I bought a white coat in the sales to look like Olivia Pope, but I actually resemble a middle aged taekwando instructor

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I feel your pain.

My friend once lent me her lovely, stylish white coat but it looked like a bathrobe on me 😥

I like your thread title OP

You’d never be able to drink huge glasses of red wine without spilling it on yourself though.

I remember when we were teenagers my sister begged for a white coat, it was kind of thigh length and had big square pockets. She wore it in public, ran into a boy from school and gained the nickname 'Prof' for about two years afterwards. (it was around the time of Back to the Future).

You’d never be able to drink huge glasses of red wine without spilling it on yourself though.

Life is so unfair.

Oh that is a bummer.

I bought a hi low top but basically the cutaway showed off my stupid apple tum. I looked like Tweedledum. Lovely!

I bought a long white cardigan today, picturing myself spanning about with it over a swish tea dress in warm summer Spainish evenings.

However it looks like I should be working in a lab or I have escaped from a health spa.

Plus I have four kids so it will be stained very soon

Sympathies

Ah the old expectation vs reality trap!

Did the same with a green satin dress with a ruff round the collar. Expectation was cool elegance - reality was Hissing Sid who’d swallowed a dinner plate

I decided to make myself a maxi dress with some floral fabric and a pattern off the front of a dressmaking magazine....I looked like Laura Ingalls from Little House On The Prairie.

I'm sorry it didn't work out op, but your thread title really cheered me up!

I bought a white coat once and looked like a lab assistant. My father kept asking where was my Bunsen Burner. Cruel but fair.

Oh dear. any wool coat I buy with a tie belt looks like a dressing gown on me.

I did buy a grey dark boilersuit but I look like a mechanic in it.

I feel your pain OP, I frequently buy things imagining they will turn into a tall willowy person by some form of witchcraft. I never seem to remember that I’m a pear shape with tiny legs until I have them on!

I'd rather look like a middle-aged tae kwondo instructor than one of these guys though!

I also bought a white trilby for a holiday, I looked like a bloody fishmonger.

I also bought a white trilby for a holiday, I looked like a bloody fishmonger.

I can't wear hats. I would really like to, but I do not have the face for it.

There is a marvellous thread in Classics on this very subject. Search for Suzi Quatro's fat nan.

I don't have the face for hats either. I once bought a beret thinking I'd look chic and rive gauche, but I looked like the world's oldest Brownie.

White coats are a nightmare. Years ago I bought one and on the first wearing I had to put oil in our ancient car. You guessed it, I managed to get black oil on it and then trapped it as I closed the bonnet, which cut a slash in it. Even the charity shops wouldn’t take it. Couple of hundred quid down the drain. Never again.

Commiserations OP. I once bought a dress and looked like Grumio. Thanks Boden.

Oh OP , that thread title really made me laugh, thank you! Sorry though

I once bought a beautiful pink dress with pale cream spots

My partner told me I looked like mr blobbys nana

The fishmonger's trilby has really made me laugh!

Best laugh i've had in ages op

I had a big white padded winter coat once. I looked like the Michelin Man in it.