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Do you often want to buy clothes that you know won't suit you?

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 13:42

I do.

Had v. annoying morning in town mooching through sales racks. Everything I liked I knew I wouldn't suit me.

Found a delicious Cabbages and Roses jumper, with raspberry velvet trim on sleeves and neck, but it was high-necked and NOT flattering.

And then saw lots of pinafores, which I wanted to believe in, but couldn't.

And oh just everything. City shorts in Gap, weird velvet trousers in Jigsaw.

I think I want to dress other people not me.

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TheGiftedandTalentedGoat · 15/01/2008 13:52

i know what you mean. dd & her 'best' friend are horrific together i wish they would just batter each other and then go and play with guns.

Tutter · 15/01/2008 13:52

yes yes would absolutely love to do skinny jeans into boots

but am an apple (brick?) and would look very much like a barrel on matchsticks [sulk]

LoveAngel · 15/01/2008 13:53

Oh yes, yes, yes. In my mind I am still a size 10 hot young thing with a flat stomach and pert tits. I am always vaguely shocked when mirrors reveal that I am in fact 30, a size 14 and be-muffin-topped like a true mama .
So...what happens is, I usually end up taking a pile of frothy little dresses and low slung jeans to the changing room, trying them on, crying a bit (well, inwardly, sort of...), then going back to the shopfloor and getting myself an armful of stuff that hides my bulges and (crucially) doesn't have the slightest danger of revealing my midriff.

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:02

Sorry had a phone call.

Oh good, not just me then. I was dressing a very slender 23 y-o in my mind ALL THE TIME and she had lovely shoulders too.

Then I looked at me and moved away from the LOVELY mini dresses.

I did discuss this with a woman in Jigsaw.

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:05

Capp - this week I am going to buy RT. This week. We will have a thread about it.

AND I went to look at shoes in L.K. Bennett, and they were all so flighty and I wasn't feeling flighty.

sigh.

I did buy a shirt though, with a bib effect. And it was black [oh gloom]

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:07

And that jumper I liked, also came in grey Cod with a black velvet trim. It was delicious. I can't wear grey either.

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:07

[peers morosely at black bib shirt in bottom of bag]

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:12

And I looked at this and i know you are all going to hate it and obviously I couldn't wear it, but I thought that if I looked like Mia Farrow then I could, and that maybe I would like to look like Mia Farrow.

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MamaG · 15/01/2008 14:14

No, I don't.

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:14

[impressed]

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Pannacotta · 15/01/2008 14:16

I keep buying lovely silky evening dresses in the Monsoon sales which I never get to wear (DSs are 3 and 8 months)
A girl can dream....

CatIsSleepy · 15/01/2008 14:23

i always end up buying black things

grey can be lovely, has to be the right shade otherwise you look like you're off to school

sorry-that dress- you'd look like a parlour-maid
or a nanny from sometime early last century

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:25

I know, I know. The dress is ridiculous, but I liked it and i wanted to wear it with tights and long boots and to have a slight lisp and a little dog and perhaps a beret. I did CIS. I wanted all that.

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CatIsSleepy · 15/01/2008 14:28

LOL

orangina · 15/01/2008 14:30

Sorry 100, BAD dress. Am sure your black top is a better purchase (not having seen black top, am certain nonetheless...)

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:33

It's called a Peter Pan dress fgs!

If I walked along beside you with a beret in that dress and a poodle under my arm, you'd both go - 'wow fab dress' wouldn't you now?

And I'd get a little mac to go with it, and have a beauty spot - yes AS WELL as the dog, beret etc. It'll take me hours to get ready to go out.

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CatIsSleepy · 15/01/2008 14:36

yes yes you'd look great
get one for the dog too while you're at it
or maybe just a beret

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 14:37

LOL

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/01/2008 16:27

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orangina · 15/01/2008 17:38

harsh cod....

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ahundredtimes · 15/01/2008 17:40

[sulks]

I KNOW everything about the dress, everything. Yes is Audrey H you're right, well that's what I was thinking and wanting to believe.

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brimfull · 15/01/2008 17:44

oh to have such shops to peruse
sigh

was in Bath on saturday(that is where you are 100 isn't it?)

alas I was with dh and ds
so frustrating and tantalizing to walk past such lovely shops

NappiesGalore · 15/01/2008 17:47

oh god yes. in fact, if i can find the person who actually looks like i seem to imagine i do, ive a wardrobe full of clothes here for them

i used to know what shapes/colours/styles suited me... sigh

FluffyMummy123 · 15/01/2008 17:54

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trixymalixy · 15/01/2008 17:55

All the time.

i always want to buy clothes for women with smaller norks and slimmer arms.

I very often buy them too.