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

Depends on your point of view, I think minimalist Scandi fashion is about as sexy as a brick. Rather have flounce and frills and bows.

It just seems that everyone is picking on one particular style that's irritating

Agree re trousers TaliZorah. I find it's a very hard body shape to do casual with tbh - I can't ever just sling on jeans and a breton top, even when I'm slimmer than I am now. I occasionally manage to find a pair of jeans which fit but they always need heels, a carefully chosen top, some sort of blazer...and suddenly my casual look ends up being most folks "night out in the pub!"

Doesn't help I've recently started working in an office with no dress code, so I'm perpetually overdressed at work too! Ah well.

Queenbean - who pissed on your chips? Why the need to be bitchy?

Some people like wearing some clothes, others like wearing different clothes. For some people the clothes they wear are functional, for some people some people it's to create an image, for some people it's to hide or accentuate bits of their body, for some people what they wear is an extension of themselves and their personalities. So bitching about what people are wearing may be very hurtful to people. It's completely unnecessary.

Oh and I love bonkers art teachers.

But people on S&B have bitched about other people's preferred styles of clothing since Mumsnet began - mum boots, tunics, 50s dresses, etc. There may well have been some heartbroken Per Una wearers feeling miffed at seeing their clothes slagged off. I think vintage style has got off lightly compared to some tbh.

Chill out user, it's just my opinion, you know - a stranger on a chat forum. Check every single thread on style and beauty and people slag off other people's choices - mum boots, per una, Breton tops, skinny jeans - they've all gone through the mill

I'm entitled to my opinion, I'm explaining why I don't like cheap vintage dresses. Its not personal. Just like I don't take it personally if someone slags off something I wear.

I agree, the vintage dress wearers would hate my un-patterned fitted clothes! SO what.

ha ha to this "It's only a thread on Mumsnet. It's not like we're a bunch of mods still beating you up on Brighton beach like it's 1964"

Spagetti straps and strapless tops/dresses on anyone in the workplace and especially on women with large breasts. All that skin, ewww.

I cannot get my head around why anyone would feel comfortable with naked shoulders anywhere but the beach or pool.

Whoops I missed the point entirely, I've never seen anyone advised to wear spaghetti straps or strapless dresses here. It's just my pet hate. Sorry to detract.

As you were with the lindybop, skater, fly convo. FWIW I hate all three.

does anyone remember the episode of miranda where she ran up to people in the street and said 'do you like that top? is it comfy? wear that then'?

that is my fashion advice to everyone.

my only veto would be no wolf fleeces.

Those wolf fleeces, I reckon if you were uber hip you could rock that look.

hortonwho, yes, yes! You have to work the old with new,

There is a big difference between admiring certain era and picking up a few pieces and working them with your regular clothes, and copying an entire look from the 50s,with cheaply made fabrics, it looks disastrous ,

50s and 60s clothes were better made, very little synthetic fabrics were used, it would cost £££ to reproduce nowadays, so a cheap full skirt dress from a website will never look as good as a vintage one,

Sadly vintage clothing , are not easy to come by,long gone are the days where you could find good stuff for cheap, people are so Aware that clothes up to the late 80s were better made so prices have gone up considerably high,

I always find it strange when posters recommend 50s full skirt dressed for larger women, as a way of dressing your body type , why? Why add extra volume? I know someone who is a size 16-18 and she never dresses like that,she wears skinnies, pencil skirts, straight trousers, and always looks amazing ,

I really don't want to anyone to take this the wrong way, but I feel specially here on MN, if you are large then according to some posters,are not allowed to dress in anything other than 50s or 60s clothes, its ridiculous, you can look great in many styles and trends,if they were the right size and of good fabric, so there is no need to force a certain trend on certain body type,

Agree Lara. I am always amazed when anything that emphasises the waist is recommended for apples.

If you have a small waist and curvy hips/thighs go buy these trousers while you still can!
m.johnlewis.com/mt/www.johnlewis.com/bruce-by-bruce-oldfield-fine-wool-blend-slim-trousers-black/p2163406?un_jtt_v_pdp=yes&un_jtt_v_from_product=un_product_2#page_loaded

I read the reviews from other shoppers complaining there was too much too in the seat/thighs and snapped them up. They are a dream if you are shaped like Beyoncé/Marylin Monroe. On sale too! The high waist is particularly flattering on a small waist/curvy body type.

Tali I am some one who sews to a very high level of skill. I could not even buy the materials to make such a dress for £70. I think they can look great, but I think they need to be made with all the hidden extras inside.

There is a tendency to automatically recommend 50s dresses for larger sizes - but the problem is that "large" isn't a body shape! My friend is about the same size as me but looks terrible in my 50s dresses because she has narrower hips and carries more of her stomach weight higher up, so the flat section just accentuates the worst bit of her shape. Whereas on me it's my narrowest bit as my tummy is lower down (pure dead sexy...not!) so you don't see it in a flared skirt. But you damn well see it in trousers or pencil skirts.

Well, there is also the fact that most women nowadays won't fit original 1950s dresses - not only were people generally smaller and slimmer then, they also wore girdles. Your average 2015 pear shaped size 14 wouldn't stand a chance of squeezing into authentic 50s clothes without some heavyweight corsetry being involved.

The worst advice I see doled out here is 'go grey' to women who are only in the 30s & early 40s. It seems sad to look older than necessary, when you are still in your prime. And I am sorry, but long, grey hair always looks witchy to me. Fine if you are going for the scary old lady look, but otherwise to be avoided.

But there is also lots of good advice, especially about online sales, sizing and fit. I love the S&B board.

Tali fwiw I love the vintage frock look. Miles better than the dull old gilet check, skinnies check, ballet flats check, big scarf check look.
I love your description of your look.

But thank you! It's fun and comfortable

statistically it's impossible to do casual! I'm hourglass/pear as well and it just doesn't look right. I embrace the pretty dresses

2016 check out polka dot polly

I agree with Horton and Lara about cheap reproductions. I gave up on 'vintage' when it Kate Moss came along - until then it was all just 'second hand'.

So I am not personally invested in this and besides Style and Beauty would be dull if we always agreed etc. However when 'wearers' of a style are referred to as 'coquettish' 'not very sexy' and 'try hard' - well that sounds pretty personal to me. And telling posters not to take it personally doesn't change that.

Floisme that's what I object to too. No problems with people disliking it but insulting those who do is rude

Floisme I didn't say the wearers of those outfits are those words, I said that often with 50s style dressing comes this ridiculous pouty-posing which is all those things. That's what I think looks naff.

Tali's pic upthread where she's wearing that style but not posing all knees together, lips in an O shape, hand on hip, looks nice.

It is pretty odd to post photos of yourself in a certain outfit on a thread and then expect for it not to be discussed