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

[DollyMixtureLulus]

I know who that trilby would make me look like, I say, I know who...

I love this thread. I recently bought a lovely red double breasted winter coat. Very stylish. I modelled it for DH who started singing "My father took me into the city, to see a marching band".

Hurtful.

Also, just leaving this here....

Oh I've just remembered another one. As a skint young mother with a limited wardrobe (story of my life it seems) I teamed knee high black boots with skinny jeans and a leather jacket when that look was just coming into fashion thinking I looked like Kylie Minogue / Madonna in the Hung Up video when she's out dancing in the town with all the cool street hunks.

Reality was my jeans were cheap badly cut not quite skinny enough fit and my boots were really tight. I looked like a member of the Gestapo (cue my German mum friend giving me the side eye on the school run).

crying. Literally crying.

@MLMsuperfan

As the saying goes it's only a joke if everyone is laughing. A joke at others' expense may not be so kind.

FFS the joke was at herself . She is laughing at herself . The rest of us are laughing because we know that if we tried to do the same thing we would also look like a middle age martial arts instructor . And the same to the other examples on this thread . We are laughing at ourselves .

I haven't read all the replies yet, but I'll add mine in so long.

I had a white raincoat some years back and on the way back from the school run I stopped off with the DC at the park.

It was near a high school and a few of the kids were hanging around the park.

The next minute all I hear from behind me was..... Baaaa baaaa

Needless to say we left pretty sharp and I never wore it out again.

Gestapo

Dead

@Rainbowandscarlett

I once bought a beige trench coat as glamour magazine kept banging on about it being a ‘classic wardrobe staple’

I looked like inspector gadget

🤣

@purplethrow.
I'll bid two filets of cod and half a dozen scallops

God I've got loads of these now I come to think of it.
My most recent cannot be excused by being young and skint as it was last year.
Don't know if it travels as very French reference but I'll give it a go....

We were on holiday in Paris and I was enjoying not being in the very conservative French countryside we live in and nostagically decided to team my dungaree shorts with my DMs. Topped it off with a white long sleeved top under a dark t-shirt.
I had a lovely day strutting about Paris reliving a nostalgic grungy 80s feeling and thinking I was very Brit cool / London compared to the prim parisiens.

Met my French DH at the end of the day to go for a drink and he was half laughing half wanting me to go home and get changed as I was a dead ringer for ultra famous French clown / comedian Coluche.

I bought a pair of fleecy fluffy brown jogging trousers that I thought would look cosy and chic snuggled up on the sofa on a cold day.

I look like the back half of a pantomime donkey who has been cruelly deserted by their partner.

I bought a nice short trench coat from Dorothy Perkins. It was a very flattering fit on me and I looked great in it. Proudly worn to work on my train commute. The problem was it was the exact same shade of the unique, bright blue colour as the train staff uniform of South West Trains.
I realised as I entered the station and a big group of ticket inspectors gathered at at the barriers all turned to look at me like I was about to join them.

@IHaveBrilloHair properly made me laugh 🤣🤣🤣

I had a lovely Adidas tracksuit top and my hair tied in a pony tail

I thought I looked sporty and cool and went to work when they asked why I had came dressed as Vicky pollard

Cruelest of all is how right they were

This thread is hilarious. I once got a nice himilayan hat and i looked like kim jong un on a ski holiday.

@Purplecatshopaholic would you mind telling me where your velvet joggers are from? I fancy myself as an Arabian princess and they sound just right.

@GravityFalls

I once bought a pair of caramel coloured jeans in a bit of a rush on the way to work, having realised halfway there that I wasn’t in uniform that day, and spending the day in my gym stuff wasn’t going to work . I slung my brown casual jacket on , sidled into parade , and the sgt said “ah ! Snickers is here “

Cheers skip ...

@Namechangeforthis88, I got mine from Anthropologie - so awesome I bought several pairs (totally worth ignoring any Ali Baba comments, lol)

I thought I looked coordinated in a pale blue t shirt, navy chinos, blue superga and with a blue rucksack. I realised as I arrived at work that I looked like a lost girl guide.

I bought some of those cotton harem trousers and my youngest said “ooh mummy you look lovely. Just like a big, fat, clown”.

@BalloonSlayer

I bought a pair of fleecy fluffy brown jogging trousers that I thought would look cosy and chic snuggled up on the sofa on a cold day.

I look like the back half of a pantomime donkey who has been cruelly deserted by their partner.

😂😂😂

I didn't and still dont have the knack of a well dressed look..

1980s -
wanted a Summery, fresh look, so a lemon skirt and a lemon and white blouse
reality - looked like a fat banana
wanted- 'big country' 'pop' look- checked shirt, red leather tie, black cords- calf length boots
reality - Bay City Rollers lesbian little sister

Thank god there are no photos

I bought a pair of fleecy fluffy brown jogging trousers that I thought would look cosy and chic snuggled up on the sofa on a cold day. I look like the back half of a pantomime donkey who has been cruelly deserted by their partner

FFS🤣

This thread is Gold