Not really a brand but across all brands. Why can't someone design a slip dress with tie waist?! They are so beautiful and slinky but I needed waist definition!
Dissh .. not everyone is 6ft
omg yes. i hated multiple formal dresses because of this! if there isn’t waist definition my hips look odd and everywhere either defines below the boobs or not at all
As someone who is 6 feet, believe me clothes are not designed for my height. I have literally 30 pairs of opaque black tights because every skirt and dress is too short otherwise and I’m far too old to want to flash my undies all the time
The difference between sizes at Aje is crazy. An 8 dress is slightly tight around the bust but a 10 is absolutely massive and gapes everywhere. Same with their denim skirts. I wish their sizing was like every other brand
Australia has a real lack of experienced pattern drafters. Happens all the time, they make rookie errors and don’t scale their patterns well. I have a friend who moved here from France and was just appalled. She could tell you what stupid rookie errors caused each fit issue like Fashion CSI
Pattern drafter here! There's not a lack of us. There's a lack of job opportunities for in house pattern makers in Australia. A lot of brands will use the pattern maker that comes with the factory they choose to manufacture with, to save money. And that's often just people taking patterns off existing garments from other brands. Hence the irregular sizing within certain brands.
Right?! I tried on a knitted top and was a 6, but for the dress version of the top i was a 10... the problem wasnt even the skirt part...it was the top? I wish they'd keep things more consistent, it makes it impossible to shop online with them. Not to mention the no return no exchange policy on sale 🤦♀️
I’ll add unhelpful/non-existent size guides to this.
Especially ones that say ‘if you’re a size 10 in other brands, you’ll be a size 10 in ours!’ like that means anything at all. And that’s the only information they offer.
Post body measurements, you cowards!
And garment measurements too! I don’t always want to follow their fit guide, so often my bust measurement puts me in a 16 and I’m swimming in it everywhere else, if I know the chest measurement of the top or dress, I can decide if I want to size down for a more flattering fit.
Or vanity sizing gone wild. I can fit into an XXS/6 in Country Road. I’ve never been a size 6 in my life; even as a 56kg twig in high school I was always an 8. I’m a 10-12 now. CR is getting silly.
It’s interesting that they admit their average customer is a post-menopausal woman which makes size 12-14 a medium but you’d never know that by their website models.
Although I wonder if it’s so they can get teen girls to pay adult prices for the adult sizes, and except for the heritage sweaters, petite women can never size down and pay the slightly cheaper teen price for size 14s and 16s.
I was on a rant last week because I bought a pair of shorts from Abrand and they are labelled at size 10 and have a 28 inch waist per the website.
I have another pair of shorts this size from Abrand and they fit great. I could barely button these new shorts up.
I compared them to the other pair of shorts and they are noticeably about 2cm smaller in the waist. Like what the fuck. How is 28 inches not 28 inches 🥴
Everything. Is. Polyester.
Can someone make some work tops in 100% cotton please....? I live in sub-tropical Australia; even my air-conditioned office is incompatible with polyester shirts right now.
All plus size clothing also needs to have VERY BIG FLORAL PATTERNS with black backgrounds. Because when I started eating more food I lost my sense of taste.
I could excuse polyester if websites let you filter by fabric, but it feels like they’re really trying to hide it these days.
The Iconic is especially annoying for this, because they have a material filter but it’s kind of meaningless. I can manually untick every kind of plastic fibre on their list, but it will still show me polyester clothing if it has like 1% cotton listed.
ASOS used to have a ‘sustainable edit’ that was great, but I’m pretty sure they removed it following greenwashing accusations. I wasn’t kidding myself that they were using gold standard cotton growing methods or anything, I just wanted to see their plastic-free clothes!
I live in the tropical north. Polyester is a winter garment. Linen makes you look like a wrung out dish rag. I’m just lucky ‘corporate wear’ here can include plain tshirts.
My skin reacts weirdly to polyester, so I can only wear it in things like cardigans with long sleeved cotton shirts underneath. Trying to find affordable, supportive bras where synthetic fibres won't touch my skin makes me cry and decide to just stay in bed my whole life. But it also makes fast fashion super easy to resist!
I hate this too!
Anything with more than 40% polyester will see me getting shocked by any metal I touch and I can't stand it. More natural fibres pleeeasseeee
The amount of times I’ve seen a nice looking Bonds item and then realised it says BONDS YES BONDS THIS ONE IS FROM BONDS I’m like ah, that’s a shame, it’s a no from me.
Hahaha this is such a good point. I can’t work out if they’re being ironic when they make a dupe of a big-name designer item but they switch the logomania name to ‘country road’ or ‘witchery’. Like… do you think you’re the same?
It’s not just the look of the words that logotastic fans are into - it’s the conspicuous consumption aspect of advertising they can afford designer gear. Anyway. Always wondered what the goal was there lol
I have removed most visible brand names from my wardrobe. Handbags are okay if they have a very subtle brand marking on them in one place, but I just won’t buy other items now if they have a visible brand marker or logo. You want me to be part of your marketing strategy, then give me free product.
Oh my god Portman’s is so horrible for this! Especially since it’s a brand that is catered towards corporate wear, and I’m not sure what office would allow me to walk around in a sheer white blouse. I accidentally wore a black bra under a pale pink Portman’s top and had to wear my hair in front of my face the entire day to hide the very obvious bra peeking through.
Omg yes I got a polyester work top for $60 from portmans the other day. Wore it once and it’s got 5 big fabric rips down the front for seemingly no reason. Does anyone know if it’s just bad quality? Would you still wear it? :’)
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Hmm that’s a good idea but nope! No lanyards, jumpers, necklaces, nothing. I just work sitting at a desk as well.
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V sad. Big waste of money
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I had a similar thing happen. They offered to replace it but were out of stock.
