Fashion Anonymous Club - fishmonger alert

[Maireas]

Have you bought a white trilby, but ended up looking like a fishmonger? Have you purchased an outfit in forest green and been recommended a life in Sherwood Forest?
Those of us who have made many a fashion faux pas are offering a service. Run it by us first. Unless you have effortless style. We're here to help.

I’ve just seen these and I think they look fab !

Absolutely, Purplethrow, do you have a trilby that would match?

Has anybody got a recommendation for a nice beret? I don't object too much if I look like Thomas More. Before canonisation.

I'm here.
I've been warned off the daisy dungarees.

Maybe it's how you wear them? Have you thought about accessories?

I love dungarees, if it helps I'm a size 8 and 5 foot, but also middle aged which may be my downfall.

Why yes, I was going to wear a pearl necklace and a beret
Um, probably a vest top/t-shirt and converse.

No ageism here, my friend! More perhaps the inadvertent similarity to cartoon characters, legendary figures, Tudor saints.

I am beginning to be tempted by the bum flap onesies. I've just seen the ad so many times that it's beginning to look normal. Convenient even. Talk me down from looking like Elmer Fudd on a cold night.

I had a beret once. Wore it with my trench coat.

Just. Like. Frank. Spencer.

As I’ve just bought £300 of stuff from Mango I’ll be back in a week with tales of woe and horror of the shit I picked up thinking it would look good

I refrained from the white wellies tho

MustardMitt care to share?
MarthaStew Frank Spencer, a Brownie, Thomas More - does anyone look good in a beret?

Here’s a screenshot of what I bought - you’ll notice a trench coat on there which I hope won’t look like a lab coat!

Ah those dungerees look like the model is wearing perfectly nice blue denim ones while standing behind a Nursery Window that the Littlies have painted with daisies .

Following with interest as I have a penchant for a Where’s Wally-esque red and white breton...

@marthastew

I am beginning to be tempted by the bum flap onesies. I've just seen the ad so many times that it's beginning to look normal. Convenient even. Talk me down from looking like Elmer Fudd on a cold night.

This made me laugh so much! I am currently YouTubing while OH watches the footy. I was laughing out loud so he asked why - I took my headphones off and one of the little earbuds has flown off and I can't find the bloody thing anywhere

Sorry Rara. Under sofa? In bra?

Nope - we have looked everywhere. I finally cannibalised one from an old set nobody uses

@MustardMitt

Here’s a screenshot of what I bought - you’ll notice a trench coat on there which I hope won’t look like a lab coat!

Not lab coat. Perhaps Columbo.

The brown dress... Well, I am large of nork (and everything else except height) and would be ideal for the “not you Janet” picture

Good call on Mango.

I keep looking at the Boden website. I can't stop myself. I'll have to smash my own phone screen soon to stop myself buying a purple ponte shift dress. And matching wacky mac.

Bum flap onesie?
Practical. I remember in my 20s having a penchant for jumpsuits ( I know). The problem of toileting was genuine. Freezing semi clad in some restaurant toilet with the jumpsuit arms dragging on the floor.

That is what puts me off jump suits to be honest, apart from the fact I would look 6 months pregnant in one.

they look really practical - they are not!

Is it just me who watches Escape to the Chateau, sees Angel in her denim jumpsuit and thinks: ooh, I could rock that look!

Knowing full well I’d be mortified with the actual result and only retrieve when painting ceilings...