So I can find that balance between smutty and frumpy.
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There's a bunch of frumpy styles that aren't too flattering.
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It's too frumpy, though, and I will be returning it.
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Here, she is a frumpy suffragette working as Trevor's secretary.
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There were the "frumpy sweaters" she later ditched for turtlenecks.
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Mr. Mitchell acknowledges that the bar has a frumpy image.
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Gone are the days of settling for frumpy and oversized coats.
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So it stayed in its rather frumpy state…for 20 years.
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You've learned how to take the frumpy out of oversized sweaters.
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Her mother wants her to wear the frumpy "Charlie Crist" dress.
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Frumpy department stores feature personal shopping services and boutique wellness amenities.
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The spurned woman, Susan Small, is frumpy; her rival is effortlessly attractive.
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Too tight, too low, too frumpy, too unseasonal, too spicy, too chesty?
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I can't find anything that isn't old and frumpy or too scandalous.
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Pegasus Kigurumi See Details Alpacas are frumpy, wooly, and have really funny screams.
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Whatever the reason, they make an otherwise premium machine feel a little frumpy.
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He was too frumpy and flat-out boring to be acquainted with reproach.
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The blabbering, bumbling, often frumpy, perpetually single, and painfully self-conscious Ms. Jones?
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The guy was dressed frumpy that first visit, a baggy three-button suit.
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Her secretaries came in two varieties: young and pretty or old and frumpy.
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What grown-up could possibly be so fond of this retro, frumpy dish?
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Everything I try on is either way too small, too big, or super frumpy.
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She came to class dressed in frumpy homemade clothes sewn by her Bangladeshi mother.
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These were told to wear their hair frumpy and their dresses below the knee.
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The merino wool will keep him warm and the fit is anything but frumpy.
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Besides looking hip in their frumpy, minimalist shell, the HD 25s are also excellent sonically.
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I really want mom jeans, but they always end up looking so frumpy on me.
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Everything maternity, meanwhile, seems to be ruched, polka-dotted, or otherwise already dated and frumpy.
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What's the worst thing Downton Abbey's Lady Mary Crawley ever did, bully her frumpy sister?
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Save for a few Mazdas, Jaguars and Volvos, most crossovers are still frumpy and bloated.
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Her character, Andy, goes from frumpy to chic with the help of Stanley Tucci's Nigel.
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A line of purposely frumpy jeans for women is in the works; restaurants may be, too.
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This makes me sound rather frumpy, but I feel pretty amazing regularly rocking what I've got.
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"I like taking something old and frumpy and making it new and young," Mr. Snyder said.
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After feeling disheartened seeing frumpy, unflattering and particularly beige lingerie lines within the market, she felt uninspired.
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Oversized coats are great because you can pile a ton of layers underneath and not look frumpy.
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The bag's a dramatic improvement over the rather frumpy Prima backpack system that Boundary debuted last year.
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Nobody would say that Kate Moss looks frumpy (or pick your anti-feminist code word), that's ridiculous.
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I always think I look the same – frumpy, fleshy and overly emotive – but apparently Harrison didn't think so.
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The result can look lumpen and occasionally veer too far in the frumpy-is-cool art school direction.
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The best part of Shirley is Elisabeth Moss as a sharp-tongued and gloriously frumpy agent of chaos.
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The baritone Roberto Frontali looked sympathetic as an older, bedraggled man in a loud sweater and frumpy coat.
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Different body shapes are an improvement, but where are the academic #Barbie dolls with frumpy clothes and messy hair?
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The pigtails and frumpy sweaters CeCe mocked in her final moments are back, along with wireframe glasses to boot.
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But us spending all day in a frumpy (albeit cuddly) sweatshirt is something the world still isn't ready for.
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Maybe Clinton thought about wearing a jacket from Target, but she knew the media would just call her frumpy.
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This braless, somewhat frumpy, taffeta situation has become known by many as the worst Oscars look of all time.
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Frumpy uniforms, daily prayers, and mean nuns (thanks to that one Death Cab For Cutie lyric) probably leap to mind.
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You can get away with shipping an outdated version of Android, but don't even think about releasing a frumpy phone.
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And our fashion experts report that the frumpy dad look is suddenly hot, socks with sandals and fanny packs included.
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And most often, you roll off the couch and to the store feeling frumpy while shamelessly wearing your old college sweatpants.
