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I bought something from Fat Face. Is this the end?

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 04/04/2016 16:25

Picked a random jumper up in John Lewis and liked it. Looked at the label - 100% cotton. Liked it even more. Looked at the price - reasonable. Liked it even more. tried it on. Liked it. Dp liked it. Then I saw the label. I bought it anyway.

Am I doomed?

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G1raffe · 06/04/2016 16:24

Oh I'd love to live in some of your areas. I dont think mine is quite so naice!

looki · 06/04/2016 16:31

I ventured into FF today as I had spotted a navy and white long summer skirt on the website. It was sooooo long and looked like a curtain. On the way out, I picked up a pair of turn up blue jeans. I am a 12 in jeans usually but size 10 in FF. The first pair fell off me. I mentioned it to the shop assistant and she brought me an identical pair in the same size which fitted much better.

I bought them, unsure if I will keep as the stomach area is too low rise for me but they are nice jeans.

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 06/04/2016 16:32

I am going out tonight (just for a pub tea and a pint) and will be sporting my new jumper with skinny jeans and heeled ankle boots. Will wear a leather cuff or spiky necklace or something so that I still feel like me. Grin

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Duckfacepalm · 06/04/2016 22:52

I'm in my late 30s and do have some jumpers from there and have had a fair few coats but I am an outdoors type. Surprised its considered frumpy, I'd agree with WoodleyPixie in that that seems to be the demographic here too although (perhaps horrifyingly for the South East Commuter Belt I'm in semi rural Liverpool) Wink

CakeNinja · 07/04/2016 09:59

Sorry Op, I believe this may be the end!

I bloody hate FF. I have a wardrobe full of it as it's one of the very few women's clothes shops in our closest town. He does a clean sweep there every Christmas, I know to expect a coat (drab khaki or navy affair), jeans, drab shapeless jumper, washed out tshirt, fucking 'jazzy' scarf to spruce it all up and some stringy jewellery.
I have asked him politely about 3,000 times for receipts etc but he doesn't keep them, they'll only give store credit without them and I DONT WANT ANYTHING ELSE Shock

The whole shop gives me a little cloud of sadness, it's so washed out and just shapeless, everything dp has ever bought me just seems to make me look bulky.

Apart from my cool pineapple trousers i got last year. Maybe they just do frumpy winterwear?

Runningupthathill82 · 07/04/2016 10:16

Swap it all for pyjamas, CakeNinja - they're the only wearable thing in there! Failing that, is there any way you can feasibly get your DH barred from FatFace before next Christmas?!

CakeNinja · 07/04/2016 11:10

Running I don't wear pyjamas!
Oh it's not just Christmas, birthdays/Mother's Day too Hmm
I have said to him time and time again not to get me anything from there, he just doesn't bloody listen.
I'm only 31, he knows where I buy my clothes from and it's not there!

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 07/04/2016 13:03

Cake - oh no! That's awful. Does your dp not realise that the clothes are making you miserable? I think you need to tell him straight out that he must never buy anything from there again or face the consequences. It's lazy and insulting to you, if he just keeps on buying it.

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JackandDiane · 07/04/2016 13:04

your HUSBAND buys you CLOTHES?
HOW odd - i simply cannot imagine this world

CakeNinja · 07/04/2016 13:49

They don't really make me miserable, he buys my other things that I do like aswell, it's just a complete waste!
He thinks he's buying me practical sensible things because I do tend to buy myself pretty and probably not the most practical clothes, so he does think he's doing quite a good job.
Sadly, FF is next door to his favourite shop for himself so he thinks it's fate Grin

No Jack, he's not my HUSBAND. Thanks for the input Grin

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 07/04/2016 14:09

Dp would never buy me clothes, and I'd be a bit ??? if he did.

But you've told him that you don't like them and he keeps buying them. Yoo've also said that the shop gives you a little cloud of sadness. Either he's trying to turn you into somebody else, or he doesn't respect what you're saying to him. Either way, that really isn't okay.

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JackandDiane · 07/04/2016 14:55

partner /husband. you know the deal rolls eyes

If someone called my h my partner I wouldn't get my pants in a twist

JackandDiane · 07/04/2016 14:56

I think you are married ( or not) to Rob Titchener

CakeNinja · 07/04/2016 15:22

Remus, you'll have to get worked up on my behalf then!

Well in all fairness, you shouted it. If you're going to shout, at least shout it right Grin
You seemed to get your pants in a twist about me slating him - mine are nice and comfortable thanks Halo

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 07/04/2016 15:31

So - you don't like the clothes, you've told him you don't, he keeps buying them, and now you're objecting to people suggesting that this is a bit strange? Admit it - you love FF really and want him to carry on buying the stuff. Confused

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MaisieDotes · 07/04/2016 16:31

I have to say cake - I did wonder who "he" was in your first post about getting clothes bought for you. You didn't specify.

MagnifiMad · 07/04/2016 16:44

I am using this thread to discover brands and shops I didn't know about. as I wear Boden on top, Next on the bottom and Hush Puppies on my feet (socks by H&M, underwear from La Vie en Rose and Pink by Victoria's Secret)

Tillii · 08/04/2016 12:20

I love the plain Stuff from White Stuff and Fat Face.

Floisme · 08/04/2016 12:30

I like White Stuff colours - at least it's not death by navy and grey. They used to do a lovely mock-wrap jumper in linen with ruching up the side - really flattering. If I'd known they were going to stop doing them, I'd have stocked up.

Branleuse · 08/04/2016 12:43

I dont understand. If you like the jumper, who the fuck cares where its from.

Is it cool and edgy to pretend that you like clothes you dont, or dont like clothes you do, because you think they represent something to OTHER PEOPLE,.

If you think people cant tell your age, or the fact youre (whispers) a MOTHER or over 30 or something despite the shrieking children round your ankles and the bags under your eyes, just because the top you are wearing comes fat face or boden, then youre delusional

DramaAlpaca · 08/04/2016 12:46

I like Fat Face. In fact, thanks to this thread I've just been on & ordered a white shirt.

OhPuddleducks · 08/04/2016 12:51

I like fat face and I'm in my early 30s. Also wore it in my 20s. I'm comfy.

JasperDamerel · 08/04/2016 12:53

I love Fat Face and White Stuff because they sell things in the muted colours which suit me (I'm a soft summer). The cut isn't always what I love, but I really like it that I can generally get clothes which are in an actual colour rather than grey, blue of off-shite which don't make skin look grey.

ouryve · 08/04/2016 13:02

People complain about washed out and shapeless, but I am washed out and shapeless! I have a pot belly no waist, pale, pale skin and increasingly cool colouring and I love being able to walk into a shop without having to walk past acres of lurid orange polyester before even being able to begin to work out if something out of the small range of vaguely suitable colours will suit me!

Floisme · 08/04/2016 13:08

I'm washed out too and getting pretty saggy! But I want my clothes to counteract that, not make it look even worse.

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