https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:11:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it/page/2#post-1430429 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:58:13 +0000 Style Fan 1430429@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the memories of snow pants.&nbsp; I grew up in Northern Ontario.&nbsp; Brrrrr.&nbsp; I am looking forward to your new style direction.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it/page/2#post-1430215 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:13:14 +0000 crutcher 1430215@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>(Just to say thanks for your information re/Katherine Barclay of Montreal...I bought a lovely long blazer with an ah...maz...ing floral lining and I am totally in love...Found this little sweetie quite by accident..thanks griffin...and I plan to have many fun wears.....Great line..) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it/page/2#post-1430109 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:00:42 +0000 Angie 1430109@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Looking forward to hearing about your new style direction. Perhaps you'll become an&nbsp;UWP and add in the Hard Edge. xo </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it/page/2#post-1430103 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:48:06 +0000 Suz 1430103@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, Angie, the colourful pants didn't work for me last time. (Tried the Sloanes in burnt orange and gifted them to Ms. Mary after a mere try on.) &nbsp; I <b>DO</b> like my plaid skinnies, however.&nbsp;</p> <p>But ultimately, I think my path is to veer in another direction entirely. More on that soon. :)&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it/page/2#post-1430097 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:36:44 +0000 Angie 1430097@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The knitted skirted leggings look is probably reserved for warmer weather, Suz. &nbsp; The woven combination reserved for warm weather and going out.&nbsp;</p> <p>Feel like venturing into skinny colorful cords?&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it/page/2#post-1429858 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:08:52 +0000 Deborah 1429858@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is great Suz.&nbsp; And you know I never intend to be a wet blanket.&nbsp; Bottom line. no pun intended, is if we like what we see and if we feel good. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it/page/2#post-1429855 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:20 +0000 Suz 1429855@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, thanks, Crackers! I just may take you up on that shopping adventure!&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429849 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:46:14 +0000 claire 1429849@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I showed my DH the nordstrom stock photo when I was thinking of buying the EF ones and he snickered. I wore them once and he loves them. Men. Go figure. </p> <p>Suz, I think you would actually really like the EF ones, even though they're too thin for your winter, but thinking ahead to when it warms up just a little. If you get to an somewhere with an EF store I would recommend at least a try on. I volunteer to take you to the Vancouver store if you happen to be out this way! The SA's would have you sorted in no time! When I was deciding between two sizes, the larger of the two sizes was actually too long on me, the proportions were just wrong, I needed more of a butt vest to skew sporty and less skirt like. I'm taller and heavier than you, so on you it would definitely be longer and much more real skirt like, and I bet dollars to doughnuts it would actually be what you're looking for. Pricey, yes but still Cdn $$ if you buy it here rather than ordering it online with the exchange. And my CPW is plummeting. Just a thought..... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429836 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:12:04 +0000 Suz 1429836@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cracking up, <b>Shevie</b>!</p> <p>&nbsp;It didn't surprise me that he liked it but not for that reason. He's actually not big on anything conventionally "sexy." (Thank goodness, since I'm never going to be bombshell.) </p> <p>I think he saw it more as a kind of sporty-luxe piece. Not true gear, but useful in the same way, just for hanging around the house, doing quick errands, etc. His view was: if you can wear skinny jeans, you can wear that....whatever-it's-called.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429832 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:08:06 +0000 Jaime 1429832@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Surely it is interesting that something that called here a&nbsp;butt vest is popular with the husbands. Perhaps we see just covered enough and they see almost uncovered :-)! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429816 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:51:39 +0000 catseye 1429816@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If you can find a skirted legging that is longer, it may still work. I think you need the skirted legging to function as a skirt with built in leggings, not a butt vest. