What would you ask clothes and shoe designers to STOP bloody designing and trying to flog us?

[HouseOfBamboo]

On my list:

1. Tops/dresses with necklines which show your bra straps. As most women wear bras and most bra straps aren't designed for public display, this would seem to be a basic design flaw.

2. Skirts / trousers / jeans with pockets in stupid unflattering places. We don't need the extra bulkage thanks.

3. Yet ANOTHER bloody gladiator sandal. Just because I hate them.

What would be on your list?

Selks the cap-sleeve thing drives me nuts too. They are so unflattering, even if you don't have big arms. Give us proper sleeves!

Asymetric hemlines....just stop!!

Empire line tops and dresses ...only for pregnant ones please

Too much of the same. Draping.rosettes.asymetric,tunics

Noddy - yes that's the trouble. Once 'they' have decided what's in fashion - however hideous it is - that's what we have to live with for the foreseeable.

My breasts don't live where you think they should. They live - not _ , so lots of your tops that aren't particularly low cut look indecent on me. I accept that I'm odd, but please make straps adjustable where possible.

And please make your leggings thicker. I regularly have to bleach my eyes after walking through a shopping centre at the weekend. At least summer has given me a break from that.

Yes clothes designers - leggings are NOT footless tights, though it may suit you to make footless tights on the cheap and flog them as leggings.

I think clothes should come in sizes but also a busty version Especially coats I try on so many that if I was flat chested would be a size 10 or 12 but because I have boobs i need bigger and then they look awful So I request size eg Size 10 Reg or size 10 busty!

Ha yes I'd be requesting Size 14 Arsey

Oh yes - sleeveless tops/dresses. Ban them! There are far too many around and loads of women who need some sleeve, myself included.

The sleeves I can find are often too tight - rest of the outfit fits OK but not the sleeve. Things never used to be cut like this. I can happily fit into older stuff and not have the sleeve problem.

More fashion variety - now waistbands have finally managed to raise themselves higher than our arses, all you can buy are skinny trousers. The average size in this country is a 16 - how many of us can comfortably wear skinny jeans?!

And actually ban hipsters. They fall down all the time, they are uncomfortable and you show off your backside. Hideous.

Design more for the pear shaped woman and don't want all waist bands so big. Can't even wear a belt as there is just this bulge of fabric that is deeply unflattering.

I could go on.....

don't 'make' not 'want' waistbands......

Any skirt or trousers that are not designed to sit on the waist!
Any said garment with a stupid roll top , bulky pockets or elaborate belt loops. I am not thin, I will not be tucking in, I do not need nobly bits drawing attention to my stomach and hips.
Oh and while we're here HIPS. I know, they spoil your straight lines, but most women have them!
Shoes these are not only a fashion statement, we walk in them. Is it impossible to produce shoes, sandals and boots with comfortable medium heels.
Oh and Next just close, I've moaned about you on another thread, but I'm mending some age 10 leggings of DDs and they are so thin compared with the age 7 ones she's still using that Primark would last longer

roar at "busty or arsey.
what about leggings for calvey

Yes they are definitely cutting sleeves narrower to save material.

DD has a pair of lovely jersey hand me down pyjamas that are about 20 years old I reckon, they are cut SO much more generously on the sleeves than any of her current clothes.

Oh yes, close Next. Can't remember the last time I bought anything in there for anybody, even the DC. Awful, drab, dull, skimpy, shoddy clothes.

Maxi dresses- They look good on no one.
Cowl neck anything- Just horrid

I like quite a few things mentioned on this thread

Jeggings.

Cheap and nasty manmade fabrics that make you smell after two minutes.

Summer clothes that are all white and embroidered with Indian-Schmindian patterns. I want light cotton/linen things in summer, yes, but I'm not a fucking cult member , nor do I spend my summer drifting around sunny beaches, and I don't want to have to go round London looking as if I think I'm in Goa. Plus, white just makes me look tired, and wear it for more than a few hours and it's grubby as hell.

Trousers that fit my hips/arse but are halfway up my calves, and jumpers/tops that fit my torso but are practically up to my elbows. Conversely, trousers that are long enough but I could fit into the waistband twice, and jumpers with long-enough sleeves that fit round the torso and norks like a two-man tent.

Yes, maybe sleeveless is so popular as it saves them doing a size 16 BW (Bingo Wing). Tight gits.

Oooh I forgot

Anything broderie anglaise or tie dye- YUK!

Oh no I like sleeveless my arms are one bit still ok!

No more sleeveless dresses with huge arm holes. May be they work better if you are bigger up top, but on my 38B and 34A DD you stand sideways and you can see everything.

Bras bigger than a size c that are padded. Why? my boobs are big enough I do not want to look like Barbara Windsor. I have the same problem with swimming suits.