone else, so have had to resort to online shopping. Boohoo plus, yours clothing are where I have bought clothes. If you had any recommendations of online shops that would be great. Iv bought size 16 clothes that haven't been in plus size categories that fit poorly or dont fit at all.
 
I understand the backlash about HMxSimone Rocha - don't say it's for all sizes when it's blatantly not.

But who the duck wants to wear Simone Rocha? She designs blousy sacks like.
Her clothes are just about passable on a size 8 - if you're plus size, why would you even want to wear clothing that isn't going to flatter you in the slightest?

I'm guessing Simone has 1) a particular aesthetic as a designer and that's her perogative and 2) again, who would buy her sacks that she designs in a plus size? They won't look good on you if you're not straight size.
 
It harps back to again being permanently offended. Louise doesn't have much to talk about unless she's moaning about something.
I fully agree with you on the designs of Simone Rocha, they are generally unflattering and definitely do not suit anyone on the larger side.
A part almost thinks she was fully expecting a freebie PR drop of clothes since they were going to be size inclusive but they aren't now.
 
Scrk1994 said:
I understand the backlash about HMxSimone Rocha - don't say it's for all sizes when it's blatantly not.

But who the duck wants to wear Simone Rocha? She designs blousy sacks like.
Her clothes are just about passable on a size 8 - if you're plus size, why would you even want to wear clothing that isn't going to flatter you in the slightest?

I'm guessing Simone has 1) a particular aesthetic as a designer and that's her perogative and 2) again, who would buy her sacks that she designs in a plus size? They won't look good on you if you're not straight size.
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I get your comment, a lot of people make it but it’s feeding into the problem. It doesn’t matter if you or anyone else deem that the cut of the fabric is not suitable or flattering. Those who are plus size should have the choice to buy it. Why should the choice be restricted for us?
In the case of HMXVampiresWife the range went up to a 22. I can only assume that Simone Rocha wanted it capped at a 14.
 
Reallife1985 said:
I get your comment, a lot of people make it but it’s feeding into the problem. It doesn’t matter if you or anyone else deem that the cut of the fabric is not suitable or flattering. Those who are plus size should have the choice to buy it. Why should the choice be restricted for us?
In the case of HMXVampiresWife the range went up to a 22. I can only assume that Simone Rocha wanted it capped at a 14.
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This all day.

The days of the nipped in waist, or trying to approximate that, are long gone anyway. If you really want to delve into body/ fashion and fairness, flattering really is considered naff, at the extreme, unnecessary at the very least.
 
First time poster! The intention of that follower this morning was clearly not to upset Louise. Obviously if you are not well versed on the beginning of movements you are not going to know ‘body positivity’ V ‘self love’. I totally hear and understand Louises point of view, but the way she handled that response was very polarising and harsh. She was ‘angry’ from it, and it could have been much more of a teachable moment you know? which would allow anybody straight sized mixing themselves up in the debate to understand why it’s important that they are kept seperate in this context.
She made it the followers fault, and if I was that follower I would be afraid to engage/learn/participate in any broader discussion in the future because Louise basically told her to F off.
 
Reallife1985 said:
I get your comment, a lot of people make it but it’s feeding into the problem. It doesn’t matter if you or anyone else deem that the cut of the fabric is not suitable or flattering. Those who are plus size should have the choice to buy it. Why should the choice be restricted for us?
In the case of HMXVampiresWife the range went up to a 22. I can only assume that Simone Rocha wanted it capped at a 14.
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I get you completely, I'm making probably a tired point - but I stand by it, Simone Rocha's designs are 🤢 imo.
I guess it's a designer's choice at the end of the day on what sizes they want to extend to. Maybe Simone thinks her designs won't look as good in a size 22+, or maybe she just doesn't give a bollix about that demographic. Who knows, she's getting publicity out of it anyway!
 
Scrk1994 said:
I understand the backlash about HMxSimone Rocha - don't say it's for all sizes when it's blatantly not.

But who the duck wants to wear Simone Rocha? She designs blousy sacks like.
Her clothes are just about passable on a size 8 - if you're plus size, why would you even want to wear clothing that isn't going to flatter you in the slightest?

I'm guessing Simone has 1) a particular aesthetic as a designer and that's her perogative and 2) again, who would buy her sacks that she designs in a plus size? They won't look good on you if you're not straight size.
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THANK YOU !!! This !!! This is what I meant in my previous posts by the aesthetic she goes for ! They make people who are a size 6 look terrible 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Thank you for articulating it way better ! That said she shouldn’t have said she is inclusive .. when she isn’t ! That she was wrong for
 
I absolutely detest the way that people like Louise who jump on the "body positivity" band wagon are allowed to refer to anyone under a size 14 as "straight size".Like they can put labels on everyone else but dont you dare comment on their size.Hypocrites.They imply "straight size" is an easy choice, but i would argue that being a size 20 is also a choice, ie, i can eat whst I want and there are no consequences.Quite literally, I can have my cake and eat it.
 
I think the issue with Louise is she talks about being plus sized constantly. It’s like it’s her defining characteristic at this point. She even called her book Fat Chance. Now most other sections of society who suffer discrimination or oppression, it’s down to their gender, race or sexual orientation. These are all uncontrollable characteristics. We don’t choose them. But Louise has control over her clothes size. If she really finds the range of clothes in her size to be terrible, she could drop a size or two. I mean it’s not exactly breaking news that there are fewer options for size 20 than there are for a size 10. And I’m sure that brands would make more if they thought there was money to be made. So if she cares so much about fashion, maybe it’s worth dropping a few sizes. It’s like someone moving to Alaska and then complaining about the cold. Or getting a giant face tattoo and complaining about how you can’t get a job.
 
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AnnaBananaPie said:
There’s a whole clique of those south side Moms. The cool used to be hip moms, not a regular mom yano? Their kids eat sushi and play with wooden toys , they dress them in either mini adult clothes, if free from River Island PR drops.... or else absolute hideous items from a boooooootique clothing designer suffering from an acid flashback
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They are absolutely the worst clique! They think they are too cool for all that but actually they are the worst!
 
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