Things that S and B hates but are actually pretty great

[Lentilweaver]

I have just leaned into being unfashionable and bought a pair of Fitflop trainers, after looking everywhere for comfortable city walking trainers. I expected them to be hideous given the flak they get on here, but actually, they look ok. Minimalist even. And are supremely comfortable. I had trendy Adidas before and they were so hard on my feet. Hate the large, ugly branding on NB, Hoka and other trendy trainers.

I feel the same way about my Seasalt Janelle, now in it's third year, much reviled on here, but I think it looks fine on me and is such good quality. Also my Land's End coat and swimsuit.

What other things do you like that are not trendy, but great quality and you wear all the time?

Sea salt, fat face, white stuff - jersey dresses basically, so comfortable and yet reasonably smart for work so you don't look too casual. Also M&S for shoes (i buy school shoes basically)

I'm sat in Ugg slippers currently

I guess the jeans and jumper people came on here and were told they'd look like provincial fools if they got silly ideas about looking nice on their trip to the capital. Exactly @BaubleMania at best they should have been wearing 'a silk top and jeans' or (god forbid) a Lucy & Yak jumpsuit.

Also I didn't mean to offend but I am a provincial, being from buttfuck nowhere on the Welsh border.

Box colours, I love my shiny brown hair, I haven’t had it coloured since the first lockdown. It takes me 10 minutes once a month and costs £5 instead of £60 (probably a lot more now).

Absolutely incorrect.

If you go to any university campus, its a sea of (mostky white crocs). Plus girls in leggings and long socks over them with trainers. I'm not sure the MN S&B experts are keeping up these days.

Sea of (mostly white) crocs.

Just looked at Seasalt Janelle & really like it (and I need a waterproof dog walking coat)! Thanks all! 😂

Darling.

I love you.

Where on the border? For I am married to a border man

I’ve said this a few times on S&B recently, but I really, truly think that the thing that makes someone stylish is absolute confidence in what they are wearing, no matter what that may be. Wear whatever brings you joy.

Obviously tittifer.

The thing is that everyone thinks their idea of what’s in or out is the correct one.

Personally I’m with @Floisme and can’t bear being uncomfortable no matter what I’m wearing, but I don’t look good in, and don’t like wearing, a lot of the things that are generally deemed comfortable by the ‘can’t be bothered with fashion’ brigade. I look and feel better in something with a little
bit of structure. Everyone is different!

Love Toast too! One of my absolute favourite pieces of clothing is a dark green velvet pinafore from Toast (got it on Vinted). I also love the crinkle cotton and cord dresses 😍.

And thank you for the reminder about Revelry! I’ve just taken up knitting again after a long break - using a snood kit from knitting for olive at the moment, but am going to go and check out ravelry now!

She was obviously using it jokingly.

Skinny jeans. I'm an apple shape - skinny jeans suit me because my legs are fairly skinny.
Fashion Police also hate, but I like :
Pashminas - they are very useful.
Fascinators
Anne Boleyn hairbands
Matching shoe colour to handbag for a formal occasion.

Skinny jeans and dms. I've reverted more towards mid 90s me as I've got older. I'm tall, so suit flares and wide trousers, but a pair of rolled up skinny jeans and dms is probably my staple. Hoody or band t shirt or leather/ denim jacket depending on season.

It's far from fashionable, but I don't actually want to look like everyone else. I didn't as a kid then got lost in the wilderness and felt like I should dress like other people, then came out of it.

I have a teen dd who does the sporty fashion thing- all leggings/shorts/ crocs. But I don't want to look 14. Well, not 21stc 14. More 90s 14.

Funny you should say that - I'm wearing a long checked crinkle cotton Toast dress today with a cord shirt dress unbuttoned over it and linen trousers underneath. Clearly we have very similar style 😊Haven't I seen you on Dark Academia? I have a different name on that thread but I feel sure we've chatted on there...🤔

The snood sounds lovely! I'm addicted to knitting shawls/haps and wraps - I can lose days on Ravelry pattern searches....🙄

Yes, I’m on the DA thread 😊.

Sorry, what is S & B?

I was a little bit relaxed.

Sorry.

Yeah.

But there’s more than one way to be fashionable. I’ve been a student - through the 80s and much more recently - and feel no need whatsoever to specifically mimic undergraduates in my dressing.

I do however live in probably the most famous university town in the country (and am attached to a college) and feel completely free to buy and wear fashionable clothes in the way I want to. (Often mixed with glorious things from my wardrobe bought before this year’s freshers were born.) Given the huge proportion of the country that is over 60, the idea that only the young set the standards seems - faulty.

I know this is a mostly lighthearted thread, but imho there is nothing so unstylish as someone dressed for the wrong weather or occasion.

Practical clothing is perfectly stylish when it's put together well, whereas adhering to arbitrary rules and latest trends can go horribly wrong.

Currently wearing, a chunky jumper, jeggings and lined crocs. I'm about to add an anorak and put boots on to take the dogs over the field.

Style and Beauty @poppymango

I'm surprised to see the Janelle described as 'minimalist'. I find it a really tiresome fusspot of a coat, But there are a handful of days most winters when it's very effective, so it stays. And yes, if I had a dog to walk, it would probably get worn more often, but I still wouldn't like it any better, and I'd be upping my search for an alternative that did its job and that I also enjoyed wearing. I don't think that should be an impossible ask.

And I'm not anti all things Seasalt. I don't like their dresses or the cut of their trousers but I think some of their knitwear and T shirts and linen tops can be pretty decent. They also had a waterproof, midi length trenchcoat with a hood last year that I tracked for a while (but then spent the money on something else).

The school mums are doing the leggings, long white socks and trainers thing here, often with those stay dry camo coats over... 😬

Exactky. Fashion, and style, is subjective and there's more than one way to do it. Or not care and go with pure comfort. All valid positions. And there are surely not many 60y olds that want to dress like 18y olds, and vice versa.

I actually like the sports socks over leggings with trainers look I have to say. But it only works with slim calves and, sadly, most people's get chunkier with age ..

If I'm honest, it's a look I hate. But for me it's not an age thing; I'd have hated it at 25 just as much as I do at 60. I've never been a trainers and leggings type even as a teen, was always more hippy/witchy/arty.

But, as you say, style is subjective.