Back handed compliment.

Ah ! Sweet !

I'm sure they mean well, but I wouldn't assume that someone wanted my old cast offs! She asked myself and my other 2 sisters to her house to view her old clothes once. She had laid them all out on the bed and sent us in to the bedroom to have a look. We were in fits of giggles trying these things on (my other 2 sisters and a lot younger and slimmer than her). When we had finished she said she had heard us laughing and wanted to know why! I'm sure her heart was in the right place.

Katy , I had a FRIEND like that !

My older sister was always 'summoning' me to her house to go through clothes that she no longer wanted. She was twice my size but I think she 'felt sorry' for me because I could not afford (in her mind) posh clothes, most of which were hideous INMHO

glammanana

Oh you mean the fat, wasps nest, mothers old clothes look Nonu I forgot about that !

GLAM x

My late x MIL asked her son and I how had we managed to produce such a pretty baby girl when DD was born,she was never top of my popularity list anyway.

Gillybob , a retro "look", can sometimes be "fetching"
x

These elderly Aunts certainly like "Tellin" it like it is , no holds barred .
I would like to been a fly on the wall if you had said a similar thing .
I suppose the only thing you could do is "SMILE".

It makes you wonder what you must have looked like before doesn't it Elegran?

On a similar thread, my mum has started offering me her cast offs and last week presented me with a pile of "tops and skirts she no longer wears".

Rather like my mother-in-law (I was very fond of her) when she saw me after I had had my hair cut differently. Her first remark was "That's better!"