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

i hate myself for liking TOO MUCH at Mint velvet
bloody grey shop

I just cant get on with maxi dresses. I do have a few longish dresses but feel really OTT in a maxi.

I look good in 50s style dresses but I have a proper hourglass figure and find I look terrible in lots of things that look good on other people, it's actually a hard shape to dress with a lot of clothes (I do well in some dresses, ballgowns and suits, less well informally - skinny jeans are my nemesis). I don't wear them with 50s accessories/ hair though, and stick to patterns that suit or plain and I think many people do look like they are playing dress up as the shape really doesn't suit everybody.

In all honesty I think most of the mainstream S&B advice is profoundly depressing and aims to make us all look like restrained and respectable middle-aged laydeez. Can't be dealing with it and am off to get my nose pierced.

Mint Velvet is shit, isn't it? Spent ages in their John Lewis sale the other day looking for something I'd wear in public. Nothing.

Ditto Roland Mouret. Looks like Dorothy Perkins gone bad.

brenda me too.

I can't get on with maxi dresses or skirts. The dresses suit no-one and are actually nowhere near as good at disguising lumpy bits as you think they are, and the skirts just dare you not to trip over them

Give me a midi length any day

brenda I love a good 60% in mint velvet but don't need my colours done to know I look shit in grey so I'm screwed

Well some stuff is ok from mint velvet. I hate hate hate asymmetric hemline dresses esp. I have a gorgeous layered black top which i wear to death from MV. I bought this in the next sale and it is gorgeous:

www.mintvelvet.co.uk/casey-print-boho-dress/dresses-&-jumpsuits/mint-v/fcp-product/5636?gclid=Cj0KEQiAno60BRDt89rAh7qt-4wBEiQASes2tdhgwwxLWvk5Ln3DXaerkMk4CSB-VHhGBGoBrFOQatkaAkus8P8HAQ

But she looks awful with what she is wearing with this dress. I intend to wear mine with skinny jeans and boots and hoping to look better!

I love MInt Velvet! Grey is easy to wear and it all matches

I don't suit anything. Nothing is cut right and just the wrong shape for clothes makers of the uk. Shouting you need something tailored at me is not going to help if your tailor is too big on the shoulders and length of body and your trousers stop part the way up my calves. Don't tell me I need extra long because the manufactorers seem to think that you need extra long in all areas. I am not extra long, i just need longer trousers and am living totally in the wrong country for my build

Those 50's style dresses. Ugh.
Way to go if you want to look fat, frumpy and 20 years older than you already are -looking at you Kirsty Allsop

Sorry seems that last S&B advice I got still irks a little

mrsDV I never imagined you swishing in lindybop

Another useless piece of advise:

''let it dry naturally''.

Really?

'I really feel like yelling 'PLEASE GET A PROPER BRA' about 100 x a day though'

OMG yes! Especially when I'm out running in the park and I see at least 5 women in a row who are running in normal bras, risking black eyes. I feel like begging them to come with me for a proper fitting, right now!

WEll, I like to wear Well cut tasteful navy clothes but I wear them all very fitted bit tight Mint Velvet wouldn't represent the real me at all. Too much grey for a start. I thought I was the only one who under rated their tops.

Really lotta?
Personally i don't give a shit about other peoples bras.

Never look in Mint Velvet as I hate the name.

there is a woman at pump in front of me. her bra adjusters are at the BOTTOM of the strap.
One day I will hoik them up while she does a clean and press

yes, I dislike those vivien holloway dresses too! Awful! JMO but yuck. I don't like patterns though.

their silk tops lovely
all the rest a bit drapey for me

Another Fly fan here, sorry But I like that clunky style of shoe, which many S&B mavens despise. I look idiotic in fairylike footwear with skinny heels.

Cos! What's so desirable about drab & shapeless? That's not classy, it's ironic - you'd have to be completely stunning to make their stuff look great. Much like wearing a bin liner, only more expensive.

My biggest pet hate of all is "As we age our skin loses colour, so change to a lighter hair colour or go naturally grey." Why? In whose book is it a brilliant idea to respond to ageing by making yourself grey all over??! The same advisors tell you to tone down your makeup and wear subtle shades. Fantastic. The older I get, the more I aspire to look like a piece of weather-beaten rock. Not.