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?

OMG I’m cringing in embarrassment

Lentilbaby
I had a pair of khaki Bermuda shorts. I am small. I looked like Lofty - just missing the pith helmet.

If it makes you feel any better, in the late eighties I had a pair of trousers that had one black leg and one leg that was covered in a fluorescent pattern. I wore it with a fluorescent green top.

In my defence, my mother forced me to wear it. The faces at the family barbecue I had to attend thus attired still haunt my dreams.

Does anyone suit culottes?

Can't beat fat match. Although I did have an ill advised bleach blonde crop in my late teens.
Theory - edgy, cool, indie kid.
Reality - Gazza.

Culottes were big in the 80s

I looked like I was wearing a woolly hat for 2 years. Grew it out into a German helmet Purdey cut that wasn't much better.....

Creasing at this one

I last checked this thread a week ago and there's more posts! MORE! So funny.

Reality - gazza

^
Please just stop now

Sorry Toss but that comment about your companion called Marjorie is brilliant

I'm so glad that we didn't have social media in the 80s! I could look like an idiot experiment with fashion without their being incriminating evidence.

Me too.

I have one school photo of me in all my big haired 'glory'.

All I have to do is keep it quiet.

If that fashion disaster happened now, 30 years from now, there would still be digital images of me on memory cards, in clouds, on social media pages....all retweeted and shared by friends and family.

Nightmare. 😱

I had cullotte shorts in the early 90s and very practical they were too (a forerunner to skorts really). I keep thinking I should like cullottes more than I actually do. Cropped wide legged trousers are essentially a slightly longer version aren't they?

Oh god quirky chick. I also had some white with black polka dot leggings - but i also had a matching crop top. I wore them together (cringe).

fishonabicycle I think they were Miss Selfridge. Obviously, very trendy at the time

How could I forget my lemon Bermuda shorts?! Paired with a grey and lemon striped vest worn over a coordinating tshirt. In my head I looked like the forth member of Bananarama, but I probably just looked like an actual giant banana.

Cream velvet bodysuit, expectation, sexy seductress
Reality, Big Daddy the wrestler

Remember when Aran was in?

Brown corduroy trousers, a pair of flat monks, a big Aran jumper and a huge red perm.

I looked like I had lost my céilí band.

I accompanied by brown cords and huge Arran with a cord cap, legwarmers and tukka boots. And, my piece de resistance, a bright yellow sou'wester. I think I saw Nick Heyward from Haircut 100 wear one once.

Reality - utter fucking knobhead.

Cotton harem trousers. I thought I'd look like a global traveler, fresh from doing Cambodia.

DD1 saw me in them and said "oooh mummy, you look lovely. Just like a big, fat, clown".

A fe*king perm.
I had to bin all the photos of me in Venice because of that perm

This whole thread has me laughing out loud. I'm not sure how to nominate for classics (and I know others have) but I add my voice.

Oh god, the Don’t Look Now reference! We bought DD a classic red duffle thinking it would be cute. Every now and then she takes me unawares and I wonder if I’m being chased by a malevolent dwarf through Venice.

I had turquoise green polka dot leggings in the 80's. Because they went with fluorescent pink......

Anyway.

I also have a midnight blue dress ( sequinned top bit). No idea why. Last worn 1995 for a posh staff party.

Oh the short at the back, longer at the front haircut I had in the 90s.
I was going for edgy grunge chic

Reality: Adam Rickitt.