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

[DollyMixtureLulus]

@NovemberR

Brilliant title! Some brilliant comments.

I do think magazines/internet sites should be banned from showing pictures of celebs in lovely clothes unless they also display a photo of a 53 year old, size 18, 5ft 2in, woman with no make up and jowls like a basset hound wearing the same garment.

It needs the subtitle this is what it will look like on you, Janet next to it.

NovemberR that last line! I think I actually love you. Crying here!

Purplethrow

I once bought a lovely, stylish hat and cape to match. I was so excited! My mom snapped a photo, and I realized that I looked like an aging Elizabeth Taylor, from the heavy-set years. I never put them on again. Apparently, stylish and myself are an anathema to one another. Back to jeans and tees for me!

I went to work once in a pair of round toed sandals that I’d bought in the sale. Very comfortable and I thought I could definitely pull them off in an edgy way. A colleague at work said to me ‘oh, Hollywood Bowl phoned whilst you were away.’ I looked at him bemused and he said ‘they want their shoes back’.

Bought a lovely green dress. Thought it coordinated well with a coral long sleeve top.
But it was Christmas and my friends boyfriend took one look at me "you look like an elf!"
I did!
Never did wear that combo again.

And did you know the Matalan app shows the clothes on a model who is a size 12. Not even close to the average size, bit alot more realistic than an 8 on 5foot 10 teenager!

@Nohomemadecandles

I bought leisurewear. In my head I look like one of the scrawny beauties with their knees up on a window seat. In reality, I look like Karen Matthews.

KAREN MATTHEWS 😂😂😂

Ohhhh this thread...

@Chersfrozenface 'Does anyone remember catalogues? For those who don't, they worked like ASOS, only they were books.'

I'm howling, here!

When I wear my green coat with a furry hood my DP finds great amusement in singing 'wonderwall'

Only read the first page so far but laughed out loud so many times 🤣

@MLMsuperfan

Seems ageist to me. Don't find it as thigh slappingly hilarious as others.

Mum, is that you?

@Adiscoveryofbitches that Bob Ross comment has done me in

Bob Ross for the uninitiated

Loving this thread!! Tears of laughter😂😂

I have several more disasters...

Went for a ‘chic’ sharp, coloured bob on my home-dyed blonde hair... ended up with an Orange crash-helmet ... resembled Linda La Hughes from “Gimme Gimme Gimme”

Was dead keen on my green silky ‘Ali Baba’ pants (very billowy in the legs, very tight at the ankles... til I caught my Dbrother and his mates doing ‘the sand dance’

Had ridiculous fondness for tweed and pussy-cat bow blouses just after ds was born... I was mid 20s and crazily post-natal. My DH took me aside and asked why I had turned into Miss Marple!!

This was the lovely man who bought me a sheepskin coat - and my Dad said “bloody hell, it’s John Motson!”

@MLMsuperfan

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

It was a joke at her own expense

@cantgetmyheadroundit

..... Karen Matthews.....

Comment winner of the thread!!🏆

Above poster has just reminded me - my first proper job I needed to wear suits but I was skint. I managed to find a Jacques Vert pale green tweed suit heavily reduced in the sale. I was in my early 20’s.

DBro announced I looked liked Miss Marple.

It was known as my MissMarple suit from that day forth and I wore it til it disintegrated.

Thought of another one

When I was 18 - it was all the rage to have a big perm. Which I had. 'Streaked' light blonde hair and a bouffant perm.

My friends would sing ' how can we be lovers if we can't be friends?' as Yep - I was a dead ringer for Michael Bolton

That has really cheered me up- very funny! I am still laughing

Oh god, thought of another horror...

Was very queasy during pregnancy in 1985 and only decided to attend a posh wedding at the last minute. I wore the only smart thing that still fitted...
Pale blue (with white spots and huge white Lady Di collar) 2pce, white shoes😱and matching handbag (of course) it was a billowing top and hideous pleated skirt made of crimplene ... photos were taken...

I look like June Whitfield in an episode of ‘Terry and June’

I feel this thread is bound for the Classics collection...

OP, I am going to sue you for the ruination of my v expensivo keyboard, as I read your title and promptly spat me tea into it's carefully crafted, blue back lit depths. It is no longer blue or back lit. Bloody worth it though!

I was on holiday in Canada and we ended up at a designer outlet type place. Now my budget is much more Primark but I went along with it. I found a lovely red and white striped top which cost an awful lot more that I would normally spend. Holiday ended, went home and got dressed up in said top, with a fab new hat and my usual glasses. As soon as I walked in DB took one look and cupped his hands round his mouth and said HAS ANYONE SEEN WALLY??? It went straight to my pyjama drawer.

I got a lovely warm thigh length puffer coat from Athleta in pale pink. I still love it to bits but it's impossible to deny I look like a large marshmallow in it 😢

When I was 13 I had an awful hair cut, a bob that ended just below my ears on my then very thick hair.

It was perfectly triangular, so much so my brother said I looked like a thatched roof and called me Margaret Thatch-head until it grew out.

God, I just read 'duck breasts' and woke the house up wheezing