Fellow fat college girls, we need to talk.

The BBQ Pit
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I suppose this argument can be extended to most fat females, as this whole phenomena is growing increasingly common. Oh, and this is here because generally these kind of threads can get a smidge heated. Maybe I’ll throw in some extra cussing for good measure or something. Who knows. My OP’s are whimsical and unpredictable like that. Or something.

Walking around school, I can’t even count the number of backs I see that look like this . You know, endless rolls, GIANT muffin top painfully hanging over too tight jeans, and giant fat ass squished (again painfully) into a pair of 4 size too small jeans, and the obligatory too short shirt that is allowing the stretch mark filled back fat to be proudly displayed for the world.

First of all, it is to be noted that jeans ARE sold above a size 14. I know, it’s heart breaking to have to actually buy a size 18, 20, or (gasp) 22; but if it bothers you that much, get your gelatinous butt to a gym. I mean, there is NO WAY those jeans are even remotely comfortable to stand in, let alone to sit or actually walk in. Hell, I’d wager that those suckers are actually cutting your skin. How do I know this? Well, I remember being 15 and thinking I would just die if I bought jeans higher than a size 10 or 12. So, to make up for the OMG HUMILIATION of having to go into Lane Bryant, I smashed my ass into jeans so tight that sausage casings wept in sympathy pain. And it friggin hurt. Oh my god, it hurt so bad. I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t walk around, I couldn’t do anything but yelp if I moved too fast. I very quickly realized that size 14 jeans are quite common, reasonably prices, and OMG! they didn’t squish me in painfully and create an embarrassing muffin top.

You, on the other hand, are 20. Odds are you’ve been a fat ass for a long time, so there is no justification for your giant, oozing muffin top. Go buy some god damned jeans that fit. I promise you that squeezing yourself into those jeans doesn’t make the rest of us go, “Omg! She’s so thin! Look how little her jeans are!” No, ma’am. It makes us all go, “Oh my. . . wow. Ouch. Look at how HUGE her stomach is hanging over those jeans. That’s just nasty. I mean seriously, who would fuck THAT?”**

Further, why the holy hell are you wearing a belt? Oh that’s right: because you’re wearing jeans that are so smashed into your gut that you’ve effectively negated your big hips and natural waist. Here’s a tip: with hips as big as yours (and mine, hell), you probably don’t need a belt. In fact, belts do nothing but make the muffin top swell even more.

For the love of Christ- just go buy some damned jeans that fit! I assure you that NO ONE wants to see your oozing, stretch marked back fat hanging out over the back of your jeans. Please, please- go buy some jeans that fit. I’d really like to not have to gouge my eyes out while walking across campus, remembers this is the Pit you fucking goat felching, over sized twat waffle.

**Don’t get me wrong, fat people can be just as attractive as the thin. I think I’m one fine ass mother fuc–nevermind. The point is that what is attractive is when someone embraces their body and works their clothing and such to make it look good. What is bad is when someone smooshes themself in to illfitting clothing.

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Amen, sister!

And, can I just say…low rise does NOT WORK if you’re a Fat Chick, like me. Sorry, but you’ll have to resign yourself to Mom jeans, a slightly lower than natural waist, or just wear skirts or go to the fucking gym. Low rise jeans make that blob you have where skinny chicks have stomachs ooze over the top in a most unattractive manner and cut you in weird places when you sit. Honestly, they’re not even comfortable, admit it! Just wear the freaking natural waist jeans and cover it with a longer shirt - there’s no reason we should be seeing your waistband anyway, because there’s going to be fat hanging over it if it’s low-rise.

And knock it off with the tight camisoles while you’re at it. No one wants to see your back fat rolls as they ooze over the top of your brastrap. Camisole? fine. Tight camisole? Bad. And throw a scarf or sweater over it while you’re at it. Your arms are jiggly.

Form-fitting in big women should be done by virtue of cut and seaming, not squish. If the blouse is gapping at the buttonholes, it’s too fucking small. Princess seams, good - they work with your curves. Tight blouse puckered at the buttons and tucked under your back fat, not good.

