Anyone want to come and mourn the reality vs expectation of new purchases with me?

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I bought this beautiful jacket online. In my mind I'd look like Blondie in the 80s, very rock and roll and all round awesome. In reality I look like a giant angry teddy bear/yeti. I have broad shoulders and a bust although slim in general, and it doesn't do me any favours. I wanted it for ages and it's now sold out, and so the joy of getting it in my size just in time is sadly wasted. It is a beautiful jacket - just not on me! Anybody else want to come and mourn reality vs fantasy with me?

*Boyfriend jeans.

I look like a boy friend*

I am crying...

Best thread ever. Haven't laughed thismuch in years.

And yy to most disasters.

Last year tried on a Cool khaki parka with fur lined hood - in reality I looked like the return of the Yeti

Aged 16 size 8 clubbed together with best mate to buy a white shoulder less puffball dress. I being a pear shaped and 5ft 3 looked liked Mavis the fat fairy, she being a 5ft 8 ectomorph looked like a sexy Tinkerbell

I've got a hair appointment today.

Bit scared

What style are you aiming for @TossDaily and we'll predict the result...

A very bright and trendy pair of sports leggings. Thought I'd look funky whilst shedding pounds.

Reality: Giant, sweaty camel-toe.

I have actually failed to learn the lessons of this thread and just managed a new one of these :(

Creamy-beige coloured cable-knit thermal leggings and long-sleeved top to wear as pjs/loungewear.

Expectation: Imagined myself curled up in front of a roaring radiator log fire sipping cocoa, or possibly Baileys, in a glam luxe hygge/apres-ski kind of way, looking snuggly yet sexy.

Reality: Like the honey monster, but cream. Kind of mashed potato monster.

Mash potato monster might be the funniest thing I've ever read on here!

Cream blouse and brown linen trousers .Bad enough I thought I looked like a pint of Guinness until my Dd asked me why I was dressed as a fart.
Also had the willy wonka.

Hair - when I was about 19 I had a bleached pixie cut - I looked like a young pat butcher. Recently dyed hair (semi permanent light brown - to cover greys). Result: Eastern European prostitute.

Clothes wise I'm really small - I nearly always look like I'm wearing my mum's clothes.

Oh god, I've just asked for a blunt copper bob.

I'm going to look like a cabbage patch kid, I just know it.

TossDaily another willy wonka I fear.

Leather leggings. Have accepted they are Not For Me. Also similar effect with skinnies. Makes my legs look like some chipolatas from the sausage stuffing round on the Generation Game.

Even Beyoncé is not immune

Lol at blunt copper bob.

Isn't that what Wendolene Ramsbottom had?

Oh yes. I have never given up on my dream of looking like a cool boho chick in floaty pucci-style prints. However, reality = psychedelic Hyacinth Bucket.

Ditto, pillarbox red lipstick. In my head, 50s bombshell. In the mirror: Christine Hamilton

Similarly, leopard print.
In my head: Brigitte Bardot. In fitting room mirror: Lily Savage.

Had my hair cut day.
Expectation: gamine pixie chic
Reality: Lego character

I just bought some shearling lined boots from (whispers) Boden... they are doubly disappointing as from the side they look ace, they fold over so they make my legs look skinny and long and I look like someone who goes for many autumnal walks whilst looking rosy and pretty. From the front however for some reason they look like snow boots a middle aged, very frumpy mrs Claus would wear to catch a bus into town. What to do? Keep them and stand side on to everyone I meet?

nigel, how about you put your feet in first position and impress all you meet with your boots and your turnout?

I bought a glamorous black sun hat with a wide floppy brim that made me look like Catherine Zeta Jones...or so I thought. DH said I bore more than a passing resemblance to the Hogwarts sorting hat. Bastard.

I am crying, crying I tell you, at the Hamble haircut!

Well...it's not too bad.

I narrowly escaped a Velma from Scooby Doo by making her thin it out, though