Anyone else dislike current dress and top fashions?!

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I am so not keen on floral, frilly, puffed-sleeve, loose-fitting dresses and tops. I also don't like shirt dresses, especially the loose-fitting ones currently around. I'd like to buy some new clothes and I just don't like the things that shops/websites are full of! Wondering whether anyone else feels the same?! And when clothing retailers will move on??

I've been saying this all year. There is nothing nice or flattering. Everything is over sized and cropped, puffy, floral ditsy print or just completely unflattering.

I can't entertain any of the long billowy dresses, they look fab on my tall, willowy and slim colleagues, but definitely not 5ft3 large busted me. Hideous!

Same with midi length - just not flattering at all.

Everything is flouncy, tiered, or high necked. And what's with the balloon sleeves ffs.

I hate everything right now.
90s fashion was hideous the first time round !
The only good thing is I can wear my Dr Martens again and be en trend lol
I don’t like a thing for casual or going out. Been like this since Covid. Just killed my sense of style dead. Or maybe I just got too used to lounge wear …

Dresses were all awful this summer, long frumpy flowery little house on the prairie jobs, with horrible high necks and long sleeves, all a bit Handmaid's tale I'd say - but the new winter stuff is worse, all sludgey beige & porridge colours, baggy knitted trousers skirts and dresses, all horrible on any woman with curves - am sticking with what I've got, especially since most of it didn't get an airing during lockdown

I really struggle with the choices about at the moment. I’ve got about 3 carefully selected patterned midi dresses but I can’t find anything I like for Autumn/Winter.

My style is usually for quite fitted, plain items and the shops are full of volume, print and frill. Not me at all!

Its lowest common denominator cheap cuts and fabric to maximise profit isnt it. Maybe its our fault for wanting too many clothes? (I'm as guilty as anyone)
Went round the shops yesterday and agree its still mostly sub 70s peasant cowgirl crap, but Zara wasn't too bad. And TK Maxx has enough odd stuff to satisfy me. The rib knits are quite good this year if you can find a natural fabric!

Every so often fashion seems to decide that it’s a moment for brown - was in H&M yesterday looking at things for DD and everything is beige, tan, mustard and sludge. Even ghastly browns for kids’ clothes (WHY would anyone want to put small kids in such an unflattering colour?) Half the range looked like it was torn from the backs of Victorian urchins.

The last time brown was fashionable at the start of the 2000s we all went mad for it and only came to our senses several years after. Now I see photos of myself in flouncy boho brown corduroy skirts and knees high brown boots looking like an extra from a line dancing workshop and cringe…

Don’t be sucked in! Resist! Brown is never good. If not, in three years’ time we’ll all wake up and realise just how horrible we all looked in sludge mustard brown cord.

I couldn't disagree with you more foxgoose. I think brown's a great colour and I'm really pleased to see it again after what feels like decades of grey. My favourite is that very dark chocolate brown that's almost black except it's so much kinder to my face.

Could someone explain to me how suddenly the shops are full of long padded gilets ?
Who decides this will be in fashion ?

I like the floaty dresses but am not tall ( and slim ) and would have to get a good bit chopped off the ends of the dresses on sale at the moment.

My school uniform in the 1970s was brown...That was quite enough, for a lifetime,!! ( Although I have found that I am wearing quite a bit of Rust colours recently....)

I painted my bedroom brown in the 70s. On reflection, that just might have been a step too far. Still a great base colour though in my opinion.

Agreed. And to anyone who says M&S is better I went in last weekend and saw nothing apart from maybe a nice blouse which wasn’t in my size. Saw a dress in Pepto Bismol pink which made me run to the exit…

I like the midi lengths and puff sleeves.

The recycled polyester bit does put me off though (and it seems to disintegrate in the wash?!)

I'm really not a fan of the 100% cotton jeans, I just find them so uncomfortable and they are very unforgiving unless you are quite slim

I've discovered White Stuff and have bought lots of wardrobe staples as it seems to be cut well.

I'm 51, and seem to be in no mans land between fast fashion and the Damart catalogue........

Don’t despair if you hate florals, flounces and ‘cottage core’. Prints are out; block colouring is in. Green is having a ‘moment’ and fitted/tailored is making inroads. You just have to shop around…

I just want some nice good quality jersey midi dresses with no wraps or underboob seams that make me look instantly pregnant. Nice smooth heavy jersey. Muted tones. No weird stuff.
Why does everything look so cold ? Cold , floaty and nasty. Shopping for simple stuff is a chore right now.

Lol @BrilloPaddy that describes it perfectly 😄

Baukjen used to be full of good quality jersey dresses @Ulrichamelo .... I havent shopped there for years though, not sure what they are like these days

Well I wore that puff sleeved flouncy trouncy stuff first time round. I would now look like a 'bonny Cow & Gate Baby' with my apple shape. There was a photo of my dad as a child when it was ok to have a fat baby and I would look like that!

Also skinny jeans are STILL everywhere. I am not bothered so much by my thighs or bum, it is my chunky knees!

@Gonnagetgoing was it the star print one?
My friend said “I can see you in that!” lol

Odd shade….

I just want something human-shaped

This exactly!

I'm really needing to buy new work clothes but despairing of what's on offer at the moment. Cannot abide frills and tiers.

I have a theory it’s linked to the obesity crisis, if 60% of adults are officially overweight there’s not a market for tailored clothing for people with waistlines.

I imagine profit margins are a factor too. Far quicker and thereby cheaper, I'd have thought, to knock out a dress with no waist and a flounce at the hem than something tailored and true to size.

The dresses aren't flattering on me at all, but that's because no dresses are really flattering on me, I'm a short-arse and with flat shoes, I just look exceptionally dumpy as my waist is middle-aged and the biggest bit about me. I usually hide it!

To update, I've bought some skinny/flared at the bottom jeans, new shoes with lace-ups (and a small heel) from M & S which are very nice, and for the rest, I think I'm just going to be unfashionable. Floaty cottage things are useless for me and very cold in winter. Even all the students are back in jeans at my uni (fashionable wealthy one) so if they are all in trousers, they aren't in long wafty skirts...

I'm the opposite. For years I've really struggled to find anything I like and have had to put up with boring, not really me clothes. Now I have too much to choose from. I feel like buying it all up before trends change again!