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?

Kojak 🫣

I bought a pair of those black coated leggings that are everywhere at the moment.

Expectation - slinky chick.

Reality

@Gingernaut hi, thanks for reviving this old gem! 😂

Crying at these new ones

A few years ago I bought a pair of velvet leggings, my then 16yr old took one look at me and said, "mother, your legs look like pipe cleaners".

@IHaveBrilloHair teens...they don't hold back, do they?!🤣 Did you still wear your pipe cleaners just to spite them?

@AppleDumplingWithCustard
That is hilarious! 'Black pudding legs ' probably would look the same on anyone.😂

Teens are brutal!
She's 23 now and hasn't outgrown it, thanks dd!

I feel ya, @IHaveBrilloHair ! My DD is 41 and still at it. I don't think she's ever forgiven me for wearing hot pink, high-waisted, peg-leg jeans when I went to pick her up from year 6 many moons ago.. poor child!😂

These are so funny

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I know this is a really really old thread but a fellow mumsnetter has just linked to this thread. I'm snorting and wheezing at Richard III 🤣

Hamble for me 😂

My expectation.. dark November rainy night, loose 'country' overcoat with boots and my granny's old handbag... Effortlessly chic and put together mixing glam with function... Reality... The bird lady from home alone two... The fingerless gloves did it

Whoever linked to this thread...THANK YOU. I have had tears streaming down my face for the last half hour.
Brilliant. 😎

Oh the perm stories!

I remember it well. Mine started when I strode hopefully into the salon clutching an early photo of Kylie Minogue.

Reality? Keith Harris.

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THANK YOU, whoever resurrected this thread. I’ve been snorting and giggling at it all over again for hours.

My sister in law's Shih Tzu went for a haircut because of the heat and came out looking like Richard III.

I'm currently re-reading Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie, and came across this quote. I felt Mrs Oliver would be one of those contributing to this thread 😆 Expectation: classy and understated. Reality: obsolete battleship!

I love this thread!
My latest failure, already alluded to on the summer clothes thread, is a long cotton lagenlook dress with bright stripes in green, blue and purple.
Expectation: boho vibe cool summer dress.
Reality: voiced by DH, “you look like a 1950s deckchair.

Have laughed my way through this thread - I've had my own Suzi Quatro's fat nan moment.

A recent one was me in a Toast style slightly cropped trouser - not quite a barrel leg but getting there - and a linen smockish shirt with some Blundstone boots - trust me, it looked better than it sounded. I thought I looked a bit arty, maybe a pottery teacher.

DH: 'If you want to really look like a 1940s land girl you probably need a headscarf.'

TBH, I quite like a scarf. Might lean into that look...

Last summer when it was all Lemons on everything, I bought a long silk skirt with a lemons/leaves/orange splash print. Expectation: ' Amalfi Coast Chic', reality: a walking jug of Pimms.

I am wearing it today cos fuck it.

I actually like the sound of that 😄

I had a perm on mid length hair many years ago, and the next morning it had “fallen out on one whole side. The perm, not my hair. I was told it was because I was pregnant. I never had another one.

Me too! 😂