Labour conference fashion

"I don't know why you're clapping, that necklace is SO last season" Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Through these special rose-tinted spectacles, John Prescott can see the parallel universe in which he was elected Treasurer, pies have no calories and Jaguars are exempt from road tax Photograph: Geoff Newton/Sportsphoto

Ed Miliband with his partner, Justine Thornton, who is an environmental lawyer. However, because she is wearing a stylish dress by Topshop Maternity, we are treated to a staggeringly patronising headline in the Daily Mail. And who could possibly have predicted that? Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Diane Abbott forgot to set her alarm and had to dash for the podium in her dressing gown and nightdress Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

Stephen Timms: there's geek chic and there's just plain geek. Anoraks left over from your school days (when you were a foot shorter) are not a good look - instead copy Lady Scotland and adopt a classic mac Photograph: Ray Tang / Rex Features/Ray Tang / Rex Features

... but once the mac is off, it's all a bit much. Applaud the colour, but Lady Scotland looks rather more like a wedding guest than a conference delegate Photograph: Geoff Newton/Sportsphoto

A delegate is keen to show off his very on-trend animal print accessory Photograph: LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images

David Miliband and his wife, Louise Shackleton, arrive by train in Manchester. Shackleton is a professional violinist, though shortly after the leadership result David was probably wishing that case housed a machine gun. Not sure about the Simon Cowell-level waistband, either. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

So right in some ways, so wrong in others. Thumbs up to the accessorising (aka husband) in this season's camel shade, Margaret Beckett, but the head-to-toe jade with matchy-matchy shirt requires the viewer to reach for sunglasses Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Caroline Flint embraces the new minimalism for autumn/winter 2010. Terribly clashing accessory though, surely she could just demand, "Don't you KNOW who I am?" Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images