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

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[whiskeylover.livejournal.com]

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

Now I have visions of them being dangled in cups of tea...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

What, like those teabags-on-strings?

[moony]

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!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

GRR. All the problems you describe are ones that can be fixed with a couple of quick sums in the cutting out stage. The clothing industry is a big pile of crap. The end of my queue is a long way away, but you can be on it for something, if you'd like.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

That was my vision too!

[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]

I'll vote for that! :p

[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]

*dangles*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Naked? In this weather? Though I suppose I wouldn't need to worry about cold nipples; they'd fall off within 5 minutes.

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.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I agree. The things I've had made *to fit* are so much more flattering and comfortable (thank you, claire_wain). I'd make things myself if I had more space, but cutting out's difficult in a shoebox house.

Thanks for the offer; let me know when the queue end approaches and I may well tak you up on it.

[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.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

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

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I will put "unspecified Jenny thing" at the end, and when it gets within 3 items of the front I'll ask what you want; by that time, the back will probably be three years away! It never ends argh!

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

Back in the days when I still had pierced nipples, I went shopping. In the rain. In December. In inadequate clothing.

I know your pain. I sat in a pub for an hour holding repeat cups of coffee to my chest and getting v odd looks. :-)

[bloomeenee.livejournal.com]

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

[lark-ascending.livejournal.com]

You're the second person I've heard complaining about it. I struck out into the wild and am learning to make my own stuff; I get the sameproblem with things fitting where they touch when I put weight on, so I definitely understand the fat-middle-aged-person-clothes feeling...

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

Same for her too, oddly enough. :p