frumpiness

But that's part of the appeal of frumpiness - you have to be in the know.

That's possibly the strange, unique appeal of frumpiness to fashion fans.

They make such a success of looking frumpy that their frumpiness develops into a style despite itself.

Young women today, including my daughter, refuse to believe that Diana was a style icon because of this frumpiness.

The film looks - and sounds - splendid: West End frumpiness has gone for good.

But he's a good influence on the record: he wakes it up, helps it get over its frumpiness.

Witness the latest fashion no-no to become a resounding yes - frumpiness.

Those quotation marks are all-important - the key to fashion frumpiness is intention.

They have let themselves disintegrate into acute frumpiness.

She's self-effacing to the point of frumpiness, though she could be as pretty as Alli.

Maybe it’s that Lombok, unlike Bali, retains an endearing frumpiness.

The twinset is often chosen by costume directors and designers in the modern film industry to portray a character's conservatism or frumpiness.

For a time, as the mass culture followed the elite culture following the grunge-rock subculture, frumpiness was next to godliness.

She tossed frumpiness aside, choosing instead to wear the dress of the musical lady she always dreamed of being.

Other times it is the sandal's unabashed frumpiness that lands it an on-screen cameo.

As I reread my lists, it dawns on me that I've been avoiding the crux of the problem: personal frumpiness.

Does the purse-lipped Sisterhood genuinely expect us to take a vow of frumpiness just at the point when middle aged invisibility looms?

Leading the pack is Rochas, where creative director Marco Zanini has made frumpiness his leitmotif.

I wonder if the ordinary Englishwoman’s obsession with Agas, conservatories and scatter cushions isn’t a prime cause of her oft-discussed frumpiness.

If you are trying to sell a victim of casual neglect, the resulting frumpiness will damage your sales price - and can make it languish on the market.

Undoubtedly, some of their frumpiness could be attributed to sheer laziness, to frustration, and to capitulation: they had given up on themselves, given up on life.

And so he did not suffer ostentation, hyperbole, frumpiness, Madonna, Britney Spears or Barbra Streisand quietly.

Bizarre: A woman in a bikini stands unfazed stands in flames and this painting of a smiling woman gives her 'an air of frumpiness'

In the case of YouTube sensation Susan Boyle, she was probably defeated by one of the same things that propelled her to the finals: her frumpiness.

Others would arrive later, to much welcome, along Fifth Avenue, the thoroughfare that has done the most to reconstitute Park Slope's image as something beyond a locus of frumpiness.