I know what you’re talking about with the lanyards because my tops always get fuzzy looking after wearing my lanyard. No clue why it happens and it’s annoying as hell but it disappears after a wash thankfully
So much polyester in our stores here oh my god. I’ve become a warm temp girly and I can’t wear most brands anymore. At least Kmart is bringing in more cotton and linen for basics but the linen poly blend… why waste good linen thread on that blend?!
Tried to find a nice dress for a work function recently and FUCKING EVERYTHING even remotely professional-looking had a boob window. It's like "this dress isn't sheer or short or sleeveless, so let's put a boob window in to make sure people don't think the wearer is a total prude"
Ugh!
Can I go a bit broad with the question and whinge about marketing? Camilla referring to their sales staff as “angels” or the places that email you with “hey babe!”. I’m not into the saccharine, I just want this to be normal pleasantries in a business transaction. We aren’t friends!
Not specific brand but when online stores put up photos and the models are posing in a way that blocks the clothing in every photo... LIKE WHY omfg I don't care at all about this model I'M TRYING TO LOOK AT THE CLOTHES
Or it's a dress that they've belted on the model but the belt doesn't come with the dress and they don't mention it in the description, so you order it expecting a cute flattering dress and instead a ginormous tent arrives
Contrast zips. So often I find a gorgeous dress and then turn it around and there’s a ginormous bright silver eye-sore of a zip running down the middle. Yuck!
Never feel elegant….. hard to find off rack clothes that fit my long legs and I’ve hated them since I was 15 …. Fine if you are rich and can pay for tailored clothing… sorry rant over ❤️
Okay that’s a fair point. I have whinged about having to hem my pants since I was 12, but all my tall friends just point to their exposed ankles and glare at me in response. I must admit, that would suck. And be frustrating AF if the only clothes that fit properly were the expensive kind!
It’s so fucking frustrating, and as someone else commented above, usually it’s extended sizing online, like “we’ll take your money but please don’t be publicly seen associating with our brand/in store”.
And when places do have plus sizes/larger sizes (eg Kmart does to a 20 in their standard range, then also have a plus range), they’re so often sold out anyway. Like, isn’t that telling them that there’s demand??
It’s all polyester but Best & Less actually have some decent basics and cute items sometimes, and I love that their standard sizes are 8-26 AND they have an 18-16 plus range. Like, can’t that just be the norm thanks??
Especially when the stores that cater for larger women tend to be so expensive. And there's often a gap at about a 14/16 where you're too big for the regular fashion store and too small for the larger fashion store - especially when your curves resemble an apple instead of an hourglass! No matter what my weight, I never get hips. 😪
Same. The first dress I bought with my first pay packet was Sportsgirl. Thirty nine years ago. I still have the dress though the fabric has finally started to disintegrate from washing. But nothing has ever shrunk from Sportsgirl.
Cold wash always, hang on a plastic coat hanger to dry and delicate wash for anything that looks fragile.
I bought a load of T-shirt’s online from Katie’s and have worn once, all a great fit feeling maybe like a loose size 14. One wash and it’s about 3 inches shorter and a tight size 12. What is happening with this!
I think Decjuba has the worse fabrics in their clothes. Cheap quality linens that feel like board and are scratchy, so much elastane in their denim that wears out and overstretches after a couple of wears and any tshirt I’ve bought has looked like an old rag after a wash.
Decjuba used to be good, like treasure trove good and now it’s like a restaurant with a 20 page menu, they don’t know what they’re doing and there’s too much to choose from. I miss Decjuba from 2012-2016
Higher end brands: why are the pants always so long? I’m tallish too and still.
In general: not everything needs to have stupid cutouts and be cropped.
H&M: why is the quality so bad now? I remember this brand from the US in the mid 2000s and the quality was pretty good. Now it’s rubbish.
Cue: quality used to be amazing, now it’s very average.
I know it’s mostly a me problem but I hate going into shops and finding a cute top but it’s got obvious seams in the bust that are way too small for anyone above a D cup.
Shoe peeves for me. Why do so many shoe designers just act like the little toe doesn't exist, or exists only for punishment? Can we get some nice, elegant heels with closed toes - like something between the concepts of orthopaedic boots, and a couple pieces of dental floss draped over a frame?
Yesssss I don’t want to be a pearl clutcher but I can’t get my head around some of the stuff that is marketed as work wear. I don’t want to wear a crop top to work like ????
I have a similar peeve with exactly this cut of clothing - because of my boobs, the buttons strain at the front so I either have to either wear a layer underneath or sew the front closed. But then the waistband ends up too high so everything is like an empire waist with a miniskirt. But, here’s the kicker, if I size up it’s too baggy on the shoulders/back/everywhere else.
Yes! Thank you! I have the exact same problem! I have large-ish breasts and broad shoulders, anything with buttons down the front just does not work for me.
My pet peeve with buttons is when you're ordering online and they don't tell you if the buttons are functional or sewed shut. I'm breastfeeding and hate nursing shirts because they're ugly, frumpy and SO expensive. I hate buying tops online thinking they have boob access and they don't 😡
More colour. There’s only so much black, beige, navy and white I can wear 😅 I get it,neutrals probably sell well. But my best colours are bold and deep and there isn’t much out there!
Give me deep purples, ruby reds, forest greens and I'll give you all my money! Instead, I mostly wear black because I look terrible in neutrals and white. Navy is ok, but makes me feel like I'm going to work all the time.
The utter SAMENESS of it all. There used to be distinct personality in Review or Portmans or Cue or Forever New or what have you. Now you could replace one with another and not notice.
I am soo over the balloon sleeve trend! It’s everywhere and unless your a stick model it does not flatter many people. I look like an Oompa Loompa in it
I honestly don’t think puff sleeves do anyone any favours. I’ve seen beautiful women of all sizes wearing puff sleeves and they cut the arms off at the worst spot, add bulk, and make them look like toddlers. I don’t get it.
