Edgy? As much as I want to pull it off (like when I wanted to buy the harness!), it jsut isn't 'me'!

Hmm. Sharp-Edged Minimalism would be hard for me, because I'd be freezing and unable to keep it up day after day. Ladies-who-Lunch would also be difficult, 'cuz I'd feel frumpy.

But Big Rich Texas is, I think, 100% in the realm of impossible. I don't have the skills with the make-up trowel and curling iron.

Sweatpants, t-shirts and UGG boots. Not sure what that's called, but I see a lot of it.

I'm back. Gotta add some stuff.

I grew up in Gainesville, FL (GO GATORS!) where there are a lot of hippies. I lived there all during the '60s, '70s and '80s, so I saw it all. I will never ever wear that garb.

I lived in TX for 5 years and know firsthand what rachylou means about the big hair and thick, cakey makeup. Where I lived, it's very windy, so hairspray is a must if you want to keep the big hair in place. I never went for that look, but I knew plenty of women (not rich) who did. Nice people, all of them, but garishly overdone. It's like they don't know where to stop. I can't embrace that look, either. Too OTT for me.

I don't do dainty/frilly.

Nor corporate/conservative, although I can pull that off if I had to. I've done it before.

Interesting responses! I was more after the concept of which style you find most difficult, as opposed to styles you dislike. I certainly love a good Bombshell look, but can't conceive how to do it myself. Good mental stretching exercise!

My anti-style is, and has been, for a long time:
rich Beverly Hills woman look. Good example: Lisa Vanderpump. I read somewhere that she designs all of her own dresses.

Even the jeans outfits, with sky-high pumps and distressed jeans, is OTT and not tasteful. But she is entertaining to watch on TV (guilty pleasure).

I just read your comment AG. I see what you mean. My most challenging style would be: arty, which Jean does so well. I just don't have the proportions to pull things off the way she does -- she being a rectangle and me being a pearish hourglass.

What I would find really hard to pull off: overtly sexy. Or super feminine, though that would be a bit easier than sexy.

What I would find hard to pull off? Mod minimalism -- or whatever you'd call the looks with straight, waist-surrendering cuts that are striking and ultra-cool. Think some of the looks Tilda Swinton does. I'd love to be able to do that, but it doesn't suit my body at all.

Frilly, floral, puffy sleeves, bohemian.
I couldn't even wear that sort of thing even when I was a kid!

Preppy, sporty, conservative.

I don't think I'm classic at all either, but as it turns out, i am actually wearing a rather Modern Classic outfit today (will post photos when I get home!).

Bombshell for sure - I just don't have the right personality for this style I guess. I can dress this way but I cannot feel this way if itBoho may be an makes sense.
Boho may be another style I cannot pull off - and I don't have anything in my closet for this style.

Ah! With the clarified topic, I'm going to say I can't pull off the Free People look - OTT Bohemian? I used to want to dress like that so badly. There are always lots of crazy, wide, bulky, thigh high boots on their site, but I don't have the stature to pull them off. Also not willowy enough for bulky layering or sack dresses.

ohh, what can't I pull off that I like. I'm pretty fearless so not many styles would intimidate me. But I love the look of a shift/chemise dress and it's the proverbial
puppies fighting in a sack on me. Makes me look huge and blocky and lumpy.
Such an elegant, carefree look though. On others. I can do a body con sheath
that made my girlfriend gasp with envy but it's not the same thing. That's more the
covered up bombshell. I didn't buy the body con dress, either, because I'd have to
really watch my posture. (I don't wear spanx)

High heeled, heavily made up, super well groomed, similar to what Cocolion said above.

This is really hard for me because I've tired to pull off pretty much every look to some degree and if I find the right pieces and I like some aspect about it I think I look pretty darn good! It's all about a feeling for me I guess and keeping things in small doses, kwim?

Trophy wife or its related cousin, Ladies who lunch.

Even if I wore the right clothes, I don't have the whatever it is they have to pull it off!

Nakidra, you are a wise, wise woman!

A couple more style thoughts after digesting this thread:

1) I think I'm with Nakidra! I love trying new things so I might even attempt looks that aren't typically "me" just for the fun of it! It's like playing dress up, and sometimes I surprise myself and start moving in a new direction (like the UWP kick). Now you are challenging me to consider giving tomboy another try!

