Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

They look like old lady nightdresses and Hospital gown designs.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

The health benefits of exposing skin to sunlight

I need to have a house that sees sunlight because unless I am bathed in it I hibernate.... and it's difficult to find a place that's got sunlight. I knew when I moved in here that it was a HIGH priority - and I also spotted that, while the 12'x12' garden gets the sun until about 11am, after that it's as gloomy as heck.

If I am in a room that's full of sunlight then it makes me want to do something.... if I am not then I'll just sit and fester.

Without being able to see the sun in my home, summer can simly slide completely by unnoticed.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

My problem is nothing fits me, nothing suits me. A new friend once suggested we go out and I said "I've nothing to wear" and the usual "you must have" was trotted out - so I invited her round and she looked and said "you've nothing to wear", so we went shopping. She was so excited as she found shopping easy/pleasurable and we spent the day going round town. She'd rush in finding things, they wouldn't fit - if they fitted in one bit, they'd swamp me in the rest, a bigger size didn't solve the issues but made it worse - and, length-wise, most things just drowned me. Or, she'd rush round finding things only to hold it up against me and go "oh .... no".

We never did find me anything to wear, so I went with my usual mismatched style

I'm short, with short legs, short arms, top heavy, hips of a 12 year old .... and then things just don't suit my colouring.

I sooo recognise that problem. That's exactly how I feel. The specific reasons why nothing fits are different for me, but the general feeling of frustration at not being able to find anything is spot on.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I always snigger when they make a Baby Belling look like a 6-burner range cooker

I had a friend who bought a 4-bed detached new build house in 2000 and her kitchen wasn't even the size of a bus stop. The floor probably only had 8 tiles. When I visited I'd stand in the hallway at the door as there wasn't room for two people in there unless you were both standing still.

There was a house near where I grew up on RM recently, the same kind of house as several people I knew as as kid, so very familiar to me. The photos were very strange. I don't know whether they were wide angle or not, but they'd definitely been resized so that the aspect ratio was way out. Everything looked much wider compared with its height than it really is. I've looked to see if it's still on RM, but it isn't, so I can't show you, I'm afraid.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

The old saying that some woman or other "would look good in an old flour sack" seems to have been taken a little bit too seriously by John Lewis, who are flogging some rather pricey frocks that look pretty sack-like to me:

The second one is not just a sack, but a sack with an oversized baby's bib on the front.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, sure enough!

Do you like #2?

I don't dislike it, but I don't love it.

Btw, though I like number one I couldn't wear it, even when slim...the neck line is very bad for big boobs.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

They look like old lady nightdresses and Hospital gown designs.

They are not accessorised though. Add the right hat bag, shoes and importantly for dresses like that, jewellery and you look at a different picture.

neverdespairgirl

Lydia's right, though, about the second one looking as if a baby's bib got caught on the front

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

They will chop off a mole as a first thought here rather than a last. It's a bit like how whenever you go to the dentist they give you a nice clean and polish.

Mrs Generali was shocked when she went to a Pommie GP and asked for a mole to be removed and he said no. It was completely outside her frame of reference.
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I find it odd too. It's a simple procedure. I have two moles that i keep an eye on, the first one was bleeding a few years ago and itchy, and viva in mind I showed go at last practise who shrugged and said...I cannot tell, you have scratched it (I hadn't but its under the edge of some of my bra straps so gets a bit knocked sometimes).

Bearing in mind my early years were spent in the sun pretty much all day apart froma. Few pesky hours of school with no sun protection at all and only wearing a pair of bikini pants, I am really concerned about it.

Incidentally, my skins tolerance to sun has changed dramatically, really noticeable changes.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Lydia's right, though, about the second one looking as if a baby's bib got caught on the front

And that one is harder to accessorise. The bib IS wrong.. I see its good for women with good limbs but a tummy 'issue' but it needs to go to hem length I o, and it looks uncomfortable at the strap/side it doesn't quite meet at in front. What I am saying is, I can see why someone would wear it. I wouldn't. I WOULD like to be able to wear the first still.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

And that one is harder to accessorise. The bib IS wrong.. I see its good for women with good limbs but a tummy 'issue' but it needs to go to hem length I o, and it looks uncomfortable at the strap/side it doesn't quite meet at in front. What I am saying is, I can see why someone would wear it. I wouldn't. I WOULD like to be able to wear the first still.

I would look terrible in either of them. I have never looked good in anything shapeless.

bugslet

And white doesn't generally suit white north european women ( assuming you are that demographic!), even with a tan.

I think the second is weird and the first, I like the bottom half, but not the top.