I'm so jealous of naturally slender people in this weather.

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You can only really look stylish in the heat if you're naturally very slim, I reckon. There are several mums at my DD's school who have that tiny-framed, small-breasted, gamine look going on, and they look wonderful, drifting about in loose-fitting, floaty clothes that makes anyonre bigger than a size 10 and a B cup look like a ship in a ship in full sail.

It's definitely a shape thing, not just a weight thing. Even at my thinnest, when I was a size 10, I could never have pulled off that look, I was still too curvy.

So jealous. I want to drift too!

Well, yeah. Not much does, thought fix.

Thoughtfox. Autocorrect didn't like your user name.

I'm not sure if anyone is truly comfortable in this heat - I'm a size 8 and dislike this weather intensely. I get a really sweaty face which is so embarrassing - for work I wear a gel facial antiperspirant, it works but it's very drying and feels like I'm wearing a mask.

Oh and I'm ginger so sunlight is not my friend

Venella pass me it quick please lol.

Ugh I'm a 6-8 but I am really struggling with what to wear in this heat, I was pregnant last summer so rather lost my mojo and I am still bf dd so most of my old summer clothes don't work as they are strappy/backless and I have to wear an ugly nursing bra. And all my previously floaty tops just hang off my boobs now and I look like a tent. Opening my wardrobe and seeing all my lovely sundresses that now either don't fit over my boobs or look awful with a bra was depressing this morning!

I don't think it's about size necessarily, but dressing for your shape, and I haven't worked out how to dress taking my big boobs into account. I know I have a trinny and Susanna book somewhere with tips for dressing to suit all shapes and sizes, I may have to dig it out!

I'm 5 foot 4, a size 12 and averagely curvy. According to you, I must look awful.
I'm wearing shorts and a vest top and I look fucking brilliant.
Wear what you want, love yourself as you are and ignore all the magazines and people telling you you should look a certain way.
Men do not have to put up with this shit!

I agree with what others have said - most struggle to look put together/feel confident in this weather!! Everyone has their own insecurities
I'm slim and tallish but I hate showing any skin because 1) eczema 2) scarring/skin discolouration 3) strawberry legs

Oh give it a rest, Seachange, I'm not attacking you.

Try being a size 24. I never drift anywhere. Ever. I stomp - and in this weather i trudge miserably from point a) to point b) with all the elegance and floatiness of a very overheated hippopotamus. That, dear reader, is not a good look.

I'm old and past caring! I love this weather, and I think I look okay/comfortable in today's thin red knitted linen t shirt and a pair of mid thigh length shorts as long as I (and all of you too, please) overlook the thread veins around one knee . I would put a skirt/trousers on for any activity more public or urban than cleaning, gardening and dog walking though. 5'4", 60kg, 34F norks.

Had this exact same thought this morning walking to work.

Loads of really slim women with their not a care in the world tailored shorts and tucked in linen shirts. Loads of beautiful dresses with arms out.

I'm 5'8" and a size 16 with a mum tum. I'd love to be in some paper bag waist trousers with a nice vest top but I wouldn't be comfortable.

I still like to think of myself as fairly stylish so today am wearing a geometric print linen shift dress and some jewelled leather sandals (large straps, not t bar).

My aim by next year is to be able to keep up with my weight training so that I have gamine arms and thighs that don't touch so I can wear whatever takes my fancy instead of deciding which flabby body part to hide from one day to the next!

I would love to be gamine !

You've got to work with what you've be got though. I think I look passable in floaty numbers, as it goes. I am on the slightly tall side though; 5'8" and a size 14. I think my large norks actually help as it means maxi dresses for well on the top and float round the bottom.

Still... to be gamine .

*Fit well

I don't think you're attacking me! I am just dick of hearing women attacking themselves, beating themselves up about the way they look.

Don't gamine women generally have short hair a la pixie cut, though. Read something somewhere today about men not liking short hair!

Link:

Men reveal their biggest turnoffs in a BRUTALLY honest online thread - and they include smoking, extreme sarcasm and short hair

By Bianca London for MailOnline
13:32, 25 May 2017, updated 14:39, 25 May 2017

Sorry - it's from The Daily Mail.

Phew. I'm glad I don't have to live my life trying to make sure I'm appealing to the mens all the time.

I am 5ft7 size 12/14 with a generous bazooom cleavage and find that I can't do the floaty look. So I wear vests and t shirts and knee length Jersey skirts or shorts. I would love to float about in summery drapey kimono tops and strappy camisoles and so on but it makes me look like someone dressed their granny in New Look for a laugh. Fecking bosom.

Anyway. I have to slap on the factor 50 normally so anything floaty would just stick to me so I've decided it's pointless trying that style.

That daily fail article spells bad news for Audrey Hepburn.

Yep.

God I love this weather! Maybe it helps living in Cornwall, not AS hot here as else where with a lovely sea breeze. Off to meet friends at the beach for a play and BBQ toddler tea. I know no one there will be complaining about the weather, we all love it! City living + carrying extra weight is a sun worshippers worst recipe. And no we're not all size 8s

I love the weather, I just wish my body was better equipped for it! And it's nowt to do with being attractive to men, plenty of men find my sort of look very attractive; in fact half the issues I have with my body type in the heat involve dressing it in a way that keeps me cool but isn't overtly sexy.

Dont worry guys, youre not as bad as me....im covered in psoriasis and am looking forward to yet another summer in long sleeves and trousers - and even my bloody feet have to be covered up.

I would far rather be generously proportioned and have skin that looks normal!

Op you made me laugh and some of these replies are funny too.

I've just dropped my mum at work but i went out in shorts a tiny top. I'm far too overweight and short to do it stylishly but I don't give a shit today. Too hot!!!

Feel your pain South China! This is my first summer in 20 years that I haven't been covered in psoriasis. New dermatologist and new treatment means this is a summer I haven't spent covered up totally.

@AllFurCoatNoKnockers Hey may I ask the treatment for your condition? My neighbour has it and we were talking this morning, she says this weather makes her more miserable!!