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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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bettybigballs · 19/01/2021 15:24

Moved to London from the sticks in 1999, was obsessed with SATC so bought a 'fashion' tutu to celebrate my move to the city. Turn out I'm less Carrie Bradshaw and more Mavis Cruet.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 19/01/2021 15:20

@Purplethrow

HTH
Wonderful diagram! May I suggest the addition of 'Do you regularly channel Robin Hood?'.
ultragroupie · 19/01/2021 14:56

@JaneJeffer

I once bought a beret thinking I'd look chic and rive gauche, but I looked like the world's oldest Brownie. I looked like Sir Thomas More in mine.
Ha ha Sir Thomas More! - brilliant Grin
Elbels · 19/01/2021 14:45

A colleague memorably told me that I looked like a call girl from the future when I rocked up to work in a oversized shoulder sheer polka dot shirt (with a strappy top underneath!) and leather skirt.

On reflection I do see his point.

dayswithaY · 19/01/2021 14:44

I think where you went wrong OP was failing to adopt the bouncy, hair swishing Olivia Pope walk while dangling a designer handbag on the crook of your arm after having sex with Fitz in the White House GrinWink

Purplethrow · 19/01/2021 14:31

My very slim dd has a teddy bear coat and looks gorgeous in it.
I tried it on and looked like Bungle .

lurkingfromhome · 19/01/2021 14:30

Superlative diagram. We really do have no excuse now. Grin

zukiecat · 19/01/2021 14:28

@Purplethrow

Hissing Sid Grin

That really made me 😆

Nearly47 · 19/01/2021 14:27

GrinGrinGrin. I have a white raincoat ( never worn don't know what I was thinking)that will coordinate nicely with the white wellies

Evenstar · 19/01/2021 14:05

I had always fancied a teddy bear faux fur coat. I went to the M & S sale a couple of years ago and found lots and in my size too. On trying one on and looking in a mirror I realised that on my plus size middle aged frame it turned me into a dead ringer for Chewbacca. It did explain why there were so many in the sale 🙄

Clemelew23 · 19/01/2021 14:02

Sell it on Vinted 😃

Chersfrozenface · 19/01/2021 14:02

@Adiscoveryofbitches

Aspirations to be linked to the military - love it! 🤣
Which reminds me...

I was once invited to a US themed fancy dress party. Everyone I knew was going as a saloon girl or a cowboy, so I decided to be different. At the time khaki and camouflage were very fashionable, so it was easy to get a man's khaki shirt from a charity shop, a pair of khaki cargo pants, a khaki baseball cap and a large camouflage handbag, into which I put a pile of yarn and some knitting needles and went as GI Joan.

This was fine, all on the theme and at a private party. Trouble was, I decided that cargo pants were very practical and the cap kept the sun out of my eyes, and started wearing them in public. Given that I was middle-aged, short and dumpy, I think I may have looked a bit crazed.

TurquoiseDragon · 19/01/2021 14:00

A couple of years ago I bought a pair of white, very fluffy PJs for use as loungewear in winter. No, I did not look stylish and cosy, I looked like the Michelin Man Grin

I've kept them, though. I just don't wear them if anyone other than me and the DCs is in the house.

Adiscoveryofbitches · 19/01/2021 13:48

Aspirations to be linked to the military - love it! 🤣

SlatternIsMyMiddleName · 19/01/2021 13:08

Excellent diagram.

LoisWilkersonslastnerve · 19/01/2021 12:55

Love the diagram Grin

MustardMitt · 19/01/2021 12:55

@Purplethrow

Ooh those boots would go with my fishmonger hat Grin
I did have that in my mind when I saw them tbh! Grin

Zara, if anyone wants to go and snigger at them. I really like Zara clothing but why do they make the models look so weird? They seem to be going for some weird angle at the moment that makes them all look like they have size 12 feet.

ThinkWittyThoughts · 19/01/2021 12:50

@Purplethrow

Ooh those boots would go with my fishmonger hat Grin

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MilesJuppIsMyBitch · 19/01/2021 12:47

@Purplethrow

HTH
Sterling work. I liked following the lines Star
Purplethrow · 19/01/2021 12:39

Ooh those boots would go with my fishmonger hat Grin

MustardMitt · 19/01/2021 12:32

I kind of want the boots though Blush I’ll get them in khaki though so I don’t look like a butcher.

MustardMitt · 19/01/2021 12:32

Some other choice items:

  • necklace that to me looks like a rolled up condom
  • penis earrings
  • THESE BOOTS! They’re wellies. Why white? I don’t know. Why on the skinniest-legged woman I’ve ever seen? I really don’t know.
Rainbowandscarlett · 19/01/2021 12:30

Haircuts-many years ago when I left school I had bra length,wavy but fine hair (still do)
Anyway I walked out and wanted a fresh new look for a fresh new life
I went to the hairdresser to have it all chopped off into a pixie crop
That cut looks amazing on women with small and fine features
I really don’t have small nor fine features

I looked like jay from the inbetweeners for two years

MustardMitt · 19/01/2021 12:29

It was perfectly triangular, so much so my brother said I looked like a thatched roof and called me Margaret Thatch-head until it grew out

Oh my god I am wheezing over here! Grin I also had an unfortunate triangular hair cut at around the same age!

I was engaging in some online retail therapy last night and came across these dungarees which embody this thread. Look great on the (apparently) plus-size model - on me I’d definitely look ‘committed’ WinkGrin

I bought a white coat in the sales to look like Olivia Pope, but I actually resemble a middle aged taekwando instructor
Purplethrow · 19/01/2021 12:27

HTH

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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