There are good shops online that still sell normally-cut women’s clothes. One that springs to mind is Landsend. They sell things for women with curves, too. I’ve about given up shopping in stores altogether.
I always start to ask, what teenage girl’s mother ALLOWS her to dress like a skanky ho like that, and then I remember the micro-minis accompanied by bralessness that we used to indulge in when I was their age, and I keep my mouth shut. 
It cuts the other way too.
When I first started at my current job, there was a girl who was quite large. She was very tall and very overweight. Not fat overweight, but very solidly built. Aw, hell. She was built like a brick shithouse. (Before anyone criticizes me for discrimination against the overweight, let me point out that I myself am not petite in the least bit; I am a size 24. I am simply being descriptive of her shape as it pertains to this discussion.)
She wore these low-rider jeans to work one day. While she was standing up, she was okay. When she sat down (which is what she was doing when I saw her), her pants pulled down past her underwear, so what you saw was blue legs with a flash of white material. Between the white granny-panties and the stretch marks on her legs, the look wasn’t quite what the designer had in mind.
And I know what you mean about being larger than a size 6. I’m a size 24, as I said, and because of that, I tend to dress rather conservatively. It’s not that I’m ashamed of my body. It’s just that I don’t think the world needs to be treated to my large expanse of ghost-white skin. If I were a size 6, I’m sure I’d be showing at least a little more skin.
Robin
IME, women w/ curves are much better in bed. YMMV.
Those low rise pants don’t look good on anybody. If you have any little bit of body fat, they look horrible. If you’re skinny and rock hard, they still make you look horrible. Nobody’s butt looks good in them. Even my 16 year old niece, who is athletic and thin, looks bad in them.
I can’t wait until this particular fad passes!
…They make ass implants now?!
The thong fad is still going on here. It drives me nuts mainly because I don’t need to see other’s underwear. I had the body to wear it last year (not anymore, but I hope to have it again in another six months), but why would I want people to see my underwear? It’s one of those fads that just makes no sense to me.
Ava
If I were single, I would be sayin’
how are you doin’ SimonX
but, I am not.
A neighbor and I (he has an 18 yo daughter he’s never met who lives with her mom) were discussing this very topic at the 4th of July BBQ, IIRC. He blamed it on the mom’s for letting their kids dress th at way. I blamed it on both the mom’s AND the designers. I used to work at Target (well it was over a year ago, but still…this fashion has been going on for at least that long…) and even the little girls’ clothes were skanky hoe looking stuff…bellyshirts and low-rise jeans and ultrashort shorts. I felt so bad for the kids and the teens who have almost no choice but to buy this skanky hoe shit.
IDBB
I agree wholeheartedly.
Funniest thing is, it’s winter down here, and most mornings are about 5 degrees celsius. The look of frigid pain on these girls as they scamper about in the low-cuts with crop tops (perhaps with a little cropped jacket as well) is nothing short of hilarious.
For Hauky
Get an ass like J-Lo!
Across the globe, ass implants are the way to go! But not all ass implants are good…heh heh heh
IDBB
I don’t get offended. I point and laugh. Then THEY get offended.
Heh. Heh heh.
Mama Tiger said, “I remember the micro-minis accompanied by bralessness” How well I remember those days. I once gave a ride to a little hippie girl who was wearing what might have been the microest micro-mini skirt I ever saw–she was hitchhiking and I was driving my lovingly restored, much-modified 1948 Ford Pickup. You know, the light green one with the leather seats. Yeah, that one. Anyway, this was in Santa Cruz, CA, early in the morning and she rode for half an hour crouched over the seat because the leather was too cold for her little bare bottom. I probably ran over forty or fifty pedestrians that morning, since I was looking at her and not the road. Not that I really noticed how she was dressed or anything–I’ve got way to much respect for women to stare at them, even when they aren’t wearing panties and their skirts start and stop about an inch below the navel. I really didn’t need to have that memory resurrected, but I’m glad it happened.
Always happy to oblige, LouisB.
And speaking of underwear showing/not showing, is it still the custom among certain young men in your communities to wear their pants so low that you see anywhere from several inches of their underwear to, as I saw yet again last night, their entire skinny butt sticking out with the “waistband” (in quotes since it has clearly never met their waist) hanging clear below said skinny butt? Now there is a style I could do with never seeing again.
My SO was a dancer during her 20s and the word thong does not exist in her vocabulary. She calls them “crack riding mother fuckers” and swears their original purpose was a torture device.
I think those ultra lowrise pants are very unflattering. About a year or so ago, Britney Spears wore those type of pants in a picture I saw. Now, despite any complaints any of you have against her, she’s a very pretty girl with a cute figure. Anyway, those pants exposed her pubic bone and made her look anorexic. I think lowrise pants that are maybe 1 to 2 inches below the navel look nice, but anything more extreme is very unflattering.
I_Dig_Bad_Boys: I don’t think it’s so much the pants; it’s the facts that most females under the age of 25 do not understand the function of a belt or a pair of suspenders.
Somehow they make most people look like their lower backs are wider than their hips which isn’t a proportion anyone has ever admired on a human being.
I’ve come to the conclusion that most people never look at themselves in the mirror without holding in their guts. Or they try on jeans and suck in their gut and think, “these will be fine! I can just keep sucking my gut in all day!”
I think secretly I enjoy the whole trend because it’s hard to feel like you’re old and flabby when every other hot young girl who walks by has a spare tire.
I agree 100%. They might look good on a size 6 18 year-old but I’ve never seen it. It’s always some size 12 squished into a size 10 pair with two giant pouches of back fat hanging over the rear. Seriously…don’t people have mirrors in their houses? Blech!
And just to seem extra old and uncool I’m going to say: what the hell is up with the platform shower shoes? That is so hilariously stupid I can’t believe people actually wear those out in public!
I think it’s worse because it’s not just this whore-like clothing released to teenage girls, it’s done for bloody little girls. Those hipsters and the low-riders, bloody little girls wear those! My little cousin of about 7 wears that shit. Well, it’s funny when they wear hipsters, I guess they didn’t know that the whole concept of hipsters is to be held up by your hips, if you don’t have them, well…
You know who I blame? It’s those bloody pop singers, little girls seem to make role models out of that airheaded fool Britney and all those other wankers. As you know, part of being like them is dressing like them. Wait 'till you’re older, that’s what I say. Believe it or not, kids, it’s not “sexy” seeing that shit on prepubescent girls, it’s disturbing.
And while I’m at it, what’s with all this “dating” business? Sure, I can get it when kids are getting older, but at fucking twelve and thirteen? What the fuck is going on with the world?
Okay, I’ll wrap it up. Sex is being pushed on kids younger and younger, which is silly as an apple running around the streets with a chainsaw and an explosive cow. Fashion is bullshit, completely overpriced ugliness and mostly uncomfortable to boot. In summing up, people are morons. Fuck fashion. Fuck popstars. For god’s sake, get your fucking hipsters on and dress in some decent gear.
I don’t like it either. Not that I mind women’s bottoms, but not when it makes me feel like I’m the one who has to adjust my behaviour for fear of being labelled an ogling pervert.
Yes I avert my eyes, but no I don’t like walking into walls because of it. Count me as another conservative old fuddy duddy, who is waiting for this fad to pass.
Kam, you’re right. It is quite fun to watch them in the cold weather.