To state the bleeding obvious:

[puddingcat]

I 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

Comments

[bloomeenee.livejournal.com]

sharing the clothes rage... in utopia, designers will not only make clothes people-shaped but will realise that that means they will have to make more than one cut in each size.
And in Utopia, there will be clothes for the large of bod and small of boob........ I can dream

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

Someone I know and love is short but broad-shouldered and also busty... she has serious problems getting well-fitting shirts, blouses, etc.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Which is why I've given up on shirts. Nearly all the tops I own are jersey these days.

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

Same for her too, oddly enough. :p

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of you while hunting for the Suit. Clearly, we're behind the times and should be genetically re-engineering ourselves into 5'8" sausage-shaped identikit women.

[bloomeenee.livejournal.com]

oh definitely... don't forget we must also be orange and have stupid blonde jordan-stripy hair
grrr