I really hate those hole in the shoulder tops. Just tacky.
I do like yoga pants if I can get them long enough with no writing on them. I don’t need words on my ass to know I am sweet, love, sexy, bitch or many others. Nope. Not going for them!
And what’s with dark-colored summer clothing? 
If they can find Latin American stores, they may want to try those. Good for the curvy-not-round crowd too.
Do it yourself! But beware. Wearing Bedazzled sweatshirts adds forty years to any woman’s age, and forty pounds to her weight. :eek:
Better yet, have them spread across your butt. Okay, based on your self-description, not YOUR butt but that of someone who has one. 
Green letters spelling PINK on stretchy black cloth, triggering cognitive dissonance attacks in everybody behind you. And don’t get me started about PINK toddler clothes–from Victoria’s Secret.
And yoga pants? What’s up with them? Wife and I were at a corn maze and there was a young lady wearing some with thong panties that were stretched to the point of near transparency. I mean, she could get a sunburn through them. Wife said, “That’s so you know she bought the expensive ones.” That’s a thing, paying extra for pants more sheer than pantyhose?
As a man of substance of average height I have almost accepted that “big and tall” doesn’t mean “big and/or tall,” leading to jackets that fit around me but otherwise leave me looking like a six-yr-old who got into Daddy’s closet. I too am glad my mom taught me how to sew but some of these alterations are far beyond my abilities. I’d get them altered but it would cost more than I paid at H@b@nd.com (name disguised so you don’t get put on their pop-up list). Incidentally, a fine place for cheap, ugly granny clothes.
There seem to be a lot of clothes you can’t wear a bra in. Even when I was a B-cup, I always wore a bra in public. It shapes you and stops your nipples showing if you get cold. Clothes that can’t be worn with a bra should be rare.
Yet the last couple of years when looking for clothes tons of them were either backless (or with a big hole in the back) or shoulderless. Shoulderless is bad enough, but backless? They were often both strapless and backless. Should I then spend extra money on whatever people use instead of having a bra?
Baby clothes are even worse though. The arm lengths are ridiculous. You know how old master paintings often have babies look like miniature adults? Baby clothes designers seem to be their followers. Babies’ proportions are not the same as adults. They have shorter arms compared to their torso. Baby clothes should be designed with that in mind. But I guess we keep buying stuff and just rolling up the sleeves so they don’t care.
Ah no. You see, you still think of your bra as underwear; nowadays they’re just wear. We’re back to showing off our expensive lace.
Huh, interesting! That never occurred to me.
Elsewhere online I’m in a discussion about how cheap women’s clothing has become. Flimsy fabric, no standard sizing. Most manufacturers think every woman is a beanpole. It’s all because of “fast fashion” where the point is the less expensive it is to push out more clothing, the more clothing a manufacturer can make. The classic 4-seasons-4-fashion-seasons is dead now. Seasons now go anywhere from 5 to 10 in a calendar year. Cite: H&M and Primark.
I still own, and wear Hanes t-shirts and PJ bottoms I bought in the 90s. They all came from Walmart. The fabric is heavier, the construction on point. No rips, no tears in anything. Try to find that kind of construction nowadays in the mass market, including Walmart.
Zara’s explosion came from a model of updating the stock in each store based on demand at that store: there’s been years the fashion mags claimed “no sailor look this year” - and the place to find your navy-and-white striped sweaters was Zara because if a store got several people asking for them, they’d be made (less frequently, sent from another place where nobody wanted to wear ‘every other summer’s sweater’). But they’re exceptional and of course the change speed will depend on, among other things, the specific logistics of a location and its population (drive-by or actual residents? How many browsers will ask about a specific piece vs just walking out?). They tend to be consistant with the sizing too; I’ve seen ads asking for try-out models for their main center, and they asked for women of different shapes (the ads requested specific measurements). Unlike Desigual, Springfield or H&M, their sizers know that larger people tend to have thicker arms.
You know, if I’m going to shill this much for someone, they ought’a pay me 
And when I think of all the gyrations I used to go thru to keep that damn thing from showing…
You understand and produce parody that rivals Weird Al’s best!
Men design them to be as ugly and ill-fitting to encourage you to get out of them as fast as possible. 
That is a problem. For some of us, bras are strictly functional and utilitarian rather than decorative. But it is so difficult to find them with the built-in flying buttresses.
You’re gonna give me a swelled head. But I do thank you all for the compliments!
Preach! I see so many people wearing a glorified t-shirt and calling it a dress. And not even caring that every bump and bulge is jiggling around for all the world to see.
I have no problem with a short little dress, but clothes used to have some structure and shape to them. Things like linings, interfacings, and proper finishing stitching are not to be found. And even if you sew, it is hard to find quality fabric. Joann’s sells mostly low quality stock that fades and pills.
And of course some staples you can’t sew, like tanks and sweaters. I like to buy classic pieces that are going to last, but knits are marketed and made to last a few months and throw away, which pains me.
I have a paisley corduroy knee length double-breasted coat that I have had since the mid-90s, and I have worn it a few times pretty much every winter since…it was a total impulse buy, I was sure at the time I paid too much for it (around $250 I think), but you know, every time I wear it I get copious compliments, everyone wants to know where I got it, and now I will never get rid of it. It has never gone out of style, and has turned out to be worth every penny. You can’t get that kind of quality anymore.
And bras! A good bra does wonders for anybody’s figure. Saggy titties ain’t sexy. Get those girls up where they are supposed to be! Remember the old Playtex bra ads? It lifts and separates…so many women seem content to go around with lumpy ta-tas and uni-boob.
Some women get around that issue by just letting their back bra strap show. A few times a month I see a woman wearing one of those “back-hole-y” shirts or dresses, and her bra is visible for all the world to see.
What most women need is not so much an expensive bra, as one in the right size. About 90% of women do not wear the correct one, as any fitter will testify. I’ve seen women whose straps cut literally several inches into their back fat, probably because they’re wearing the same size they’ve worn since they were 12, and you KNOW that has to be painful.
I was at a wedding where two of the bridesmaids did that. They were the groom’s sisters and I don’t think they approved of the bride so they trolled the wedding. For some crazy reason his ex-girlfriend was there. She wore black. Surprisingly, there was not a bridge in sight.
Are the lumpy ta-tas you mentioned because the cup size is far too small so their boobs are muffin-topping their way out so they look like they have four breasts? 'Cuz I’ve seen that. :eek: FTR, I spend too much of my life at Walmart.
Nm, already been said.
Tank tops work just fine for home sewing with knit fabrics. Sweaters are better knit or crocheted fully fashioned right from the yarn IMHO, but they can be sewn from knit fabric too.