Guests not trying (outfit)

poet123

I posted on an earlier thread that I bought an outfit for £75 on Ebay which still had tags showing it cost £750. You can find bnwt wedding outfits on Ebay for under £10.

findingmyownway

All of our day guests made a proper effort - even the little boys in matching suits etc.

There were some evening guests (male) who came in jeans & short sleeved shirts but I really didn't care. I guess now we're looking back and analysing the day it's interesting, but at the time I couldn't have been less interested in what they were wearing.

PolishBigSpender

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not everybody does though. I don't.

So you'd turn up wearing jeans and a t-shirt? I'm sorry, but it's just rude. You can buy a nice dress really cheaply, even Tesco does semi-nice clothes.
I would never ever turn up at someone's wedding in jeans. Ever. And I don't know anyone that would. We've recently attended a wedding in Poland. My husband wore his kilt (bought for our wedding last year). I wore a dress I bought 5 years ago for my friend's wedding, where I was a witness. The dress is lovely and silk, I added some jewellery, borrowed my mum's jacket and wore shoes bought ages ago for the college's Summer Ball. Fascinator is not customary in Poland, so didn't have one. We both looked appropriate to the occasion. I'd be ashamed to look crap on an elegant, expensive wedding!

During seasonal sales you can buy nice outfits for as little as 30PLN (less then 10 pounds). I knew about the wedding for about a year. I'm sure anyone can spare 30zł throughout the whole year!

PasturesNew

Torry_Quine wrote: »

...find it hard to believe that people have nothing suitable.

Some years ago somebody suggested we go out at the weekend, just to a regular pub/club in town. I said "Great, but I have nothing to wear", she said the usual "you must have something", so I said "come round". She came round and looked at everything and said "you really don't have anything do you?"

I pointed out that I find it virtually impossible to ever find anything that suits/fits me - and if she'd like to take me shopping to find something then I was up for that. We went..... all round town, every shop, hours. She'd find things, I'd try them on or she'd hold them against me, then frown and go "No ... it doesn't suit/fit you at all".

We ended up with nothing and she declared, "There really IS nothing that fits or suits you is there... I didn't believe it."

People like me end up going for comfort....

PasturesNew

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

So you'd turn up wearing jeans and a t-shirt? I'm sorry, but it's just rude. You can buy a nice dress really cheaply, even Tesco does semi-nice clothes.
I would never ever turn up at someone's wedding in jeans. Ever.

No, you've twisted the original posting.... the OP was also bemoaning people in regular clothes.

Tesco might do semi-nice clothes, but not everybody's got a Tesco, or fit/suit the clothes they, or other, shops make. My nearest used to be 20 miles away.

I've only been to one wedding in the past 20 years - and I bought a dress.... which I doubt I'll ever wear again (I am not sure if it even fits now).

PasturesNew

kaylee* wrote: »

I'm not a snob. My outfit cost all together - £15. Dress £2 from Ebay, fascinator - 99p
other bits and pieces from charity shops or things i already had, just bought new tights and a new mascara.

I took the time to get my outfit together, why can't other people? the meal must have cost a few quid and in the evening there was a big hot and cold buffet.

i'm not rude, it's people who can't be bothered to smarten themselves up for their friends that are rude!

I couldn't buy something without trying it on. Things don't fit/suit. As for a fascinator... LMFAO .... I'd look a right c0ck with one of those stuck on my head!!

PolishBigSpender

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Tesco might do semi-nice clothes, but not everybody's got a Tesco, or fit/suit the clothes they, or other, shops make. My nearest used to be 20 miles away.

Okay, so you don't have Tesco, you don't have Primark, you don't have charity shops or even H&M? Where do you live, in a desert?

Norma_Desmond

Not a wedding, but a very grand party I went to once was attended by an elderly lord who turned up in flip-flops, shorts, a Sex Pistols tee shirt and a Panama hat with a hole in it.

Fair play to him - as long as people are clean I couldn't care less.

Norma_Desmond

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Okay, so you don't have Tesco, you don't have Primark, you don't have charity shops or even H&M? Where do you live, in a desert?

Actually I don't have any of these inside an hour's round trip either!

Torry_Quine

PasturesNew wrote: »

Some years ago somebody suggested we go out at the weekend, just to a regular pub/club in town. I said "Great, but I have nothing to wear", she said the usual "you must have something", so I said "come round". She came round and looked at everything and said "you really don't have anything do you?"

I pointed out that I find it virtually impossible to ever find anything that suits/fits me - and if she'd like to take me shopping to find something then I was up for that. We went..... all round town, every shop, hours. She'd find things, I'd try them on or she'd hold them against me, then frown and go "No ... it doesn't suit/fit you at all".

We ended up with nothing and she declared, "There really IS nothing that fits or suits you is there... I didn't believe it."

People like me end up going for comfort....

Nothing wrong with going for comfort, I wouldn't be wearing something to a wedding that wasn't comfortable. You obviously wear clothes every day so some things must fit/suit you.