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Lucille Ball (left) greatly admired her on-screen sidekick Vivian Vance, who starred as frumpy Ethel Mertz in "I Love Lucy."
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You could stuff the Trestle with thousands of dollars' worth of gadgets and equipment, and it'll still look frumpy and unappealing.
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The Carpetbagger Tilda Swinton is one of Hollywood's most chameleonic actresses: She has played wicked queens, frumpy housewives and David Bowie.
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And this isn't the only time we've seen a frumpy middle-aged white guy become a stand-in for cultural anxiety.
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The frilly embellishments can bring to mind a mix of stereotypically girly and frumpy pieces that might read more costumey than cool.
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Either you wear something that's unsuitable for a professional environment, or you try and cover it up completely, which can look frumpy.
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We just hope one of these new ways can finally stop me from looking so frumpy in all my friends' wedding photos.
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The collections were basic and frumpy in 1990s and 2000s, at least until conservative fashion started to take off in Turkey in 2010.
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Translated into reality, that means: Aging, frumpy businessman looking for someone young to have sex with because my wife won't fuck me anymore.
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" She added, "I don't ever want to look frumpy or have someone turn around and say, 'Wow, she looked a lot better before.
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Sarah Joyce, who works at a major technology company in Los Angeles, joined Unlimited last December, feeling frumpy and uninspired by her wardrobe.
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This isn't the first time America has rallied around a frumpy, middle-aged white guy who stole the spotlight during a contentious election.
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For decades, when not effervescing over royal weddings and births, the tabloids have castigated the royals as lazy, frumpy, dissipated or self-indulgent.
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Sure, the Cadenza can't quite shake the side-angle frumpy-look car this long, but it does a lot better than the class.
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Wearing glasses, when I absolutely need to, makes me feel frumpy and unpresentable; so looking stylish and confident in glasses can be a struggle.
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"She had this kind of spunky, frumpy Christmas sweater attire... It's literally like... Stuff you see that has pixel art really poorly done," Arriola says.
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After Andy scoffs about what she considers frivolous fashion choices, Miranda informs Andy that the frumpy blue sweater she's wearing isn't simply blue, it's cerulean.
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It's true that this style can feel frumpy, but fall's fresh batch of textiles and silhouettes keep the mean middle school librarian look at bay.
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So basically, the Tim Duncan of basketball narratives (an effect completed by the intentionally frumpy default clothes, designed to incentivize real-money transactions to upgrade).
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It feels cruel, specifically because she isn't an ordinary American movie protagonist: She's an older, frumpy, lower-middle-class woman who works in a cubicle.
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PRETTY BITCHES: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women, edited by Lizzie Skurnick.
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Prada made her name and the deliberately frumpy chic that followed: belted plaid jackets in 1970s shades and shirts in 1970s prints; knee-length librarian skirts.
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Banker stripes — in shirts, yes, but also shorts and dresses — mixed it up with frumpy plaids and checks in '70s shades, as well as scattershot florals.
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Instead of settling for frumpy, ill-fitting clothing or outdated product design, millennials are using their social media megaphones to tell the market what they want.
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Finally, our super-warm, borderline-frumpy coats became viable options for everyday wear — not just for wrapping up our sick bodies on the way to the pharmacy.
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Never mind the general perception of ThinkPads as boring and frumpy machines for office types; I've always loved the reliability and unrivaled durability of those IBM designs.
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I believe that if the burden of its reputation, now frumpy, could be ignored, many people who give the wines little thought would love them as well.
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We saw this with Goldie Hawn in Death Becomes Her, where her character Helen was a frumpy writer who uses futuristic science to become a glamorous novelist.
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That one of the dancers (Lilian Steiner) is naked and the other (Melanie Lane) is covered by a frumpy dress seems at first not to mean much.
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Photo: Victoria Song (Gizmodo)While Garmin might be known for powerful frumpy smartwatches, at IFA it's launched some gorgeous wristables a fashionista wouldn't be ashamed to wear.
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Before the tech industry started putting AI and Alexa into everything, the clearest route to making a frumpy old device "smart" was to put a screen on it.
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If we showed up wearing something frumpy, we had to either go home and change, or buy something new to wear with our generous, $9 an hour salary.
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The montage is a greatest-hits collection of Elizabeth personas: the frumpy glasses-and-perm working woman, the longhaired seductress, the action-figure operative in her baseball cap.
