It’s not you it’s the clothes.. examples of ‘bad’ clothing design that are minor or major annoyances ?

[Britpopbaby]

Blouse/ shirt gaping

Yes! I look like I'm wearing a nappy in some trousers when the waist fits.

I'm also large of bust and if it fits in the bust the shoulders are massive. I mourn Bravissimo clothing. They folded apparently because there were other suppliers doing the same thing but I can't find them.

Those pointless bits of ribbon sewn into the shoulder seams of tops. They're always too long to actually enable you to hang the top properly (and flap about when you wear the top) but if you cut them off they leave an itchy bit

Breast pockets on shirts.

Pockets on dresses where they've added them to be able to say "yay, pockets!" but where said pockets are no use for actually putting anything in. So you still have a garment without functional pockets but now your dress looks shapeless too 😒

I don't want pockets in my clothing as a rule. The only time I use them really is to put my work pass in so I don't have to wear it round my neck on a big ugly lanyard and ruin the look of my outfit. So the shallow pockets you get in trousers and cardigans are perfectly fine for me, but still not gonna use those stoopid breast pockets on a shirt.

Hoods on coats that fall over your face

I have a very expensive jumpsuit with a belt. The prong is too short and loose so within seconds it slides out of the buckle frame and belt hole. Infuriating. I have bought a different cheap belt to go with the jumpsuit instead, as a safety pin didn't solve the problem and I haven't got round to trying sewing in a popper or something.

I change the buttons on blouses and cardigans because of this.

Dresses with ridiculous waist seams, which is a device to save fabric in the cutting, but far too short in the body -

Breast / false pockets - I remove them all, what woman wants a breast pocket -

Takes- all tags and strings out, as you can see them, they irritate -

Not sufficient placade behind buttons -

Stupidly sized buttons -

I always leave tailored pockets sewn up though, maintains the shape / hang of a garment -

And shops not wrapping delicate clothing items in tissue / or providing a bag for something you just spent ££££'s on!

Same here and it often makes a big difference to the look of a garment.

Front pockets in jeans. Who puts anything in them as they pad out that area?
Zips in the front of skirts. They never lie flat and unflatteringly bulge

All the short jerseys and tops. I mean I can't be the only long bodied woman who doesn't really want to expose her midriff every time I so much as twitch an arm.

The fact that everything seems to be made for someone willowy, 6ft tall, and with disproportionately long legs.

If we can add shoes to this: wide fitting boots where only the foot part is wide. A wide fit boot is neither use nor bloody ornament if the ankle part is standard width. And wide fitting boots where shoes like Mary Janes where the strap is no longer than a standard fit - also useless.

Leggings that go like empty balloons after being washed a few times.

Sleeves so long they dip in your soup

Don’t you just cut both of those off though?

Jeans.
All the jeans. Ever.
Awful. Hate them.

Massive gaping arm holes. No one wants to see my boobs or bra through them.

Tiny bloody pockets.

No pockets.

Fifteen layer labels with the manufacturer and washing details in twenty languages and sticky labels attached to them. Drives me mad.

Controversial for this thread, I like a breast pocket, I keep a tissue there.

Absence of decent, functional, pockets is my biggest bugbear.

Also, fashion suddenly changing direction when I have bought a load of stuff in the now 'old fashioned' style (eg going from skinny/straight legs with long tops to wide leg trousers with cropped tops), especially when the new trend doesn't suit me.

Cheap zips that stop zipping up after a few wears. Socks and knitwear that haven't been pre shrunk in the manufacturing process. Dresses that are not cut to fit the female body so they hang off my tits. Trousers without pockets - looking at you Me & Em and Jigsaw. Running jackets without pockets - I mean just why?

When you see high street clothing from the 90s / 00s.
The cut, the finish, the quality, the prices. I miss them!

Everything now is shapeless, mass produced, shoddy.
Even when you pay more… It’s the charity shop for me.

Trends, I can’t keep up. I just buy jeans that look good.
Tried on the barrel legs. Um, no! Not right for my shape.
Also, I don’t understand those half-mast flapping trousers.
But, they seem to be okay on others! It’s all about shape.

skinny arms on jumpers and cardigans so you can't wear them over anything. Looking at you Jigsaw

That just means it's too tight no?

Exposed zips. Look cheap no matter how expensive.

This year, why are most petite trousers in the wide leg style? I don't care if they're fashionable - they look bloody awful on most petite women and doubt they actually flatter any of us. It took me ages to find some "normal" petite linen trousers which hadn't sold out.

Whiskering on jeans – it's always too neat and obvious.