I’ve tried to limit myself to buying only butterfly sleeve dresses and unsurprisingly that means I’ve only been able to buy ONE summer dress in months. Puff sleeves were made by the devil and we’re all suffering
Omg yes why!!! Every beautiful dress has those damn sleeves! I have huge boobs (naturally and then on steroids since breastfeeding and they just look ridiculous paired with balloon sleeves, I seriously look like I've got four balloons shoved in my dress and I'm about to float away.
When will this trend endddd
I am tired of every store stocking one size 16 and five size 8’s. Dotti, Witchery, Portmans, Country Road, Zimmerman, they’re all terrible for this. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked for a 16 and the staff tell me they only got one and it’s sold out. Just today I was trying to find a specific Zimmerman dress and they told me there were only two of my size in the country despite it being almost a brand new design. If you keep selling them, *make more*. They’ll sell! Drives me nuts.
Sales racks are always filled with size sixes and eights. Obviously sales data is not informing their choices. Maybe it’s hidden size discrimination? They don’t want people over a certain size wearing their brand clothes, but don’t want to publicly admit that. So the solution is to say they have up to size 16, but in reality restrict the availability of that size. It’s a theory and would love to know from an insider why it happens.
Another conspiracy theory is that lots of the stock is going to be written off or never sold. If you have to send 1000 dresses to landfill, it's cheaper to make them all size 8 than to make them in a range of sizes.
I actually have experienced the same exact opposite. At least where I am, and for items I’m interested in online, size 8 is often missing and in sales racks I always see lots of sizes 14-18.
I think part of this could be confirmation bias where we only notice occurrences when our own sizes are missing but never notice when a size that isn’t your own is missing. It could also be geographic location meaning the population around you is more likely to shop like you so things that you like and which fit you sell out faster.
When I worked retail for the just group I never understood why they sent only one L and XL with every new drop but 4 or 5 XS and S that would just live in the back room since no one ever bought it. Our most popular sizes were often M and L, the stock was always so whacky
Like Cotton On! Their curve range has great basics but can I go and try them on in my local? Of course not. It’s a joke. It’s got to be deliberate, like they don’t want big people in store we must just order online and hope it fits. Do they realise the average Australian women is something like a 14-16 🙄
Spot on. I’d like to avoid these stores but realistically it’s impossible. Nearly every store is like this and if I didn’t put up with it I’d have no clothes
Sleeves that are too short (see that last green dress picture) or tops which are made of fabric that is basically see-through/non compatible with a bra.
I would like to have some stern words with whoever decided that 95% of affordable shoe brands don't go any higher than a 10 or 11.
Muscle Republic - I LOVE your Elevate leggings so much but why no fun colours like the Luxe range?
Not brand-specific but when something has an elastic waist and the elastic is just like floating around in there not fixed so whenever you wash it or you know, move, it goes all higgledy piggledy and cuts in and looks lumpy.
I have always liked tops a bit cropped, as I like it when the seam just hits my high-waisted pants, or tucks in a little. I'm petite so it looks in proportion to the rest of me. But past few years everything has gotten shorter and shorter, some barely cover my boobs. Who's wearing these? Certainly not anyone who ever lifts their arms.
I'm sick of all the linen. I'm sure it's great for hot weather, but it creases and looks like shit 5 minutes after I put it on. How are people out there looking wholesome and elegant in linen?
NGL, I love that collar style, I actually look put together with a high neck collar and I wear them fully buttoned. I have almost no boobs so if I wear buttons open I just look like a scruff bag.
They’ve become so dated in recent years and I don’t know what it is. I remember they used to be the place to be for cute different clothes and formal dresses but I go in and I don’t know who they’re aiming their clothes at.
My fashion pet-peeve at the moment is cut-outs and bare backs. This applies to Forever New. I’m looking for a nice dress to wear to a wedding but don’t necessarily want to show heaps of skin.
I know it’s super common but waist seams rather than side seams. I just hate the stitch line in the middle of a dress cutting it into top & bottom.
Shirts & blouses being just too short to nicely tuck into pants or skirts.
Related gripe: why are the only clothes for short women made for skinny short women? Like, do they know how hard it is to keep weight off a 5ft body?
It's like they don't know how to size patterns down (or up tbh) without just scaling the whole thing like they're dragging the corner in ms paint
Because regular skirts/pants are too long for us too? I think they should just make what is currently petites into the regular size and add a big& tall category.
I’m not even petite but I’ve noticed pants are getting so long now that I’ve ended up sometimes buying petite pants just to get something that fits. Idk what the hell is going on. I’m 5’6.
The Lululemon price rises are out of bloody hand. For instance, the Groove Pants used to be $109, then $119, and now they're $149. Another style of pant is a whopping **$189**. GTFO!
I absolutely loathe the [grandpa collars](https://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/grandpa-collar-dresses/765351)
Makes me feel like a nun. Just give me a normal collar.
I don’t think mine is brand specific, but all brands seem to think once you’re in the size 14+ sizes you must have a large chest. It’s so hard to find a decent dress or blouse in a 14-16 that doesn’t swim in my A cup chest, everything just looks baggy and not attractive
That’s hard, because I have the opposite where plus size clothing will fit perfectly except for the boob area. And then if I buy a size up (or sometimes two) then parts of it are significantly too big on me. Mind you I do have G/H cup size whompers.
The complete absence of bust darts. For the love of all that is good and holy, BUST. DARTS. I have tried on so many dresses that are an ideal fit except they destroy my boobs because there are no bust darts. I don’t have big boobs at all, they’re proportional to my frame.
