What would you wear if it suited you?

[CruCru]

I am a big woman. I saw some leather leggings that looked amazing on a model but would look terrible on me.

I really like those Nordic sweaters but they look awful on. Similarly, gilets? Look like life vests and expose the bottom of my fat tummy.

[MakeMeWarmThisWinter]

Leather leggings here too - I'm pregnant and suspect it wouldn't be a good look hopefully they'll still be around once I've given birth and shed my extra pounds.

[mowglik]

Leather leggings here too, I could get away with it but it's a bit too high fashiony for me but I love the look

Also killer heels but I can just about manage normal high heels

[helzapoppin2]

Any dress with a defined waist, as I don't have one.
I do wear gilets. I love the current fashion for sweater dresses and tunics. They disguise my fat tummy.

[bonzo77]

Leather leggings and coated jeans. Skirts shorter than below my knee. Shirts.

I'm actually quite slim, but have muscular thighs that overlap / rub. Hence the problem with leggings. The leather ones would squeak! My neck is a bit short and my boobs biggish so the collars in shirts scrape my jowls and even well cut ones either hang off my boobs or gape. I find the cuffs uncomfortable.

Shift dresses: due to boobs, make me look like a sofa.

[HappyGirlNow]

Shorter skirts that I would wear with bare legs.. I do wear shorter skirts with opaques but my legs aren't good enough to bare with skirts that end much above the knee...

[LackingCommonSense]

Oooh good thread.

Heels. I feel too tall in anything over 2 inches.

And I love oversized T's with skinny jeans/leggings but due to 32E boobs I end up looking somewhat large...

[ItsGotBellsOn]

Tight pencil skirts (show my slight mum tum)

Trousers (every single style looks horrendous on my arse)

Huge heels (am 6 ft, so feel too self conscious in anything too high)

[Fillybuster]

I'm horrendously high waisted, even though only a size 10/12, with big breasts. And I would soooo love to wear those little skater-style stretchy dresses that the shops fill up with every season. And empire line anything.

And killer heels. I have dodgy knees so will never get to wear heels. But I can dream....

[Callani]

I would love to wear v-neck tops and dresses and show cleavage but sadly I don't have the cleavage for it!

Also, I love dresses but am firmly pear shaped so the vast majority go from loose-and-floaty on top to skin-tight-and-bursting-the-seams at the bottom. This is the problem being both a size 6 and a size 14 at once...

[marymcb]

I love things like twinsets and pearls and tweed, some people manage to make it look really cool but somehow I always look ridiculous and completely old fashioned!

[nottheOP]

Anything boho stylee, skinny jeans (too short and fat knee-ed)

[fromparistoberlin73]

this mamasarollingstone.com/herve-leger-bandage-dress-sale-shopbop-out/

[GarlicNovember]

Twiddly 'feminine' things. I can make most looks work somehow (in a shapelessly ageing sort of way, heh,) but flowers & frills have always made me look like I picked up someone else's outfit by mistake. I'm too ... sturdy.

At least this forced me to avoid the pussycat bow blouse, both times it's been de rigueur :)

[GarlicNovember]

Paris, I had a Léger dress once! I wasn't particularly slim - they were brilliantly constructed to support, push & smooth you in place. It didn't ride up, either. Can't say the same for high-street bodycon frocks.

[confusedandemployed]

Garlic, me too!! Sturdy is exactly how I am. I can't wear chunky knitted stuff either (I look like a tank in them), or tops with elasticated bottoms. What is the obsession with that?! Just terrible, makes anyone bar an anorexic size 6 look 7 months pregnant.

[GarlicNovember]

I can't wear chunky knitted stuff either (I look like a tank in them) - Yeah, I just go round looking like a warm tank Agree about tops with elasticated bottoms - just why??!

[Lonelynessie]

Great thread! I would wear shift dresses, gilets, anything that didn't hide my wobbly tum, cami style tops/dresses, the whole 'relaxed, baggy jumper but still looking chic' look.

[CruCru]

I love really well tailored shirts with tight fitting trousers. Useless on me.

[aoife24]

Heels for me too, I'm about 6'. I sometimes do, but I have to be feeling right.

[BlueEyedWonder]

I would wear wide leg trousers and the culottes that are currently fashionable. At 5ft, I would look ridiculous.
Same with midi skirts.

[AWholeLottaNosy]

A tight catsuit
Crop tops
Twenties flapper style dresses.

Unfortunately I have massive boobs so never will be able to wear them

[Floisme]

I would wear shorts and tights. I'm 58 and would dearly love to piss off the mutton brigade!

[Skinheadmermaid]

Leather leggings and coated jeans. Even though i'm many stone lighter then I used to be i'm still very pear shaped with sturdy thighs and I just look like a sausage in a string.
I would like to be able to wear heels, not high ones, just an inch or two but after years of wearing trainers and having sensitive feet I just can't.
Oh and short shorts, even though I have lost weight and work out a lot I have too much loose skin, left over flab and cellulite.

[HermioneDanger]

Gilets. I lose my waist in them and look the same width from shoulder to hip, which is unfortunate. Like a rectangular mister man. I have a hankering for a fur one this season and try on every one I see but none work for me

[GarlicNovember]

Flo - I do, and it does!