https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 10 May 2026 19:28:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-56099 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:05:37 +0000 Anonymous 56099@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay for you Hanna. The bus gal is so burdened with her negativity, she was trying to give it away. Way to just say 'no thanks'. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-56048 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:15:56 +0000 hanna 56048@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>haha, thank you for all the responses everyone! your replies made me giggle. </p> <p>i'm not the kind of person who gets confrontational, so it's not like i was ever going to say anything while we were both on the bus and the whole shebang happened, but i figured writing it up, and this way, would help it roll off my back a little easier. which it did. so yay! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-56041 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:13:02 +0000 Louise 56041@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>She was probably jealous because her own outfit looked so daft x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-56026 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:59:36 +0000 Kari 56026@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Some people are just sticks in the mud and like to one-up themselves by making other women feel bad. Hanna, good for you for turning it into something to laugh off - and you made me chuckle too. After seeing so many of your cute recent posts, I'll bet your outfit looked great as usual despite the cold!</p> <p>I'm constantly impressed at how positive this forum is. I've run into so much cattiness/bitterness/negativity when browsing other style sites, even those that claim to be constructive. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55999 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:12:45 +0000 tarzy 55999@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very funny letter. Hanna - I have a feeling that girl will remember your outfit and think about it for a long time. She won't know why, but she will know, deep down, that she was looking at someone who had true personal style. Stay true to that style! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55995 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:42:39 +0000 Kristen 55995@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Heehee, I read this just before I left for work this morning, and it gave me a secret giggle all day! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55935 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:08:55 +0000 Inge 55935@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm sorry to hear your morning started out like this Hanna, but you sure know how to write it up in a hilarious way;-)</p> <p>By the way: I hope you won't come down with the flu!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55887 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:07:08 +0000 hanna 55887@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>haha, thank you for letting me vent, everyone! </p> <p>it's not like this incident was a blow to my self esteem or anything; i was just sort of shocked (and okay, annoyed...) that a woman would go to such extremes to drag another woman - a complete stranger - down. maybe ylf has spoiled me with a group of such understanding and wise women! i've now moved from being annoyed to just feeling kind of sorry for her... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55884 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:38:44 +0000 taylor 55884@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>These sound like young girls who judge anyone who doesn't look like them...(as if anyone would want to)</p> <p>Hold your head high and know that you are among some of the most caring and stylish women on this forum, and you already KNOW how to dress...your not experimenting.</p> <p>This is one of the few places women embrace eachother...instead of being our own worst enemy!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55883 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:33:46 +0000 Ariadne 55883@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh Hanna, you're the funniest! What a morning. Treat yourself to a fancy coffee or something! I can just see the Baby Phat puffer girl... there's always at least one of them on my bus, too. Let's just say it's not my favourite style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55853 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:22:56 +0000 shell 55853@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>your letter cracked me up, hanna! i hope you're not too bummed out though. seriously, you do not need to take fashion advice from someone in a baby phat puffer!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55845 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:52:12 +0000 danielleCT 55845@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This kind of makes me laugh, because those fake fur cropped puffers with the gaudy baby phat logo make me internally say "really? that? what was she thinking?". (of course I keep it to myself)</p> <p>She probably got intimidated the same way by someone at her bus stop and just decided to pay it forward. Hope you feel better soon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55828 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:05:11 +0000 Dani 55828@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, Hanna...what a horrible start to your day. I'm glad you got it off your chest and hope your day improves! </p> <p>April, that quote is wonderful...I think I'm going to frame it and hand it out on business cards at the grocery store too! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55800 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:16:20 +0000 April 55800@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hanna -- this made me think of the quote I have posted on my office door: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Plato)</p> <p>Hope you feel better soon! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55799 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:15:30 +0000 Dawn 55799@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>She sounds awful. Great open letter! Hope you feel better soon.</p> <p>If I were to write an open letter along the same theme, I would open it with 'Dear Business Students'. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55792 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:59:36 +0000 hanna 55792@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>it was very satisfying to type! </p> <p>i'm sorry if i sound petty, but i really do feel awful, and the look really was so scathing and blatant, that it's starting to affect my mood, so i just wanted to get it off my chest. thank you for letting me! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55787 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:46:12 +0000 NCyogini 55787@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! You know what, I think your outfit sounds lovely.</p> <p>Don't you find a good open letter so satisfying, though? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dear-girl-on-the-bus#post-55781 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:17:33 +0000 hanna 55781@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>dear girl-on-the-bus,</p> <p>today is a crappy day; i get that. it is drizzly and gray and miserable and neither of us wants to be on this bus heading to work, or wherever it is you're heading. i'm sure you have a nice, warm, cozy bed you've just left at home, and i'm sure you're really wishing you could be back in it right now. maybe you have the beginnings of the flu, and your head feels like it's about to explode. i know mine does.</p> <p>maybe that's why, when i boarded the bus, you gave my outfit the once-over and then shot me a look of such disdain that it managed to pierce the pre-flu funk i'm in and rattle me. i understand my jersey dress, cardigan, scarf, boot and jacket combo may be quite boring and conservative, but i can't quite understand why you shot me a look of such complete venom. you looked like you were quite ready to jab me in the chest with your black pointy-toed stilleto patent boots, paired with faded skinny jeans with artful rips in the knees. perhaps you didn't think i was appropriately dressed for the weather; i understand i may have looked quite underdressed in my tan jacket, but i assure you, while it may not be quite as toasty as your cropped baby phat puffer with the fur on the hood, it did the job quite nicely.</p> <p>whatever it is, i know you must be a very busy person - you didn't even have time to apply makeup at home, which explains why you kept reaching for product after product to apply on your face from your voluminous black bag (though i noticed your dyed platinum blonde hair was perfectly coifed - maybe that's what took up all your time) - so i appreciate that you took the time to look up, make a face that i can only describe as the physical equivalent of saying "eww" at me, look at your friend with one raised eyebrow as if to say "really? that? what was she thinking?" and then go back to applying your cosmetics. maybe next time (perhaps when i don't feel like crap and somehow allow little things to get to me), i'll put more thought into how i dress. just for you.</p> <p>no really. thank you. </p> <p>your friendly bus-mate,<br /> h. </p>