# Clothing and the Real Woman **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2005, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697 "2005-02-18T12:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/61 "2005-02-22T16:09:40Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > I reently lost all of my pregnancy weight and found myself thinner than I’ve ever been before (getting up 20 million times a night will do that to you). I NEED new clothes–the old stuff is starting to slip off of me. Could you just have your old stuff altered? If I were you, and if it were possible (or desireable–maybe you’d like to get some new clothes, which can be really nice), I’d be heading to a tailor. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/62 "2005-02-22T18:44:35Z")
I wanna know where The Future is that we were all promised back in the Disney/ATT short films of the 50s!! Where are the robot butlers and pushbutton kitchens that cook and clean and the clothing that was made for us every morning? Where is my custom clothing and auto-waffles and flying car, huh? And what about jeans that are comfortable from the first wearing?? Huh? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/63 "2005-02-22T20:18:59Z")
My jeans are always really comfortable when I try them on and then again the first time I wear them but hten as soon as they come out of the wash they are, like the Grinch’s heart, three sizes too small. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/64 "2005-02-22T22:58:58Z")
I’m 5’3" and an A. I have trouble finding pants that are the right length–petites are usually too short and regulars are too long. Tops aren’t generally a problem, fortunately. The thing that I really hate, though, is bras. Apparently anyone who wears something smaller than a B doesn’t want anything pretty. Just plain white things that look like training bras are good enough for us. Argh. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/65 "2005-02-22T23:02:31Z")
> [@moonstarssun](#): > > I’m 5’3" and an A. I have trouble finding pants that are the right length–petites are usually too short and regulars are too long. Tops aren’t generally a problem, fortunately. > > The thing that I really hate, though, is bras. Apparently anyone who wears something smaller than a B doesn’t want anything pretty. Just plain white things that look like training bras are good enough for us. Argh. Man, must suck where you live. All around here, I see tons and tons of pretty bras in A cups (B and C as well). When you’re an F-H cup (depending on my weight), yeah. Hahahahahahahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/66 "2005-02-23T00:29:47Z")
I feel like I’m being the devil’s advocate for everything, like **poster:** I can’t find blah blah blah in such-and-such size **AwSnappity:** Well, I have no problem finding that! Buuuuuut, that’s what I came back to do in response to **moonstarssun**. I used to be a 34 A (before I went on birth control and became a B 🆒), and I had no problem finding pretty bras at Target. On clearance, even. Jeez, I love the clearance racks at my local Target. Everything is exactly my size. ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/67 "2005-02-23T04:57:00Z")
:flings herself at **AwSnappity** : OMFG, birth control does that?! Where can I get some?! 🙂 But seriously, I feel **moonstarssun** ’s pain…for the, ah, flat, there’s just no variety 'round here. ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/68 "2005-02-23T06:02:43Z")
The pill doesn’t do it to everyone… I’m sitting over here with what (if my bra size existed) would be 42A or 44AA boobs. And I’ve been on hormonal birth control for two years. They’re not as small as the would seem, but god I wish I had a good B or C in a comfortable band size. Anyone know anywhere for decent bras in seemingly impossible sizes? ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/69 "2005-02-23T06:06:33Z")
It didn’t happen immediately with me. I’ve been on several brands of birth control, plus triphasics vs. …whatever the other ones are, where they only have two colors of pills instead of four. I think I only got boobage after I went on the triphasics. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/70 "2005-02-23T06:10:49Z")
Marvelous Marvelon uped my boobage an entire cup size - maybe even a cup and a half. It’s…marvelous. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/71 "2005-02-23T07:09:51Z")
> [@](#): > > **look@hergo** : All I want is a pair of ordinary cotton denim blue jeans. I want jeans that fit my waist without assuming that I have a huge ass to go with them. I want pockets that I can actually fit things in, like car keys or my hands. I want dark blue denim that will fade over time as it breaks in. _Really_ cranky old women buy their jeans at LL Bean. No glamour, but they are durable and they have lots of different fits and styles to choose from. If you ever decide you are unsatisfied or if they wear out, send 'em back and they will refund your money or replace the jeans. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697/72 "2005-02-23T11:30:42Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > Unfortunately clothing shops cater to the peak of the bell-curve, and forget about the outer limits. Except that they don’t. The average woman is a size 14. More than 50% of Americans are obese. Yet the usual clothing line goes from sizes 2-14. That’s missing more than half the people out there, yet catering to the people all the way to one extreme end of the curve. I can’t for the life of me understand why they can’t just make a clothing line in sizes 2-28. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothing-and-the-real-woman/290697.md?page=3)