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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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Maireas · 17/01/2021 09:55

That was for 183fredamarleymum I want to know what happened!

MurrayTheMonk · 17/01/2021 09:55

I once went out in what I considered to be a very edgy white tunic dress from a fairly well known designer. My best mate said it looked like the Turin shroud.

Maireas · 17/01/2021 09:54

Don't stop there!!!

PopsicleHustler · 17/01/2021 09:54

When I was in my early 20s,.I wore skin coloured or beige coloured leggings. Looking back now they were so ridiculous but my mother almost fainted because they were so close to skin colour. She literally thought I was going out in a red jacket and nothing else. The jacket was also just past my hips.

Last year, my Dh and i went shopping and i really wanted a new winter coat. Tried on a black coat that looked gorgeous on the rails but when i tried it on, i looked like i had stitched loads of black puffy full bin bags together into a coat. Glad to say, I didn't buy it

183fredamarleymum · 17/01/2021 09:51

Many years ago I bought a Mary Quant fluffy jumper.,not cheap. Thought it looked glam . Wore it to go on a date with boyfriend. We had a cuddle and all the flo

ArseWipesLemonade · 17/01/2021 09:48

I bought this maxi coat from ASOS.
DP said it reminded him of the giant condom scene in Naked Gun.

I bought a white coat in the sales to look like Olivia Pope, but I actually resemble a middle aged taekwando instructor
AdventCaroline · 17/01/2021 09:47

My brother's girlfriend was slouching insouciantly around in a gorgeous, steel-grey, chunky knit sleeveless wool gilet with a hood.
I admired it very much, and they thoughtfully bought me a similar style for Christmas that year.

I looked like Brian Blessed dressed for battle in the original series of Blackadder.

LunaNorth · 17/01/2021 09:44

@Gliblet

Oh I have loved this thread, thank you all 🤣

When I had DS, DH kept reading about push presents and decided to get me a chocolate brown faux fur waist length gilet. I was a size 18-20 even without the effect breastfeeding was having on my boobs, so this thing was skintight. I looked like someone had shaved the legs and face of a small fat bear to try to sneak it into a dog grooming show 🐩

That. Description. Is. Genius.
Maireas · 17/01/2021 09:43

@Gliblet - 😂 😂 😂
@NovemberR - so true about mirrors!!
This is not about age, it's about fashion faux pas, but it's also about the world of fashion not being the same as ordinary women's lives!! Great point earlier "model is 6' 3" and a size 6" 😂 😂 😂

Gliblet · 17/01/2021 09:38

Oh I have loved this thread, thank you all 🤣

When I had DS, DH kept reading about push presents and decided to get me a chocolate brown faux fur waist length gilet. I was a size 18-20 even without the effect breastfeeding was having on my boobs, so this thing was skintight. I looked like someone had shaved the legs and face of a small fat bear to try to sneak it into a dog grooming show 🐩

MilesJuppIsMyBitch · 17/01/2021 09:33

@NovemberR I think you should petition the government. Step aside Marcus Rashford!

I, too, am another hapless victim. Too many to recount, really, but I remember particularly trying on one of those big, shaggy, mid-length coats in Fat Face, picturing myself in pink sunglasses and a fringed bag in a sepia Woodstock scenario. I would be beautiful, but unaware of my own beauty.

Reality: Hey Duggie.

fairyannie · 17/01/2021 09:32

Years ago, I had what I thought was a trendy jacket which had a very thin hood cleverly hidden inside the collar.

When it rained (as it always does), instead of having to put up an umbrella, I fumbled for this insubstantial creased thing at the back of my neck and eventually pulled it tight with the shoe lace things around my face.

My husband said that I looked like Jack Nicholson in The Shining when he's hacking down the door and looking through the smashed gap.

Umbrella it is now.

Never used any type of hood since.