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429811 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:33:12 +0000 Janet 1429811@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laughing at this entire saga. </p> <p>My husband also liked the photos I showed him of me in the butt vest. He called the look "promising" and he wants to see it IRL. Seems to be popular with our men. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429808 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:21:37 +0000 Suz 1429808@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Sveta,</b> I think you are probably right about that. And leggings remind me of "leotards" (thick bunchy tights we wore to keep warm). Different from today's tights, even fleece ones or sweater tights, because they always fell down on me (just like leggings do...)</p> <p><b>Angie</b>, you are trying so hard to help! Alas...the reason the tights and a skirt work is that the waistband on tights is a lot&nbsp;thinner (I think). I never have a problem with that or feel uncomfortable. Only with thick elastic layered up.&nbsp;And the Vince Camuto knit skirts are not warm enough. Jennifer (Shiny) says the same -- also Shannon. It's odd because they are long and self-lined, but they don't work. They also stick to tights like the dickens and ride around, another irritation with <b>knit over knit.&nbsp;</b>I could look for warmer knit skirts, though, and will probably do that -- another year. I do have the fun jacquard knit tube skirt from Zara (knee length) and it works well.&nbsp;</p> <p><b>TG</b>, I don't know whether to be glad or sad that I am not alone in the daily diet of skinnies....</p> <p><b>Caro</b>, thank you! And yes, I think that would be such a fun way to branch out, and who knows? Maybe I will find the right version and it will work after all. I can always keep looking.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429802 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:02:40 +0000 Sveta 1429802@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting about the pants under skirt memories from the past...<br />When I was in grade 6 we had a school uniform of a brown dress and black apron (just thinking about it makes me shudder). No other clothing was allowed in the school and jeans were among the most prohibited items. So "cool" girls wore jeans UNDER school dress instead of tights :-)<br />Me? I was not cool and did not own jeans. I had to wear woolen leggings under my dress and I hated that - maybe this is one of the reasons I NEVER wore leggings later in 80s when they were fashionable and not keen on them now... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429786 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:34:37 +0000 Helena 1429786@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, I so remember the snow pant trauma and am now coaching my kids through it. I live in skinny jeans from December to the end of February primarily because I wear snow pants to walk the kiddies to school every day. Sadly, at the end of the day (most days anyway), real life will have its way with our style ... *sigh* ... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429785 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:30:28 +0000 Angie 1429785@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah. We all have our preferences and idiosyncrasies. It makes sense.&nbsp;Suz, how is wearing a skirt with leggings any different to wearing a skirt with tights (which you *do* wear? You have knitted tube skirts. Wear them over leggings, like Diana did this week.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429782 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:29:20 +0000 Caro in Oz 1429782@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pity, I think something similar would look sensational on you :)&nbsp;I do understand having sensitive body parts though&nbsp;Suz. I'm one of the button up shirt problem crowd. If shirts fit my bust they are too big everywhere else &amp; I always feel like if I&nbsp;look down I will&nbsp;see my bra&nbsp;:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429766 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:08:47 +0000 Suz 1429766@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, it <b>might</b> work, <b>Caro</b>. But as one thing layered over another it &nbsp;would have two (presumably elastic) waistbands, vs. one. Elastic waist would be better than a true trouser -- but....hmmm.....it's really hard to explain this. </p> <p>Obviously the feeling I'm describing isn't universal, yet it <b>is</b> shared by some. I just <b>hate</b> bunchy layers around my midsection. <b>So</b> uncomfortable for me. I imagine it's the way some people feel about jeans, or others feel about button front shirts layered under sweaters (which don't bother me in the least) or the way still&nbsp;others feel about turtlenecks or high collars (ditto) -- I don't really understand it, but it feels the opposite of sleek to me. Even when it looks okay. You know?&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429763 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:02:12 +0000 Caro in Oz 1429763@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The first one I linked to is a heavier knit&nbsp;Suz when layered over leggings/tights (not pants) why would it be any different from the butt vest for comfort? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429760 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:55:10 +0000 Suz 1429760@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Angie</b>, yes --- I get it. The trouble is, it won't work for me.