To state the bleeding obvious:
Dec. 30th, 2006 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puddingcatI am not a cylinder. Now can clothes designers please start allowing for this? Also, please could "Petite" ranges start allowing for short backs as well as short arms, and then realise that - on a short torso - boobs will be comparatively closer to the waist than on a long one?
I *did* get a suit, but only because it was half price (hence £63) at Principles, and so I don't mind that it isn't ideal. It's not as if I wear one every day, after all.
This has clarified why I hate being a size 14 as well. When I'm a 12, I'm a sensible shape. I fit into clothes, I'm in proportion (mostly) and don't find that things fit one part of me and not another. When I put on weight, clothes sag, and gape, and pull, and aren't the same shape as me any more. All but one of the pairs of trousers I tried on were too tight on the waist and loose over the hips (or vice versa), and all looked like "old fat person's clothes" - cut to drape, and skim across the lumps, and hide cellulite. They were one step away from elasticated waists sold at the back of the Sunday colour supplements.
At least I found 3 nice jersey tops (Per Una & Planet - when did I become middle aged?) and some nice knee boots with a sensible 2" heel (in Clarks, ferchrissakes - there's no hope).
And, for some reason, I'm now so cold that my nipples hurt, and I'm having to warm them up with a nice cup of tea. Nothing like sharing the pain :D
I *did* get a suit, but only because it was half price (hence £63) at Principles, and so I don't mind that it isn't ideal. It's not as if I wear one every day, after all.
This has clarified why I hate being a size 14 as well. When I'm a 12, I'm a sensible shape. I fit into clothes, I'm in proportion (mostly) and don't find that things fit one part of me and not another. When I put on weight, clothes sag, and gape, and pull, and aren't the same shape as me any more. All but one of the pairs of trousers I tried on were too tight on the waist and loose over the hips (or vice versa), and all looked like "old fat person's clothes" - cut to drape, and skim across the lumps, and hide cellulite. They were one step away from elasticated waists sold at the back of the Sunday colour supplements.
At least I found 3 nice jersey tops (Per Una & Planet - when did I become middle aged?) and some nice knee boots with a sensible 2" heel (in Clarks, ferchrissakes - there's no hope).
And, for some reason, I'm now so cold that my nipples hurt, and I'm having to warm them up with a nice cup of tea. Nothing like sharing the pain :D
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Date: 2006-12-30 05:59 pm (UTC)I'm currently a size between 6 and 8, which is a lot of fun. Nothing fits properly. Jeans sag in the arse and are in general far too long, and shirts are clearly designed for someone six cup-sizes bigger. A small is too small in the shoulders but a medium is too big everywhere else. Dresses gap at my concave chest but won't sip up at the back or the side.
RAAA.
It just goes to show that no matter what size you are, clothes aren't designed for anyone with a normal/average body at all. For the moment the only places I can find clothes that fit properly are Gap and LL Bean, but that means my wardrobe is boring. Sigh.
Stupid clothes. Let's just all go round naked!
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Date: 2006-12-30 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-30 08:41 pm (UTC)6-8 in the US is 10-12ish here, isn't it? I have another friend the same size as you with exactly the same problems.