Can we have a "Summer style mistakes to avoid" thread?

[Anchovy]

A rhetorical question, in fact, as I have now started one.

My observations from 3 days of summer weather:

1. Change your handbag. Saw woman in v lightweight summery outfit with clunky great across the body black leather handbag.

1. Unkempt toenails - should go without saying but sandals and toenails au naturel look a bit grim if you are over about 8.

1. Buy clothes that fit - hell, buy the next size up. Tight summer-y clothes which pinch a bit and make you feel - and therefore look - all hot and bothered are not a good look.

That's it so far, but I might make a perambulation of the office and come back with some more...

i'm just tired and stroppy

Plus i am about 1/2 a dress size bigger than I was last summer, so obv feel the size of a house

i'd agree Karathace, it all depends on the person and their own style, but generally I am a firm believer that less is more (and i mean less bare flesh rather than clothes) particularly in summer
-have a chocolate flame, will all seem better,

I think I had you older, less pretty ( how bitchy does that sound ), and with glasses

I wear glasses! Just only occasionally.

Is it because I'm a bit of a miserable cow? I should look haggard, lol.

lmao I think I had you as more of a striking older lady (your appearance striking... not a photo of you bashing some old bird with a stick), rather than traditional pretty iyswim. The older is because of the devil thing.

Am I talking crap?

LOL - DH is a 'shirt taker-offerer'

I do comment on it, but he seems to think nothing of it and wants to 'catch some colour'.

Must remember to keep my eyes open for shuddering women in future!

floaty white linen things must be lined.

dh de-shirts
I have given up remonstrating and just pretend I'm not with him

he does have the legs for shorts though (would have made a great Regency gentleman in buckskin breeches, or an Elizabethan in doublet and hose)

Re blokes in cropped trews in cities ... I saw one of those tall, trim, very-short-salt-and-pepper-hair chaps (think Architect) in long shorts - just below knee - this morning. Looked very right, loads better than those mid-stodgy-white-calf flap-arounds, anyway. (The general figure may have had a little to do with it.)

Part of my school run is a walk along Ken High St & I always see someone who's got it exactly right. Eg fitted luxe-fabric polo shirt (in dark colour) with similarly sober coloured but interesting print White Stuff type skirt.

This was supposed to be mistakes, though, huh.

Go easy with the fake tan - easy to look cross between Bubs de Vere and David Dickinson. Also easy to end up with a streakarama....

Avoid midriff muffin top.

My personal hate from today? Short skirts, bare legs and high heels.

A very difficult look to carry off - believe me I saw several trying and failing.

Stretch marks are not a fashion accessory.

If you have a muffin top fake tan does not make it disappear.

Dh saw a chap on Eurostar the other day wearing pin-striped suit, shirt, tie and .....flip-flops ......

My own mistakes include:

going out in what is initially beautifully pressed linen jacket & trews; only to come home looking like saggy old hessian sack bag-lady

wearing short sleeved tops (not good with big norks and bat wings)

Personally dislike: men wearing short-sleeved formal shirts (particularly with tie)

oooh, what's our remit here? can we include really bad fake tanning? orange palms, two-twon hairlines and built-up dirty stains on necks.

Oh.

I should put them away then, Betty?

Of course not Wuxiapian.

The cases in question were several young women I saw yesterday (so very fresh in my memory which is why I posted it) who had the classic low-rise jeans 2 sizes too small, cropped top and muffin tops and tummies on display with angry red stretch marks everywhere.

They would have looked so much nicer if they'd simply worn a top that covered their mid-riffs.

I'm sorry if I sounded harsh or offended you -I don't have an issue with stretch marks , its just when they are paraded on the High St complete with acres of flesh and skimpy clothing.

Oh dear, I think I may have committed a number of the faux pas listed here . To name but a few:

1. Crop top with a bit of a muffin - my tummy's not bad bad but certainly no gym-bunny
2. Flip flops to work - although even if I do then nobody sees them for long as they stay under my desk all day, but then I suppose barefoot around the office should also be on the list?
3. Bikini top under halter - usually because I have been in a hurry and haven't had a chance to change for the school run

If "short skirt, bare legs, high heels" is a no no then does the same apply to my short skirt, bare legs, bare feet? Have to admit my feet when I get home are often a sorry grubby sight that definitely should be on the list but I won't be changing that for anyone!

remember wearing flip flops to work in the summer. Suspect I also had cracked heels. I can't walk in flip flops any more so that's saved everyone from a yucky sight!

I'd say chipped toenail polish is worse than none at all tho'. Buffed shiny toenails are better than polished. But who has the time...? Not since I had DS. Because since I've had DS I've spent every spare moment on MN

Hey I wear flip flops to work, harrumph. My work place is casual dress and they are comfortable.

Barefoot Shirl, yes, I allow you to go bare footed, or even flat sandals, with a very short skirt

im not sure about white trousers whether linen, floaty or not. Sort of ok on super slim, not flattering on most - navy/charcoal more sophisticated surely?