te estaría quedando muy bien

Question

looking to translate this sentence. In reference to someone wearing tight or revealing clothing.

Bienvenido amigo, you may have to wait until a Spanish native wanders by ,Tomar una cerveza mientras espera - ray76, Jan 17, 2015

Nearest I can come up with is -"It would be suiting you very well " - ray76, Jan 17, 2015

Answer 1

te estaría quedando muy bien

I agree with Billygoat that this is very unnatural.

Te quedará / quedaría muy bien depending on nuance.

Te estaría quedar muy bien = You would like it to suit you.

This unfortunately doesn´t make sense in Spanish, so I would say: Te gustaría que te quedara bien.

Thank you Julian. My translation didn't look right to me either, but I was trying to stay as close as possible to what the OP was asking. Cheers! - billygoat, Jan 17, 2015

Answer 2

As Ray said in his comment, you may well have to wait for a Spanish native speaker to give you a definitve answer here, but I'll make a comment.....

When talking about wearing clothes, the verb quedar can be used to express how something fits or suits the person.

Eg Te queda bien esta falda = This dress suits you. Me queda un poco pequeño = It's a little too small for me.

I have never seen the present participle (quedando) used like this before - I'm not sure whether it is grammatically correct. As I said, perhaps it makes sense to a native speaker, but I would have thought this makes more sense....

Te estaría quedar muy bien = You would like it to suit you.