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Today I wore a simple plain sundress and I had about ten people tell me how nice I looked

75 replies

Lardlizard · 05/07/2019 18:36

Even a man at the garden center

Nice when that happens but I haven’t had hay many compliments in a day in years

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Lardlizard · 06/07/2019 07:26

I find nude works better under white than white which can imo sometimes show

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SpeckledyHen · 06/07/2019 09:13

It’s a lovely dress OP . Any chance of a modelling pic too ?

Handbag101 · 06/07/2019 09:20

How lovely OP. Bit of a confidence boost as well. It's a lovely dress 👗...

Tingface · 06/07/2019 09:24

How tall are you OP? I think that would be too short for me.

Whereissummerthisyear · 06/07/2019 09:28

Well it’s lovely but barely there so I’m sure you stood out if you were out shopping. It’s a long time since I have been able to go in a garden centre looking like that 😀 so make the most of it while you can!

Cloverisover · 06/07/2019 10:00

I reckon about 1 in a 100 women over the age of 30 could get away with that dress - you must be one of them.

AnnaMagnani · 06/07/2019 10:01

Congratulations OP!

I've started a new job. I'm wearing the same old clothes I've had for years - over 10 years in some cases - and I was thinking I'd buy a new wardrobe as in my opinion they were barely charity shop cases. However almost every item has had compliments Smile

So that is my top tip. Don't buy new clothes - just see new people Grin

ShirleyPhallus · 06/07/2019 10:03

I reckon about 1 in a 100 women over the age of 30 could get away with that dress - you must be one of them.

What crap. One day past your 30th birthday you don’t suddenly go all baggy and saggy and wrinkly and unable to show one inch of skin you know

I know many women in their 30s who this would look good on

Jolonglegs · 06/07/2019 10:08

Looks lovely OP but I'm not sure I could wear it with my height. I do have a white summer dress which I like wearing, and yes nude undies are best.

Cloverisover · 06/07/2019 10:15

No obviously 30 was just an arbitrary number plucked out of nowhere. I know 1 person who could look good in it but I don't move in very glamorous circles i guess.

Isthebigwomanhere · 06/07/2019 17:40

Lovely dress op.
Alas I'm to clumsy to wear white and to old and fat for that dress 😔

Bansheezus · 06/07/2019 17:52

Were people in the garden centre perhaps smiling and looking appreciatively at you because you were doing this a lot?

goodluckandgodspeed · 06/07/2019 19:28

I’m a 6-8 and 36 and I couldn’t wear it. I’m jealous that you can!

SummerHouse · 06/07/2019 19:49

I would look like a frog dressed as a tennis player. For others it's a lovely, simple, affordable dress.

MonkeyToesOfDoom · 06/07/2019 20:49

Bit creepy that random people comment on your appearance.

NotAsDrunkAsYouThinkIAm · 06/07/2019 21:37

This happens to me every time I go out wearing a binbag, darling.

PS: Size 4, obvs.

GermaineBunbury · 07/07/2019 08:58

Today I wore a simple plain sundress and I had about ten people tell me how nice I looked

Could you also tell us "One simple thing that would make our beauty routines so much easier"?

PortiaCastis · 07/07/2019 09:41

It's a bit short and would show my arse and dd would ask if I was off to Wimbledon

MorrisZapp · 07/07/2019 09:45

That wasn't the dress I was expecting. Mind you, I wore a floaty maxi for the first time this summer and felt like actual royalty in it. The compliments were extremely gratifying, I'm 48.

happytobemrsg · 07/07/2019 09:48

I’m 31 & I’d rock a dress like that (albeit not white - I’m clumsy). I didn’t realise I had to dress much more conservatively now 😂 I bet you looked fabulous OP.

goodluckandgodspeed · 07/07/2019 09:53

It’s post 35 that it all goes badly downhill happy

nitgel · 07/07/2019 09:58

I'd look like I was going to bed if I wore that

Bluesheep8 · 07/07/2019 09:59

What size are you op?

ConcreteUnderpants · 07/07/2019 17:08

Bit creepy that random people comment on your appearance.

Not just 1 or 2 people Monkey, but 10!
Yup 10!

Who the hell wears white at a garden centre anyway? Perhaps you'd inadvertently leant against something and got a streak of misplace compost somewhere. That's the only way I'd get comments from 10 weirdos.

WhosThere · 07/07/2019 17:13

I picked up a lovely summer dress from a charity shop. I wore it to our local town last week and got lots of compliments. Smile