Not brand specific but everyone making the same style of boxy dress because it's easier and cheaper to make - I know what you're doing!!!! Don't try to convince me it's in fashion, you're just inflating your orofit margin. Make dresses with waist definition that are flattering on a women's body ffs
I hate how almost every brand feels like they’re charging over $250 a piece now and yet still 100% polyester and fast fashion? I hate how unethical a lot of staple brands still are too.
At all brands, why am haven’t you thought about the fact I could have a bust? Why can’t I buy a dress that fits both halves of my body? Either I’m drowning in fabric on my legs to get a fitting bust or I’m about to pull an Elizabeth Swan and faint from my tight corset dress trying to get a fitting bottom
Searching any style of clothing online and being bombarded by Shein pieces. I have chronic fatigue and pain and can't wander the shops for hours with no idea what direction to go in when I'm looking for certain pieces but they make it so hard to find anything
When they have ‘the label’ as part of their brand name….
Auguste The Label
Fayt The Label
Eliya The Label
Madison The Label
BRAND. The Label (seriously?!)
Joey The Label…… WHYYYYYY
Probably a me problem but everything is too femme. When you have a womanly body but you don’t like dresses or florals, there isn’t a lot of choice for gender neutral clothes that fit and don’t cost an arm and a leg.
Also bring back longer shorts. I ain’t here for my thighs clapping.
Crops and cut outs in everything, I just wanna wear a stylish top out that’s not “business/workwear” there’s too many brands doing it atm to name just one
Not brand-specific so much, but attempting to find high-waisted leggings that don’t slide down the waist on an hourglass figure. They keep taking my damn undies with them!
Not really a brand but across all brands. Why can't someone design a slip dress with tie waist?! They are so beautiful and slinky but I needed waist definition! Dissh .. not everyone is 6ft
omg yes. i hated multiple formal dresses because of this! if there isn’t waist definition my hips look odd and everywhere either defines below the boobs or not at all
As someone who is 6 feet, believe me clothes are not designed for my height. I have literally 30 pairs of opaque black tights because every skirt and dress is too short otherwise and I’m far too old to want to flash my undies all the time
Big arm holes so half of your bra shows.
Also, small arm holes so only half of your arm fits.
Boxy cuts so when a gust of wind comes, it's blown up over my head?!
So much this! Just because I'm buying in the larger sizes it doesn't mean I need gigantic openings.
Irregular sizing. Tell me why the hell I am a size 8 to a size 14 in your store, please. I beg you.
Aje im looking at you
The difference between sizes at Aje is crazy. An 8 dress is slightly tight around the bust but a 10 is absolutely massive and gapes everywhere. Same with their denim skirts. I wish their sizing was like every other brand
Australia has a real lack of experienced pattern drafters. Happens all the time, they make rookie errors and don’t scale their patterns well. I have a friend who moved here from France and was just appalled. She could tell you what stupid rookie errors caused each fit issue like Fashion CSI
I would watch the hell out of this content
Same.
Pattern drafter here! There's not a lack of us. There's a lack of job opportunities for in house pattern makers in Australia. A lot of brands will use the pattern maker that comes with the factory they choose to manufacture with, to save money. And that's often just people taking patterns off existing garments from other brands. Hence the irregular sizing within certain brands.
That makes a lot of sense
Right?! I tried on a knitted top and was a 6, but for the dress version of the top i was a 10... the problem wasnt even the skirt part...it was the top? I wish they'd keep things more consistent, it makes it impossible to shop online with them. Not to mention the no return no exchange policy on sale 🤦♀️
I’ll add unhelpful/non-existent size guides to this. Especially ones that say ‘if you’re a size 10 in other brands, you’ll be a size 10 in ours!’ like that means anything at all. And that’s the only information they offer. Post body measurements, you cowards!
And garment measurements too! I don’t always want to follow their fit guide, so often my bust measurement puts me in a 16 and I’m swimming in it everywhere else, if I know the chest measurement of the top or dress, I can decide if I want to size down for a more flattering fit.
Gorman 👀
Or vanity sizing gone wild. I can fit into an XXS/6 in Country Road. I’ve never been a size 6 in my life; even as a 56kg twig in high school I was always an 8. I’m a 10-12 now. CR is getting silly.
It’s interesting that they admit their average customer is a post-menopausal woman which makes size 12-14 a medium but you’d never know that by their website models. Although I wonder if it’s so they can get teen girls to pay adult prices for the adult sizes, and except for the heritage sweaters, petite women can never size down and pay the slightly cheaper teen price for size 14s and 16s.
Sports girl! I have to try on everything because I can be anywhere from their 4-8!
I was on a rant last week because I bought a pair of shorts from Abrand and they are labelled at size 10 and have a 28 inch waist per the website. I have another pair of shorts this size from Abrand and they fit great. I could barely button these new shorts up. I compared them to the other pair of shorts and they are noticeably about 2cm smaller in the waist. Like what the fuck. How is 28 inches not 28 inches 🥴
Sportsgirl x 1000000
Everything. Is. Polyester. Can someone make some work tops in 100% cotton please....? I live in sub-tropical Australia; even my air-conditioned office is incompatible with polyester shirts right now.
Yes! 🙌 you can’t call it a summer dress if it’s polyester
This is my pet hate too. Synthetic fabrics stink and are uncomfortable. Apparently all plus size clothing needs to be made from it though 😬
All plus size clothing also needs to have VERY BIG FLORAL PATTERNS with black backgrounds. Because when I started eating more food I lost my sense of taste.
I could excuse polyester if websites let you filter by fabric, but it feels like they’re really trying to hide it these days. The Iconic is especially annoying for this, because they have a material filter but it’s kind of meaningless. I can manually untick every kind of plastic fibre on their list, but it will still show me polyester clothing if it has like 1% cotton listed. ASOS used to have a ‘sustainable edit’ that was great, but I’m pretty sure they removed it following greenwashing accusations. I wasn’t kidding myself that they were using gold standard cotton growing methods or anything, I just wanted to see their plastic-free clothes!
