This is a common complaint from me. Either clothing makers suck…or I have a very strange body. People do not stare, point or snicker when I pass, so I have to assue that they suck.
I bought a shirt from JC Pennys online. The size was XLT from the ‘big and tall’ section. I am 6’2", 260 lbs and I have a belly. I get the shirt. I put it on. I have enough room in the waist to wear an innertube and still be covered. But…there is no room in the shoulders! I gotta wonder who they are designing these for! Someone who shops big and tall, and has that large a belly, is gonna have broader shoulders. Right??
This happens all the time. It is very hard to find something that looks nice AND fits without a proffessional alteration. And even then, they really fit right when altered.
Are you a dude who doesn’t hang around women much? Cuz if you spent about three seconds around a group of women, you’ll hear the exact. same. complaint.
I don’t have this complaint much. But I remember the first time I shopped at Express. Their dress shirts come in two cuts, one of which is tapered. The salesman really pushed that cut on me and sadly, I caved. I ended up with a shirt that looks great when I stand up, but gets my belly to do an Incredible Hulk impression when I sit.
I entirely approve of your rant. Unfortunately, I can’t participate fully, because I recently discovered that Lands End’s “fit 2” pants fit me like a glove, so I’ve been temporarily mollified.
I like to switch the “nothing entirely fits” complaint with “fashion hates short people” (or tall people, in your case) and “every time I like something, it gets discontinued.”
It’s not kind to big people either. The last time I went to Express I discovered that they don’t carry my size in their stores anymore. They had to go online for me.
I just heard an interesting podcast on this topic yesterday. Of course, it’s from a female perspective (nerdy females!) and suggest that men have no room to complain, but you can sort of apply the topic to the OP’s rant.
It never made sense to me that women’s have a single number for a size despite having greater variance in … bits that change. At least mens pants have a separate waist and inseam measurement (good luck finding anything below 32 these days).
For me, mens dress shirts are almost entirely unwearable. Even the “athletic fit” style look like a tent on me. I’m so very close to trying one of those custom dress shirt sites where you do the send in your specific measurements for waist, chest, neck, arm length, etc. I just have trust issues.
Given the great advances in laser cutting CNC machines, shouldn’t all clothing be entirely customizable by now at no additional cost? Like “print on demand” books. (Perhaps a bad example because I don’t think they have exactly taken the market by storm.)
Maybe so, maybe not. The point of the OP’s rant is more that clothing should be proportionate: a shirt with that much room to spare around the middle should also be cut generously through the shoulders.
What I hate it that clothes that fit may be theoretically available, but NONE ARE AVAILABLE! My size is always sold out. When I ask the sales people why the lack of one particular size, they say that its the most popular size and it sells out right away. My question is; if you know its the most popular size, why in the hell don’t you order more of it?
Guy here. I’m sick of the skinny jean cut trying to make it into every other pant made. I bought a pair of slacks in my normal 36 waist, 30 leg size. The waist felt like the open end of a funnel while the thighs felt like the small end. WTF?!
I dunno, I’m short and I’ve never had a problem. Besides, if you’re on the short side, and your trousers are too long, you can just get ones that fit really well in every other way and have them hemmed. If they fit great but are too short, there’s nothing you can really do.
I’m 6’2", 275 lbs, and I agree with the OP wholeheartedly. Except that, oddly, shirts from JC Penney’s Big & Tall department are among the few that usually fit me well. Go figure.
I bought one there that actually fit perfectly! Beautiful shirt! I went back to find a different color, or at least from the same maker.
You see where I’m going with this?
They were all gone. Everything even remotely similar was gone. They were replaced by gaudy sytles and colors that no* sighted *person would choose.
My guess is that part (or all) of the reason is that people aren’t proportionate. Lots of weebles out there . I feel for you, though. Every shirt I buy that will actually button billows around my waist *and *has shoulders that are too big.
