Cocktail Dress

lostinrates

maman wrote: »

:rotfl:

Thanks for your concern. My top is actually probably best called ecru, rather than a pale cream. I know exactly what you mean about looking like waiting staff!

Phew....did we both dodge the bullet then?

Nicki

I once asked a woman in a very nice restaurant for the bill. It turned out she was just on her way to the loo from a neighbouring table

daisiegg

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know how I am blessed with so many tall friends, but something I note on the size issue, is I have one friend who at six foot considers herself overweight at a size ten, and another who looks underweight at a size fourteen. A sixteen on her is definitely 'normal' and an eighteen not 'abnormal'. She's muscular, very fit and works in a manual job. I find it sad that her 'clothes' size alone would mark her out to another woman as abnormal, where as their are women who might be medically obese at a 'normal' clothes size and be genuinely unhealthily fat.

The weight issue is real, but women really don't help each other or men with the kind of wasps rather than sensible approach to it.

Completely agree. I am very short and can be in a size 12 and still just in the obese category of BMI. I am currently a 14 but I think anyone looking at me might guess I was a couple of sizes bigger than that because it looks really big on me.

I knew a woman who was nearly 6ft and a size 24. She looked big, but if I had to guess I would have put her at an 18.

Size looks so different on different people!

Gloomendoom

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know how I am blessed with so many tall friends, but something I note on the size issue, is I have one friend who at six foot considers herself overweight at a size ten, and another who looks underweight at a size fourteen. A sixteen on her is definitely 'normal' and an eighteen not 'abnormal'. She's muscular, very fit and works in a manual job. I find it sad that her 'clothes' size alone would mark her out to another woman as abnormal, where as their are women who might be medically obese at a 'normal' clothes size and be genuinely unhealthily fat.

The weight issue is real, but women really don't help each other or men with the kind of wasps rather than sensible approach to it.

I never understand why women get so uptight about a seemingly random number plucked out of the air by clothing chains. Blokes just buy clothes that fit. Mrs G has some blokey traits and I've managed to get her to adopt this mindset. The clothes in her wardrobe range from a US size 0 to a UK size 10 and they all fit perfectly... despite the nonsense on the labels.

HPoirot

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I never understand why women get so uptight about a seemingly random number plucked out of the air by clothing chains. Blokes just buy clothes that fit. Mrs G has some blokey traits and I've managed to get her to adopt this mindset. The clothes in her wardrobe range from a US size 0 to a UK size 10 and they all fit perfectly... despite the nonsense on the labels.

:eek: Would she forgive you for putting that on record!!!!!!!!

applecrumble24

Well before reading this thread, I thought a cocktail dress was a floor length strapless number. Everydays a school day! Thanks guys

lostinrates

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I never understand why women get so uptight about a seemingly random number plucked out of the air by clothing chains. Blokes just buy clothes that fit. Mrs G has some blokey traits and I've managed to get her to adopt this mindset. The clothes in her wardrobe range from a US size 0 to a UK size 10 and they all fit perfectly... despite the nonsense on the labels.

Hmm, not all men. The size issue is becoming increasingly prevalent in young men.

My husband suffered com an eating disorder when younger and at times of stress I notice he too can get a bit excited if a pair of trousers is the size it says he 'should' be even if the other trousers he 'shouldn't' be still fit correctly too. My ex a few ex's ago was extremely controlling and cared far more about the size of clothes I wore than I did.

Also, I where different sizes at the beginning and end of the month, while I bloat a lot, many women have jeans I. The same size they know fit better when they need some hormone room.

Spendless

Ok, I'm back from a day at work. I WON'T be wearing a strapless dress, not even if every other female there is in one. I am 47 and a top heavy plus size and I would look exactly like Nicki describes if I was daft enough to put one on.

No 'big-wigs' will be looking down their nose at anyone. Husband's employer is still independently owned by the people who set up the business from scratch many years ago. In the early days they had to work a 2nd job on an evening (without me saying what it was think along the lines of cleaner/waiter/delivery driver/bar-man) just to get the company off the ground and they haven't forgotten their roots.

I have no idea why the invite says 'jacket and ties' for the other night. The employer is connected to the Engineering industry and I am wondering if it's because some invited work in a more manual role and it's a way of saying 'no jeans'.

Gloomendoom

HPoirot wrote: »

:eek: Would she forgive you for putting that on record!!!!!!!!

Good point, although I think that she will forgive me. They aren't too blokey. She has a technical brain and an inability to multitask.

HPoirot

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Good point, although I think that she will forgive me. They aren't too blokey. She has a technical brain and an inability to multitask.

Phew, for a minute I thought you were referring to physical blokey traits! My bad All good in the G household tonight then