Small clothes don’t make you look small. Neither do oversized ones. Face it, sweetie, we size 20’s aren’t going to look small in anything. Properly fitted, well made clothes make you look good, and that’s more important than small.

(Can we do skinny chicks with concave arms who wear sleeveless things next?)

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Oh, god. A friend of mine is dating a new girl and she’s really cute but she wears low-rider jeans. She is by no means fat at all but these jeans give her fat handles…and then she wears belly shirts! I Just. Don’t. Get. It.

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But Fiona Apple and Shakira look awesome in jeans that start just above the cunny…

My personal favorite are the 200+ pound girls who combine the low pants with the stupid bollero jackets that cling to the boobs, making the boobs look smaller and the gut larger. It’s even better when they take exersize pants and roll the waist down for maximum hip poofiness.

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Do these muffin tops make my ass look fat?

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What’s funny is, I actually prefer slightly lower rise jeans. I have a shorter torso, so “low rise” on my hits me close to the top of my hips, whereas regular rise hit at my natural waist (which is right below my boobies). Actually, Lane Bryant’s “low rise” jeans hit at my natural waist. . . the regular rise hit- quite literally- at my boobs. All that said, low rise on me isn’t quite what low rise on everyone else equates to.

And I agree with the camisole thing. As far as I’m concerned, that is only MAYBE ok on a REALLY hot summer day- maybe a Saturday- when the wearer is just out running errands or something. I’ve been known to do that here and there, but I don’t have any goo hanging over my bra stap either. That’s the biggest problem, really- I ALWAYS see big fat girls with bras that are too small around and too small in the cup. Again, I want to slap those girls and explain that bras are in fact made bigger than 36C. Then again, I’m guilty of the arm thing. My arms are jiggly. But I am trying to fix it through the gym and at least my pants fit, right? RIGHT? :slight_smile:

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Does this apply to too-skinny chicks who wear clothes that are a size or so bigger? My jeans fit loosely and I wear tops that hang (and I do mean hang) to the middle of my thighs (such as they are). And I always wear long sleeves, unless it’s 90 degrees.

Are people laughing at me? Do they know there’s no body under these clothes?

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Cite : (Ignore the hippie dude on the right, he’s only my husband). See? Not small, not trying to be what I’m not, but damn gorgeous being what I am: a fat chick in a size 20 dress. (That I made, by the way. Thank you.) I’m not suggesting we all wear fairy princess dresses to class, but that a well designed outfit that works with you will make you look good no matter what your size.

Slightly lower rise jeans, yes. And Lane Bryant’s low rise hit me about 1/3" below my natural waist too, because I have basically no torso. But I don’t know how even skinny chicks wear vulva-revealing waist bands. On me, I’d have this whole big squishy mama belly hanging over the thing. Ick.

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Mmmm Shakira. She’s gorgeous, but also a Vegan belly dancer. I could starve myself for about the next 8 years and I’d never look like that. I enjoy eating cows way too much. :smiley:

I REALLY don’t get that whole stupid ass little jacket trend. I’ve yet to see a single fat girl look even remotely decent in them. In fact, I always notice the girls wearing that because they look so horrifically bad. Hell, I was in WalMart with my roomie and I saw what must have been a 350 lb wearing too tight jeans, a white, semi see thru shirt, and one of those little bolero things. She looked like a huge apple. I quite honestly looked at my roomie and said, “Why the hell wuold you do that to yourself?”

AuntiePam, if you’re comfy, you’re fine. You can always tell if someone is comfortable in their clothes and that is really the defining factor. My boyfriend, on the other hand. . . eep. I’ve been trying to ever so slowly move him into clothes that fit. The boy is 6’3 or 6’4, 180 lbs (so pretty thin), with abs and muscles and he just looks so wonderful without clothing. But then he puts his clothes on. The boy likes to pretend he’s gangster, so he wears jeans that are too big and shirts that are HUGE. Like, so huge that my fat ass could comfortably fit in the shirt with him. He’s slowly starting to realize that he looks good in tighter clothing- especially smaller t shirts because you can see his stomach and such. Someday he’ll finally get it. Of course, we’ll probably be broken up by then :stuck_out_tongue: .

