Suits, formalwear, yaddayadda... (1 Viewer)

[Bellatrix]

Totally beyond me.

I know from recent personal experience that some women can look really elegant in suits but I always look dishevelled and vaguely rakish.

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid looking like you're torn between Dickensian pick-pocketing and hitting on waitresses?

 

[Rachel666]

have you ever seen/read Tipping The Velvet by sarah waters? girls in suits is drool

 

[Bellatrix]

Memo to self: purchase top hat.

 

[BC]

i have that on dvd, never watched it though. any good?

 

[roxy]

Totally beyond me.

I know from recent personal experience that some women can look really elegant in suits but I always look dishevelled and vaguely rakish.

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid looking like you're torn between Dickensian pick-pocketing and hitting on waitresses?

aren't you a student bum again? I thought all student wore were cords from eager beaver (for the indie kids) and leinster rugby jersies (for the jocks).

Anyway, sorry to hijack your thread there Eef but I need a nice dress for an awards ceremony thing this coming friday and dont want to spend much on it coz i have to get something GORGEOUS AND DEADLY for my sister's wedding in 6 weeks. (She's not having bridesmaids).

Just want somethiing that will see me through (it's a blacktie event) but which doesn't cost much. Kirstie said a while back that Dunnes have some surprisingly nice dresses...? Might look there.

Anyway, Bella, I think pencil skirts are a good way to do suit chic without looking to auld or butch.

 

[talkingllama]

suits are a complete waste of money. Just buy on black trousers suit with a matching pencil skirt (a per Roxy's suggestion) and then work around it with nice shoes, tops, hair stuff etc. and try to stay away from dry clean only stuff as it's a complete waste of time. girl i know in work is rocking the pencil skirt, long top/jumper and waist belt look and she looks fab. maybe try that.

 

[classic seanc]

A girl in a nice trouser suit looks quite hott in my opinion. Does that make me gay?

 

[talkingllama]

A girl in a nice trouser suit looks quite hott in my opinion. Does that make me gay?

i've a feeling your thinking of the models who wear the trousers and one button jacket with nothing underneath it.... you see that doesn't happen in real life!

 

[classic seanc]

that doesn't answer my question though...

 

[talkingllama]

A bloke in a nice trouser suit looks quite hott in my opinion. Does that make me gay?

this would make you gay

 

[Bellatrix]

aren't you a student bum again? I thought all student wore were cords from eager beaver (for the indie kids) and leinster rugby jersies (for the jocks).

Yeah, I'm mostly alternating the rugby jersey look with the Abercrombie & Ugg boots vibe but unfortunately my college is a big fan of arcane (and strictly white-tie) ceremonies.

Pencil skirts, eh?

 

[carbide]

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid looking like you're torn between Dickensian pick-pocketing and hitting on waitresses?

rakish is nice. the slept-in polyester look, which is usually where i've ended up, not so much.

skirts seem to look much smarter automatically, but i think just finding a suit that fits and a shirt that buttons firmly closed is the tricky bit.

and accessories and a decent haircut probably add to the smartness. or at least, i can confirm that messenger bags and home hair-hackings definitely don't.

 

[Bellatrix]

Anyway, sorry to hijack your thread there Eef but I need a nice dress for an awards ceremony thing this coming friday and dont want to spend much on it coz i have to get something GORGEOUS AND DEADLY for my sister's wedding in 6 weeks. (She's not having bridesmaids).

By the by, Roxerz, a friend of mine had to go to a ball last night and she bought a an amazing black strapless dress in Debenhams and accessorised it with a wide leather belt.

It looked pretty great and only cost about €120.

 

[Wilbert]

Totally beyond me.

I know from recent personal experience that some women can look really elegant in suits but I always look dishevelled and vaguely rakish.

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid looking like you're torn between Dickensian pick-pocketing and hitting on waitresses?

You need to go for the Annie Hall look.
http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020131/114624__annie_l.jpg
and if you can pull off that look, I'm going to ask you to marry me.

p.s. I'm talking about Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, not Woody.

 

[Bellatrix]

http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020131/114624__annie_l.jpgand if you can pull off that look, I'm going to ask you to marry me.

I actually had weird Diane Keaton-related dreams last night.

Maybe my whole life has been leading up to this moment, Wilbert.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Jesus, there are better Annie Hall pictures then that one.....

just use the one everyone else uses which is, not so co-incidentally, the FIRST to come up in google image search

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/G/posters/dfmp_0297_annie_hall_1977.jpg

 

[Theseus Mock]

whatever about what type of formal wear you'll end up wearing, please bear in mind, power-walking through town at 8.30am with yer latest white asics/reebok runners whilst holding the Brown Thomas bag that contains your work shoes is not hott.

 

[Janer]

Women in suits are sexy....their bums look bigger and shaplier.

 

[egg_]

I got a deadly linen suit in River Island during the summer for €130
Not much use to you though dear

 

[egg_]

BTW I think women very rarely look well in suits.