Exh showed up looking like a fashion model!

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Skinny distressed jeans, boots, superdry leather type thing with fur collar, freshly shaved, hair in a quiff

Me & kids were like
After 10 years of not bothering to shower properly (once a week?) or brush his teeth and stinking the place out with his beer/fag breath aibu to feel a bit bemused/amused??

Lighthearted of course he is entitled to sort himself out and why do I even care ? No I definitely don't want him back
aren't superdry jackets expensive? Bastard,I'm scraping the cupboards for t tonight still happier though

I don't really find it funny or baffling - surely it's just the norm - newly single person scrubs themselves up a bit in the hope of finding new relationship - but I am sure it's funny to the OP

My Ex did this too. He said I had 'changed him' because I bought him interview clothes

Tbf the rock/metal look put off potential employers and he needed an alter ego as such for job interviews.

After he ran off he got fake dreads put in his hair (the felted wool ones in garish colours) with a very big undercut, then over bleached it to the point he had to shave it off and now has bald patches where he had the dreads because they were too heavy. loads of piercings in his lip etc He's 32.

He also got a post break-up tattoo of a really really crap tribal design on the back of his neck - I didn't think it was a good idea when we were together to get one in such a visible place. across shoulders was my suggestion. He tried to fix it with another tat and made it worse

He's now bald, lives in black addidas trackies and thinks he's some mixed martial arts pro.

I laugh because I nearly ended up with that for good and I hated myself when I was with him because he really ground me down about how I looked. So yeah.. I laugh about it a lot especially when I'm made to feel shit for not trying hard enough to keep him in the DCs life.

I grew up ;)

Could he be trying to impress you?

New man and all that?

I don't get why this is funny either.

Not taking care of your experience and personal hygiene is often a symptom of mild depression. Moving on from a failed relationship it is natural that people reassess and start looking after themselves better.

It may also be these men can try new looks without having the piss taken out of them by their critical former partner.

That being said there is nothing funnier than someone thinking they are stylish or following the latest trend and looking ridiculous. For example HD brows

Hmm sounds like the epitome of chic, wearing Superdry for 'best'. You sound well rid OP!

Older men often look ridiculous when their younger partners (often wives who started out as the OW) start 'dressing' them.
They think they look good, but they don't, they look faintly ridiculous and midlife crisis springs to mind.

OP you should play up to it. Praise his new look. It will be interesting to see what he turns up in next week.

do report back

Skinny jeans on men are always a disaster. Just look at Russell Brand.

Did you smile and nod at MIL Vocational? I'd have snorted and done a dramatic eyeroll!

Is he Irish, that sounds like the pride of an Irish mammy to me.

Mine's gone off to Thailand and is marrying a Pataya girl he met two months ago.

Gotta love these men who treat women like commodities to be bought like goods in a shop.
It takes a particular type of saddo.

His new look will last for as long as I takes his new woman to be properly trapped - then normal service will be resumed.

Exactly.

The real him will eventually rise to the surface.

Oh this is hilarious even the po faced posters who don't think it's funny are making me laugh, thank you!
He doesn't have depression - at all - he's just very very lazy
He is 50 but has no beer belly and yes he does look a darn sight better, fair play to him. I'm 38 & must not fall into the too tight dress/reinvention thing someone mentioned
The scuzzy ways are never far away though - last Saturday he took the kids out & I made them pasta for lunch in a Tupperware (various allergies mean it's difficult to buy lunch out) anyway he brought me the boxes back today - unwashed

Careful now iwuddarryl, don't go bringing actual objectification into it when people have things to say about the poor unidentified 40 year old men who are getting laughed at on an anonymous forum for dressing like teenage boys, you big meany

He sounds like Zoolander. Did he ask if you were laughing at him because he's really really good looking?

My ex turned up in jeans like this only uglier.
I must admit I burst into laughter and asked if it was pirate fancy dress.

