What incorrect fashion advice regularly gets doled out on here?

[BrendaandEddie]

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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

There's stunning grey hair and then there's the dull mousy half and half or washed out yellowy white that many British women go.

Models with grey hair are usually tanned with dark eyebrows/eyes and steely blue grey hair. Really not like the average Brit. It's unfair to show pics of them in magazines and to tell readers to go natural as you will look good.

And pale or pink British skin doesn't go with steely grey, white grey yes.

I'm going to save going grey for my 70th birthday. Reverse chrysalis. I'll emerge after growing out roots with a beautiful haircut, expensive earrings, better make up. I won't do one of those pixie I'm a ten year old boy haircuts though. If I were 70 now I'd do this, in grey. I hope I'm a silver white.

That cut looks great with iron-grey, too, NoMore (layers suit multi-shaded hair,) if your grey turns out to be the smooth, malleable sort.

I'm among the majority with 70% stiff, dark grey and 30% soft white stuff. By the time it's gone white all over, the other 70% will have fallen out. And I'll be faced with an invigorating choice between the short perm "to give the illusion of volume, you old ladies will believe anything" or the close, could-almost-be-bald crop.

I will be buying a selection of cosplay wigs. Until then, I'm dyeing my grey to look like a cosplay wig

I couldn't read the whole 17 pages to see if anyone already said this but...

'If you have no waist wear a belt to create one'. No, no, NO!!!

Wearing a belt on a non-existent waist just advertises the fact that you have no waist.

MrsdeVere, I'd enjoy a snoop around the shops with you and your friend.

Carpetdiem, your welcome! I hope they work for you. I have a small gap in the back waist, but it is so much less than usual.

Wearing a belt on a non-existent waist just advertises the fact that you have no waist.

How very true, ZaZa. It always makes me think of those gathered dresses, "cinched in" at the waist and bloused out above the belt.
Otherwise known as the 'sack of potatoes in a large curtain' look.

Lots of COS stuff suits me too, horton.

I just cannot find the shits to give re what others wear. I used to. Now, not so much. I know what suits me and what I like. If it's different to what suits you or what you like, that's fine. I'm not bothered.

meh

I started work at 13 in a 'boutique'
They had only just been invented, I think.
It was amazing, late 60s, I had the most fun ever at work.
New clothes came in every Thursday, copied from last Thursday's Top of the Pops, or Chelsea Girl.
I got to chose the window display and accessories and always had the latest 'thing'.
The factory girls came in and put away their choices til the next day, pay day.

I love clothes still but don't follow fashion now as I don't like most looks and they don't really suit my more generous curves.

In fact, I have my own, really idiosyncratic, look. I love Gudren Sjoden, and the clothes mentioned earlier, made using really old techniques. One of my favourite memories is walking past Gudren Sjoden's shop in Covent Garden and being called inside by an assistant as she "knew I would love it, I looked like I was modelling their clothes"!

I always wear full length net petticoats under long skirts and look as though I have wandered into the wrong century.

I also love fugly shoes and boots, mad hair colours, there is no hope for me except......

I always wear a well fitted bra and hate my boobs bring unsupported!!

I agree with the no belt thing. I'm quite up down. No 'in'. Last thing I'm ever go to do is wear a belt. I'm 8 and a half stone but I have a 29" waist!

I'm going to kondo all my belts!

OMG - how had I never heard of Gudren Sjoden!!!! Amazing stuff!

Excellent thread! Cos have already gained a new customer this morning.

Haven't read the whole thread yet but has anyone else experience the instant aging effect of wearing anything at all in Phase 8? They have a 20% day, I am lured in, and every single time I age 20 years. Lighting, cut, mirrors I just don't know.

Always very emabarrassing when the lovely fitting room ladies ask why you didn't fancy it.

I've got a few things from phase eight which aren't ageing but strangely I find the actual shop really ageing and rarely buy anything in store. Weird.

Love this thread. I admit to being baffled by the "sparkly top" advice, it just makes me think of drunken gaggles of work Christmas parties in town and forced festive cheer. I find sparkly tops horribly ageing.

Also, the Parisian Chic mania from a couple of years ago which has led to the standard fashion advice being classics like a trench coat. Trench coats don't suit a lot of people - the classic Burberry is a beige shade that makes north European pasty skin types look like death and if you're short, you don't need fussy bits like a belt dangling off you and two rows of buttons, it's very unflattering. Ditto the little black dress - black looks awful on me (pasty north European etc) and lots of others!

Wow amazing people's different tastes. Godrun sjoden not for me at all. So loud all of it.

Crikey - just had a look at Gudren Sjoden . Anyone remember Cloth Kits from the 80s??

I like Gudrun Sjoden on other people but the lagenlook style looks daft on me. I wish I could pull it off but instead suit plain, dramatic lines in dark colours.

I love all sorts of different styles on others though.

Not a fan of Gudrun Sjoden. Lots of loud colours, but you can avoid those. Much worse is their obsession with tent-like clothes with no definition which look terrible if, like me, you're large with a large bust. Ship in full sail isn't a good look.

I think the worst advice doled out is "you should wear X" without any idea of the person's colouring or shape - no context.

Sorry to return to an earlier subject but (as per the "House of Colour" theories) not everything suits everyone - people have a different shape, colouring and lifestyle/personality. Isn't it obvious that one sort of dress doesn't suit everyone?

I wouldn't look good in Gudrun Sjoden but I love to see that look on other people.

www.mintvelvet.co.uk/silver-grey-lace-hem-knit/knitwear/mint-v/fcp-product/5681

As a Mint Velevt virgin, I wimbled over to have a look. This made me laugh - it just looked like droopy tits from the front!

I got a nice dress from Gudrun Sjoden in the summer sales - unlike most of her stuff it's plain and reasonably fitted. Good quality thick cotton ans washes well. The other "mad art teacher" apparel wouldn't be to my taste but I appreciate it looks good on others. Marian Keyes wrote in praise of GJ; she said she liked the way it defied fashion diktats that middle aged women should be invisible- so true.

All the hair advice re frizzy dry hair. Avoiding sls/silicones, not using straighteners, letting it dry naturally etc.

I did it for months and it had no effect on my hair other than it looking worse. My hair is so much more smoother and manageable when using a fair amount of products and straighteners a few times a week.

The SLS/silicones stuff works for some people.

So it's not so much "incorrect advice" as it is "advice that does not work for everyone".

Obviously "advice" is never correct for everyone, that's why it's advice not fact.

But advice can be INCORRECT for nearly everyone.