Would you wear ...?

[Cantonet]

A beige faux shearling coat in your late 50's?
When you're 5ft 3 on a good day, size 14 & rectangular? It feels like a hug on ( and is the next best thing to wearing a dressing gown out) but I think it makes me look like a tank ...

What's age got to do with it? Wear what you like.

Do you have a photo or a link please? I'd like to wear a hug

Can't judge without a pic!! Just crop your head out ❤️

Do you have a link? Depends where you’d wear it and I think it would suit most occasions.

Here a pic though not of me in it.
I'm not being ageist at all but my coats are normally fairly simple wool/cashmere Jaeger.

It's nice. But unless you take a photo of you in it we can't really judge. It look very long for 5'3 ( I am 5'1). Crop out your head

I’m short so avoid long coats altogether

It doesn’t look that thick so I don’t think it would be too bulky.

You can only wear it with black and brown and v neutral tones IMO

Get it.

I would but I already have a faux shearling and it's cosy

Thanks for the photo

The answer is , wear it if you can relax into looking shapeless but comfy.

Current fashion seems to be about letting go of our ideas of looking shapely!

I’m 5”3 and 51 years young. I have a very similar coat in a dusty pink. The first day I wore it, I had 4 compliments, so I can’t have looked too silly!

Nope. But only because I like a coat I can chuck on.

If I wear beige I need a full face of makeup or else I look like a corpse.

@dannydyerismydad

Nope. But only because I like a coat I can chuck on.

If I wear beige I need a full face of makeup or else I look like a corpse.

Oh my I thought it was just me if I ever wear anything beige people ask me if I am ill.

Oh that's nice!

@Lolly49 it can be handy to have an emergency beige garment though. Especially if your employer is the sort to send you home if you look under the weather.

I'm 52 and wear whatever I like. But that means I'm also old enough to remember Dougal. So I wouldn't wear that.

If you think you don’t look good in it ,don’t buy it.

The age is irrelevant but it makes you look like a tank so no .

I absolutely would. I am a size 16, aged 62 and have a blue one and I love it 🙂

@AnnieSnap you look incredible in yours.
But I think it helps that it's darker & you have a smaller frame. I'm an ex-swimmer with very well developed shoulders.
I've decided to send it back as I don't think I'll wear it. Last year I bought a green suede biker jacket that I never wore as I felt it accentuated my shoulders.
@5128gap@Taoneusa yes shapeless & comfy is an apt description . Looks brilliant on my skinny daughters but like a wide bag of poo on me.

@cantonet You should be proud of your shoulders 🙂 when I was a young woman, I used to lift weights a lot and I remember lots of other women in the gym wouldn’t push themselves and stuck to the lightest ones because they “didn’t want to develop muscles” 🤷‍♀️ I didn’t look manly, but I was proud of mine, as were other women there who did the same. I have just a few months ago gone back to it. You have to feel comfortable of course, but my advice, for what it’s worth is accept yourself for who/what you are and wear what makes you feel good - and you did say that coat felt like a hug 🙂

@Cantonet so try another one in a different colour? If it's comfortable and makes yiu feel cosy then it's just the colour to get right!

@sooverthemill the thing is i have so many coats already - from Jigsaw/jaeger/parka london/ protected species & the like. I tend to buy expensive outer wear ( used to be Maxmara ) but i 'm happy to wear say h&m linen t shirts inside them.😊