Over the last year or two, and definitely since the births of my DCs, 2 and 3.5 years ago, I've struggled quite a lot with my style. I guess the need for practicality (am SAHM), loss of need for work wardrobe, many less occasions requiring "dressing up", plus a figure I no really longer recognize as mine. I loved my pregnant figure and was so proud of my body then, and it's been a bit of a disappointment since.
The best compliments I've had this year - and the outfits I've liked best - have been when I was wearing clothes from Anthropologie and Toast with a bit of Phase Eight. If pushed to describe it, I guess I'd call it a Slightly Eccentric Art Teacher type look. Flares look good on me, my best jeans are flared and high waisted, long loose fitted tops, especially handkerchief hems, work well and I know what colours suit me best. I am a million miles away from actually being an eccentric art teacher but I am a little bit posh 
so I think I might be able to pull it off as a "look".
I'm short and dumpy but need long tops to hide my enormous arse. Trousers often don't fit properly at the waist.
If Anthropologie and Toast are the shops for me (and all my clothes from there were sale bargains, I can't afford to shop there otherwise) then where else should I look?
The Toast sale hasn't started yet and I haven't found anything I like in Anthropologie.