Changing room mirrors in shops

[Thing1thing2thing3]

Why do I look so terrible in the mirrors in shops? I look in mirrors at home and look like a normal 50 something size 14/12 sporty/ well dressed woman. Soon as I step into the changing room in shops I look wide and wobbly in my underwear and 99 out of 100 things I try on look ghastly! Thoroughly depressing.. anyone else?

[LunaTheCat]

I blame the fluorescent lights rather than the mirrors - agree it is gut renching!

[Beebumble2]

A long time ago a Watchdog type programme looked at changing room mirrors and found that many of them distorted your shape. A bit like fair ground hall of mirrors! .
I agree the fluorescent mirrors also make you look washed out.

[Thing1thing2thing3]

If the mirrors made me look wonderful I’d buy many more clothes!

[Langrish]

They buy them at the same warehouse as hairdressers’ mirrors 😱

[b0bb1n]

I hate dressing room mirrors! I don't try clothes on anymore because if I do, guarantee I will not buy it

[IcedPurple]

Same! I pick a dress off the rail thinking it's going to make me look great, then try it on in the dressing rooms and I look horrific! Especially those rooms which have a back mirror so you can inspect every dimple of cellulite and every inch of back flab! Nice!

As others have said I think it's the top-down florescent lighting rather than the mirrors themselves. Even Naomi Campbell would cringe under those lights I bet! Or so I'd like to think!

[justchecking1]

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4273888/Are-changing-room-mirrors-lying-you.html

Sorry, it's a DM link, but it's a really interesting comparison of the differences between mirrors in different shops, and why you can wear the same outfit but look great in one shop and awful in another

[justchecking1]

It's to do with the tilt on the mirror. It can make you look much slimmer than a flat mirror but it's hard to even see they're tilted