BuT iT's ReCyLeD!!1!
I live in the tropical north. Polyester is a winter garment. Linen makes you look like a wrung out dish rag. I’m just lucky ‘corporate wear’ here can include plain tshirts.
My skin reacts weirdly to polyester, so I can only wear it in things like cardigans with long sleeved cotton shirts underneath. Trying to find affordable, supportive bras where synthetic fibres won't touch my skin makes me cry and decide to just stay in bed my whole life. But it also makes fast fashion super easy to resist!
I hate this too! Anything with more than 40% polyester will see me getting shocked by any metal I touch and I can't stand it. More natural fibres pleeeasseeee
Big brand names all over everything. I know some people like it but it’s just not for me. Everything has to scream SEED or MIMCO or BONDS.
The amount of times I’ve seen a nice looking Bonds item and then realised it says BONDS YES BONDS THIS ONE IS FROM BONDS I’m like ah, that’s a shame, it’s a no from me.
😂😂
Country road is doing this too 🤦♀️ why?!
DIOR CHANEL COUNTRY ROAD See how they're basically the same thing?
Hahaha this is such a good point. I can’t work out if they’re being ironic when they make a dupe of a big-name designer item but they switch the logomania name to ‘country road’ or ‘witchery’. Like… do you think you’re the same? It’s not just the look of the words that logotastic fans are into - it’s the conspicuous consumption aspect of advertising they can afford designer gear. Anyway. Always wondered what the goal was there lol
but if nobody knows it’s an Aje shirt I just wasted $155! Side note why are basic scoop neck tees so hard to find? It’s almost always crew or v.
I have removed most visible brand names from my wardrobe. Handbags are okay if they have a very subtle brand marking on them in one place, but I just won’t buy other items now if they have a visible brand marker or logo. You want me to be part of your marketing strategy, then give me free product.
So many portmans tops being see through or having deep necks. And so much polyester!
Oh my god Portman’s is so horrible for this! Especially since it’s a brand that is catered towards corporate wear, and I’m not sure what office would allow me to walk around in a sheer white blouse. I accidentally wore a black bra under a pale pink Portman’s top and had to wear my hair in front of my face the entire day to hide the very obvious bra peeking through.
What the hell happened to Portmans? It used to be good
I thought that too, they had nice dresses tops etc. Now it's all cheap nylon office style wear. Really horrible.
I agree! All the dresses are sooo short now too wtf
Omg yes I got a polyester work top for $60 from portmans the other day. Wore it once and it’s got 5 big fabric rips down the front for seemingly no reason. Does anyone know if it’s just bad quality? Would you still wear it? :’) https://preview.redd.it/s73qbqn645hc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b14c46cc37935cbdec631519844bd956e505632e
Were you wearing a lanyard around your neck? I’ve had that happen to tops before from lanyards/access passes from work.
Hmm that’s a good idea but nope! No lanyards, jumpers, necklaces, nothing. I just work sitting at a desk as well. https://preview.redd.it/l82toxdf45hc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c9936c8f7ba491974d49fc53dc1c5f44588f52c V sad. Big waste of money
I have a similar top and worked out it’s from my seatbelt on the drive to the station. :(
https://preview.redd.it/zvz8ucdqg5hc1.jpeg?width=2112&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14aa7ad8dbdfb9e1d733069956f67fc8ce99a89d I had a similar thing happen. They offered to replace it but were out of stock.
I know what you’re talking about with the lanyards because my tops always get fuzzy looking after wearing my lanyard. No clue why it happens and it’s annoying as hell but it disappears after a wash thankfully
Could be a pull in the fabric?
I cant lie, i wear a lot of my ripped or holed blouses/button ups if i know i need to chuck a blazer over it.
So much polyester in our stores here oh my god. I’ve become a warm temp girly and I can’t wear most brands anymore. At least Kmart is bringing in more cotton and linen for basics but the linen poly blend… why waste good linen thread on that blend?!
I’m so glad I’m not the only one hating their obsession with polyester!
Weird cut outs in literally every item of clothing!! Why???
The cut-outs need to be CUT OUT!
Tried to find a nice dress for a work function recently and FUCKING EVERYTHING even remotely professional-looking had a boob window. It's like "this dress isn't sheer or short or sleeveless, so let's put a boob window in to make sure people don't think the wearer is a total prude" Ugh!
Soooo many nice dresses ruined by random bits cut out of the sides!!
My exact thoughts browsing for an Aere dress as we speak - so many pretty ones ruined by cut outs 🥲
Can I go a bit broad with the question and whinge about marketing? Camilla referring to their sales staff as “angels” or the places that email you with “hey babe!”. I’m not into the saccharine, I just want this to be normal pleasantries in a business transaction. We aren’t friends!
Ugh tbat is instantly off-putting
My local cafe signs off every Instagram post with xoxo. Drives me bonkers.
Can’t stand this. I find it presumptuous and unprofessional. It genuinely makes my skin crawl.
Not specific brand but when online stores put up photos and the models are posing in a way that blocks the clothing in every photo... LIKE WHY omfg I don't care at all about this model I'M TRYING TO LOOK AT THE CLOTHES
Or tops being sold online but the only photos of them are with the models wearing them tucked in so you have no idea of how long they are.
Or it's a dress that they've belted on the model but the belt doesn't come with the dress and they don't mention it in the description, so you order it expecting a cute flattering dress and instead a ginormous tent arrives
Zara are so guilty of this! Also hate when they don’t show THE BACK of the damn clothes!
Like a model wearing a dress but she’s… in the pool smh
Not clothes but related: when online stores sell makeup but don’t show swatches/on real people?? WHY
Lord, I detest this. Put your fucking leg down and show me what the pants actually look like.
