What do you buy or covet that just doesn't fit with your lifestyle? (But sometimes buy anyway!)

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I love the look of power dressing. I have a really well cut, sleek Jaeger coat (got for a bargain in the sale) that I would love to stride into work wearing. Except I am a bottom of the pile, admin assistant
Dress for the job you want and all that!!

What do you want/buy that you will likely never need/use?

Heels! I always imagine myself wearing them at work or on nights out but never ever do 😂

Trekking and hiking gear. I don't get to go anymore, but always have it just in case

Summer dresses that only look good without something over them. It's very rare to be so warm you only have bare arms where I live and I naturally get quite cold so never get to wear them

YYY to summer dresses.

I am fortunate enough that I sometimes have work trips to hot places. I keep a few summer outfits in the back of the wardrobe for the occasional midwinter travel but they are almost always places where I can't wear sleeveless/short skirts so those lovely, carefree sundresses basically never get worn.

instead I put DD in pretty dresses her size and she freezes.

Irregular choice shoes- I adore them and have just ordered another pair (well it was a good sale) but they are so impractical for my lifestyle. I'm going to try wearing them for school this term though, just to make me feel better

Scarves. I own about 12 and never wear them because a) I run hot anyway, b) I drive to work and the office heating is fierce and c) I live in the south west where we can have a winter warm enough that it gets nowhere near 0 in the winter.

Band t-shirts at gigs. I get overexcited, buy a gig t-shirt totally forgetting a box shape man's t-shirt does feck all for my body shape so they end up as DIY shirts, in my husband's wardrobe or in the charity shop bag.

Merch stalls are seriously missing a trick by not stocking female friendly cuts/necklines. I've seen a few do it but they are on the whole hideous black heavy cotton crew necks which make me look like a brickies mate (no disrespect to brickies, my stepdad was one).

• Non breastfeeding tops/ bras
• A sweeping fringe (I have hair that fluffs up and no time to style it)
• White clothes (I have a baby and also spill everything especially red wine. I am also very pale)
• Dangly earrings (baby grabs them)
• Clothes that need ironing or hand washing (not going to happen)

Yy to scarves. I heard somewhere on here they are "over" but I seem to have eleven billion of them and never wear them because my DC are at the pulling-your-clothes stage and I don't fancy being hung by mistake. Now they use them in their interpretive dance regimes or to make a tent in the garden.

I miss scarves.

I live in trainers, but would love to wear heeled boots in winter. I do have some, but they never get worn, I just don't reach for them as my trainers are so comfortable.

Blazers. Ok I only have one but although it's lovely, good quality and a perfect fit it just isn't me.
Doesn't stop me looking at other Blazers and thinking one day I might start wearing them, but at least I don't buy them.

Tailoring for work. I just look butch in a suit and look better in a dress but I'd love to look Sharp in a trouser suit but don't. At all.

I desperately wanted a Jenny Packham wedding dress. Bridal shop took one look at my large size 16 arse and 38DD boobs me and said 'those are not for you dear'.

She was right. But still.

I just googled irregular choice @ElfrideSwancourt and now I'm coveting them and they definitely don't fit my lifestyle.

Heels here too. Can't wear them for work (Early Years teacher), where I go on holiday most years the house is at the top of a massive hill and there's no motorised transport of any kind so no sky high wedges for me then, DP usually insists on walking when we go out (near enough to town to do this but not in heels) and then I broke my foot and so really am not supposed to, but sometimes they're just too beautiful and so they come and look beautiful on my shoe rack until I cave and give them to my sister.

Lovely pretty lacy scraps of nothing type bras. You can sometimes get them in my size but then instead of looking like pretty wisps of sexy gorgeousness they look like something youd drag behind a fishing trawler.

A full fringe - looks really good on me when hair is washed, blow dried and straightened. This happens approximately once a month and the rest of the time it's either left to air dry all wavy which then looks odd with straight fringe, or scraped back in a ponytail which really doesn't work with a fringe.

(Things that do suit my lifestyle - leggings, flat ankle boots, cardigans, pyjamas )

Oh and yy to white clothes. I bought a beautiful white winter coat one year, I thought I looked like the woman from scandal. My mum tutted and scoffed (we were shopping together) and I said 'mum I'm 30-whatever I was at the time bloody years old, I think I can be trusted with a white coat if I want one'. I spilled ribena down myself the very next day.

The entire contents of Massimo Dutti. I imagine if I buy it I'll have a city break kinda life rather than one where I walk my dog through muddy fields when I'm not sitting in a freezing office. I do occasionally weaken and buy stuff there and it makes me feel so good on the rare occasions I get to wear it.

Definitely summer clothes. I just took back 4 dresses in H&M. Who buys summer dresses the arse end of a cold August when they aren't going on holiday anytime soon. I had a word with myself.

Also, White clothes, I know I'm going to ruin them, why do I still buy them?

I really really want one of those full skirt sticky out chiffon skirts (like a full size tutu). I have had literally zero occasions to wear one and I've managed to resist them so far.

The Moschino popcorn dress. I fucking love it, but is there any where that it wouldn't look bat shit crazy?

I impulse bought some louboutin ankle boots this afternoon. I love them, they're funky and gorgeous. But they're very high and velvet and my only nights out are getting pissed in student clubs. I'd rather not have a VK poured down them.

Anyone want to take me out for dinner?

Would you have the popcorn cape to go with the dress? you'd look like a lunatic

Wedding dresses. Have been married 30 years this month and no intention of ever doing it again but I can spend hours googling suitable wedding dresses for over 50 year old second time brides.

The cape is part of the dress. Looking like a lunatic and a lack of funds is what stops me.

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Evening or very dressy clothes that I never have the right occasion for
Heels which look amazing but I end up not wearing as usually go for comfort

I'd love a tiny fast car.
I have 2 sporty dc, and visit building sites and farms most days for work.

I have an estate which I'd permanently muddy on the outside, full of crumbs on the inside and has a boot full of wellies.