To detest 'playsuits'?

[Hundredacrewoods]

I've been clothes shopping recently and most stores aimed at young-ish adult women have hardly any dresses anymore, they're all 'playsuits'! When I see something I like I automatically reach for the crotch hoping it's a dress and 80+% of the time it has legs. It's a ridiculous looking, infantilising trend that turns a nice dress that I would wear out to dinner into an unflattering, childish looking outfit that I'd only feel comfortable wearing as pyjamas. AIBU to wonder when we'll be able to buy normal dresses again?

I'm in Australia and it's summer - this may not be the trend in the U.K.!

I think they look lovely but are far too much of a faff to go to the toilet in for me to ever bother to wear them. Very impractical.

It is a trend here. I don't have a hatred in the same way you do...I don't see it as infantile. But what a pain to go for a pee in! You would have to get pretty much totally undressed just to go to the toilet.

I have a couple just for holidays (I’m far to fat to wear them in this country) and I think they are better than a dress in that they are more practical, you can bend over without showing your arse off, and don’t have to worry about an errant gust of wind. But year they are a faff to go to the loo in.
I like them though.

Embrace them OP. Not everyone thinks they look childish.

I like them, most of them are more flattering than a lot of dresses.

I really like them, I feel like I can move a bit more comfortably in them than in a dress and the toilet thing is fine once you get the hang. I definitely don't find them unflattering. I think it's generally harder to find what you want in shops these days though, I order nearly everything online.

I am in awe of people that can wear them. My big arse just won't squeeze in as the rest if me is quite thin. Not a good look!

Some of them look quite nice on. I like them personally.

I love them. No worrying about bending over and flashing my knickers,easing the chub rub on the thighs, what's not to like? So much more practical then floaty dresses that really do not work for people with very small children

I love them, you don't have to be so careful in playsuit then you do in a dress

They can look nice on slim women. I'd never wear one though even if I was slim.

I've never worn one so can't comment on that, but the name sounds infantile! When I first heard them mentioned I thought they were romper suits for babies, not something that an adult woman would wear.

I'm clearly in the minority - thanks for the responses!

I don't like how they look either, and will not embrace any style of clothing I dislike. Especially ones where you have to strip from your top to go to the loo.

It's an unfortunate fact that styles in shops are limited and choice is less than it looks. That aspect hasn't really changed with the rise of internet shopping (I remember not buying jeans for years, as I am a bootcut hater). I had hoped that buying on line would have meant more choice, but it can still be difficult to find things when most stores are pushing a different look.

It's in their interests to sell you items for one season only, so that you buy every year and/or buy to replace 'mistakes'.

Hundredacrewoods you'll have to try more shops, including ones you don't usually go in to - especially department stores where there are lots of concessions all together - and charity shops and discounter for older items. Or make things (skirts are the least scary garments) or have then made (try dry cleaners fabric shops to find someone) or have things already in your wardrobe updated. Grab classics, that you can wear whatever dominant, heavily-marketed trend is, whenever you see them.

I have never seem anyone wearing one that looked good in them. I think they're hideous.

Mind you, it could just be an 80s hangover for me. My best friend at school had one and looked awful I'm it but I'm afraid to say that I never quite found a way of telling her. She was scary.

In my mind, "play suit" means clothes that are made from the old curtains of an Austrian mansion to allow musical kids to climb trees.

Dh got me one a few years ago. Very flattering tbh. Wore it to an Xmas party recently and most people opened conversation with compliment on it. Am converted.

I have a long body and long legs. I was not built for a play suit. I am also disappointed when i reach for a long floaty too or dress and find it has a crotch.