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"I refuse to be a frumpy preggo lady," reads the caption on one ASOS shopper's post, adding #BumpNotFrump, a hashtag with nearly 2,500 posts as of this publish.
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Menstrual pads, by contrast, are made for frumpy celibates who are too attached to their moms, hate the environment, and wear Costco branded underwear they bought on sale on Labor Day.
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But the new Bar suit, the jacket purposefully oversize and sporting some extra frou on one hip, the skirt below-the-knee with an inexplicable fold on a thigh, were frumpy.
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I hid behind frumpy, floral patterns, and dresses in poor-quality fabric, save for the occasional splurge on a statement piece, if I had a wedding or other special event to attend.
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The overtly sexualized idea of a lesbian serves men's sexual interests, and the frumpy, unattractive version helps men cope with the fact that some women just don't want to sleep with them.
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" But according to former Theranos employee Ana Arriola who was interviewed for The Dropout, when Holmes first started Theranos she wasn't such a sleek dresser — claiming she instead preferred "frumpy Christmas sweaters.
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" But one person she always made time to observe on the screen was her alleged rival, Vivan Vance, who played opposite Ball as Ricardo's frumpy sidekick Ethel Mertz in "I Love Lucy.
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"My first impressions of the dresses were not particularly positive — on the hanger, they looked like shapeless sacks, and I thought they'd be entirely unflattering, making us all look frumpy," Hosie said.
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It still has its fair dose of Prius-y details, from the aero-friendly wheels to the frumpy shape, but it's easily the nicest interpretation of the Prius I've seen to the date.
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Lots of dressed-up couples were headed up the stairs while I, in my wrinkled car trip attire, and accompanied by a Maltipoo and 10-year-old child, felt instantly frumpy in comparison.
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The elegant Mr. Isengart, who began performing in New York in the 1990s at Bar d'O and other places, cuts a striking contrast to Gertrude Stein's "wife," the notoriously frumpy hausfrau Ms. Toklas.
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Ellie Wood Walker played Diana Prince as a frumpy young woman who, when no one is looking, transforms into the beautiful Wonder Woman (played by Linda Harrison) and admires her reflection in the mirror.
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Fan hero Zidane, an elegant figure in stark contrast to his frumpy predecessor, has been promoted from his job as coach of the B team, who play in the third tier of Spanish soccer.
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And above all, there's the transformative, delicate coarsening that Ms. Errico applies to become Leona, a frumpy Cinderella who will probably never make it to the ball because she doesn't believe she belongs there.
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An ear-worn Bluetooth headset, the Jawbone sported a sleek design in an age where most headsets were frumpy affairs that either couldn't hear well or included a long boom to better receive sound.
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The epitome of a Milkshake Duck is probably Ken Bone, the frumpy white guy who charmed America during a 2016 presidential debate, but then turned out to have a seriously sketchy Reddit comment history.
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And in another sequence, a Klansman's frumpy wife discusses a plan to bomb a civil-rights rally in the elated but nervous tones of a woman who has just had her long-awaited pregnancy confirmed.
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And women candidates have to strike an incredibly tricky balance in the public eye: being confident without being boastful, being stylish without being either too garish or too frumpy, and appearing strong without being overbearing.
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There were some missteps, to be sure, especially the over-the-top-ness of a few ball gowns with trains, but that is to be expected when an event goes from frumpy to relatively fabulous.
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While both its host organism, the "Wabash Jewelers Mall," and the restaurant itself are a little frumpy, the menu is broad, the Mediterranean food is delicious (get the falafel), and the prices can't be beat.
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And while below-freezing temps typically amount to frumpy, oversized looks, fashionistas have figured out how to stay toasty and look chic while running from one side of Manhattan to the next (and even to Brooklyn).
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If she's going on an audition, she won't dress in what she called "a frumpy art teacher look" (a look, as she joked during our conversation, that could also be called "Brooklyn mom" or "European baby").
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As a "nontraditional"-looking woman, I came back to an industry that had me auditioning for the "frumpy friend" or the "zaftig secretary," though I eventually landed a role that has earned me four Emmy nominations.
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I also sent back a denim pencil skirt, a Bond-villainess scuba dress and a white silk top that had looked a little bit frumpy even on the lissome teenager who modeled it on the website.
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But it can also imply that someone is frumpy or conservative; if used to address a famous or successful stranger, it sounds condescending, as though you can be familiar with her just because she is a woman.