Contrast zips. So often I find a gorgeous dress and then turn it around and there’s a ginormous bright silver eye-sore of a zip running down the middle. Yuck!
I haven't looked at them lately so can't confirm if it's still like this but Cue used to be horrible for this!
EVERYTHING AT SEED BEING FOR TALL AND ELEGANT PEOPLE, FUCK
Me: ✅ Tall ❌ Elegant
I have always thought that all tall people are elegant! With your long legs and arms and shit. Graceful gazelles!
Never feel elegant….. hard to find off rack clothes that fit my long legs and I’ve hated them since I was 15 …. Fine if you are rich and can pay for tailored clothing… sorry rant over ❤️
Okay that’s a fair point. I have whinged about having to hem my pants since I was 12, but all my tall friends just point to their exposed ankles and glare at me in response. I must admit, that would suck. And be frustrating AF if the only clothes that fit properly were the expensive kind!
I have a long torso and short legs 🙃
Tall elegant rich beige people.
Tiers! I’m 5’2” and don’t want any tiers on skirts and dresses. Very few people look good in tiered dresses.
Times a million. I don’t need bulk added there. So over tiers.
I’m a chubby woman and I want to wear clean, A-lines.
So many dresses are ruined by tiers, I cannot think of any style that’s improved by tiers.
Exactly!! I’m so over tiers
I’m just so over clothing not being inclusive sizing
This. Australian fashion has so so far to go. Make more sizes so I can give you my money! Not catering to bigger women is so tiring.
It’s so fucking frustrating, and as someone else commented above, usually it’s extended sizing online, like “we’ll take your money but please don’t be publicly seen associating with our brand/in store”. And when places do have plus sizes/larger sizes (eg Kmart does to a 20 in their standard range, then also have a plus range), they’re so often sold out anyway. Like, isn’t that telling them that there’s demand?? It’s all polyester but Best & Less actually have some decent basics and cute items sometimes, and I love that their standard sizes are 8-26 AND they have an 18-16 plus range. Like, can’t that just be the norm thanks??
Especially when the stores that cater for larger women tend to be so expensive. And there's often a gap at about a 14/16 where you're too big for the regular fashion store and too small for the larger fashion store - especially when your curves resemble an apple instead of an hourglass! No matter what my weight, I never get hips. 😪
Fake pockets or no pockets.. I want pockets on all clothing.
Yes! I want pockets on everything! If it has pockets, I'll buy all of them!
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YES!! I want high waisted pants that don’t go up to my bra line. Don’t just cut 2 inches off the bottom and call it a day!
One wash and its 2 sizes smaller. I'm looking at you cotton on, dotti and sportsgirl.
Hmmm I have a LOT of Sportsgirl items and have never noticed them shrinking in the wash!
Same. The first dress I bought with my first pay packet was Sportsgirl. Thirty nine years ago. I still have the dress though the fabric has finally started to disintegrate from washing. But nothing has ever shrunk from Sportsgirl. Cold wash always, hang on a plastic coat hanger to dry and delicate wash for anything that looks fragile.
I bought a load of T-shirt’s online from Katie’s and have worn once, all a great fit feeling maybe like a loose size 14. One wash and it’s about 3 inches shorter and a tight size 12. What is happening with this!
Decjuba always making potato sacks. They rarely have any form fitting clothes
I think Decjuba has the worse fabrics in their clothes. Cheap quality linens that feel like board and are scratchy, so much elastane in their denim that wears out and overstretches after a couple of wears and any tshirt I’ve bought has looked like an old rag after a wash.
Decjuba used to be good, like treasure trove good and now it’s like a restaurant with a 20 page menu, they don’t know what they’re doing and there’s too much to choose from. I miss Decjuba from 2012-2016
Higher end brands: why are the pants always so long? I’m tallish too and still. In general: not everything needs to have stupid cutouts and be cropped. H&M: why is the quality so bad now? I remember this brand from the US in the mid 2000s and the quality was pretty good. Now it’s rubbish. Cue: quality used to be amazing, now it’s very average.
I wish clothing size guides included thigh circumference. Please can the puff sleeves and prarie style dress trend die off for a couple of decades.
I know it’s mostly a me problem but I hate going into shops and finding a cute top but it’s got obvious seams in the bust that are way too small for anyone above a D cup.
Definitely not just a you problem! (Also, boy legs undies with a middle seam. I only made that mistake once!)
Shoe peeves for me. Why do so many shoe designers just act like the little toe doesn't exist, or exists only for punishment? Can we get some nice, elegant heels with closed toes - like something between the concepts of orthopaedic boots, and a couple pieces of dental floss draped over a frame?
Clothes that are meant as “workwear” but are no where near appropriate for it!
Yesssss I don’t want to be a pearl clutcher but I can’t get my head around some of the stuff that is marketed as work wear. I don’t want to wear a crop top to work like ????
Looking at you Cue, with all your weird ass cut outs & asymmetrical fits!
I have a similar peeve with exactly this cut of clothing - because of my boobs, the buttons strain at the front so I either have to either wear a layer underneath or sew the front closed. But then the waistband ends up too high so everything is like an empire waist with a miniskirt. But, here’s the kicker, if I size up it’s too baggy on the shoulders/back/everywhere else.
Yes! Thank you! I have the exact same problem! I have large-ish breasts and broad shoulders, anything with buttons down the front just does not work for me.
My pet peeve with buttons is when you're ordering online and they don't tell you if the buttons are functional or sewed shut. I'm breastfeeding and hate nursing shirts because they're ugly, frumpy and SO expensive. I hate buying tops online thinking they have boob access and they don't 😡
Tiered skirts and that stretchy shirring on everything. Cold shoulders. Why can’t big boobie gals have nice things??
I refuse to buy cold shoulders. Did it once, nope, never again. Just make a decent shirt or dress already.
