We call those tatoos “tramp stamps” in the office. And amen to the rant. I’m a size 8-12 girl (that’s my range, unfortunately, i’m at the top of it now) and my fat is situated in such a way that if I dress properly, I can hide it quite well. But if I don’t? Good god, I look like a blimp.
That is why I cannot comprehend bigger girls that dress like they’re skinny. YOU DON’T LOOK GOOD! Most of these girls could look so much better (even thin, if they do it right) by just dressing for their body, instead of against it.
Honestly, just because you fit into it doesn’t mean its your size or that you should wear it. Ugh.
I think one major problem is that most of the celebrities and actresses out there are skinny things. It means that us fat chicks don’t really have any fashion role models to emulate… that, and most of the clothes sold for our size are just bigger versions of the slutwear out there.
It took me a while – and a good friend – to discover that I don’t look good in tucked-in shirts. I look better in untucked shirts meant to be untucked. I look pretty kickin’ in straight legs but even better in pants with a slight flare at the bottoms. Wrap-around dresses ahd blouses (as long as they cover a decent portion of my anatomy) and empire waists don’t actually make me look pregnant.
I don’t look as good as I did when I was eighteen, but I look better than a lot of girls my size. I almost never wear my T-shirts anymore.
Yes, especially if your neck-to-breastal area is so over-sunned it looks like a double order of chopped ham loaf? I mean, you wouldn’t go bare belly if you had stretch marks, right? Right?
The more I google this, the more I am convinced…so many of these girls seem to have those lower-back tattoos.
My theory is that they are so obsessed with showing off the tattoo, even afer gaining a lot of weight, that they are still determined to wear the ultra low-rise/muffin top jeans. They aren’t thinking about the muffin top.
The sad thing is that now is a great time to find flattering clothes, regardless of your body type. You can find flared legs, straight legs, and skinny legs. You can get all kinds of different rises. Shirts can be fitted or loose. Skirts can be flowy or straight. There’s a lot more variety in sillouhettes than when I was in high school.
I’m 5’4" with short, short, SHORT legs. I’ve always had to be careful to choose cuts, fabrics, and colors that don’t make me look like a thalidomide baby. This cropped pants trend? Not for me.
I hadn’t heard the term “muffin top” before. I love it. We always referred to it as a Dunlap (as in “your belly done lapped over your belt”).
I especially feel bad for those girls. I remember thinking I was hugely fat when, looking back, I wasn’t really overweight. I remember wishing my big tits would go away. I remember wishing I could wear backless shirts (I couldn’t because I needed a bra). I remember wishing my hips would stop growing.
But then, one day, I had a realization: I wasn’t ugly, fat, or undesirable. My little skinny friends were suddenly the ones boys didn’t want and it was my big tits and hips that they were after. I just wish I could shake those little girls and be like “Embrace your tummy! BOYS LIKE IT! YOU SHOULD LIKE IT TOO!”
And beer guts. Oh my. I don’t care how well you think your pants fit, dude- your giant gut is HANGING OVER YOUR PANTS. And to top it off, why the hell are you tucking your shirt in to said pants? Who said that was ok? NO ONE.
When you’re a guy with a 42" waist, everything in the category of business casual tapers down to the ankle. It’s not as drastic a taper as girl’s pants, but it’s there. This is an example, but it doesn’t look nearly as bad laid out flat as it does on my poor husband. I can understand how it might be difficult to make pants for guys with waists that size that don’t appear to taper, and yet, simultaneously, don’t have cuffs that could envelope a turkey platter, but isn’t that part of why we pay $60 a pair? The guy has a 50" chest. He doesn’t need help looking like an apple.
The pants the stores do have in his size that don’t have tapered ankles also come with giant 13’s and dice and other such craziness embroidered down the side. And they aren’t so much pants as they are really long burmuda shorts.
It’s probably anecdote or somehow shown that women like buying the smaller size and are more likely to purchase something if they’re encouraged to get the smaller one. Or perhaps the salesperson (with some real concern at times) worries that if one tells the customer that a larger size is needed, the customer will flip out at “being called fat” and raise a fuss.
Alternately, maybe they’re all brainwashed that “tight = good” and are just falling into step with the conditioning regardless of how awful it looks.
