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I have to intervene with my dads gift for my mum dont I?

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 21:35

Ive been issued her gifts to wrap. I dont mind,.I like wrapping.

However, he has bought her (amongst other stuff)

this dress

She is the same.build as me, 5'2, large of thigh and upper arm and this dress is Short and Tight.

And New Look?! Mini dress?! She is 51.

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raisah · 20/12/2013 21:48

Can you show him dresses that would suit her body shape & gently persuade him to swap?

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 21:57

Ive tried so many times to get him to understand. He will.not learn.

Three years ago he was buying crochet twinsets with feckibg flowers sewn on from Marks.

I despair.

I will speak to him.tomorrow and ask if he wants me to.go out shopping with him.

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MikeChristmasTreeIsLit · 20/12/2013 21:59

My 52yr old mum would look good in that. She has a better wardrobe than me Xmas Envy

MmeCinqAnneauxDor · 20/12/2013 21:59

Oh, dear. Unless that is the kind of thing that she would like and wear, I think you need to intervene.

Pagwatch · 20/12/2013 22:01

I'm 52 but her age is not the point is it?

That dress is not for the large of thigh

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 22:05

I might put it on and take a photo. Maybe faced with the image he may get the hint.

Her usual style would be this or thiss

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NoComet · 20/12/2013 22:05

That dress would be pushing it on my 15yo. She has a skirt exactly like that and it's just acceptable.

mewmeow · 20/12/2013 22:06

It could look ok but hard to know without seeing it on your mum. It does have those ruffled bits which are very forgiving as long as you get the size right.

Chopsypie · 20/12/2013 22:08

I would.

But then I've done my dad's shopping for the last ten years.

He wanted to buy mum a toaster this year. I got her an osprey handbag and a good scarf.

Some men are rubbish. Take it back, tell him straight.

BettyBotter · 20/12/2013 22:09

Maybe it's a special dress she'll wear just for him...

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 22:11

He has also bought her a dress for her birthday which, iin essence is ok - knee length and silhouette (sp?) - however its made from.what I can only describe as a scuba divers suit. Neoprene is it?

As her birthday is tomorrow I am resigned to there being no hope for that. I have however wrapped her gifts beautifully so she might be able.to overlook the dress.

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ODearMe · 20/12/2013 22:12

I LOVE it!!'m

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 22:12

Grin Betty «boak»

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JuneauWhoIAm · 20/12/2013 22:14

Oh no, I've seen that dress IRL and the picture does it justice!

He needs to go shopping again, or tuck the gift receipt in discretely.

ODearMe · 20/12/2013 22:14

I would not intervene, he has taken the initiative to choose it himself and I think it is really sweet he has gone for a dress. If I was your mum, I would be very flattered he viewed me in the way I could wear a dress like that. Bless him!

NoComet · 20/12/2013 22:15

Exactly Pagwatch, DD is not the slimmest size 12, she just gets away with the skirt by teaming it with a fairly lose fitting blouse.

Unlinked, stretch body on dresses suit very few of us.

NoComet · 20/12/2013 22:15

Unlined

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 22:16

Hmm...ill take the receipt tomorrow and tuck it away. If she asks to return tomorrows dress, I know for certain she wont like the christmas one, so will return tgem both for her.

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lostinindia · 20/12/2013 22:17

I would leave it too. She can always return it after Xmas.

starofbethlehemfishmummy · 20/12/2013 22:24

Maybe it is for wearing "in private"

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 22:27

Surely he wouldnt want me to wrap owt kinky??

He has also bought her one of those lady face epilator thingys though I think hope she has asked for that.

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 22:28

God im.painting her in a really unattractive light here when in actual fact she is the spit of Zeta Jones. Just short and with large thighs.

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Fairylea · 20/12/2013 22:33

I'm still bemused that your dad brought your mum a dress for Christmas, yet alone anything to do with what it looks like. A man buying a woman a dress for a present that she hasn't seen or had any input into buying is just asking for problems !

I wouldn't want anyone buying me clothes unless it was a dressing gown or something like that.

NatashaBee · 20/12/2013 22:36

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MyNameIsKenAdams · 20/12/2013 22:37

I thought he would have learned something the year of the Three Coats. But no.

My poor DM cant ask for anything as she gets it in duplicate. The coat year shed asked for nice coat so instead of choosing one nice one, he bought three. All formal dress coats. My mum does a physical job that requires her being out and about in all weather and shes got three long 100% wool cream.coats.

Sje asled for a pair.of mittens on year and he bought her two pairs one in brown one in black, both totally different sizes.

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