What incorrect fashion advice regularly gets doled out on here?

[BrendaandEddie]

I am going for

1. Cut and colour. Not everyone colours their hair some of us only when we needed to at about 42
2. Wrap dresses and big tits

Surely the point is that everybody on here likes something that somebody else on here doesn't, and people are being good natured about saying, 'But I like it, even if you don't'. Sauce for the goose and all that. I don't think it's goady or sneery (Christ - I hate that word) at all.

Although I reserve the right to sneer as much as I want about people who wear see through leggings, with too short tunics.

I don't get Cos at all - to me it's the epitome of the shapeless, tent-like offerings that have been hogging the rails in high street stores for too long now. I can't wait for that look to move on, and for there to be more fitted tops available.

I can see that they look lovely on some people - although ironically, not usually on the lovely ladies modelling them on the Cos website...

Then MrsDeVere, you have one day to spend, spend spend!!!

This thread makes me sad. Wear what the fuck you want, give advice to people who ask for it, but don't sneer at other people's choices because they're not the same as your own, surely?

See User I think she looks gimmicky in the first photo. Almost fancy dress. Like 'look at how quirky I am.

In the second, she looks pretty, confident and stylish. The outfit isn't 'wearing' her.

MrsDV - I'm looking at the Holly now, really love it. Is it a good cut/quality etc?

I don't think that is a bad thing, as long as she is happy and confident in being 'quirky'.

I don't think she looks confident or stylish in the second picture. She looks OK, but like there is nothing about her personality at all in what she is wearing. It is quite bland but inoffensive, a bit like the fashion version of magnolia paint in every new home which has ever been built.

Judy - I think that's the point of the thread in a reverse, kick back kind of way. Too many S&B threads offer the same old advice regardless of whether or not the OP actually wants grey hair/50s dresses/curly hair/wrap dresses/etc.

Thanks . Currently looking at the midnight blue for work - decisions, decisions...

User I agree with you, I think the second one blends in

I think the red polka dot lady looks fine for fancy dress. She'd look a bit daft in Sainsbury's on a rainy day in December.

Out of interest Remus, why do you think she'd look daft?

Is it because she would stand out?

I'd look daft in the Lindybop Audrey dress....with my Sumo wrestler arms and fat tum.
I don't like the 50's styles or rockabilly look.
Now COS I really like.
Mint Velvet too, but it's too expensive with the euro exchange rate.
Debenhams is full of polyester tat but that's just my local one. The city centre one is better.
I got fitted for a bra in Rigby and Peller and was told I was 34 DD or E.
I'm sticking with my more comfortable 38C Primark ones.

In the second picture, I notice her gorgeous colouring and hair. I see her face.

In the first I see a (IMO) nasty cheap looking dress.

And it makes her look larger. Again, IMHO.

Skater dresses. Makes even the lithe-limbed look fat, dumpy and frumpy

Someone posted a link to this siteGudrun Sjoden the other day loads of people were saying it was lovely. Really weird that anyone wants to look like frumpy gap year student travelling round India imho. However, the homewares on that site were indeed lovely.

I also like Mint velvet jeans

I see someone hiding in the second, and saying 'this is me!' in the first

Because the dress and shoes would look silly with a raincoat on top. And I agree with Pringle that the red dress makes her look bigger than the jeans do, and that the dress looks cheap.

I don't think there's anything wrong with standing out (or, indeed, with blending in, if that's what the person wants) but I don't think that the 50s retro thing is a very imaginative way of standing out - it's just a different kind of uniformity.

I'm a long loooong time lurker and I had to join just now to ask what the absolute fuck those irregular choice shoes are all about!!!??? Why just why would anybody put them on their feet? What's wrong with normal ya know HUMAN shoes

In the second picture, I notice her gorgeous colouring and hair. I see her face. In the second I see a dress.

I agree with you, Single, but I think it's a styling error. The dress makes an unmistakable statement about its era and idiom. Doing hair and shoes in keeping is what made it look fancy-dress-like: she's letting the dress wear her. Also, that print would look better on a black woman than someone as white as she is.

I will have to bow to everyone else's experience on Cos! I did an image search, but 99% of the real people looked just as droopy as the catalogue pictures

The other 1% looked fantastic, though. Perhaps they were the Cos fans on this thread!

Am I allowed to hate both the outfits in the pictures?