Can anyone explain Stepford maxi dresses to me

[Hullygully]

They are everywhere. What I want to know is this: a few fashy people say that this summer people should wear long tiered flowery dresses with what frankly look like tit bags on the top half, and a whole lot of people who absolutely, utterly, one hundred per cent should not be wearing them, rush out and buy them and then...go out in public whilst wearing them.

What is it about? Why do people think "fashion" excuses what the mirror plainly tells them?

Disclaimer - I don't care that they do, good luck to them etc, I just want to understand what they are thinking.

I have one maxi dress, but it's not flowery (plain deep colour) and I was quite surprised to find that it suited me. All other maxi dresses in the universe do appear to fall into the "absolutely, utterly, one hundred per cent should not be wearing them" category for me, though.

I think most women can wear a maxi dress (it's just a long dress, after all), but most women can't wear most maxi dresses. You have to bear in mind what suits you (in terms of colours, patterns, silhouettes, necklines...) or you end up looking like a fashion victim.

Yes but that doesn't answer my plangent and plaintive question, dear Prof.

What are they thinking?

I dont want to show/can't be faffed to shave my legs but I fancy wearing a dress?

what are tit bags???

and why do some ahemmmm larger ladies wear a tshirt under said maxi?

Also can someone explain to me why women with fat backs wear racer backed vests.

In general maxi dresses are comfortable in the heat but still cover your legs if you are twitchy about them. I think that's a big part of it.

By tit bags I mean they are just triangles of material that hold the tits in place like bags.

Really? People think, I would rather look like a great big lumpy flowery ship in full sail than spend five minutes with a razor? And aren't they the same people that would wear spangly minis if they were dictated?

It's the slavishness to fashyness I don't get.

But they don't think they look like a big flowery lump, they think they look like Angelina jolie and are wafting rather than chugging along at 10 knots.

chegggers - they can't think that. Do they live in a complete denial of reality?

ROFL at tit bags.

I have one. That is exactly how I look in it. Curses!

T-shirts or sturdy vests are worn to try and control huge norks in my experience because those triangles smply won't cover a nude, full cup, iron girder and triple clad bra.

I used to be a B cup and 75 kgs

Hully, I have been on a couple of threads where people have been having orgasms over the most hideous dresses I have ever seen in my life - I thought I was the only one who didn't understand.

Nobody, not nobody, looks good in them. Tall, short, fat, think, big norks, no norks... everyone looks like Demis Roussos to me. It's the emperor's new clothes I tells ye...

I have always wanted a maxi dress but am 5ft 2, bottom heavy and everyone I have tried on has made me want to cry

I am 5ft 10 and I did cry when I saw some pics of me in it!

They only work if you are very toned in shoulder and arm. Then you look dead skinny, and like you are wearing a dress over your dead skinny body.

And be under no illusion, the maxi is all about skinny. IMO.

I just like the big prints and colours and I like really long hemlines. They make me feel good, but look demented.

There was a concert at the dc's school the other day. I can't tell you what it was like: teachers, parents all Stepford and lumpy. And these are bright, capable women, can't even use the dunderhead stereotype.

Some even had wide brimmed hats.

There there tree. At least you have seen the light. Leave it in the wardrobe and just stroke it gently every now and then.

There are lots of things I like that I know I cannot ever ever wear.

Let us not even go near smock tops.

It's when they have the dress, the hat and the scarf wound round neck, like some sort of artist from the 40's.

Just landed from a cruise on the Nile in a steamer look.

Insane.

theya re shit

LOL at tit bags

And shrugs that merely emphasise the tit bags in a simply fascinating and overwhelming manner.

have tweeted titt baggaaaaaaaaaaaarge

Well I look like Angelina.

I agree about smock tops though. Why would you choose to look like an insane milkmaid?

An insane pregnant milkmaid.

I raise you...........jeggings.

I look gorgeous in mine.

I was prepared to dismiss maxi dresses but if it's the right one I was pleasantly surprised to find that I look pretty ok. And I am usually quite brutally honest with myself. If something is fashionable but not for m,e I def tell myself so (ie skinny jeans)

The 'right' dress for me must, must be quite slinky, stretchy material that hangs well and is quite drapey. Cotton dresses with flounces are def not ok on me; they look like old ladies giant nighties on me.

Must fit well on top too. Spilling out isn't good, so a halter neck or decent straps are necessary.