I bought a white coat in the sales to look like Olivia Pope, but I actually resemble a middle aged taekwando instructor

Loving this thread!! Tears of laughter😂😂

I have several more disasters...

Went for a ‘chic’ sharp, coloured bob on my home-dyed blonde hair... ended up with an Orange crash-helmet ... resembled Linda La Hughes from “Gimme Gimme Gimme”

Was dead keen on my green silky ‘Ali Baba’ pants (very billowy in the legs, very tight at the ankles... til I caught my Dbrother and his mates doing ‘the sand dance’

Had ridiculous fondness for tweed and pussy-cat bow blouses just after ds was born... I was mid 20s and crazily post-natal. My DH took me aside and asked why I had turned into Miss Marple!!

This was the lovely man who bought me a sheepskin coat - and my Dad said “bloody hell, it’s John Motson!”

Bob Ross for the uninitiated

@Adiscoveryofbitches that Bob Ross comment has done me in

Only read the first page so far but laughed out loud so many times 🤣

When I wear my green coat with a furry hood my DP finds great amusement in singing 'wonderwall'

@Chersfrozenface 'Does anyone remember catalogues? For those who don't, they worked like ASOS, only they were books.'

I'm howling, here!

Ohhhh this thread...

And did you know the Matalan app shows the clothes on a model who is a size 12. Not even close to the average size, bit alot more realistic than an 8 on 5foot 10 teenager!

Bought a lovely green dress. Thought it coordinated well with a coral long sleeve top.
But it was Christmas and my friends boyfriend took one look at me "you look like an elf!"
I did!
Never did wear that combo again.

I went to work once in a pair of round toed sandals that I’d bought in the sale. Very comfortable and I thought I could definitely pull them off in an edgy way. A colleague at work said to me ‘oh, Hollywood Bowl phoned whilst you were away.’ I looked at him bemused and he said ‘they want their shoes back’.

I once bought a lovely, stylish hat and cape to match. I was so excited! My mom snapped a photo, and I realized that I looked like an aging Elizabeth Taylor, from the heavy-set years. I never put them on again. Apparently, stylish and myself are an anathema to one another. Back to jeans and tees for me!

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I was once given a lovely floppy wide pink sun hat which I thought was the height of sophistication. I found some pale pink plastic sunglasses and thought I had nailed the 60's starlet look.
I unveiled my allure at a family picnic. My Dad took one look and called me Petunia from the infomercials....

When I was pregnant, my belly seemed to pop out over night, and suddenly my clothes didn’t fit. When visiting my aunt she shot upstairs and got a massive faux fur coat out for me. I was very grateful. I also had platinum blonde hair but couldn’t face getting my roots done cause of pregnancy nose. I put on some make up and my new coat and we went for a lovely cou try walk. Much whispering and side eye but I was relatively young and pregnant and single so thought it was that. Nope, lovely aunt who is the gentlest sole on thr planet told me I looked like Myra Hindley and I either had to dye the hair or lose the coat.

Sell it on market place 😁

Best laugh in ages everyone!! Sorry OP but I’m crying 😂😂😂😘

Does anyone remember catalogues? For those who don't, they worked like ASOS, only they were books.

So, I fancied a new winter coat. "Ooh," I thought, "that grey double-breasted fit-and-flare jobby with the metallic buttons looks classic and warm".

The parcel arrived, I tried the coat on, my DH took one look and said "Are you keeping that? Only you look like a sawn-off Guardsman".

I reached immediately for the returns label.

Better than Herr Flick, I suppose, but not by much.

About 18yrs ago, right after I’d had baby no 3, I desperately needed a winter coat.
I found one that was kind of soft suede, with some brown sheepskin edging..
looking back It was bloody dreadful, and far too long for my 5ft 2, coming down to my knees, but I was convinced it would make me feel great.
The vision in my head was classy and sophisticated.
The person staring back at me in my mirror was a short fat DelBoy 🙈

I went to uni in the early 90s and found my ‘style’, going home for the holidays in leggings with cherry red DMs, a massive shirt and a mans blazer I’d picked up in the oxfam shop. My dad told me I looked like Max Wall. I think I went to the library to found out who he was as this was long before google. I wasn’t happy,

Talking of taikwondo instructors, our martial arts club brought out a ‘special edition’ white hoody that they were super thrilled about. Teamed with the white martial arts pants, they looked like they were off to a crime scene

I bought my first jumpsuit a few years ago, it had three quarter length trousers and a cross over tie waist. A random lady in the changing room said it looked great. I wore it on the school run thinking I looked like effortlessly elegant mum. It was absurdly flattering. Or so I thought, before my 5 year old DS asked me why I had come to school with a dressing gown on. 😩

Apparently when DSIL bought her first pair of stripey tights and showed them off with big clumpy calf-high DMs and very slim legs, DH told her she looked like a pair of golf clubs

I have no idea how he survived his teens...

In the 80's coloured tights were fashionable. I had red tights but with my skinny legs my DM said I looked like Emu.

Black were no better apparently I looked like Max Wall.