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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@CrapRedDress

A few years ago... Big night out for my birthday. Second time 'out out' in 3 years with friends & DH. Ordered below dress online (IN THE RIGHT BLOODY SIZE) thinking with my hair done, nice make up I would look chic & elegant. DH would be taken aback & reminded of the glamorous & intelligent woman he had married rather than the milk squirting, panda eyed grumpy snack snuffling beast I had become.

Nope it arrived & I looked like someone had bound down my tits with velvet & then encased me in a velvet sausage skin. Unsurprisingly it was returned.

milk squirting, panda eyed grumpy snack snuffling beast

I have this horror whenever I buy from eBay sellers - the sizes are so far out!

I bought a black hooded coat once, thinking I'd look like the woman in the Scottish Widows ads.

I looked like Emperor Palpatine.

Shameless placemarking as this thread has made my day/week

I bought a lovely drapey hooded white top and thought I looked a little like kylie minogue in spinning around. I put the hood up to demonstrate this to the class I was teaching and, before I had chance to say anything, a girl said ‘oooh miss, you look like et!’.

Ddot - i looked like swan vesta match

Oh another huge laugh - thank you @Ddot

CrapRedDress also called "here's my chest, the rest is coming"

The look on your face is priceless, CrapRedDress

@CrapRedDress & Also @ErrolTheDragon - yes that is funny - your face looks like a moving mask of horror - but to be honest - you look better in it than I would have done.

I think I have said it at least twice now - but Memo to Self - read the small print - "Model is 6'3" and a size 6 - I am not . Does it surprise me when things don't look the same - Ha ha ha I need to write this out and put a label on my computer to remind me .

I looked like Emperor Palpatine

When I was in my twenties, my flatmate and I wore the same dress size, so occasionally used to lend each other clothes for dates or events. It was great until the day I tried to borrow a burgundy sheath dress for a works do. We were the same size, but of quite different...distributions.

On her it looked very smart and professional. I looked like Jessica Rabbit's brunette sister had decided to try office work.

(I did later wear it to go on a date. )

Emperor Palpatine

@Shamefulcorners

I bought some fingerless gloves and a matching beret thinking I would look artistic and interesting - I didn't anticipate the effect would be so instantly ageing - dh said I should be manning a bric-a-brac stand selling knitted loo roll covers.

This is hilarious

Actually, I've just come out in a cold sweat remembering a pair of cream skinny jeans.

I had a lovely longline navy jacket, that I wore with the jeans and long black leather boots. DF told me I looked like I'd lost my horse on the way to a showjumping competition.

I did the same thing later in the year university — not with the coat, but the same jeans and a maroon jumper. The boys sitting behind me in the lecture kept making clip-clop noises.

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams I too once wore some off white jeans with long black boots & a long length velvet black jacket - so far so chic - ( thought I ) until I went out and Dh said - have you forgotten your hard hat. ( the white shirt and white silk scarf should probably have given me a clue

I’m yet to find a summer hat that I don’t feel ridiculous in. But I’m very fair skinned so I keep trying..

A couple of years ago I was taken in by a Facebook ad for a wide brimmed sun hat that had a ponytail hole and could clip up on the sides to make it like a stetson. I hoped to look like the model in the ad with her perky ponytail. Got it and tried it on. I looked like Alf Stewart with long hair

We all make mistakes.
Still reminded (by sister) of a lovely black and white short gathered skirt, I loved and wore endlessly in the eighties. I dressed it over a tight pencil skirt. So far so good! Nothing wrong with that, i was in my twenties. Now for the problem. It had giant green Rose's splattered all over. Cabbage patch she called me. I thought she had no style and obviously jealous. How delusional was i

I want Melania's Gucci dress.
Wise purchase or not?

@Maireas

I want Melania's Gucci dress. Wise purchase or not?

I want Melania's Gucci dress.

What for?

Do you have a very valuable crop plagued by persistent crows? (That's the only thing I can think of which could make it a wise buy)

To wear to work, ErrolTheDragon!
Or possibly cleaning the car.

@CrapRedDress your face I that photo! I'm sure you would look lovely in almost anything else!

@Onprozacandmyhighhorse

A crowd of us at work were invited to a member of staff's big birthday party. I bought a new dress and was really pleased with how I looked. Walked into the party to meet the birthday girl wearing the same dress! Only problem is she is v v slim and I'm an 18. Cue my best friend commenting we looked like a before and after advert for Weightwatchers. I was crushed but we all had a good laugh about it.

Before and after advert for WeightWatchers. Ow, ow, ouch!

But 😂😂😂😂

I speak as a 'well-upholstered' older lady!

This thread is really making me laugh. I bought a long emerald Coast dress thinking I would look like a busty Greek goddess. In reality I was drowning in fabric and felt about 6.

I wanted a sparkly dress for a Christmas do, and spotted a sequinned bodycon one-sleeved one, that I was convinced would make me look like Tess from Strictly. I tried it on, and the sequinned sleeve was not only too long, but slightly baggy. My husband couldn't stop laughing and said I looked like the Winter Soldier ☹️