A slight hijack, but how do "designers’ get away with charging $300 and up for "designer’ jeans? What on earth could make blue jeans worth that much
My daughter thinks that nobody looks good with a shirt tucked in. I’ve been looking, and I think she might be right.
Chances are that if the tummy is flat, there’s not enough butt to fill out the pants. If there’s enough butt, then there’s usually no discernible waistline.
(Eva Longoria doesn’t count.)
See? The dress works! 
Seriously, I’m well over 200 pounds and 5’6". I’m not healthy weight, by anyone’s standards. Things got really bad after my second daughter and sitting around eating hospital food for 4 months (she was a preemie - I started out overweight, carefully gained only 12 pounds pregnant and then let it all go to hell and gained 50 *after *she was born.) There’s a lot of squish and jiggle, and I have trouble with more than two flights of stairs. I’m working on it, but I refuse to look bad while I do so.
I’m not WhyNot, nor do I play her on TV, but I think you just proved her point. The fact is that she can be a size 20, wear properly fitting clothes, and look just fine. If she was squished into low rise jeans that are 4 sizes too small, a camisole, and some hooker heels, you’d think she was totally fat.
For example, my friend and I in DC. She’s probably a size 16 right now and I’m closer to like an 18. Ok, so obviously the pose where we’re covering ourselves helps the matter, BUT look at how she is dressed. A nice, properly fitting blouse like that overs up all the jiggly bits that no one wants to see. My T shirt there is a bit tight (but super cool- it says “Nixon in 78”) and because of that I’d venture to say she looks a bit better.
Oh, come on! Tell me this isn’t a cute outfit! Gap
Skinny jeans look great on skinny girls. Especially with slutty, pointy boots.
Because people will pay it? Honestly, some of the higher end jeans really are made MUCH nicer than the cheapie ones- the cut is better, the fabric is stronger, the stitching is a higher quality. That said, I’d likely never pay that much- then again, finding the perfect pair of jeans is a priceless experience.
AuntiePam, I’m going to agree with your daughter. No female looks good with tucked in shirts on the casual level (business attire is a different matter, really). Like you said, if they are thin enough, there usually isn’t a butt. My friend’s mom is gorgeous and thin, but the tucked in shirts can give her what looks like a pooch. Fat girls with tucked in shirts= camel toe city, population her.
And what percentage of the population actually looks like that? Compare the above lil’ model with this and this.
Now, it still doesn’t look totally awful on those models, but from the looks of it they are size 12s or 14s at the most- plus they have pretty flat tummies. The store seem to be out, but for a while those jeans were being sold up to a size 28. TWENTY EIGHT wearing SKINNY jeans.
heh.
“Muffin Top”
Man, I am going to use that everywhere from now until forever.
Thanks.
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Thank you! I have a friend who’s probably about 40 pounds overweight. She looks stupendous in dresses that don’t have a defined waist, and long flaring skirts (lightweight fabric especially) with a shirt just lightly tucked so that it overhangs the waist a bit. Not so great when she wears pants and tucks in the shirt.
But she thinks leaving the shirt untucked looks unprofessional, even when the shirt has a straight bottom and is obviously meant to be worn untucked.
I can’t believe I’m about to link to Cathy. I can’t *believe *I’m about to link to Cathy.
I’m curious: how are straight legged pants “gangster?”
I don’t think I’ve work anything but straight legged dickies, coruroys, or suit pants for formal occasions since the 11th grade. They are well fitting and comfortable, but I would hardly call them gangster…
Hee hee. But I must say: there is only one Cartman. There will only ever be one Cartman.
I’m seriously, you guys.
Although, you did totally remind me of Cartman on Maury- “WHATEVA! WHATEVA! IT’S MY SEXY BODY AND I’LL DO WHAT I WANT!!!” Hehehe.
And WhyNot, you’re forgiven for linking to Cathy. That was funny.
Sweet Mercury, I think she means that most straight leg men’s pants nowadays are hugely baggy. Big, giant legs.
But are you totally serial!
:smack:
Make that:
But are you totally serial?
Now that I went and wrecked it…
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Very nice pic, there in DC, btw.
– 50 yo man, pervin’
You’re on my message boards, pervin’ the young girls.
And thank you!
Preach it! I’m 5’7" and somewhere around 200#, about a size 18 or 20. I almost always get compliments on my outfit when I’m dressed up and out and about. Why? Because I don’t dress to SHOW OFF the fat. I wear nice necklaces (usually about 18") and earrings to draw attention to my face. My clothes skim the problem areas of stomach and butt. I wear long, loose (but not baggy) tops and dusters to accentuate my height.
Now if I could just get my mother to do the same, instead of stuffing her legs into denim sausages and wearing too-tight T-shirts that are just short enough to ride the top of her ass and say, “Look how big I am!!”
I think this can be extended to anyone who wears too-tight clothes.
I remember my freshman year of college, one of my dorm-mates - she was probably a size 8 or so, but insisted on wearing size 4 / extra-small clothes. She wasn’t fat, but the clothes made her look fat by squeeing her skin out over the tops of anything she wore.
I once loaned her a dress to wear out, it was a size large (I probably wore a 12 or so at the time, the dress was too tight for me). She loved it, looked fantastic, and when she returned it raved about how many compliments she got, etc. She never made the size connection, though…
I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again here: A denim sausage is never attractive.
Just want to say, I am a size 20 and I wear low riding, tapered leg jeans, usually with lycra in them.
I am an apple- my waist is the same size as my hips, and I am short waisted. The only way I can find jeans that my ass doesn’t swim in, and my waist fits in, is to buy “stretch” jeans a size too big (so they aren’t form fitting).
But I wear my shirts untucked and long enough that you can’t possibly tell where my jeans go up to.
Boot cut jeans in my size look like jodhpurs on me.
Argh. You’re giving me shocking 80s flashbacks.
I remember walking behind a friend of mine once who was wearing jeans like those, and I noticed that it made it look like her knees were banging together while her feet were a foot apart. I have never forgotten that lesson.