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'm definitely going to use this thread. I've put on weight and only have about 4 outfits that fit and I'm so bored rotating them. Not that I've got anywhere to go or anyone to impress, mind.

I also have a penchant for hats.

I never look good in a hat.

Morning, @BendyLikeBeckham
Feel free to post pics! I am of the opinion that some people just can't wear hats and some people look fab in them. I look terrible even in a bobble hat

I suit hats, but that has led me to make some over-confident purchases in the past.

You really don't want to see me in a hat.

Svelte wintry goddess? Nah, Benny from Crossroads.

I bought yellow wellies to cheer up wet walks. Then was gifted a cream fake arran jumper. I really thought I was Keira Knightley on a Swedish holiday. Alas no. More captain Birdseye with a bad shave after far too many fish fingers.

@BendyLikeBeckham

@Zebracat - Captain Birdseye!!!!

I really do think that being tall and slim is the holy grail of fashion. Anything less is so much harder in my case impossible to dress and look good. Especially if you don't have style and money and are short, fat and middle aged like me.

Bendy clothes that fit normal women.
Tough call!

ikr! I do not even know which shops I should frequent!

Depends - your budget, lifestyle and taste play a part. Think of what you feel comfortable in, what kind of look?

I absolutely love this dress, but I am a short, size 14-16, very large busted 45 year old...do I risk looking like a large sofa?

www.pinkcityprints.com/collections/autumn-winter-2020/products/retro-olive-isabel

Tricky. It's one of those - will I look like a young, dewy Diana from 1983 in a Laura Ashley print, or my nan's overstuffed sofa from about the same era?

I’m pretty sure I know which one I’ll look like. I went on a mad ‘large collar’ buying craze last year. Again a tricky look for me to carry off...and suspect they will be put in eBay soon.

Those big collars are everywhere. Combined with ruffles, flowers and puff sleeves... Mmm.... I'd look like Grayson Perry's alter ego.

@viewsoftheshard

Jimmy Krankie dressed up as Laura Ingles. Don't do it.

Sorry.

I browsed today on Coast. Never shopped there before.

Is this gorgeous or would it be fat leopard ate all the gazelles and hid in a tent?

(I'm 40s, short, fat and huge of nork)

maybe Bet Lynch before lighting up her breakfast?
Fashion person Does My Bum Look 40 claims that leopardskin is a neutral......

Love the leopard, Bendy. I was leopard averse for years, but have a midi dress now. I think the pattern works like camo to confuse the eye, so no one can tell if you are slinky leopard or Garfield. Any local gazelles might be in for a hard time tho.

Goof points, @Zebracat - it is quite a distraction. I like leopard print footwear I have to say, it's a bit more interesting than the usual. Go for the dress!

GOOD points, not goof!!

Thanks! Confusing the eye is a Very. Good. Thing.

Bet Lynch, ha!

"Hang on, hang on - I 'aven't lit me breakfast yet"!
Although I recently saw Sophie Wessex in such a dress and she looked lovely and chic.

lol! Mine's a pint o mild.

Sophie always looks so understatedly elegant. I could never look like her, sadly.