I'm trying to update my wardrobe a bit. That's a slightly poncey way of saying I'm trying to buy some nice clothes without paint, glue or baby vomit on so that I look like I am in my thirties and not wearing a sack.
I've just been looking at websites. All the clothes are presented in an arty drapey way or on stick thin smiley long-haired people who say what their worst ever pasta nightmare is in a little caption, or look brooding, or skip through grassy fields. I want to know how the stuff will look when on a size 16 body with a tummy that's carried 3 babies and is frankly a bit saggy all over. I find it very hard to work out what'll look good and what'll look hideous as it all looks bloody wonderful on the stick people but when used to cover a lumpy bumpy mortal may either make me look like a tart or like my mother.
just having a whinge. Perhaps I should have put this in aibu...
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Arrgggghhh. Why do online stores never show clothes as they actually look on normal people, not just beautiful stick people who'd look good wearing a banana skin and a crisp packet?
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twentypoundsover · 14/08/2011 14:30
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