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[puddingcat]

Sometimes (just sometimes), The Community That Shall not Be Named contains a gem. Todays was a link to this rant about clothing sizes.

I used to have problems finding things that went in enough at the waist; big boobs and narrow shoulders meant things that would fit at the front could be used as a rucksack in the back. Now (thank you, surgery & Mirena) I have a normal-sized chest, btu no waist. And shirts are all cut to fit women. *facepalms* Now, if I want a shirt to fit my ribcage, the shoulders hang half way to my elbows. (This is why I like corsets; reduced lung capacity - easily offset by heavng chest-style breathing - in return for having a waist again.)

I think the best example of the vanity sizing comes if you watch "Pretty Woman". I remember us all being horrified when Julia Roberts said she was a size 8, then relieved when we realised US sizes were one (ONE) below the UK equivalent. We could believe she was a UK10; she looked slim, but healthy.

Now, without having changed her actual dimensions at all, I'd be surprised if Ms. Roberts' clothes are sized above a 4.

This is why designbyclaire should be getting all your custom; she makes clothes that fit, and are better made than pretty much all High Street stuff, too!


(Am at home today; woke up with raspy throat, blocked nose & thumping headache. A dinnerplate sized pizza has helped somewhat.)

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

You have quite narrow feet, though. I'm a five and a half, but F width. Standard women's shoes are C width. SOMETIMES I can get away with a 6; as you saw in MAnchester, even in MEN'S Converse, I had to get a seven.

And don't get me started on "if you're a size ten you CAN'T have shoulder muscles!" The number of women's tops that dig into my armpits...

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

they do that on larger sizes too, the number of tops I buy which fit fine everywhere else but would cut of circulation to my arms is untrue

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You are my evil twin.