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

If no one else has, I'm nominating for classics. Amidst all the weirdness on here lately, I'm reminded why I love Mumsnet.

It can happen to anyone, even RTÉ newsreaders.

@Cooltalkin Miss Havisham saying fuck this and going on a bender has made me belly laugh for the first time in some time

@IHaveBrilloHair I know, we all used to love that programme, singing along with the theme tune together. But I suppose they were saying I looked like an escaped prisoner of some sort and that was the only prison they could think of. I thought I looked more like Wilma from Buck Rogers. Apparently not. 😂

Last Christmas I thought I'd look festive in a skater dress and velvet leggings, my grandson thought I was dressed as an elf.

@merryhouse No, South East and we only had one bell, anyone could ring it . For a former headmaster and father himself, our vicar was spectacularly shit at engaging with young people

@SydneyCarton (if you can remember from six days ago) you weren't in the East Midlands with a vicar who also rang bells, were you? My dad was organist to a choir with that outfit

MrsKoala
They didn't wear grey jumpsuits in Prisoner Cell Block H.
Not even close to that.

I looked like Alf Stewart with long hair
🤣🤣🤣

I havent stopped laughing through the whole lot of these pages. Brilliant.

About 15 or so years ago capes were really in fashion. I hankered after a navy blue one in Jigsaw and on payday I treated myself to it. I wore it out to meet a friend and when I approached him he exclaimed loudly in his best Dick Van Dyke mockney ‘cor blimey, it’s Mary Poppins’.

Another time I had my dark hair highlighted and layered and every time he saw me he did that hands on hips glam rock dance and another friend pissed herself and said I looked like an Alsatian.

But I also got a laugh at his expense as once we were walking along and he was dressed in big boots, baggy jeans, a checked shirt done up to the collar and a beanie hat pulled low and had grown a goatee. He was going for ‘hip hop Hartman’ then a car drove past and someone shouted out the window ‘fuck me, it’s that twat from east 17’.

Quite a few years ago my fella and I took a trip to london. I wore my favourite black velvet hat. Unfortunately my beautiful hat met an untimely demise. It was cold and as it was his fault, we went to Camden market for a new titfer. A stall had some nice ones but no mirror, so I had to rely on his judgement. He picked one, I tried it on he said it looked cool, job done. I started to get the odd double take, not sure if I looked great or a complete arse, so I ventured into a shop and found a mirror.
JAMIROQUAI!

I once wore a grey jumpsuit in an effort to do 80s utility chic. When I walked into the pub my friends cracked up and one said ‘best call the freak, it looks like someone’s escaped from cell block h’. 😂

This thread has made me laugh for the first time in ages!
Here are mine:

After reading here how amazing a phase 8 dress looks on a mum tum I spent some birthday vouchers on a lovely black comfy but chic, very slightly glittery, can wear any wear dress - looked like I'd dressed up as a bin bag witch from the 80's

A very fashionable tailored jacket with black and white stripes for a night out with friends, greeted with 'hello beetle juice' it languished in my wardrobe for a while but was eventually donated, presumably to the local am dram society.

And finally I am a member of a local choir, when I joined I was given a sweatshirt for performances with our logo on, it was burgundy with a round neck and we were to wear black trousers and a white shirt or collared blouse underneath.... we looked like the oldest school choir alive

I have a white cardigan with a hood. I put it up once in an Orthodox Church when I needed to cover my hair. My friend couldn’t stop laughing - ‘you look like a sperm’. It comes in every trip with us now so we can giggle.

I wanted a sparkly dress for a Christmas do, and spotted a sequinned bodycon one-sleeved one, that I was convinced would make me look like Tess from Strictly. I tried it on, and the sequinned sleeve was not only too long, but slightly baggy. My husband couldn't stop laughing and said I looked like the Winter Soldier ☹️

This thread is really making me laugh. I bought a long emerald Coast dress thinking I would look like a busty Greek goddess. In reality I was drowning in fabric and felt about 6.

Before and after advert for WeightWatchers. Ow, ow, ouch!

But 😂😂😂😂

I speak as a 'well-upholstered' older lady!

@CrapRedDress your face I that photo! I'm sure you would look lovely in almost anything else!

To wear to work, ErrolTheDragon!
Or possibly cleaning the car.

Do you have a very valuable crop plagued by persistent crows? (That's the only thing I can think of which could make it a wise buy)

What for?

I want Melania's Gucci dress.
Wise purchase or not?

We all make mistakes.
Still reminded (by sister) of a lovely black and white short gathered skirt, I loved and wore endlessly in the eighties. I dressed it over a tight pencil skirt. So far so good! Nothing wrong with that, i was in my twenties. Now for the problem. It had giant green Rose's splattered all over. Cabbage patch she called me. I thought she had no style and obviously jealous. How delusional was i

I’m yet to find a summer hat that I don’t feel ridiculous in. But I’m very fair skinned so I keep trying..

A couple of years ago I was taken in by a Facebook ad for a wide brimmed sun hat that had a ponytail hole and could clip up on the sides to make it like a stetson. I hoped to look like the model in the ad with her perky ponytail. Got it and tried it on. I looked like Alf Stewart with long hair