God, that's one of my favourite (but at the same time least favourite) phrases. It usually does seem to be applied because of someone's clothes, too. It doens't even mean anything!!! :wallbash:


Well as I'm skint and still trying to get some more vintage style stuff together, and as I've been an art student for the last 6 years and tended to get paint on absolutely everything (I sat in a big paint splodge once and it went right through my jeans to my underwear ), I never had the chance to dress up for college. We all got to look a bit smarter on our trip to Venice, but that mostly involved fitting as many layers as possible under our coats while still being able to walk. While we were there, I walked past a bar with some of my friends, and two women from our course came outside. They were both really dressed up but in a hippy kind of way (I suppose topshop call it 'boho' hehe) and looked great, but my friend (one of the bitchiest straight men I've ever met) looked in disgust and said "mutton dressed as lamb."
The same person though, at our degree show, went around telling all the girls how they should have dressed up all the time for college (I had a dress and my "high class prostitute tights" (seamed stockings) on). Because, you know, that would have been really practical....