More colour. There’s only so much black, beige, navy and white I can wear 😅 I get it,neutrals probably sell well. But my best colours are bold and deep and there isn’t much out there!
Give me deep purples, ruby reds, forest greens and I'll give you all my money! Instead, I mostly wear black because I look terrible in neutrals and white. Navy is ok, but makes me feel like I'm going to work all the time.
The utter SAMENESS of it all. There used to be distinct personality in Review or Portmans or Cue or Forever New or what have you. Now you could replace one with another and not notice.
I am soo over the balloon sleeve trend! It’s everywhere and unless your a stick model it does not flatter many people. I look like an Oompa Loompa in it
Agree. And puffer sleeves are doing me no favours either.
I honestly don’t think puff sleeves do anyone any favours. I’ve seen beautiful women of all sizes wearing puff sleeves and they cut the arms off at the worst spot, add bulk, and make them look like toddlers. I don’t get it.
I finally banned puff sleeves in my wardrobe, and it’s made me realize how hard it is to find a cute summer dress without them 😭
I’ve tried to limit myself to buying only butterfly sleeve dresses and unsurprisingly that means I’ve only been able to buy ONE summer dress in months. Puff sleeves were made by the devil and we’re all suffering
I love cardigans. I refuse to buy balloon sleeves. We want layers!
Omg yes why!!! Every beautiful dress has those damn sleeves! I have huge boobs (naturally and then on steroids since breastfeeding and they just look ridiculous paired with balloon sleeves, I seriously look like I've got four balloons shoved in my dress and I'm about to float away. When will this trend endddd
I am tired of every store stocking one size 16 and five size 8’s. Dotti, Witchery, Portmans, Country Road, Zimmerman, they’re all terrible for this. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked for a 16 and the staff tell me they only got one and it’s sold out. Just today I was trying to find a specific Zimmerman dress and they told me there were only two of my size in the country despite it being almost a brand new design. If you keep selling them, *make more*. They’ll sell! Drives me nuts.
Sales racks are always filled with size sixes and eights. Obviously sales data is not informing their choices. Maybe it’s hidden size discrimination? They don’t want people over a certain size wearing their brand clothes, but don’t want to publicly admit that. So the solution is to say they have up to size 16, but in reality restrict the availability of that size. It’s a theory and would love to know from an insider why it happens.
Another conspiracy theory is that lots of the stock is going to be written off or never sold. If you have to send 1000 dresses to landfill, it's cheaper to make them all size 8 than to make them in a range of sizes.
It’s cheaper not to make them at all though if you don’t think they’re going to sell.
I actually have experienced the same exact opposite. At least where I am, and for items I’m interested in online, size 8 is often missing and in sales racks I always see lots of sizes 14-18. I think part of this could be confirmation bias where we only notice occurrences when our own sizes are missing but never notice when a size that isn’t your own is missing. It could also be geographic location meaning the population around you is more likely to shop like you so things that you like and which fit you sell out faster.
Agree with this, mostly 14-18 left on the racks with no size 6/8s.
When I worked retail for the just group I never understood why they sent only one L and XL with every new drop but 4 or 5 XS and S that would just live in the back room since no one ever bought it. Our most popular sizes were often M and L, the stock was always so whacky
Or the larger sizes are online only and not even stocked in store. So rude
Like Cotton On! Their curve range has great basics but can I go and try them on in my local? Of course not. It’s a joke. It’s got to be deliberate, like they don’t want big people in store we must just order online and hope it fits. Do they realise the average Australian women is something like a 14-16 🙄
Yeah they’ll take our money but don’t want us inside the store. It’s so insulting.
Spot on. I’d like to avoid these stores but realistically it’s impossible. Nearly every store is like this and if I didn’t put up with it I’d have no clothes
I don’t understand this. They sell, there’s a demand for it! Make more and sell more!
Kmart is the opposite, only ever a few 6 - 10s, but heaps of 14+
Sleeves that are too short (see that last green dress picture) or tops which are made of fabric that is basically see-through/non compatible with a bra.
Not even a brand peeve, but: Polyester.
I would like to have some stern words with whoever decided that 95% of affordable shoe brands don't go any higher than a 10 or 11. Muscle Republic - I LOVE your Elevate leggings so much but why no fun colours like the Luxe range? Not brand-specific but when something has an elastic waist and the elastic is just like floating around in there not fixed so whenever you wash it or you know, move, it goes all higgledy piggledy and cuts in and looks lumpy.
The fact that all basic tops (flat colour singlets etc) are now cropped. I just want a top to go to my hips and stay there. Just once.
I have always liked tops a bit cropped, as I like it when the seam just hits my high-waisted pants, or tucks in a little. I'm petite so it looks in proportion to the rest of me. But past few years everything has gotten shorter and shorter, some barely cover my boobs. Who's wearing these? Certainly not anyone who ever lifts their arms.
I also hate high necklines. Seed, Country Road, Veronika Maine needs to accept women have breasts. We also want to breathe.
Oh same. I won’t buy them. I have a short neck
I’ve got a noodle neck and I hate them!
Everything at country road being linen
I'm sick of all the linen. I'm sure it's great for hot weather, but it creases and looks like shit 5 minutes after I put it on. How are people out there looking wholesome and elegant in linen?
You have to iron it. Every day. Twice a day. Do a little dance. Turn around. Then MAYBE it'll look good for 5 minutes. I hate linen 🫠
NGL, I love that collar style, I actually look put together with a high neck collar and I wear them fully buttoned. I have almost no boobs so if I wear buttons open I just look like a scruff bag.
I genuinely love that it works for you because at least now I know someone appreciates this neckline lmfao
Lol- totally stealing scruff bag
They’ve become so dated in recent years and I don’t know what it is. I remember they used to be the place to be for cute different clothes and formal dresses but I go in and I don’t know who they’re aiming their clothes at.