A couple years back, every female in Spain between the ages of 12 and 30 seemed to be wearing low-cut bell-bottoms. I was walking behind several teens; most were quite thin (a few didn’t have tits yet, of course they were the ones with fluorescent bras), a couple were trying to achieve the look described by the OP. The one who’d definitely already finished “developing” wore normal, waist-at-the-waist, boot-bottom jeans and riding boots. Her friends were telling her she had to buy jeans like theirs and she said “those are for girls whose hips can’t be found without a freaking traffic sign! It’s not like any guy will have problems finding mine!” I* actually said “preach it, sister!”
I developed at age 12, over a period of 3 months. In December I was a stick figure, in March I was as curvy as I was going to get. The mothers of my classmates spent years finding me fat. I would “lose weight” in their minds as their daughter’s tits and hips came out, which in some cases didn’t happen until we were in college.
I don’t even mind a moderate beer gut on a fella - but Holy Christ in heaven, don’t tuck in your fucking shirt if you have one! That’s just … wrong.
My poor husband is a big guy - and to make matters worse, he’s exceptionally long-bodied and has the worst case of white man’s ass in history. He’s more or less forced to wear his pants a good 5 inches below his natural waist - which contributes to his beer gut. Without a belt, he’s doomed to plumber’s butt. When I met him he insisted on tucking the shirt into his belted pants until I made him quit. Forcibly.
shudder Muffin tops. Muffin tops are the reason I no longer wear jeans. I just can’t do it. I’ve found maybe three pairs in jeans in my life that didn’t give me a nasty muffin top and they’ve long since died of old age. I have generous hips, impressive cleavage, a belly, and my natural waist is about four inches above my belly button. I don’t do jeans.
Every time I see a bigger girl wearing lowrise jeans and a crop top I just want to shake some sense into her.
I’m no fashion expert, but it would seem like what you are asking for would be physically impossible, unless his legs are really skinny and straight, which I doubt based on your description. I worked in a men’s clothing store for a few years in high school, and pretty much all the pants that size had a slight taper, but I don’t know if it was just the style or the necessity of pants that size.
It’s not impossible at all. What it is is custom tailored.
You’d have to cut a curve into the pattern just like in women’s pants with a natural waist - basically, the guy has the steamstress-equivalent of girly hips that start around his navel. After the glute, you go down more-or-less straight (a little less than more, because it **will **look odd if they’re absolutely straight. Straight legs are straight in appearance, not in reality. True straight legs are gauchos.) But you can do it with a straighter look than is popular in big men’s pants right now.
But you can’t really do it off-the-rack because everyone’s area of curve is at a different height along the outseam. Also, you’d pick it up off the rack and go “WTF? What’s with this weird curvy bit here? Ugh! Why won’t anyone make straight legs? Put those back!” Where a tailor can simply say, “No, no, put them on. You’ll see, it’ll all work out.”
When did Jeffrey from ‘Project Runway’ start designing for the gap? shivers
I was going to go clothes shopping for work clothes for fall (though I suppose it’s closer to winter now), but this thread has made me very, very afraid. I knew skinny jeans were back, but I thought if I ignored it it would go away, but why? Why are skinny jeans back? Who pissed off God??
Don’t worry too much- this season is actually filled with many versatile trends. Plus, dark bootcut jeans and fitted sweaters/long sleeve tees will always be in.
But if you buy a pair of skinny jeans, even by accident, I will come slap you with some sort of damp sea creature. Where’s Bosda when you need him?
Oh, you young people are so cute with your trusting optimism! Bootcut jeans went out for practically all of the 1980’s and early '90s, and it’s a safe bet that they’ll go out again at some point. The fashion industry makes its money precisely by not allowing any particular style to remain “in” perpetually.
And amen to the rant. I’m a size 8-12 girl (that’s my range, unfortunately, i’m at the top of it now) and my fat is situated in such a way that if I dress properly, I can hide it quite well. But if I don’t? Good god, I look like a blimp.
Bootcut jeans went out for practically all of the 1980’s and early '90s, and it’s a safe bet that they’ll go out again at some point. The fashion industry makes its money precisely by not allowing any particular style to remain “in” perpetually.