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following on from my thread on waterfall cardigans - what else is a fashion no-no

136 replies

whoneedssleepanyway · 04/02/2011 10:31

I can see that I need to add bootleg jeans to the list (although I don't wear these with heels, only with converse)

anything else... Grin

OP posts:
penguin73 · 05/02/2011 07:53

Not bootleg jeans and black trousers with coloured tops...that's both my work and weekend clothes hot to pieces then! Sad

Bonsoir · 05/02/2011 08:41

VeryStressedMum - straight leg jeans look great on the snakelike of hip Smile

YusMilady · 05/02/2011 09:19

Ooh, ooh, I've made a study of this, having spent about a billion hours of my working life in training sessions surrounded by the following (What's My Line?):

Badly dyed grey hair, especially 'wacky' dye-jobs. Side combs. Banana clips. Scrunchies. Loathsome tooled-leather and stick hair ?staples?.

Badly fitting suit jackets which reveal flabby bra-bulges and straining seams.

Bobbling.

More than one earring per lobe. Dangly earrings with glasses - this should be a capital crime. Especially if both earrings and glasses are in delicate 'goldesque' or 'silverique'.

Unpolished toe-nails. Horrid thick, yellow ridgy old toenails in comfy thick-soled sandals. Cracked heels. Dirty shoes. Footgloves. Swollen feet crushed into too-tight low-heeled courts.

Polonecks on unflat chests. Polyester sta-prest slacks with 10-denier knee-highs. Bare legs in winter. Tights in summer.

Frankly, a waterfall cardigan with bootcut jeans would be a welcome injection of glamour most days.

inchhighprivateeye · 05/02/2011 09:31

Coatigans - WFT??

Though more of a crime to language than fashion, methinks

YusMilady · 05/02/2011 09:32

And while I think of it - anything from the Museum Collection or Past Times catalogue. You don't look like Lizzie Siddal. You look like a nob.

HelenBa · 05/02/2011 09:55

not keen on:
too short trousers
collapsed uggs
the side parting that starts just above the ear
the miss piggy foot bulge when very high heeled shoes are clearly too small for the wearer

(but I like ballet pumps, especially if by footglove, and monsoon too so clearly know Nothing!)

2muchtodo2littletime · 05/02/2011 10:00

Penguin73 I'm with you! Now what the feck do I wear? I'm too fat to wear skinny jeans and would get laughed at! And there is no point wearing anything other than cheap black trousers when working with small children as they get covered in paint, glue, snot etc!

Style advice please ?!!

kerala · 05/02/2011 10:11

Once in a misguided attempt to be fashionable I walked around central London in three quarter length trousers and a cape before I realised I looked like the principal boy in a bad pantomime. I have now given up trying to be fashionable and reverted to my boot cut jeans.

fotheringhay · 05/02/2011 10:45

Grin HouseOfBamboo

Patsy99 · 05/02/2011 11:50

Polo necks full stop. Even flat chested women would usually look better in something else. I can't understand why Americans seem to love them so much.

And that drawn in skinny black eyebrow look, do not geddit.

Gogopops · 05/02/2011 12:40

bamboo the tripe is beautiful.

Wine
RumourOfAHurricane · 05/02/2011 13:13

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frigadoon · 05/02/2011 13:52

Your post put me in mind of Blue Waffle bamboo!

bibbitybobbityhat · 05/02/2011 13:56

Maxi dresses during the day, esp. on school run.

traceybath · 05/02/2011 14:46

I wear:

  • animal print
  • straight leg jeans
  • maxi dresses on the school run in the summer

Really fail to see how any of these items are a fashion no-no.

I would rather see someone whose made an effort if not to my own taste rather than acres of tunics and leggings but each to their own.

Ephiny · 05/02/2011 15:19

Indeed, and the ubiquitous tunics and leggings outfit is not flattering on everyone. If you've got more of an hourglass/pear type figure, it's really the opposite of what you want, which is something fitted in the waist and not too tight over the hips and thighs. The last thing I want to do is to cover up my small waist and flat(-ish) stomach with a drapey tunic and accentuate my bum and thighs which are my fattest bit :(

(determinedly clings to bootcut jeans and fitted shirts...)

HouseOfBamboo · 05/02/2011 15:43

I just had to google 'blue waffle', didn't I. Even though I knew.

HouseOfBamboo · 05/02/2011 15:51
TrillianAstra · 05/02/2011 18:22

My mum is younger than some MNers - if I avoid wearing things she might wear (different shapes notwithstanding) I can only wear teenage clothes.

noddyholder · 05/02/2011 18:41

I don't think tunics and leggings are that flattering either.Clothes that fit are flattering.

MrsGrahamBellForTheSkiSeason · 05/02/2011 18:55

Parker, sorry I mean YusMLady - oh yes, yes, yes! I also sit in meetings endlessy re-dressing coleagues and customers. Not claiming by any means myself to be a style icon Grin but cheap looking suits are my bugbear, and mostly they are cheap looking, however expensive as they don't fit - badly fitting bras, shirts on women (why wear something that looks unironed five minutes after it is put on? - anything too tight - low cut tops on crepy necks, delicate chain necklaces on crepy necks - crepy necks need larger/bolder necklaces or scarves!
Black pumps. Must admit, I wasted years of my life wearing balck pumps to work when there are so many other colours...
Ooooh, this thread is cathartic!

MoonGirl1981 · 05/02/2011 19:02

Round here we have a plague of girls/women who squeeeeeeeeeze themselves into jeans a size/two sizes too small which the slide down a bit and leave a HUGE 'muffin top'.

Usually worn with a really tight t'shirt. Really long ones in the winter so they look like a snake who's eaten a dog or really short ones in the summer so that EVERY roll is on show.

Bravo to them really, I wouldn't even have the guts to open my front door in that state. Let alone pop out to the shops!

alemci · 05/02/2011 19:13

love the jumper with cats on, very 1980's

vest tops with too much cleavage