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

To be fair Tethers I'm not mad on the second but in comparison...!

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I LOVE Irregular Choice shoes.

The fact that they don't look 'normal' is the whole appeal.

No they wouldn't look silly with a raincoat on top. Here's me, in a coat, in the rain. I have a vintage dress and petticoat on.

People that like those dresses tend to like irregular choice shoes

tethers - you can love or hate anything you want (I think that is the whole point of the thread!)

I think in terms of the first picture, the whole look would be fabulous. Vintage coat, vintage shoes etc (but then my DH is in a rockabilly band and for many years I have spent most weekends with people who dress similarly and drive cars, ride motorbikes etc which are all in a similar vein)

Tali - that looks beautiful

User thank you

That sounds amazing that your DH is in a band! I go to a lot of vintage fairs and the bands are always brilliant fun

Oh I know each to their own and all that jazz but there's a fine line between quirky and beautiful and downright fugly and I think the oul irregular choice are firmly in the latter
The Sophia Webster butterfly shoes are unusual those green irregular ones someone posted earlier are like fancy dress

Tethers - that cost is lovely! Is it a vintage or modern one?

You look great. I'm slightly jealous.

Tali even

I know, that's why I like them

My mother of the bride shoes

The goldy coloured ones near the bottom were what my daughter wore to her wedding

Laurie thank you. It's modern, I found it on sale by accident from something like £350 to £120. It's soooo warm

I also dress in mostly vintage clothes- but 68-79 is my preferred period. My wardrobe's so full of polyester it crackles when you open it

Vintage doesn't just mean 50s

Love your MOB and DDbride shoes, user.

What a great image thethers!

Garlic, thankyou (I just wish that I didn't have wide hobbits feet so that they cut my feet to ribbons )

I love Ruby Shoo but can't wear them because I'm a half size with weird long skinny feet -sob-

I fear that we are taking over this thread Shall I start a new one for sharing vintage / unusual fashion?

User yes! I would love that thread

Cos is the only store where clothes look better on me than on the models

But it's 50/50 between the good and the ugly

If I could head to Sainsburys dressed like Grace Jones at Studio 54, crossed with Bianca Jagger's wedding suit and then a little of Ali Mcraw in Love Story, I'd be very very happy!

Sequins? Disco? Skin tight white trousers? Stilettos? Knee high brown boots? Denim A Line skirts? Dr Who style scarfs? Huge hoop earrings* BRING IT!

(*I may actually do all of these on a Monday in February...)

Ah user7755 your ones are practically tame compared to the ones upthread

Single, that sounds amazing - why wait till Feb?

Single I feel the exact same about Elvira from Scarface
If my abundance of back fat didn't hinder the wearing of backless slinky satin frocks I would most defo swish around tesco in one

User and err...User (!) I admit I do dress like it already. There may be a lot of sequins and skin tight trousers and maybe some shoulder pads and backless dresses in my wardrobe.

And I may have bought another pair of high (wooden) heeled knee length tan boots today...

I love to see people wearing vintage clothes (prefer sixties and seventies) including fifties clothes if they look like the kind of clothes people ordinarily wore in the fifties. Like a Fair Isle tank top and a librarian style skirt - that would be fifties.

But an enormous petticoat with garish dress, tattoos, victory rolls and a load of eyeliner makes me fear the wearer is going to burst into a burlesque routine at any moment.

My mum complains about how ridiculous, ugly and impractical such clothes were in the fifties. They should have died a death then. I'm sure there are also Victorian fashions worth bringing back that aren't corsets.

And if it is a choice between quirky fifties and steampunk, then quirky fifties is slightly less awful.