Ugly "fashion"

The thing is that what suits one person may not suit another. A year or so ago I tried on a skirt: it was pretty, a straight skirt in polka dots, with one of those bias cut flounces round the hem. It looked dead cute on the model, and really nice on the hanger, and made ME look like I should be on the street corner in the red light district!

I too like capri length trousers for summer, and have a couple of pairs (one in nice but ordinary navy blue and the other in lime green!). I don't do shorts, but sometimes it is just too warm for long trousers.

I don't care to expose *my* belly button, and I don't care to see rolls of fat flopping over the tops of trousers coupled with too short tops, but that's just my opinion. You wear it if you like, and I'll keep quiet. There have been some seriously ugly fashions over the years, but they are more on the lines of shoulder pads you could land Concord on, bustles coupled with skirts like festoon blinds, and hats the size of Africa with half a rain forest and a flock of birds decorating them! Oh and those bows the size of pillows you used to get on the backs of wedding dresses...

And I love my hoodie and plan to wear it to Bluewater in the near future! ;)

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Kate Dicey
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WB wrote in news:tI4Rf.969$ snipped-for-privacy@fe07.lga:

but you're a guy. you don't *have* "current fashion'. men's fashions change so slowly that it just isn't an issue. of course, you've made it pretty clear that you feel stating an opinion is 'trolling' in previous posts about fabric stores & sewing machine manufacturers... lee

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enigma

just a question - ALL long dresses?? Or just certain styles?? I only ask because I have a couple of patterns that are for longer dresses (tea length, and a couple of ankle length ones) and they don't seem dowdy. Of course, if I ever get around to making them, I could be proven wrong. Anyway, it's just a question of curiosity.

Larisa, preparing to make Easter outfit that DH picked from the pattern/fabric in my stash last night (sleeveless shell-like dress with lab-coat jacket, in pale blue and ivory light-weight boucle)

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lvann

O I think any pants that are cut below the waistline are ridiculous on women OR men, and double ditto for the stupid baggy crap (pants and shirts two sizes too big, pants dragging the ground and hanging with crotch to the knees) that kids wear now. If I want to see a man's drawers, I'll invite him over!

L
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Batik Freak

I make and wear dresses that length all the time. I never wear shorter things! 'Dowdy' has never been applied to me! 'Odd', 'eccentric', 'unusual', and other epithets, but never dowdy. Mind you, I always think my legs are like those of a Victorian grand piano: short, sturdy, bulbous, and far better hidden! Since 1974 I have only owned a single skirt that was shorter than mid calf, and I wore that twice in the whole time I owned it.

That sounds lovely.

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Kate Dicey

Larisa, I didn't make the statement but I hope you and the poster don't mind if I give my opinion. Some people look stunning in long dresses. Some people look dowdy. My daughters are all short and considerably thinner than I am an look great in long dresses. I on the other hand, being like my name, Junoesque, in all proportions other than my height, (average,5'51/2") look like someone rolled me out in a wheel barrel and left me to look dowdy. The other thing is that because so many women wear RTW that doesn't fit properly the back hikes up, sometimes several inches, which adds to the dowdy look. You know the picture I'm making. My youngest daughter had an outfit, in her career out of the home days,that had a lab coat length jacket with a sleeveless dress that skimmed her knees. She always looked so well put together. She no longer wears it in her career at home days. She says it no longer fits her life style. I think it's a great look and I think you can carry it to great advantage. Age also has a lot to do with what looks good on a person and what doesn't. It also has a big influence on what you like and dislike. Juno

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Juno

Linda wrote: ...

Oxford-type shirt worn untucked, with pants, and a too-short sweater on top of it.

Camisole tops with bra straps showing.

Anything inappropriate for the season; if you're not going to a beach, don't dress like it. (Flannel PJs with a camisole top? Please.)

"Crack" pants. Why don't people try sitting down in the fitting rooms? Hip-hugging bottoms barely look ok while standing (walking, mall-shopping) but most of us spend most of our time sitting down. I once sat behind a fellow student in an open-form lab; she was not comfortable, and neither was her audience.

The current skirts: tiers of ruffles (ok so far) with raw edges hanging out (not ok). Niece had one on, and I took a closer look. Told her that her grandmother (the champeen sewer) would be having a fit. Kid said, "it's supposed to be like this." I said that I was having trouble resisting the urge to grab scissors and trim the many raveled edges. Now a pinked edge, that might look nice.

