would you rather be fat and stylish or thin and scruffy?

[fryalot]

mildly curious.

Am fat and scruffy myself, but wondered about the rest of you.

thin and scruffy

as opposed to thickening around the waist and officey

thin and scruffy

thin and scruffy

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Either (am fat and scruffy too).

Thin and scruffy .. that's because I am, you see!

thin and scruffy makes me think of Steptoe. Assume that's not the look you're all after

thin and scruffy

scruffy can be easily improved

fat is never stylish

thin and scruffy most of the time but, I DO scrub up well!

see I think there's a false dichotomy here - the opposite should be thin and badly dressed, surely? Scruffy can be stylish in a boho way.

Here's the dilemma - Nigella (not fat exactly but rounded and nicely dressed) or Alice from the Vicar of Dibley (trying to think of someone thin with an odd clothes sense)

well, I thought someone would admit to wanting to be stylish even if it meant they had to be fat.

depends how scruffy scruffy is

At choir I sit opposite
a) a very large, greying 50+ lady who is beautifully, flatteringly and stylishly dressed and always smiling
and b) a slender but frowny young 30-something who is frumpily dressed in worn, unflattering sacky clothes and dowdy shoes, with bad glasses and hair scraped back in a greasy plait.

affords me perpetual musing as to the lesser of two evils.

see also the good skin vs good face debate.

Dawn French would be a better example of teh larger person, no? I mean, everyone would prefer to look like Nigella than, well, almost anyone.

definitely fat and stylish

anyone can be thin

thin and scruffy.
thin and really scruffy.
thin and dressed in a bin liner, with tesco carrier bags for shoes.

thin and scruffy.

and that's a good thing, because i am naturally thin and scruffy as am mostly skint.

OK, but just making it harder so you don't all think the option is Dawn French (fat, stylish) vs Helena Christiansen (thin, "scruffy")

obviously both the thin/fat versions have to be good-looking...

oh yeah, when I say scruffy, I don't mean in a grungy, boho, stylish sort of a way.

I meant in a kind of bag lady way

Emily from Emmerdale v Dawn French

Nigella would look better thinner.

Hmmm depends how fat and how scruffy? I am mildly overweight and incredibly stylish ladies!

(you'll just have to take my word for it as there are no photos on my profile )

Thin and scruffy. Even scruffy clothes look great on thin people.

some clothes don't look good on thin people spider. Wrap dresses look better on unthin people for example.

I have a wrap dress from Hobbs and I saw it in their window on a mannequin. It looked terrible. It looks much better on me (filled out!) and I never think that.

I think thin and scruffy but that's probably becuase that's what I am most days (well not thin but slim and a bit scruffier than I'd like but that's the reality of being a harassed SAHM with two small kids.