To think current fashion is f*cking hideous?

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Probably BU but I went shopping the other week as I needed a few tops. I saw:
Bright yellow playsuits
Hideous tops with the shoulders cut out
Skirts that look more like belts
Jeans with so many rips that they are indecent
Tops that aren't even decent (too short)
Cardigans with no sleeves (why, you wear a cardigan if it's cold surely)
AIBU to think that it's hideous and nobody would want to be seen dead in it?

I absolutely live in uniqlo basics. I've got their rayon blouse in every colour because it's a lovely fit and washes like a dream. Their Oxford shirts are great for a more fitted loo, their merino wool sweaters are fantastic (as are their cardigans) and their basic cotton tops (and heat tech) are staples.

I also love &otherstories, but uniqlo is my basics go to

nearly as bad as the big thick marker pen eyebrows 😂

Oh pockets
I have work trousers with pockets in, I should have bought several more pairs.

Yes!!! I thought it was just me thinking that all the clothes were grim this year. I have been living in baggy maternity-style stuff since DD was born and haven't had time to shop. So this week I thought (while I had an hour or so when DD was in nursery), that I'd pop into Jigsaw and pick up something nice just to refresh my wardrobe. What happened? The clothes were HORRIBLE.

Now, I'm 38, and I've been buying the odd thing from Jigsaw since my early 20s-mid 30s (haven't bought much from anywhere for the last few years). But Jigsaw used to be for aspirational 30s-ish women. The season I saw looked like it was entirely aimed at women in their late 60s and 70s! Nasty boxy cheap-looking frumpy things, baggy shapeless jumpers, huge boxy shapeless "jackets", shapeless midi skirts in ugly synthetic fabrics. They used to at least do a few staple clingy jersey tops and dresses; now nothing that someone my age could wear apart from a couple of breton tops. What happened? Is it that only the pensioners and the boomers have any money so they've changed their target market? Or are we really all meant to be dressing like elderly ladies in our 30s?

Every few years there seems to be a few seasons where all the fashion is awful; but normally you can find something nice in it all. But there is nothing I could find in any high street shop that I would wear or that would suit me (I'm small but plump and don't suit any kind of jeans, never mind skinny ones); I used to live in jersey dresses and heels in plain colours (no flowery shit).

And I'm absolutely sure we looked better in the 90s - there was a lot more choice of looks for a start (I didn't wear lime green crop tops and combats myself!) - but in the early 90s there were plenty of pretty print short dresses worn with boots and a cute hat, or long print skirts with a little top or strappy vest that looked fresh and attractive. I don't see those about at the moment (though the really avant-garde young girls are wearing DMS and pretty long print slips, not sure where they are finding them though as that 90s look doesn't seem to be in evidence on the high street).

I mean, I don't want to look like an extra on an episode of the Golden Girls circa 1987!

www.jigsaw-online.com/product/floating-poppy-jersey-top/J32807_GY065

(And that top is entirely viscose, polyamide and elastane - yeuch.)

And another Bingo-ready look:

www.jigsaw-online.com/product/dancing-tulip-kimono/J34404_GY068

I'm 38! Where should I be shopping so that I can buy something simple, chic and well-made? I'm too fat for the skinny mummy jeans, too short for long skirts or trousers....what should I be wearing that isn't grim?

I agree I hate shopping as it is,but it seems that shops are trying to make this as difficult as possible. I just want normal clothes

Agree with Graphista. Although I'm fairly slim (BMI about 23) I'm over 50 so don't want plunging necklines, to be showing my bra, see through tops, tops with bits missing or translucent tops and stupid frilly bits. I tend to hang on to my clothes for a while so am happy to pay a bit more for a good cut and materials that keep their shape and colour after a few washes (life's too short too faff on with dry cleaners).
I don't want granny clothes though.
Men manage to get all these criteria in their clothes why do women have to have stupid clothes that constantly change. Can someone sack all the fashion reporters and the fashion designers who just want to make women look stupid. Why don't these men design clothes for men instead of androgynous anorexic women?

Can't understand why you all hate child shoulder told so much. My shoulders are one of the few bits of me that know how to age gracefully.
Hate those mad sleeves on everything though.

Agree completely - think that's why a number of shops are struggling .
Guess it's best to hang on in there and hope things get better !

Every shop I've seen looks like it's ingested the shit parts of the 90s and barfed them back up double the price.

For a top heavy, size 16/18 six month post partum 32 year old with massive tits, I'm fucked

Next used to be my go-to for clothes that were fashionable and well-fitting but also classic and didn't go too much in for fads.

But that seems to have changed - it's like they can't design something now without adding some kind of supposedly fashionable twist that ruins it, whether that's missing shoulders, enormous sleeves, pointless zips, rips, gaudy beads, etc. So YANBU!

It's the flipping colours pale flesh pink, pale gray, pale pastel pink aarrgggh all with black ???

Wayfarers have you rtft? The older ones of us don't like those styles either. Frump fashion doesn't suit ANYONE my mum (babyboomer) wouldn't wear any of the items you linked to either.

Agree, the colours I like don't change with the season or from year to year. I like black straight skirts in winter and tops in blues/ greens/ turquoises or white. In the summer I go with more colours but not browns, beiges, lime green, baby poo yellow or great granny pastels.

I don't the cut out shoulder tops as I have tattoos I like to show but hate how flabby my arms are- they work well for me.

However, everything else lately seems to be tight, frilly, asymmetric, cropped... I just want to be comfy!

Whoever chose the fabrics for the Sainsbury's Tu clothing range should be sacked.

tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/c/women/women-shirts-and-blouses?INITD=GNav-WW-Shrts-Blouses&q=%3AnewArrivals&title=Shirts%20&%20Blouses

We need a PETITION!

Actually this is the first time I've ever actually wished the Daily Fail would nick a thread from here! Where are the bloody DF journalists when you need them??

@UnicornButt

I honestly don't know why you are all struggling to find jeans. I have stocked up on these beauties.

😂

ChocolateSherberts you are not wrong. Every single one of those fabrics are vile

"It's all to draw attention from the sharpie Groucho Marx eyebrows"
^^ ha ha ha ha. Made me lmao!

Wayfarers has nailed it. Fashion is designed entirely with the over 60s in mind. Because there's nothing we like better than 'nasty boxy cheap-looking frumpy' clothes. We can't get enough of them.

You know all those short skirts and sleeveless dresses that are everywhere? They're all for us. The thin, clingy fabrics? We asked for them specially. Sweaty polyester? Mmm we just love it.

I didn't think anyone had noticed but well done you for spotting it.

HaHa
Thanks for the link to The Country Collection upthread.

I'd been looking for plain cotton t shirts in other than grey, black or pale blue - great thanks.

All this 'fashionable' stuff for sale but when I look at the passers by the only ones who look smart are those dressed in black, or the occasional person who has troubled over hair, clothes, style and what suits them, but they are very few and far between (not surprisingly they must have trogged many miles to get their outfit together).