Friend’s awful dress and my reaction

is her name Marlene? Does she hang out in Peckham in the 1980s?

Thankyou kind internet stranger. Aggressively flammable is my new favourite phrase 🤣

Each to there own and we really shouldn't poke fun at others choices................But fuck me that is one fugly dress and if any friend of mine wore that i would not be able to breathe for laughing.

Sure. She purposely hurt her friend’s feelings where she says ‘my face reacted before my brain could tell it to keep quiet. She could tell immediately that I thought it was awful and she looked really upset.’ She decided not to show any tact or diplomacy, and really upset her friend. I’m presuming she’s a grown woman who normally knows how to behave and has good manners. Would it have killed her to have behaved kindly with her friend?

I wouldn’t have worn that in the 80s and I wore quite a lot of pretty extreme 80s fashion -but that would have been a step too far.
@SummerFate if you didn’t start to laugh then you have far more self control than I do.
I can’t even see Princess Diana being able to pull that off at the height of 80s ruffles and crispy taffeta.

No! Don't pollute the oceans!

I think it's absolutely horrible to tell somebody that they look nice in something when they looked dreadful.

I would much rather a friend told me I look at fright then let me go out looking a fright.

For all you know the friend may contribute to food banks! Do you?

Is this really the dress?!?!?!

Yanbu sorry 😭

Holy shit balls!!!!!!

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Thanks for telling me! I wonder how it feels to have THAT MUCH MONEY to spend on one dress….. 🤔

Funny dress, Funny lady.

I noticed you pulled someone up on their grammar earlier, so I'll pull you up on your reading comprehension. At what point did the OP purposely hurt her friends feelings? Please explain where you got that from the OP?

Regarding your point on telling a white lie, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that approach if that's the one that you would prefer to take. Many people prefer honesty though. There is also nothing wrong with that.

Oh my god. I can see him in it. 😱My eyes, my eyes!!

I think it’s actually get a grip on yourself.

I don’t agree. I think OP has behaved exactly like a mean girl by coming on here under an anonymous username and giggling with everyone about how utterly awful and hideous and disgusting the dress is all whilst insisting she’s not a bad friend and she’s got every right to react as she wishes if she doesn’t like her friend’s dress.

So she’s looking for validation for her bad manners and mocking her friend more whilst she’s at it? Cowardly as hell.

As a friend I'd want you to be honest ,she's being silly expecting you to to just nod and agree 🤷

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It is exactly the sort of thing certain posters would recommend on Style & Beauty!

The dress is hideous. She’s an adult. She clearly likes the idea of drawing attention to herself. If she can’t accept the fact that a lot of people will have a very different idea to her of what a nice dress looks like then she either needs to wear less outlandish things or stop asking people what they think of them.

I’d far rather have a friend who gives an honest opinion than one who smiles nicely and says how wonderful I look despite wearing something resembling a dress made of 150 pink ruffled bin liners. I would really rather know what people think.

Exactly this.

It didn't really look that hideous to me, I was expecting something much worse.
Like the sack dresses that people suggest on S&B threads.

Why is she posting a thread asking for reassurance about her reaction to the dress - and laughing with everyone about how awful she thinks it is - when she purposely hurt her friend’s feelings? I would have told a white lie because I value my friendships more than being right over a bloody dress!! It’s her friend who has to wear it, not her.

of she’s adventurous in fashion she shouldn’t really give threat much to what people think? Friends have diffent styles and tastes. So what. My friend asked if I liked her hair, I said no. We talked about it why it wasn’t my favourite then moved on? She didn’t look bad I just didn’t like it.

But again we are very different stylistically. And she’s a fashion girlie. I’m very much of mind “if you like it, I love it - but I wouldn’t do it”

maybe school your face a bit better or practice doing a confused face rather than ew that’s grim face. That’s what I do. I furrow my brow and tilt to the side rather then grimace. It helps in lots of awkward situations.

It looks like something Grayson Perry would wear. That’s not a compliment.

I'm old enough to say that I never saw anything so hideous as a lampshade in the 70s, maybe a toilet roll cover though, MIL was obsessed with giving them out.

OK I was thinking, how bad can it be, she's spent a fair, bit but jesus christ on a bike, that's really awful. A supermodel couldn't pull that off. I'd have laughed out loud. Honestly if she can spend £££ on something that hideous i wouldn't worry about hurting her feelings she clearly has rhino hide.