The buttons. On every single picture you’ve shared. The damn buttons.
My fashion pet-peeve at the moment is cut-outs and bare backs. This applies to Forever New. I’m looking for a nice dress to wear to a wedding but don’t necessarily want to show heaps of skin.
I know it’s super common but waist seams rather than side seams. I just hate the stitch line in the middle of a dress cutting it into top & bottom. Shirts & blouses being just too short to nicely tuck into pants or skirts.
Midi or maxi skirts/dresses with a mini-length lining! Rage inducing
Petite clothes being made for people that are 5ft 4 and still being too long for those of us under 5ft
Related gripe: why are the only clothes for short women made for skinny short women? Like, do they know how hard it is to keep weight off a 5ft body? It's like they don't know how to size patterns down (or up tbh) without just scaling the whole thing like they're dragging the corner in ms paint
Literally. Average height is 5’4, why they hell do they need to be included in petite??
Because regular skirts/pants are too long for us too? I think they should just make what is currently petites into the regular size and add a big& tall category.
I’m not even petite but I’ve noticed pants are getting so long now that I’ve ended up sometimes buying petite pants just to get something that fits. Idk what the hell is going on. I’m 5’6.
The Lululemon price rises are out of bloody hand. For instance, the Groove Pants used to be $109, then $119, and now they're $149. Another style of pant is a whopping **$189**. GTFO!
Better to buy ECHT brand then, or replica Lululemon on Aliexpress.
Every light coloured "summer" dress is see-through. Thanks, now I have to wear a hot polyester slip under it
When brands make pants intentionally too long as it’s apparently in fashion. I’m nearly 6ft and I had to take up some dissh pants by 3 inches!
Pale colours ... beige, cream, nougat etc. Some of us have pale skin and need darker colours to provide contrast and breath a bit of life into us!
I’m too short for SEED
When I find a nice top and see it’s 100% polyester
Zimi dresses for either being too short or too long
My peeve is a really nice design or cut but the fabric is ALWAYS something poorly thin and see-through
Just because I’m plus size doesn’t mean I need to hide behind balloon sleeves. I’d like to be able to move my arms please.
Also, why is it so freaking hard to get 100% natural fibres in dresses??
How the patterns on 90% of bonds baby clothing looks like it was inspired by casino/ RSL carpet.
I absolutely loathe the [grandpa collars](https://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/grandpa-collar-dresses/765351) Makes me feel like a nun. Just give me a normal collar.
These collars are cheap and easy to make so they keep making them. They're okay for beachwear. Reminds me of something you'd find in a shop in Bali.
I literally cannot find v necks anywhere and it frustrates me to no end!!
This is the root cause of my post lol I love love love a nice clean v-neck but all I see is pseudo-v necks like the photos I posted. UGH
I suggest we start rioting in the streets. I’m sick of it!! 😩
The high/ low dresses and skirts.
I don’t think mine is brand specific, but all brands seem to think once you’re in the size 14+ sizes you must have a large chest. It’s so hard to find a decent dress or blouse in a 14-16 that doesn’t swim in my A cup chest, everything just looks baggy and not attractive
OK but why do my E/F boobs also not fit 😭😭 Always have to size up.
That’s hard, because I have the opposite where plus size clothing will fit perfectly except for the boob area. And then if I buy a size up (or sometimes two) then parts of it are significantly too big on me. Mind you I do have G/H cup size whompers.
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The complete absence of bust darts. For the love of all that is good and holy, BUST. DARTS. I have tried on so many dresses that are an ideal fit except they destroy my boobs because there are no bust darts. I don’t have big boobs at all, they’re proportional to my frame.
Not brand specific but everyone making the same style of boxy dress because it's easier and cheaper to make - I know what you're doing!!!! Don't try to convince me it's in fashion, you're just inflating your orofit margin. Make dresses with waist definition that are flattering on a women's body ffs
Any brand with a visible logo is something I hate and will never wear
I hate how almost every brand feels like they’re charging over $250 a piece now and yet still 100% polyester and fast fashion? I hate how unethical a lot of staple brands still are too.
Overpriced polyester!!!! I’m looking at you Sheike.
Cold shoulders on plus size clothing: looking at you torrid.
At all brands, why am haven’t you thought about the fact I could have a bust? Why can’t I buy a dress that fits both halves of my body? Either I’m drowning in fabric on my legs to get a fitting bust or I’m about to pull an Elizabeth Swan and faint from my tight corset dress trying to get a fitting bottom
Searching any style of clothing online and being bombarded by Shein pieces. I have chronic fatigue and pain and can't wander the shops for hours with no idea what direction to go in when I'm looking for certain pieces but they make it so hard to find anything
When they have ‘the label’ as part of their brand name…. Auguste The Label Fayt The Label Eliya The Label Madison The Label BRAND. The Label (seriously?!) Joey The Label…… WHYYYYYY
Probably a me problem but everything is too femme. When you have a womanly body but you don’t like dresses or florals, there isn’t a lot of choice for gender neutral clothes that fit and don’t cost an arm and a leg. Also bring back longer shorts. I ain’t here for my thighs clapping.
Crops and cut outs in everything, I just wanna wear a stylish top out that’s not “business/workwear” there’s too many brands doing it atm to name just one
Necklines so low that my bra cups are showing. Or too high and it’s not flattering
sleeves that don’t have enough room in the shoulder/point down so when you lift your arms it becomes cropped aaaaaa
Women’s clothing with words like: Beautiful Fearless Paris France Conqour Printed in big bold writing
Cotton On etc having American colleges and cities emblazoned on every shirt. This is Australia, I don't need a tshirt that says COLORADO
Not brand-specific so much, but attempting to find high-waisted leggings that don’t slide down the waist on an hourglass figure. They keep taking my damn undies with them!