Ex turned up to collect DS is "model wear" one Saturday, I was very restrained and just sort of nodded and tried my best not to snort, DS came down the stairs and I went back to kitchen presuming they were off. 10 minutes later DS is raiding the fridge, when asked why he wasn't with his dad he said he told him he was busy that there was no way he was going anywhere with him while he was dressed like that.
After it happened the 4/5th time I told Ex why DS wouldn't go out with him, he'd go if Ex was in his work clothes, he decided if DS couldn't accept the new him it was his loss. In fairness Ex DID look ridiculous, no problem with people who reinvent themselves after a relationship break-up, everyone does this to some extent but he must have googled fashion for 18yr olds and bought the lot

goat, does he not realise he's not marrying 'a girl' from pataya, he's marrying, and expected to support, her whole bleedin family?and Thai extended families come huge and usually include their monks at the local temple anorl. The Thai dream = get yourself a farang, there'll be celebrations going on there, no mistake.sounds like it couldn't happen to a nicer man

'Superdry for best' !

Now then, who was it? Whose ex had their teeth bleached to polar-White dazzle and smiled up at that plane and made it turn back? It was blamed on someone shining a laser at it, but now I'm not convinced ....

My ex husband did the same,ear pierced,tongue pierced,tattoo,new clothes,leather jacket,new hair cut and it was all for a woman he'd done it for me the moron!
He honestly thought I'd be impressed that he'd spent loads of money on changing the way he looked when he couldn't be arsed to pay the CSA for our 2 sons.I was so insulted as well that he honestly thought I'd ended our marriage because of the way he looked,it couldn't possibly be anything to do with him being abusive.
He really was a twat of the highest degree.

Bloke next door is on wife no 2 - she is 29, he is 50 and he dresses like a 20 year old. (Or rather, like a 50 year old thinks a 20 year old might dress because as the mother of 3 young men in their early 20s, he doesn't come close).

He's a tiny, toothless, wizened bald man who looks more like me grandad but has this ever-changing and expensive looking wardrobe of the sort that wouldn't be out of place on one of the better off Jeremy Kyle guests. Meanwhile we have never seen his Mrs in anything other than the same raggy black anorak (she wears it summer and winter) and jeans and have never seen her other than having her greasy hair tied back in a pony tail, and looking downtrodden. They have two young kids but it seems all the money goes on the bloke and how he looks. But the more he spends, the more ridiculous he looks.

I saw my ex a couple of years back after years of never seeing him, and was both shocked and amused to see he had grown his hair long, dyed it unconvincing jet black and tied it in a pony tail (utterly bald on top). He used to joke with me about men that did that...

I don't really give a hairy rat's arse if the po-faced police think it's sexist. Men have had it their way for millennia - they can suck it up for a bit.

Must admit I have some sympathy for this view. It's funny because the stakes are nowhere near as high for men, thanks to this shitty sexist society. Men don't get torn to pieces on social media for getting it 'wrong'....

....and come on, very very few men over 20 can get away with ultra skinny jeans. They should just....know that.

I remember looking across the road and seeing my ex (he didn't see me) walking through town .... wearing a pair of cowboy boots, tight leather trousers with his paunch wobbling over the top, aviator shades and one of those leather bandanas tied around his bald bonce, like the American bikers wear.

I absolutely pissed myself laughing - to the point I was hanging onto a lamp post and attracting attention from passers by.

He was Mr Conservative Middle Age when we were together - button down shirts, smart trousers, three quarter shorts in summer, thick rimmed glasses etc. Couldn't even get him to wear a different colour shirt.

Now there's Biker Bill striding down the street! Never went near a fucking motorbike in all the years I knew him but I assume, looking at the get-up, he must have bought one after we split.

Still makes me laugh just thinking about it.

I absolutely pissed myself laughing - to the point I was hanging onto a lamp post and attracting attention from passers by

Mutton dressed as lamb.

biker bill