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

Love all the bra angst women running while wearing normal, badly fitting bras looks downright painful!

Very much agree about the pressure to go grey from head to toe as you get older - balls to that! Ditto the advice to run screaming from denim shorts and mini skirts if you're over 35 - whatever!

i love this thread so much it's almost the kiss of dearh. SOMEONE WILL COMPLAIN

Leggings. No. No. No. No.

Never.

Skater dresses are by far the best shape for me - pear shaped with wide shoulders and a size 12. The swing shapes look horrific on me, skinny jeans are well dodgy, also structured jackets make me look like robocop, a nice cardy is much more flattering.

Just had a look at the Caroline Hirons site thing - what is it? I couldn't figure it all out and lost the will to read the endless text.

Caroline Hurons gives excellent advice about the method of cleaning your face (double cleansing), but most of the products she recommends seem to have crushed up diamonds in them, or so I assume from the price!

Skinny jeans and ballet flats look fucking awful on me. As do sparkly tops.
I actually suit boot cuts and I don't give one flying fart if they are in or out of fashion, I will wear them because they suit me.
Thick tights, short dress, big boots and a cardi is my day to day style, though it's more of a kind of crazy bag lady chic.
I also hate beige, taupe and neutrals (other than black) with a passion.

That letting your hair go grey will look great, not for most of us it won't.
All this nonsense about clothes being age specific with nervous posters asking if they can still wear shorts or short skirts once they are past 40 FFS!!!!!
That I should really wear a bra so tight I can't breathe because no one is really a 36c - I'm not fat but I couldn't get a 34 band even to do up!

Any skin problem ranging from one-off spot to years of severe acne - 'have you tried the OCM?'

I reckon I could post 'all my skin has fallen off and i am now just a skeleton' and someone would be like 'the OCM is definitely for you!'

I'm always intrigued by the term 'nice cardi'. As opposed to what, a nasty one?

although all cardis are the devils work as far as I'm concerned. Eek

Agree re skater dresses. They look nice on children, or on size 8 flat chested teenage girls. That is all.

Mint Velvet doesn't do much for me, even though I love grey. I find it spectacularly over-priced for what it is. I do have a lovely leather jacket from there, but haven't bought anything else from there in years.

I'd never get my colours done. I wear black and grey and the v odd bit of white, red, purple or pink. And blue denim. That's about it.

Sorry Fiery. Crossed posts with you. I'm sure your dresses look nice!

Vivien of Holloway is very niche. It looks great on some, but I have a sneaking suspicion those 40s and 50s styles would look hideous on very many. I'd love to be able to pull off a vintage-style dress, but at 5'11, its a no-go for me. I tried on a VOH dress once and it reached mid-thigh and made me look like a brothel maid.

Wrap dresses are mainly awful. I am tall and large of nork, and went through a phase of wearing them about 10 years ago, after the birth of my first DC, wen I'd lost my mojo and read stuff online about wrap dresses being the saviour of curvaceous women. I look back on old photos and think 'why on earth, woman?!'. They aged me by about 15 years and only accentuated the huge bazookas in a most unflattering way.

My niggles are:

Cos. Fucking Cos. 'Get yourself to Cos for workwear'. Why? Do I look like I work in a library in Scandinavia? Who looks good in Cos, really? Drab colours, straight up-and-down sack-like styles. Even the rail thin 22 yr old models on the website look depressed and shapeless.

Jeggings/Treggings. M&S/Next ones are apparently great. My eye.
Nobody looks good in weird legging/trouser hybrids. Get some slim, dark jeans instead.

I too went onto Caroline Hirons site once. It was absolute gobbledygook to me. I also then realised I'm barely arsed to wipe my face with a face wipe, it probably isn't right for me!

never heard of her

Oh God, Hirons. Yes - you absolutely must spend hundreds of pounds and use ten different products a night to have nice skin .

I suppose 'drink water/use sunscreen/eat healthily' doesn't fill up endless blog pages and generate thousands of pounds, though

see skibadeedoodle I'd love to work in a library in Scandinavia. But I, too, hate Cos

Ahem - I have a pair of M&S jeggings, and they look amazing. Like proper skinny jeans that cling in all the right places, with a proper zip and everything

The M&S denim jeggings are just skinny jeans. I like them.

Leggings are thick tights. I will only wear them in lieu of thick tights when it's cold. They work excellently with shorter skirts and dresses that I'm too old for apparently when it's frosty. It's not been cold enough yet this year.

I want to like Mint Velvet, there's one in our town and the windows always look like they have things in them i'll like, but I can't help but thinking they need to be priced about 2/3s less for what they are. And I'm a bit too short for them.

Also a fan of M&S jeggings, New Look skinnies are fab too

I love it when brendaandeddie starts a thread. I always know it's going to be highly entertaining.

I know it's been mentioned upthread but:

OP: Should I get all my hair cut off? I fancy a pixie cut.

First 75 posters: Yes, yes. Look at this picture of Charlize Theron with a pixie cut! She looks A-MAY-ZING. Do it!

Next 75 posters: Yes, do it! It's only hair! If you don't like it just grow it out and three weeks later you'll be back to normal!!

My internal voice: Please, for the love of god just don't. Nobody looks like Charlize Theron except Charlize Theron ... You'll end up looking like a more haggard version of your current self and it will take 4 tear-filled years to grow the bastard thing out. Step away from the pixie cut now ...

Mudandmayhem

"On dying your hair a quirky colour; I read on a hideous blog by a men's right activist how much he hated women with artificial hair colour, how they were all unfeminine or lesbians. Avoiding men like sounds a good enough reason to grab the purple dye."

Sounds like one of those laughably entitled blokes, in possession of about two teeth, six hairs and a giant beer belly who really thinks he should be able to bag a supermodel.

Completely agree lurking, I had very short hair in my 20s and someone guessed my age as 10plus years older than I was! It is staying dyed and shoulder length for the foreseeable future.