Essentially, Amanda dresses like the fictional dream customer of the sort of boutique you tend to spot tucked just off the high street of a well-to-do town, the kind of place that’s nearly always entirely empty, and immediately causes you to think: “How the hell have they survived the cost of living crisis?” Appropriately enough, she also had her own, cruelly brief stint as the proprietress of such an establishment.
Once Amanda is forced to swap the bougie delights of Chiswick for “So-Ha” aka south Harlesden (it’s a nickname that surely only she and a few especially unctuous Foxton’s managers would ever try to style out), her fashion tastes shift ever so slightly, as she tries desperately to fit in with what she would call an “edgier” crowd.
Think of the lacy Self-Portrait mini dress in icy blue for the disastrous “auction of promises” fundraiser in season one, or the floral and animal print midi dress from upscale brand Saloni that she donned in season three.
Yes, she’s insufferable – but Amanda from Motherland is the best-dressed woman on TV The unbearable alpha mum played by Lucy Punch now has a spin-off series of her own, and she’s as stylish as ever.
“Where do I get that amazing thing, this amazing thing?” she adds, emphasising each question with a flick of her immaculately coiffed blonde hair, the sort of creamy shade that requires regular upkeep and a Goldilocks approach to purple toning shampoo (not too much product, not too little, just the right amount).