Brown is NOT the new black. Grouping pastels with chocolate brown looks like you should be behind the counter at an ice cream parlour.

Don't get me started on the shoes.

--Karen D. with a closet full of tea-length skirts

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Veloise

Often we can't wear what we like. I can no longer wear heel-less, toe-less shoes, short skirts, shorts, mules, etc. Had phlebities because of a genetic condition (Leiden Factor 5) and now always have to wear those ugly knee-high surgical stockings. Big YUCK! It makes me feel unattractive, whatever I wear. It affects my ability to shop and find things I like that I can wear. There's not much available. Also, the fashions have become ridiculous these days. Once again it looks like we're wearing our underwear on top. Sewing helps when I can find patterns and fabrics I like. Enough carping.

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Seeker

off kilter quilter @somewherequiet.net skrev:

Oooo, that sounds *lovely*!

Erin

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Museumbitch

I think the basic problem is that the original designs look just dandy on a 100 pound, 6' tall girl.

When you realize what they were designed for, you stop worrying about having the latest and greatest and just pick something that really looks good on YOU......

That's what I do anyway..........style-schmyle

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Pat in Arkansas

Sorry to appear iggerant, What is a Clam Digger? Here in Aussie we don't have clams. Pippies yes, clams no. And I don't even know how they are harvested. Sadly I only have a dim understanding of the term hoodie. Perhaps (luckily by the sounds of it) we don't have them here yet or the weather is not suited to them. Cheers from sunny Melbourne, home of the Commonwealth Games 2006.

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Fey

Clam Diggers or pedal pusher are pants that come to about the bottom of your calf. The name comes from the length that pants were rolled up to dig or rake clams from the water. A hoodie is a shirt, sweater, sweat shirt or jacket that is made with a hood attached. Very practical if you spend time at a windy beach in the spring, summer or fall. Not to great for winter unless it's made from a very warm polar fleece. HTH. Juno

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Juno

Well that about covers all the ugliness there is. However here in the frozen North----hoodies do have a place. I wear them in lieu of scarves that I am very good a losing. As for long dresses, I do wear them all summer, they are cool, keep me covered so as not to upset anyone and being a 'gifted' woman they hide a multitude of sins. One being that in extremely hot humid weather that we are subject to when it is not freezing, and in the right style I can successfully go without my smalls at home or in the yard, and no one is the wiser. Another Fashion I don't understand is a hoodie with no sleeves---what the heck is the purpose of that?????? Mine are for warmth and to keep the cold off my neck.!!!!!!

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Hanna's Mum

Worn under your coat they give an extra layer of warmth and the hood can protect your neck from the wind. I have severe asthma and am able to pull the hoodie across my nose and mouth when exiting the truck or a building till I get out of the wind. It helps a lot to have that there. I cannot seem to hang onto a scarf......Lost 2 this year so a hoodie does it all for me and is attached to something I am wearing and that helps me keep track of it....ggggggg

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Hanna's Mum

Oh

I personally like the big butt bow on a wedding dress. I have alot in the front on top and thought the bow balanced me out, since when I got married I had no hips and no butt of my own. But just to be different the bow was pink, and the dress had a trail of bows down the back that got gradually smaller.

Joy

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Joy

I also couldn't live without my hoodies in the winter, and for most of the summer nights too, it can be 40C above during the day, and 10C at night, and that is a big difference. I also live in the frozen north, saskatchewan!

Michelle Giordano

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Doug&Michelle

I can understand you using it the way you do in the winter. I also have asthma. I use an enormous wool stole for face cover. I feel so bulked up with my layers I don't think I could move with the addional hoodie layer. My stole is like my blankie. It wouldn't dare get lost. Juno

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Juno

No, Larissa, I meant day time clothing, formal and semi-formal can cut it. It is the denim and similar type fabric skirts and dresses that remind me of pictures of my great grandmother. Dot in Tennessee

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Scare Crowe

Oh, BIG bows can be fun - but I mean the sort that you can see sailing out to the sides from the front, that look like the dress has had a pair of pillows pinned to it! The trick is balance - and camouflage! One can add detail and disguise a small tail end (never MY problem! ;D ), but there are extremes. I saw one in a magazine once where the bride looked like she was being shoved along by a pillow factory!

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Kate Dicey

All the kids (and some of the adults) are wearing hoodies here! You know, the windcheaters with a hood - worn up so you can't actually see the wearer's face. They've been popular for a couple of years.

chris :-) also in melbourne

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chris

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