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She "apologized" to the "black-stretch-pants women of America," in a move that was meant to shame leggings-wearers as a frumpy community who couldn't possibly "get" the spiffy Paddington Bear-esque Gucci coat she wore.
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As long as you can write off ethical fashion as frumpy, unsexy, snobbish, fake, or a marketing ploy, you can float along, free of cognitive dissonance, wrapped in a $5 shawl made of polyester and ignorant bliss.
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Ms. Merkel was mocked early in her career for frumpy dressing and frowsy hair; a car rental company ran an ad depicting her with windblown hair in a convertible, saying she had finally found the right hairstyle.
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Take the distraction of Mr. Scaramucci out of the picture and Ms. Sanders still presents a very different image from her predecessor, who was ridiculed for his ill-fitting suits, frumpy ties and American flag pin discombobulation.
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"One of my customers walked up to me in synagogue to tell me how amazing her sports set is and how it saves her the headache of a wearing a heavy and frumpy skirt to her coed gym."
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Presidents from Jimmy Carter onwards have worn denim when fishing, clearing brush or playing sports to signal their everyman credentials—though Barack Obama has endured mockery for donning capacious jeans that he later conceded were "a little frumpy".
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And one Gilmore Girls episode sees a just-awoken Paris in frumpy nightgown and frizzy hair, her face dotted with zit cream, staring in horror at a Rory who looks adorable in pink pajamas, with sleek hair and glowing skin.
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Thanks to buzzy streetwear brands like HBA and Vetements, slightly frumpy sweatshirts — the kind that you've tended to skip over at thrift stores in favor of slimmer fits and flashier logos — are becoming the cult item to own in fashion circles.
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Ken Bone fits the pattern expressed in these memes: We celebrate the frumpy underdog — Barb from Stranger Things also falls obviously into this category, as, arguably, does Harambe — while self-consciously allowing them to serve as a distraction from other issues.
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Adore Me: This popular lingerie maker's swim selection starts at size 230 but has options that run up to 22015x and 262DDD that are not the least bit frumpy, making the shop great for curvy shoppers and those with big busts.
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If you think your workplace isn't changing much because there are a bunch of weathered Dell workstations sitting next to frumpy HP printers, consider just how much more work every one of your officemates is doing outside the office, on their phone.
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But the frumpy face of 224 East Ninth Street belies its rich history, a microcosm of the struggle between beauty and commerce, art and real estate, the creators and the patrons who made Manhattan and continue to reshape it to this day.
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While we love the freedom of expression that comes with winter dressing, the tendency to go overboard with layering is very real — as in, instead of a stylish ensemble, we're often left with piled-on thick fabrics that make us look somewhat frumpy and uncomfortable.
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Vogue Patterns was always the high-fashion bible for the advanced sewer, and the work from the star designers that appeared in its pages, including Givenchy, Christian Dior and Valentino, dispelled the notion that homemade clothing was frumpy or for the members of religious cults.
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After photographing Malayan bears at the London Zoo, she depicted, in black and white with pen and ink, an endearingly frumpy refugee with a floppy hat and duffel coat — ignoring her London art tutor's advice that she never draw animals that talked and wore clothes.
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It's a bit early to judge Rokh, the brand that was the subject of the most chat on Day 1 (it's fully in the Vetements/Sacai/Margiela vein of de- and reconstructed trench coats, floral dresses and frumpy work suits, plus some clear vinyl).
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the unpublished 2-1 ruling affirmed the dismissal of a 2013 lawsuit by Karen Greene, who says a supervisor at Harris Corp, represented by Holland & Knight, called her "frumpy (and) dumpy" and said she looked like a man.
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Weisz had a solid 2016—she provided a perfect foil to a frumpy, disheveled, and near-unrecognizable Colin Farrell in The Lobster—and her turn in The Light Between Oceans was the latest reminder of the potency of her talent, regardless of what it's lent to.
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Growing up just outside New York City, I'd dream about living on the Upper East Side, attending a fancy private school (and subsequently figuring out how to make its frumpy uniform look like something fresh off-the-runway), and spending my evenings out at the It clubs.
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She moves effortlessly from Hollywood screen sirens in tight sweaters to frumpy aunties in high-necked blouses, from pin-up models in string bikinis to dishwashing housewives in rubber gloves, from efficient French maids in starched white aprons to docile BDSM submissives in bras and panties.