&nbsp;</p> <p>I'm in a pickle of contradiction, you see.&nbsp;</p> <p>Because my reason for not liking the butt vest is that it's too soft, unstructured, and "loungey" feeling (to me) to wear in public.&nbsp;</p> <p>But a woven (like Caro's example and similar to&nbsp;woven trousers) is likely to feel too precious for my ordinary life. It would work great for going out to the city, etc. -- but I would worry too much about wrinkles and such if I wore it to curl up at home. Plus, it would have the problem of "bunching" at the waist. </p> <p>Those of us who have grown up in Canada well remember being forced to wear snow pants under our skirts on cold winter days. <b>THAT</b> is the feeling I always get when I layer a skirt (or even a tunic) over trousers of any kind. So it's probably a no-go zone for me, alas.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429759 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:52:56 +0000 Caro in Oz 1429759@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>One meaning of pelmet is do do with soft furnishings - it was the frilly short "skirt" at the top of my grandmother's curtains - there is also such a thing as a box pelmet - it's a non-gathered version that is made of plywood then covered in the same fabric as the curtains&nbsp;&nbsp;:)</p> <p>I had no idea there was such a thing as a pelmet skirt though.</p> <p>The first&nbsp;skiirt is on a Japanese website - taobao -&nbsp;click through the first address.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429758 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:49:42 +0000 Windchime 1429758@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, I'm indifferent about butt vests but seriously like that pelmet in Caro's first pic. And guaranteed, one week ago, I had never heard or used the terms "butt vest" or "pelmet!" </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429753 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:45:00 +0000 gradfashionista 1429753@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This thread had me running to your other thread for clarity, Suz. "Butt-vest" seemed to connote Homer-Simpson-like graphics, which seemed a bit drastic,&nbsp;even if New Year's is still fresh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429752 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:44:12 +0000 Angie 1429752@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>YES. Caro's first link. <b>That's</b> what I'm taking about. Cropped leggings worn under a woven skirt (which I hinted at right in the beginning,&nbsp;and linked to my own outfit wearing a version in print - perhaps you remember that, Suz?).&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429749 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:41:39 +0000 Jeanie 1429749@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well onto the pelmut skirt! &nbsp;I love that first one Caro (can you share the brand)?&nbsp; When I tried to Google pelmut I found there really is such thing as a pelmut skirt....who knew! &nbsp;</p> <p>pelmet-skirt<a rel="nofollow" href="http://wiktionary.yourdictionary.com/"></a><div><div>Noun <p>(<i>plural</i>&nbsp;pelmet skirts)</p> <ol> <li>A very short&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/miniskirt">miniskirt</a>.</li> </ol> </div></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429748 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:40:17 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 1429748@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting, Suz--glad to hear he is open to the idea! <br />I love those images from Caro--especially the first. Now that's a skirted legging I would love to wear. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429747 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:38:21 +0000 Helena 1429747@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It just proves how much can be learned from a purchase, even if it doesn't work out entirely. Three cheers for experimenting and trying something new! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429742 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:32:52 +0000 Suz 1429742@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow! I actually like that first skirt a lot. Do you think "pelmet" is translated for "Helmut"????</p> <p>And yes, this butt vest was worth it for the entertainment value alone!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429735 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:17:35 +0000 Caro in Oz 1429735@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just saw this but can't seem to link</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.1.w5003-8984166127.19.A1sw7a&amp;id=41591682525&amp;scene=taobao_shop">http://item.taobao.com/item.ht.....e=taobao_s</a></p> <p>Gotta love Google......</p> <p><b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&amp;viewAllFlag=&amp;catalogId=33057&amp;storeId=12556&amp;productId=15772359&amp;langId=-1&amp;categoryId=&amp;parent_category_rn=&amp;searchTerm=TS36Y01GIVR&amp;resultCount=1&amp;geoip=home">Shop for pelmet skirt on Google</a><br /></b></p> </p> <p>ETA: this doesn't work either - sorry added pic of skirts below.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/butt-vest-update-mr-suz-loves-it#post-1429724 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:56:39 +0000 Sveta 1429724@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Honestly Suz - isn't this butt-vest gives you (and us )&nbsp;the best entertainment for the money?!</p>