Can you recommend me a good coat?

[Trygg]

I've been looking about for winter coats and everything's just a bit...meh..

I've tried all the obvious shops and googled it to death but nothing's doing the trick. I'm hoping some of you lovely ladies will have a very clever idea pretty please

(Cos it's probably quite relevant.. I'm 21, fairly tall, a size 14-16 and want to spend up to £100 put preferably more like £60 if pos... )

TIA

[tethersend]

What are your requirements?

Hood? Collar? Colour? Belt? Length? Puffa? Wool?

[Trygg]

I'm not very good at this am i ??

Not fussed about hood...something black/grey/camel/neutral (though deep down i want a bright red duffle coat), warm, not fussed about length

[tethersend]

Ok, let's start by gauging your reaction to this...

[Trygg]

I really like the material and style (and the reddish one ), but would worry id look a bit of a chub in it.. (i seem to think a coat will work wonders, no it will make me look like me haha)

[tethersend]

Right. will be back shortly with some ideas.

[Trygg]

iv just found this one..but cant imagine it not on a skinny waif coat

[Trygg]

also my friend sent me a link (oh this coat hunt has become ridiculous!) to this but i cant decide if its beautiful or hideous

[celticlassie]

I love this.

[Trygg]

OOh thats pretty...similar to a verrry shoddy one i had from primark last year, ive decided now im a grown up (pah) i should start 'investing' in things and not spend £18 on a coat...

[celticlassie]

I'm the same. I always think I should go for 'investment purchases' and instead I buy twelve £8 tops.

[swallowedAfly]

watching with curiosity. ordered a grown up coat from north face but in red to not be too serious but it's come and it just isn't me. i spend every winter impractically coated or in a variety of hooded coatlike cardigans. want to go a bit more grown up but can't do the mumsy northface weather proof look it turns out.

i'll be returning it so that's a budget of £85 straight off (will keep the lush boots i got from there though - it may have been loving them so much that made me realise how little i loved the coat).

trying to think what i've been looking at that might work for you trygg

[swallowedAfly]

this is nice, on sale and doesn't require waiflike-ness i don't think.

loved the one tethersend linked to first but not sure i could pull off those sleeves - always make me feel too broad.

[tethersend]

I think Tesco have some lovely stuff at the mo:

brown coat

military coat

belted coat

blanket coat

swing coat

[swallowedAfly]

those links aren't working tethers

[swallowedAfly]

i really like this but i may be being massively swayed by the fact i like thumb holes.

[tethersend]

Bloody Tesco. I'm giving them free advertising and they can't even make the links work.

Bah. Have a look at coats on the Tesco website.

[swallowedAfly]

what do you think of the bench one? too young (i'm 35 and was attempting to be a bit more grown up)

[Trygg]

im liking tesco at the mo and dorothy perkins.. its hard isnt it! i think cos i added the dreaded investment word-i cant go aaah bugger it and grab something black and warm or il regret it.. i think.

[Trygg]

i like the bench one but i think its in my red duffel coat pile-id like it but im having to be a grown up-iv got graduate scheme job applications coming up so i want to look smart-because clearly the coat that you leave/in the car/hang on a hook makes all the difference..like theyr going to say oh trygg you were ideal for the job but the duffel coat? you can piss off...


so new criteria-needs to make me look thin, bag me a dazzling graduate career and be under a hundred quid k?

in all seriousness i do love the asos one from tethersend, but cant decide whether its not good for sturdy curvy women?

[swallowedAfly]

nice bit of detail but smart

red but smart

colour but subtle and flattering diagonal lines at waist

[swallowedAfly]

this is pretty stylish and the low waist with the aline under it would be flattering i think

[Trygg]

ooh i like the purple one

[swallowedAfly]

what on earth am i doing here? i never come in style and beauty and now i find myself talking about flattering diagonal lines and low waists

[swallowedAfly]

which one - the tommy hilfiger low waist one? or the other one?

[tethersend]

Mango

Mango again

picture of same asos coat but in the 'curve' range Normal range better as it doesn't have the epaulette things. Pic gives you an idea how the coat would look on a curvier figure though.