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Flibbitygibbit · 17/01/2021 09:29

@NovemberR

I'm embarrassed to admit to this, because actually most of your fashion faux pas sound edgy, expensive and cool - and mine is far from that. I blame the strain of this year and the lack of places to shop, but just before Christmas I bought some red woolly leggings with white spots (like falling snow) on them. In Lidl. (Essential shops only open). I vaguely thought I had a red sweater at home. They would be cosy, comfy, Christmassy cheery.

And I would look like the advert model eating Lindor chocolate in a Swiss log cabin.

My sweater finished at the waist! And the leggings were so thin (and stretched) you could see my massive pants through them. I looked like a solidly built toddler who'd been dressed by their father. A father who'd forgotten their bottom half and just shoved a pair of tights on them.
My adult DD pissed herself and kept saying but I don't understand why you didn't know they would look shit?

She doesn't understand that in my head I'm genuinely surprised by my mirror...

Am crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
S0CKS · 17/01/2021 09:25

A dress a friend told me to be careful not to look like bette lynch in ... I looked like a slutty sausage.

Purplethrow · 17/01/2021 09:23

@LunaNorth 🤣🤣

500BusStops · 17/01/2021 09:23

🤣🤣🤣 at Luigi!

LunaNorth · 17/01/2021 09:20

I work with teenagers in a private alternative provision setting, so a very casual environment, and some quite, erm, blunt kids.

I once turned up to work in blue denim dungarees with a green sweatshirt underneath. Walked into the classroom to a chorus of. “It’s Luigi!”

Cheeky buggers Blush

500BusStops · 17/01/2021 09:18

I also have a penchant for a black polo neck jumper. Let's gloss over the fact I have a chubby face and look like R2D2 in anything high necked. I wore one to work with black trousers and so did my (male) boss. We looked like rejects from the auditions for a milk tray advert

MilesJuppIsMyBitch · 17/01/2021 09:18

@NovemberR

I'm embarrassed to admit to this, because actually most of your fashion faux pas sound edgy, expensive and cool - and mine is far from that. I blame the strain of this year and the lack of places to shop, but just before Christmas I bought some red woolly leggings with white spots (like falling snow) on them. In Lidl. (Essential shops only open). I vaguely thought I had a red sweater at home. They would be cosy, comfy, Christmassy cheery.

And I would look like the advert model eating Lindor chocolate in a Swiss log cabin.

My sweater finished at the waist! And the leggings were so thin (and stretched) you could see my massive pants through them. I looked like a solidly built toddler who'd been dressed by their father. A father who'd forgotten their bottom half and just shoved a pair of tights on them.
My adult DD pissed herself and kept saying but I don't understand why you didn't know they would look shit?

She doesn't understand that in my head I'm genuinely surprised by my mirror...

I'm dying Grin
KatherineJaneway · 17/01/2021 09:14

@MLMsuperfan

No I won't move along. Sorry. You move on.
You seriously need to lighten up
ThreeKneeRepeater · 17/01/2021 09:13

Purplethrow.
Brave choice. Thanks for sharing.

Thisbastardcomputer · 17/01/2021 09:13

Great title made me laugh. Her skin colour suits all the white clothing and that is no way a racist remark, I love her colouring. A white coat or anything else white would be wrecked on the first outing, I just can't wear it and I'm that horrible pinky white skin.

MaudesMum · 17/01/2021 09:09

@StarsonaString Me too! I've bought dungarees on several occasions - in a sort of triumph of hope over experience kind of way. I aspire to look casually boho, but in reality it's much more painter & decorator...

StarsonaString · 17/01/2021 09:03

@MLMsuperfan

Why should I be silenced? The 'joke' is at the expense of older people. It's harmful.
I know this poster has been annoying people but the misguided, po faced moralising has just made this thread even funnier for me!

My blind spot is dungarees. I know they make me look childish and tubby but I fall for them every few years regardless as I forget I'm not 6'.

Councilworker · 17/01/2021 09:02

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.

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