2) Una, about your comment that we're anti-style twins: I don't think we're completely opposite in our style necessarily (like we both like UWP), just in the direction we approach it from. And, I agree with Zap (what she said in my other thread) that it's not only the clothes, it's the person wearing it and their personality. For example: today you and I both wore sleeveless tanks in "tough" UWP looks. But the effect is quite strikingly different. We're sexy in very different ways. Look at how you pose and how I pose and what we do with our arms and legs. You are toned/hard and boyish and RATE and I am soft and girly and polished. (It's like I'm Terminator I Sarah Connor and you're Terminator II Sarah Connor!) And even if we swapped outfits completely, people would probably still think you looked RATE and I looked ladylike!

Can't do and would never want to: Preppy, ALGO, frilly/lacy

Would love to, but wouldn't work: androgynous

GP, I love your comment.

Nakidira, I feel a lot like you do about trying on different styles.

I think the hardest for me to pull off would be something high fashion. It would mostly be an environmental concern, rather than a concern about looking good. Most of the people I interact with on a regular basis would be far too distracted by my clothes if I wore something uber edgy. I need to get work done at work, and not overly embarrass my children on the playground.

Anything very polished or dainty, including traditional classic (a la Coco Chanel). It ends up being much too high-maintenance for me.

I simply do not have the neat, regular features that would make it an effortless look, and lack the skills or time to groom myself into a semblance of it. Even if I were in the mood to try, my abilities with a straightening iron or curling wand are something to be seriously scared of. The compromise would be short hair, but then my relatively boyish face requires astounding amounts of grooming, make-up, accessorizing to prevent an all-out mannish appearance ---- which ends up an even worse mismatch for traditional feminine classic outfits! For the same reason, toning myself down to dainty is a lost battle even before I begin --- I may be petite, but I can only stay well-groomed enough to look 'dainty' for a few hours (and that's fewer hours than it took to get me there --- it's been tried!).

I've made my peace with my lack of polish, therefore. That said, as Angie pointed out, I can certainly edge in the direction of traditional classic feminine without going all the way there. There's just got to be room left for the rough edges of me, a la manicure-free hands and flyaway hair --- so make that more messy librarian and less classic Coco, let's say! But I would have to stop well short of the quilted patent-leather purse with the gold chain, to stay comfortable in my skin.

Do not have one, honestly . I think I have worn something from all styles. Maybe that is why I am eclectic. I gravitate more towards a certain persona but cannot think of any style I am against except badly styled in whatever category.

When I was young, I tried to pull off a sexy club look when going out with my girlfriends. It never worked though. They always teased me because no matter what I wore I always looked like the good little girl next door!

Natalie - I love your Una/Natalie/Una/Natalie pictorial. LOL, I think maybe it could be a pop song. But I think you're right, you two *could* be farther apart in style. Much farther. Still, there's a striking difference.

Okay, if we're talking about what we CAN'T do, as opposed to what we don't WANT to do, I'd say I have a hard time with "butch." I am so in love with Una's butch boyfriend jeans look today that I can't even stand it, but I'm all rosy cheeks and blue eyes and fluffy hair and soft, round surfaces, and I don't think I've ever been able to pull off "tough" or "butch," much as I would love to!

MaryK, that is SO funny - I was just coming back to post a challenge to you after your post on my jeans thread, because it sounds like Butch Brando Bombshell would be your hardest look. If anyone can do it, you can! I'm not exactly boyish in shape either, though not super- curvy.

I suggest you straighten your hair and make it look like Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes where she and the sheriff are in drag... Can't find a picture but i think it would be a great look. Or leave it curly - she was adorable in that movie with curly hair!

http://www.monkey-hell.com/201.....atoes.html

You're on! I'll try it this weekend! ROFL

too funny! hmmm, what can't I do, well anything that hangs from shoulders straight down. On thin people it looks great, on my curves, it becomes a potato sack. I do like the look though, it is a minimalist style I think.

but I can soooo do the Butch Brando look. I don't have those muscles like Una, but I gots the shoulders! linebacker shoulders!