Have you found "your style?"

I was rather pleased with my outfit today as I usually wear tops and trousers but I saw someone at WI who looked young in her outfit and thought I was due for a change and update.

So I bought my first pair of leggings and then a tunic dress which is light grey and black the pattern looks like links in a chain. It felt fab and DH gave his thumbs up approval ??
I think I have found my new image, the previous one is 71 years old !

also teabag , after what you've been through you deserve some clothing that fits and makes you feel good. Think of the nauseating L'Oreal woman....because you're worth it!!!

Skinny jeans and Breton jumper would make me look like the Michelin man on stilts! I'd go badly wrong.
Jane10 perhaps I need to check myself in a full-length mirror

My White Stuff dress (just arrived) is certainly generous - it would suit a giraffe! About 6" too long, would be just OK if I was 5'10" or 11".

teabag, try a personal shopper at one of the big stores. They don't charge, they don't make you buy things and they will help you out with shapes and styles.

Not many women are just one size all over.

Going up a size with a cheaper purchase can make sense. My mum always used to reckon that the likes of Jaeger or Windsmoor were cut more generously and she could afford to go down a size!

Please forgive yesterday’s self pitying rant. As you will have gathered I was having a bad day. Have never liked buying clothes and the thought of having to start again sent me into a panic. Have tended to settle for clothes that will “do” but am clearly going to have to change my ways if I want to avoid shocks when I unexpectedly see myself in a mirror. Now can any one point me in the direction of mid priced tops and jumpers that skim rather than cling to the midrif? Thanks.

Skinny jeans and Breton jumper would make me look like the Michelin man on stilts! I'd go badly wrong. Back to my fluffy leopardskin onesie... (Best if I stay in the house or so the family says!)

Petra, thanks, I will give Primark a try. Haven’t so far as I’ve been very much a classic dresser. I can afford to buy a couple of good pieces for best but wouldn’t want to pay £60 for a jumper that I’ll wear while out with my dgd for example.

Jalima
You can never go wrong with skinny jeans and a Breton top, classic.

teabagwoman
When you say budget is limited is difficult to advise (if you know what I mean) but if we are talking very limited you can't beat Primark, or, my favourite, TKMaxx. You will get some really different stuff there. But it takes time

I found a photo the other day of me with two friends, all aged 18.
We were all wearing slim denim jeans and navy striped long-sleeved Breton tops.

What was I wearing when I found the photo?
Yes, you've guessed it!

Jane10........

I'm glad to say that after 60 years I have found my style and it's slob! I'm very happy with it. It suits my personality and my purse. Sometimes I even get dressed!

Oh and I forgot to say, the budget is limited.

I’m just setting out to find a new style. Have always been a classic dresser, plain and tailored. Chinos in the summer, cords in the winter with a shirt over a t shirt. Now I have to wear extra wide, extra deep lace-ups all the time. A double mastectomy means the v necks I’ve always worn no longer work and scars from a rare skin condition mean my arms need covering up. I’m 5’3, size 14 top and 12 bottom, with a stubborn stone of extra weight stuck on my midriff, long waisted and short legged. I have a couple of outfits that do smart occasions fine but all my everyday clothes look either butch or frumpy, not to say bag lady. Any advice will be gratefully received.

Jacky.....not tall! vertically challenged ie short!!

To answer the OP, if I was tall and only a size 14, I'd show it off with short, waist-length tops and skinny skirts or trousers.

As a dumpy, short, size 20 (I think that's about my UK equivalent) I only wear plain colours - never prints! - and always with a long loose blouse or jacket over the top to cover spare tyres, tum and bum.

This is a difficult time of year. Like DaniiRae, I go from sandals to boots. Jeans and boots with a longish top seem to be my winter "uniform" but I'm not ready for winter yet !!

Travelsafar when you are short, plump with disproportionate body measurements plus unruly curly hair stylish is not a word anyone would ever apply to me! I am over it now and am not uncomfortable with who I am..just that clothes manufactures never cater for women who are 3 different sizes in one body and short!

Oh, PECS, that’s me to a T!

In the winter skinny coloured jeans or maxi skirt with v necked cotton tops and a cardigan if colder usually with a bright scarf , flat pumps or ankle boots.

In the summer cropped cotton or linen trousers with T shirt or vest top or sleeveless cotton or linen dress or shorts and vest top if very warm. Sandals as soon as I can get away with it as I hate socks/ tights ( have to wear those for part time work) and like my feet as bare as possible. Always wear jazzy earrings feel naked without them

This season I will mostly be wearing 'hit & miss' ....

I have never had style, but my best friend has it and would look stylish in a blackbin bag!!!! I think you are either born with it or not.

That sounds great MOnica - where did you get the dress from, please?