Are you chic?

[Cloo]

As per the guidance of Madame de la Fressange?

It's the sort of thing I'm so not. I could never do the plain, simple items looking sophisticated thing (my mum has joked that she and I were not born to be chic). I like wearing 'wacky' clothes in an attempt to seem interesting and I'd feel boring and invisible in a ballet pumps/jeans/navy cashmere sweater sort of combo. Not that it is boring, and can't look fab on loads of people, but it's not for me. Also because I'm not well groomed... I'm no makeup/wonky nails/scuffed shoes. The chic thing works when the rest is super neat and deliberate looking. Otherwise it could look like you're just not that interested in how you dress and want to blend into the background. It's high maintenance making plain and simple work, and I'd rather hide my lack of effort behind loud clothes.

What do you think about chic?

 

[weepiper]

No, I'm a total scruff.

 

[Pickman's model]

i failed on the ballerina flats

 

[Poot]

My rebellious side really really doesn't like being told what I should wear. If looking chic is the same as dressing the same as her, no I'm not.

 

[wayward bob]

i am neither chic nor gamine. i've dabbled in vintage in the past but at heart i'm just a crusty who refuses to grow up. the vagaries of fashion trends mean i look like every other art school student these days

 

[8115]

No, but I am a freak.

 

[Thimble Queen]

sparkly scruff bag and i like it that way

 

[spanglechick]

Hmm, her advice assumes you are slim. The jacket should be from a children's department, apparently. Fuck off.

I don't particularly like the french style anyway. It's all a bit herd-like and identikit. Anyway, no. Not chic. Chic implies sophistication. Audrey Hepburn-like. Or perhaps Katherine Hepburn-like. Even were I slim and young and perfectly groomed, I'd be more Diana Dors-like. That's not chic.

What I'm basically saying is you can't be chic and have enormous tits.


I aspire to "stylish".

 

[killer b]

yes. yes i am.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Not a chance. At best I manage your standard art school look in all black. I used to work with gazelles who managed chic on a daily basis.

<edited to add>
Spanglechick is right. You can't really manage that sort of look when you have big boobs. The clothes don't drape the right way.

 

[oryx]

I've just spent a hefty amount on black jumpers from French D) Connection.

I think I'm a bit too well-padded to look like a rat, though.

oryx - she paid £120 to look like a fat rat.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Total scruff, but i wear black trousers, a black poloneck and pearl jewellry almost every day!! Very conservative style but i always look like a hot mess....my hair is also constantly knotted and i am gangly, goofy and gerbilly. There is also always a hole in my jumper, and i never look stylish, no matter what i do.

 

[shakespearegirl]

I do dress a bit like this for work (sans the cashmere jumper round the shoulders) and was in Northcote Road the other day and realised I look a like a right scruff compared to the ladies around there. The lack of cashmere, super tan, manicure, full make up and swinging long blonde is a dead give away.

 

[geminisnake]

Not according to that woman. Nor do I want to be. Navy is school uniform colour, feck that!! I can do jeans and ballet pumps, I can even do cashmere cardis(in purple thanks) but I live in Scotland, wtf good are little jackets??

 

[danski]

Total scruff, but i wear black trousers, a black poloneck and pearl jewellry almost every day!! Very conservative style but i always look like a hot mess....my hair is also constantly knotted and i am gangly, goofy and gerbilly. There is also always a hole in my jumper, and i never look stylish, no matter what i do.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

There is also always a hole in my jumper, and i never look stylish, no matter what i do.

I have the bad habit of dressing in the dark. It's not unusual for me to get to work and discover I have something on inside out or socks that don't match.

 

[Thora]

Nope. Jeans, converse, dress/long top and a cardigan. I look like someone's mum.

 

[Shirl]

I'm not chic and never could be but I really do like that look.
We have a client at work who lives in Paris on a houseboat on the Seine. She's english but married to a frenchman and used to work for various fashion houses. She comes to us a few times a year as her family live in Yorkshire and no matter what I'm wearing when she comes in, I always feel like a lumpen frump.

 

[Geri]

I don't think I have ever been described as chic, or smart, or glamorous. Once when I was abut 30 I bumped into a friend, I was wearing leather boots, a leather A line skirt and a little leather jacket (I was slim then) and she said I looked 'very Parisienne'

 

[pinkmonkey]

I think you need to own an iron to be chic and to not have coaldust under your fingernails. I like 'style' but my style sure isn't chic.

 

[Geri]

I think the things that stop me being chic are:-

Being short/dumpy
Biting my nails
Not being able to wear smart footwear

 

[DotCommunist]

belsen chic, given my weight

 

[FiFi]

What I'm basically saying is you can't be chic and have enormous tits.

I didn't think so!
The best I can aspire to is "smart".....and I don't achieve that very often

 

[Cheesypoof]

I have the bad habit of dressing in the dark. It's not unusual for me to get to work and discover I have something on inside out or socks that don't match.

never mind mismatching socks!!! But some folks just know how to wear a scarf, jewellry, hair. Im not one of them - i also hate the process of getting my haircut or any of that...im like an impatient terrier , yelping to be freed. I always ask a hairdresser if i can leave when my hair is still wet. Whats that 'ironing' thing they insist on doing when drying your hair???

 

[innit]

I think I am a bit. As much as someone tragically pear-shaped can be - it fucks with the jeans. I've got a lovely navy jumper though.

 

[moose]

No - I just end up looking like a fat goth most of the time

 

[Greebo]

Navy as a default, sod that. School uniform colour and worn way too much while in the GGA.
Ballerina flats, you're welcome to them. When I'm on my feet I'm really on my feet and ballerina flats just aren't up to the job.
Jeans, I agree, can make a good fallback, if they fit your lifestyle. But dry clean them? Fuck that - redyeing once a year (if they last that long) is extravagant enough!
Denim shirt, no. Too bulky, too rigid, too slow to dry.
Tiny jacket, completely incompatible with my life.
Navy sweater, no, no, no, no! I refer back to my earlier comments about navy blue.

 

[quimcunx]

No. Regardless of what I wear half an hour in I look like 5 or 6 half-filled tattie sacks held together with second hand packing tape.

 

[Rebelda]

Innit

In theory I am. I have the ingredients, as it were (no ballerina flats though ffs). But I'm too un-ironed

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

But some folks just know how to wear a scarf, jewellry, hair. Im not one of them - i also hate the process of getting my haircut or any of that...im like an impatient terrier , yelping to be freed. I always ask a hairdresser if i can leave when my hair is still wet. Whats that 'ironing' thing they insist on doing when drying your hair???

Don't get me started on hair. My hair is naturally very thick. When I dye it, I have to leave the dye on twice as long for it to take.

The most annoying thing is that everyone seems to like my hair better when I don't bother to comb it for days.

I got so annoyed with hairdressers playing with my hair that I finally started cutting my own. If I drink a couple of beers first, I don't do half bad. I think my head is crooked anyway. If its a bit uneven no one will ever notice.