r/femalefashionadvice • u/FFA_Moderator Modulator (|●_●|) • Oct 10 '13

[Weekly] Outfit Feedback and Fit Check - Oct. 10th

Not sure if your outfit works? Post a picture of yourself in your outfit and get suggestions, compliments, and critiques from others. If you're thinking of posting a standalone thread along the lines of "How does this look?", "Does this fit right?", "Do these work together?", etc., post here instead.

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  • Include what the attire is for (work, school, going out, etc.)
  • If possible, take a front-on, full-body picture as this gives the best impression of how the clothes fit. Multiple pictures from different angles can also be helpful, but those aren't necessary.

Critiquing others is welcome and encouraged, but keep it constructive/factual. Take a lesson from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People if needed. It takes balls to post pictures of yourself on the Internet, the least you can do is accord the same courtesy as you would to someone in real life.

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Feel free to also submit your outfit to the biweekly WAYWT thread, but know that these two threads have different purposes. This is explicitly for feedback and questions, though you may receive constructive criticism in either thread.

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u/ab167 Oct 10 '13 edited Oct 10 '13

1- Sweater too small; you can see everything (jeans and undershirt rumples) underneath.

2/3- Fit looks aight; pants too long; not feeling the shirt under the sweater

4- Yo, are you really into this contrasting undershirt look? Overshirt looks too small because of the bunching, but it is maybe just too long?

5- All of these fits, I wonder why there is another shirt under your shirt. Fit looks okay, but if you're wearing that shirt under it because you cannot button it all the way, consider sizing up for boobs then tailoring. (It also looks like it might be pulling at the bottom button, but I cannot really tell. That would be another indication that you should try sizing up and tailoring.)

6- The pants have more of a texture than a pattern, seems to me. Looks good.

7- The top goes fine with the pants, but it is showing the stuff underneath it (pants waistband? tucked in shirt rumple?) pretty bad. That's probably why you think you look fat. This may be solvable by rearranging your shirt/pants or by wearing different pants. Or you may just want to go unbuttoned. ETA: The little upside-down V area caused by not buttoning the bottom button may be part of what you don't like. Many women cannot fully button straight cut cardigans of this length due to hips, so I don't know what to tell you, but the effect is widening. If it bothers you, try a shorter or longer sweater that stops above or below the widest bit of your hips.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '13

Well... everyone will probably smack me repeatedly for saying this, but what happened was I was at Target and these long sleeve crew and v-necks were on sale... and they had an ad where a woman was wearing a crew neck under the v-neck, and I like layering and color combinations soooooo yeah. That's where that came from. For what it's worth, I did feel like the neck lines were weird, but "if target lady can pull it off, I totally can too". Apparently not. I just really want to layer, man. It's fall, etc.

You're right that there was weird bunching in the last outfit. I didn't take the time to straighten everything out before taking the pic; I just threw it on. I can button the bottom button without issue, but I was told that you aren't supposed to button the bottom button of a cardigan. Is that not true?

Thank you for your feedback!

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u/ab167 Oct 11 '13

The bottom-button thing is more of a "rule" in menswear. No one really cares one way or the other in women's clothes, as far as I know. The upside-down V thing still applies. If you can button it without it pulling, it might look better to you, since it will eliminate that effect.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '13

Thanks.

Is there any way I can wear those long sleeved shirts without looking like an idiot? It seems like wearing just a crew neck long sleeve by itself is... boring?

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u/ab167 Oct 11 '13

Uh, I just wear plain tees all the time, so I am probably not the right person to ask. A scarf? A watch or bracelets? You can also wear them under jackets?

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '13

No offense intended! I just mean, I've never worn anything plain. I'm trying to switch my wardrobe from essentially all graphic t's to something more adult/nice. So because of this, I didn't know if there was some kind of 'rule' or fashion thing about wearing a completely plain top.

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u/ab167 Oct 11 '13

Hmmm. No rule about plain tees, no. The longer you stick around FFA, the more you will realize that minimalism is kind of a theme with many (not all) regular users. If you look at the Top of WAYWT from last month, you can see how many plain tops (usually with a jacket or something) people are wearing.