frump

Style commentators say the more LA women travel abroad, the more they are attracted to the idea of "English frumpiness."

screams of frumpiness, and that these women have sacrificed beauty, sex,

"I didn't want to get into that frumpiness of being a mum and letting everything go.

No need to look like a cowed dowager in widow's weeds and Hinge and Bracket frumpiness and any fancy for the Scarlet O'Hara look, all bulging bodice and galleon-sail skirts, should be treated with HRT until the slimline, unadorned and elegant look comes sharply into focus.

Having resolved their various personal issues (food and frumpiness for Midler, drink for Hawn, wimpiness for Keaton), driven away their husbands"'Pop-Tarts" and extracted fair recompense for their years of childraising, household management, career-boosting and ego-massage, the trio renounce vengeance in favor of good works and open a "women's crisis center." That's fine-but can't Hollywood let women be mad, just once, for a whole movie, without giving them a lecture about the threat anger poses to their souls?

But now when you look at the somewhat sour septuagenarian granny, `Your Grumpiness', `Your Frumpiness' or `Your Mrs Merton- ness' come to mind.

A big mistake by Hollyoaks star Loui Batley.' KACEY Ainsworth threw off EastEnder frumpiness and looked good enough to eat in this strapless mint green dress.' Has Emmerdale's Hayley Tamaddon been to a war-zone recently?

It isn't hard to see from this picture where her early reputation for frumpiness came from.; NO REGRETS: Suzanne Shaw, who is appearing in the musical Summer Holiday.

It is the store's association with frumpiness and, crucially, plummeting sales figures, which has prompted the company to come up with something a little more sassy.

And as resentful old friends gloat over shallow little miss perfect's comeuppance, she sinks int o bathrobe frumpiness as puppydog doting former classmate Justin (a woefully inadequate Harry Connick Jr) attempts to woo some sunshine and selespect back into her life.

ANN Widdecombe has already had the hair done in an attempt to lose some frumpiness and now she has admitted she is on a diet.

FERGIE, BEATRICE & EUGENIE To avoid press criticism of her frumpiness, Fergie tried to distract the paps by causing blindness in all those who looked at her kids' dresses.