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is it me or is it Coast?

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bananapeanutbutter · 22/10/2010 13:05

Nothing I've tried on or ordered from Coast ever fits properly. All of the seams and darts are in the wrong places and the hips are always too roomy. Please tell me it's not just me!

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DivineInspiration · 22/10/2010 14:23

No, I find it the same too. I tried on lots of Coast silk blouses a few weeks ago and they just look like old rags on me, all loose in the wrong places and completely unsexy. Ditto skirts. I bought a beautiful Coast wrap dress for a bargain price on eBay, it looks absolutely gorgeous on the hanger. But it just doesn't fit right - it's odd around the hips and hangs funny from the waist and sort of gapes around my chest. I'm a pretty standard size 10, not unusual or irregular measurements, so I just dunno what's going on. I have a Coast coat as well (another eBay bargain), and it somehow manages to make me look short and chunky with the way it's cut.

It's such a shame, because there's some really gorgeous stuff in Coast this season.

Amanderrr · 22/10/2010 14:24

I'm a size 10-12 and 5'4" and find Coast size 12 dresses fit me perfectly. I'm an hourglass shape and need their wider across the hips cut.

If you're not particularly curvy you may find Karen Millen dresses more suited to your shape. I can't get my hips into a KM size 12 dress but a 14 is too baggy on the waist and back.

higamoushogamous · 22/10/2010 15:57

I've just bought my first Coast dress ever
here doesn't look much in the picture but it fits and flatters beautifully.

bananapeanutbutter · 22/10/2010 17:53

yes there are some really nice things in coast, so it's a shame. Amanderr I'm a size 10-12 and about 5'5 - 5'6. I thought I was fairly hourglass but maybe not! Perhaps my hips are just in the wrong place!

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Simbacat · 22/10/2010 17:58

Coast often suits women with bigger hips and bottoms

Me- I am not proud. Size 10 waist- size 12-14 hips and bottom. Coast 10 usually fits but others don't always

So take heart- if coast doesn't fit it may be that you have no fatbwobbly bits.

said · 22/10/2010 19:12

Coast always looks like younger mother of the bride stuff to me. Admittedly have never tried anything on but have never been tempted either as stuff always looks sort of boxy and wide. I'm 5ft 6 and a 10/12 so it's probably best avoided

kittya · 22/10/2010 22:38

theres a 25% off code knocking about but I havent seen anything, it looks to dressy for me. Its the kind of clothes I would wear once and never wear again.

KenDoddsDadsZombieDogsNotDead · 23/10/2010 08:25

Coast never fits me properly either.

ja9 · 23/10/2010 08:33

coast fit me beautifully

but i match simbcats descriptionWink

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