I see this all the time. A woman will wear a shirt that only comes down to her belly button and then she will spend a good deal of time adjusting her shirt, trying to pull it down to cover her stomach.
Why do women do this out of curiosity, because why wear a shirt that doesn’t cover your stomach if you are constantly trying to stretch it so that it does. Are women’s shirts nowadays designed so that women can’t buy or find shirts they like that aren’t short cutoffs? Are they ashamed of their stomachs? I do not get this behavior.
My shirt shrunk. I’m sorry that I keep pulling at it, trying to get it to cover my stomach, but that’s why I do it. I don’t know why my shirts shrink–my pants don’t; my skirts don’t; nothing else does. But my shirts shrink.
I know guys buy baggy pants then spend alot of time trying to pull their pants up. But that is because they want their pants to stay up, so they adjust them accordingly. I am not sure why women would buy shirts that don’t cover their midsection if they are going to try to stretch them so that they do.
Just a theory… (I am not a woman ) but maybe sometimes the act of pulling the shirt down is to attract attention to the fact that it’s not covering their stomach.
[sub]Or maybe that’s just a guy fantasy thing to think of[/sub]
Sometimes, you buy a shirt that doesn’t cover your belly button but you’re wearing higher pants, so you don’t think about that. Then, you wear lower-cut pants and find yourself out and exposing a bit more skin than you’d intended.
I don’t welcome the trend where shirt and pants become strangers to each other, heading in opposite directions. It makes it harder for mature women to find chic things they can wear.
On the Mall in DC there should be a Monument to Fashion Victims. It would show a thong emerging triumphantly above the low-rise… lest we forget.
I refuse to wear low-rise, and high-rise jeans invariably look frumpy. Imagine my relief when I found medium-rise jeans, allowing me to be stylish and dignified at the same time.
Wesley, I did notice a development counter to the OP trend recently. Target had longline camisoles that reach almost all the way over the derrière. A little longer and it would be a minidress on its own. I think these were designed so women could wear low-rise without embarrassing themselves.
Because it looks fine when I’m standing still looking in the mirror to make sure I’m not a fashion disaster in the morning, but once I walked to the bus, with my bag over my shoulder and stuff like that, it’s gone and pulled up and I should just ditch that shirt but it’s mega cute and it’s not my fault my boobs want it to come hang out with them.
Then it’s fine again when I’m sitting at my desk all day. So the cute and the fine when not in motion win out over the needs to be tugged down sometimes.
But I don’t wear low-rise so you still don’t get much of an eyeful of belly regardless.
Because when I carry my backpack, my shirts start to inch up and I have to keep tugging them back down into place.
Also because I have a longer torso (being tall, and yet funnily enough I’m quite short waisted…) and any shirts made for ‘normal’ girls are often too short, but they are the only things I can find unless I want to feel frumpy. And, same as N. Sane my shirts shrink on me, despite being careful not to toss them into the dryer.
I want something between those longline cami’s and the fitted tee’s, the long shirts that are coming out again don’t work for me, especially as I can’t pull off the ‘wide belt at a funky angle across the hips’ look which invariably goes with those long shirt styles.
Yep. It’s hard to find shirts that are long enough, and when you do, almost invariably they either a) turn out not to be long enough after all, or b) shrink.
I sometimes try to buy guy’s shirts instead, but they’re not always the nicest or most accomodating of boobs.
And they do it with skirts too. Wear really short ones and then tug at the hem as though they can get it to stretch down to their knees. I kinda like it though, it looks cute.
The curves on my body work all wrong for not exposing my stomach. Shirts start out fine, but they naturally slide up the curves of my hisp to above my belly button, and I’ll get dirty looks at work for letting them stay there.
What she said. I’m tall (5’11) and slim and it is suprisingly hard to find clothes that fit me well. In order to buy reasonably priced (less than $40, preferably way less) pants that come down past my ankles, I have to either spend ages sifting through clothing racks hoping to find my size in a long or buy them a size large and let them hang down low around my hips (Johanna, don’t worry, I don’t show off my panties). As far as shirts are concerned, the ones that fit me without being excessively baggy are made for people significantly shorter than myself. Often times, these factors combine into bared mid-drift that I’m not totally comfortable with or that is inappropriate for the situation.
Nobody in particular, when I was writing that there were no replies to the thread. I figured people would run with the ‘then pull them down’ part of the title.
Oh, okay. I was really confused when I read it. I couldn’t figure out who you were responding to. I figured I was just completely missing something. I feel a little better now that I know I wasn’t.
I’d love to be able to find plenty of attractive shirts that are long enough. Alas, frequently even stores that carry tall sized pants won’t carry tall sized shirts. Sometimes I’m desparate enough for clothes for work that I’ll buy them anyway.
Forget? Don’t think so. That trend was the sluttiest, most brazen form of (attention) whoring known to man. I loved it.
I’d never approve of anyone I cared about wearing such a fashion, but God bless the sluts that did. The only more potent form of male gaze-control would be a pair of naked breasts. I’m not alone, trust me.
It’s like the women want to be sexy, but don’t want to pay the price for it (being looked at), and suddenly, as a guy, I’m the guilty party somehow.
The women at work do a thing that really annoys me. They’ll bend over to pick something up, and because I’m there, they’lll coyly press one finger to their sternum to keep the top of their low-cut shirt modest.
Listen lady, they’re a set of tits, and:
a) I’ve seen tits before
b) Even if you didn’t do that silly finger thing, I doubt I’d get an eyeful anyway, and
c) I’m not going to stare at your chest as you bend over.
I’m actualy a guy who finds long, flowing non-revealing garments pretty sexy. All I can say to the gals is: wear what you like, but if you’re not going to be comfortable in it, why buy it? If you’re an outgoing, flirty type and want to show off your bod, great, wear mini-skirts and low-cut tops. If you’re more conservative, dress accordingly. But don’t flatter yourself and insult me by assuming I’m going to sleaze over you every time you have to do something basic like pick up a dropped pencil.
) but maybe sometimes the act of pulling the shirt down is to attract attention to the fact that it’s not covering their stomach.
allowing me to be stylish and dignified at the same time.