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I would tend to disagree with this statement.

OTOH, I know several skinny college students who wear floppy clothes so they can hide. Not so much because there’s nothing to show, but because they don’t want to get stared at.

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I just googled “muffin top” images. My god, it’s horrible.

One thing I noticed is that the primary reason for the low-rise + belly shirt is to expose as much of the lower back and navel region as possible. So that they can show off their belly-button piercings and their lower-back TATOOs. Ick.

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They aren’t laughing at you. They probably are just wishing you would show off your fine slender self to best advantage with clothes that fit. What, are all the fat chicks buying up the small sizes? :slight_smile:

A skinny chick in big clothing mostly looks frumpy. A fat chick in small clothing looks pathetic, uncomfortable, and aesthetically displeasing. Skinny chick in big clothes >> fat chick in small clothes.

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I *like * lowrise jeans, and I maintain that anyone can wear them, if they fit properly. I’m not a little person by any means, but I *haaaaaaaate * mom jeans.

But if you’re a big girl, even if your jeans fit correctly and don’t give you a muffintop, please make sure your shirt covers your belly anyway? Please? Here’s the simplest fashion rule ever: If it jiggles, cover it up.

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swoon

M’lady, thou lookest hawt. I’m normally not the type to compete with a married man for his wife, but the prospect of competing over you with a swordfight just seems so… cool!

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I agree with the mom jeans thing- super high rise are just as bad as those damn peg-leg jeans/skinny jeans. They look good on NO ONE. In fact, the higher rise jeans (including LB’s “low rise”) make my gut look bigger and rounder.

And preach! Luckily, the style of late has been that of longer shirts. I know that me and my big boobs appreciate longer shirts.

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Mom jeans are no good when combined with the tight ankle. No one needs pants that taper. Including men. (How I long for the day when I can dress the husband in straight-legged pants that aren’t gangster.)

However, if the straight-legged or slight flare pants only come in above-the-cunny and under-the-boobs versions, get the under-the-boobs. And never tuck in your shirt again.

Also, if you’re a girl whose gut is bigger than your bust, and you wear empire waistline dresses or shirts, be prepared to explain how you are not actually pregnant. Often.

Random thoughts. Shouldn’t post in class.

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Right, thank you. This is what I was trying to say and only succeeded in sounding like I was defending Mom Jeans. Mom Jeans suck. But gut-billowing jeans are even worse. Mom Jeans which taper suck exceedingly and should be nuked from orbit.

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Wait. . . if you don’t post to message boards during class, what exactly are you supposed to be doing? :confused:

And I don’t know, I’d venture to say that super high rise pants are just as unflattering as the low. I mean, the only difference is that instead of a low gut muffin top, you get that under the boob, armpit cutlett muffin top. You know what I mean, that roll right under the tits and right around the tits. Plus, those jeans tend to make all boobs look saggy, as every other body part is tightly compacted in.

But I agree for the most part. I just wish most of the world would realize that slightly flared legs on jeans look phenomenal on the vast majority of folks. If you have big hips, wearing tapered jeans just makes you look like a big giant ice cream cone.

I also have no idea why Lane Bryant is so into the empire waist look. When I wear those tops, I go from being a fat girl with a pooch to looking like I’m 9 months along with twins.

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The irony is that wearing too-tight clothes just draws attention to their weight. Two girls could be exactly the same size, and flattering clothes will make the difference between “Look at that hot girl” and “Look at that fat girl trying to squeeze into tight clothes.”

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Fat chick? :confused: Maybe according to clothing designers, but you look pretty normal-sized to me.

I gave up on women’s pants after Eddie Bauer’s most recent re-design…everything is low-ride, and some styles were even made a whole size smaller in the waist than in the hips. I’ve had great luck with men’s pants from L.L. Bean; their Adirondack jeans are cut almost exactly like my oldest Eddie Bauer pants. And they have POCKETS!!! I got so tired of trying on women’s pants with pockets barely large enough to hold a dime.