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

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DollyMixtureLulus · 16/01/2021 22:42

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Middersweekly · 18/01/2021 20:25

I bought what I thought was going to be an elegant red tea dress with white spots. It had an envelope neck line which is normally better for the...ahem larger chest. When it arrived I tried it on, both my breasts were completely out. The envelope part completely busted apart. It was obscene! 🤣Anyway I feel your pain OP.

Ilovewolfblass · 18/01/2021 20:18

Shut it down!

StargazerAli · 18/01/2021 19:55

Grin I can’t remember if we even considered them cool way back then!

KatharinaRosalie · 18/01/2021 19:53

Every summer I buy at least one tiered floaty floral dress. In my head I imagine I will look fresh, summery and effortlessly elegant, you know hashtag festival boho chic.

Invariably I look like a Russian babushka on her way to dig up some turnips. I never learn..

nopuppiesallowed · 18/01/2021 19:51

My husband has had to leave the room as I'm laughing so hard and I can't read the words!

janj2301 · 18/01/2021 19:48

In the 60s I had an angora jumper, dancing cheek to cheek at a disco, when the music stopped my jumper had shed all over my partner, glowing under the UV lights

RandomGirl · 18/01/2021 19:40

@Purplethrow

I also bought a white trilby for a holiday, I looked like a bloody fishmonger.
I literally laughed out loud at this!! Grin Grin
Ourelsie · 18/01/2021 19:37

One of my favourites was an oversized white shirt, chocolate brown trousers, a brown wool throw/shawl and Ugg boots. My DH asked me if I enjoyed dressing up as Obi wan Kenobi. I had the last laugh as I bought a ginger beard, borrowed a lightsaber and won 3rd place at a fancy dress party that Christmas!!

Badadabing · 18/01/2021 19:24

@Purplethrow

I also bought a white trilby for a holiday, I looked like a bloody fishmonger.
That’s hilarious! Made me laugh out loud.
MaidEdithofAragon · 18/01/2021 19:22

@RedRec I will certainly check for Pat Butcherness, though I do a public facing job and I'm slightly thinking a touch of Pat might be a good thing.....

Cherryup · 18/01/2021 19:21

@Miljea
Just been searching for a photo of my scrotum trainers, I found one but it doesn't really show them at their 'best'

I bought a white coat in the sales to look like Olivia Pope, but I actually resemble a middle aged taekwando instructor
Anguspie · 18/01/2021 19:18

Just don’t use the tie/belt at the front tie that very loosely at the back and wear with heels as high as you can personally manage and use a grab bag of some sort so you don’t mark the coat and you’ll fabulous!!! I have about 3 white coats I love them but the belt and flat show combo does make you look like an asylum escapee so those are my top tips 😄

Newgirls · 18/01/2021 19:16

@NovemberR

Brilliant title! Some brilliant comments.

I do think magazines/internet sites should be banned from showing pictures of celebs in lovely clothes unless they also display a photo of a 53 year old, size 18, 5ft 2in, woman with no make up and jowls like a basset hound wearing the same garment.

It needs the subtitle this is what it will look like on you, Janet next to it.

😂 brilliant!
RedRec · 18/01/2021 19:12

pp being called Bob Ross by her dad after a bad perm. Cracking up here.

teachmehow14 · 18/01/2021 19:10

I’m sorry to hear it, I purchased a long black puffa and sort of looked like something out of the matrix. Title of post really made me laugh out loud!! Thanks OP

EthelMerman · 18/01/2021 18:53

I remember going to the sixth form disco (early 80s) with my new knee-high black boots, black cords, white jumper with a chunky black belt. I thought I looked amazing until one of the lads said I looked like I was in the gestapo. Mortified wasn’t in it.

And as for those long puffer coats, I tried one on in Sainsbury’s, my eldest and I nearly died laughing, I looked like a big lumpy brown worm in it. Whereas my slimmer sister has a navy one that really suits her. I didn’t achieve her look. Grin

EyeRoll2021 · 18/01/2021 18:44

Find memories of my mum in the 90s picking me up from school in her nude coloured leggings. Obviously I thought she was naked from the waist down. She couldn't believe it. Never wore them again.

This thread has been an absolute laugh!

LunaNorth · 18/01/2021 18:38

I bought a full length black leather coat from Hobbs in about 1999.

Yes, that’s right. The year The Matrix came out.

Sadly, I was oblivious until I watched Will and Grace a few years later and the attached moment happened.

It felt like the universe had intervened. I never wore the coat again.

I bought a white coat in the sales to look like Olivia Pope, but I actually resemble a middle aged taekwando instructor
mackerella · 18/01/2021 18:37

@Councilworker

Oh this thread has cheered me up.

My poor mum once spent a fortune on a beautiful wool coat from Jaeger. It was brown wool and the front had a sort of Cape fastening that you threw over your shoulder to close it. The first time she wore it I started whistling the theme tune from The Good The Bad and The Ugly. She never wore the coat again. I still feel awful about it 24 years later.

My mum had a beautiful navy wool cape from Jaeger too! (Mid-late 1980s.) I coveted it desperately, but when she finally let me try it on, I looked like an adolescent Bow Street Runner Sad
Madmumof7 · 18/01/2021 18:36

@NovemberR

Brilliant title! Some brilliant comments.

I do think magazines/internet sites should be banned from showing pictures of celebs in lovely clothes unless they also display a photo of a 53 year old, size 18, 5ft 2in, woman with no make up and jowls like a basset hound wearing the same garment.

It needs the subtitle this is what it will look like on you, Janet next to it.

Spat out tea laughing at this. Totally should be a thing.
ExpatAl · 18/01/2021 18:33

@MLMsuperfan

Why should I be silenced? The 'joke' is at the expense of older people. It's harmful.
Then stop working on being offended by continuing to read this post and read something else.

I’ve enjoyed the thread enormously. Thanks for the fab laugh op,

Happycat74 · 18/01/2021 18:29

@Purplethrow

I also bought a white trilby for a holiday, I looked like a bloody fishmonger.
I can't stop laughing at this Grin
JustlikeTopsyTimMum · 18/01/2021 18:27

I share your pain... I bought myself a pair of dungarees. They have since been returned as I looked like a butch farmers wife, not the look I was going for!! 😂

Adiscoveryofbitches · 18/01/2021 18:23

Thought I looked good in my new white coat till my dad asked if I sold ice cream and he used to call me Bob Ross after a bad 80’s perm.

LisaD76 · 18/01/2021 18:23

See I have the right face for hats but with curly hair I end up with the most ridiculous hat head ever