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Abbey would stand behind Sanders as he knocked on each door, furiously scribbling into his notebook as the disheveled candidate, dressed in a "frumpy winter coat," discussed gritty issues, like the state of the sewage network and garbage pickup schedule, on the door steps of Burlington's residents.
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Perhaps the glitterati is just upset that he said that only frumpy celebrities backed Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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By contrast, his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, has been characterized as promoting an image that is "mumsy" and "frumpy" — and not remotely high-fashion, in contrast with Britain's prime minister, Theresa May — perhaps to try to make her party, the formerly fringe National Front, more accessible.
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My mind started racing through my flaws, organizing them into a detailed list that would soon become a repetitive internal mantra: My glasses were an ugly shape, my hair was curly and frizzy, I didn't wear makeup, I wore frumpy clothing, I hunched over when I walked, I was too skinny.
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" — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's description on student blog she co-founded In a 2009 blog post, Ocasio-Cortez called feminism into question, writing that "the terms 'feminism' and 'empowerment' don't seem to capture the priorities of our generation, and the words themselves sound like relics from the past, frumpy and outdated.
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Holmes told Glamour that this turtleneck habit came from her mom, but product designer Ana Arriola, who helped design the iPhone before being lured to Theranos by Holmes, claims on The Drop Out that Holmes dressed in frumpy sweaters before Arriola mentioned that Jobs consistently wore black turtlenecks made by Issey Miyake.
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In the full figure, "Envy (after Giotto)" (2015), she retains the Florentine master's ring of all-consuming fire encircling the frumpy, robed figure as she raises her right hand, grasping at nothing and everything while clutching her daintily decorated moneybag (money being on everyone's mind in the newly prosperous Trecento) in her left.
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This marked a great leap forward for Hollywood, which has traditionally cast women older than 38 in five roles: crazy mother-in-law, cameo librarian, Shirley MacLaine, lady with a dog at the crime scene or frumpy yet endearing confidante of the hero, a guy who was two years above said actress at college.
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Yet as they chafe against the demands of the carpet, they still seem conflicted about fighting it — which may explain the fantasy Valkyrie armor donned by Emily Blunt (actually Alexander McQueen), the frumpy Egyptian-royalty look of Janelle Monáe (Chanel) and the I-am-woman-hear-me-roar leopard of Anne Hathaway (Elie Saab).
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In response to his aunt's longstanding request for a living room-friendly painting, Solano created the aforementioned diptych, "Blood and Homosexuals," which features a version of Goya's "Saturn Devouring his Son" (1203–23) alongside a portrait of said aunt with a cigarette in one hand and an expression of frumpy grumpiness on her face.
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Nora Ephron, who really did quit Newsweek in the 1960s, and is played on Good Girls Revolt with dry wit — and a frumpy wig — by Grace Gummer.) Angelson is great in the role, her Patty fiercely committed to everything she tries, from her work as a journalist to a romantic relationship with her prepster reporter partner, Doug (Weeds' Hunter Parrish).
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In the U.S., there were many decades when the low bun was associated with a decidedly practical, puritanical, even schoolmarmish look: Think of Olivia de Havilland as the boringly sensible Melanie Hamilton in "Gone With the Wind" or sweet, frumpy Auntie Em in "The Wizard of Oz," her weary face framed by wiry gray hair, pulled back and firmly coiled.
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Yet Mr. Netanyahu's Israel also lacks the sense of a unifying national mission that characterized the country's first 50 years, when it was building itself up from the sand, absorbing waves of diaspora immigrants and defending itself in a series of existential wars, days when its prime ministers wore frumpy clothes and lived modestly, as if they wouldn't know a payoff if it landed in their palms.
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" The author is particularly interested in (and good at describing) the varieties of sexual identities available to women on shows created by women, from the "frumpy and absolutely fine with that" asexuality of Tina Fey's character, Liz Lemon, on "30 Rock" to the skewed, joyous affection between the characters of Abbi and Ilana on "Broad City," who "delight in each other like voracious lovers, with each going to absurd extremes to help the other.
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Some of the stories on display were public — including that of Coccinelle, the first French person to have sexual reassignment surgery and one of the first openly trans performers — but the majority were purposely private, and viewers were given little information beyond the remarkable images they saw: a picture of male prisoners of war in a Nazi camp in frumpy dresses and wigs, students at a women's college in the US drinking in oversize men's clothes.
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