Stoopid fashions.

Stoopid empire-waist blouses. Stoopid "girls" that are too...er...generous...to fit... I swear they create these things to make anyone older than 15 feel inadequate. x(

As God as my witness, I WILL find a way to bring Members Only jackets back into the mainstream!!!! "P

try explaining "parachute pants" to a 5 year old. I did that this morning. Not sure how successful I was.
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I had a pair of those in the 80's!

Now THAT would have made them worthwhile! (And yeah, I had a pair too--with a matching zip-up jacket, which, of COURSE, I wore with the sleeves pushed up!)
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here's my problem, i am not well endowed and i have wide shoulders so i have to buy either a large or extra large, it fits across the shoulders and then it looks like a tent every where else. We all have clothes issues for sure. My daughter has a bubble butt just like her dad so finding her pants that go over the posterior is like torture.

I COULD wear these MFers if I bought an XL, but then it would fall off my shoulders. Drat.

Especially up top, where I'm about a 32b-c. Totally got shorted in that department, probably all went to my sis who's very well endowed! Anyway, I recommend buying Small-Tall shirts online (cuz you can't find 'em in stores! ) Old Navy sells them without breaking your bank, and they have extra width in the shoulders. 'Course, they're extra long, fitting my endless torso, and the sleeves come down to my palms, but a handy bit of alteration will help.

I Swear to God, if I had to do it over again, I would open a women's tailor shop, with the alterations ladies right there to make the rags fit all us hard-to-size chicks! Men have a variety of sizes; we're supposed to buy rags off the rack!

But I feel compelled to address a misconception. Specifically, the comment that "men have a variety of sizes". This may be so, but there are those of us who are hard to fit as well.

I'm 6'. When I was working (retired early a little while back), I was a trial lawyer working in federal courts in a very conservative city. This means that I always wore suits, and that I needed to have a lot of them. I am very broad across the shoulders and am quite narrow through the hips, relatively speaking. This is great when wearing jeans and a t-shirt, but barring a completely tailor made suit, my jacket size and my slacks size were such that it was nearly impossible to find an off-the-rack suit that fit in both places. To make matters worse, slacks that fit my hips were a little too snug through the thigh, and were impossibly tight, uh, . . . at the top of the legs on the inseam. In certain circumstances it may pay to advertise, but I assure you that a federal courtroom is not one of those places.

So. Don't feel like your tailoring problems are limited to your gender.

Good day, ladies.

Go to Macys.com and click on men, then shirts. You will see button downs and crew styles in a variety of colors. Most have sleeves but they are pretty standard looks. And a 40 something guy in a button down shirt will look as decent as a 20 year old in the same shirt.

Now click on women, then tops. You will see baby doll sleeves, no sleeves, ruffles, empire waists, criss-cross tops, flutter sleeves, off-the-shoulder, drop waist, rolled sleeves, halters, tanks, peasant tops........ and on and on. It's difficult to find a basic shirt that just has sleeves let alone find something that actually fits and is age appropriate.

What I would give to shop in the men's department!

you've described, but I've been married, and I've had female colleagues who said much the same thing - age appropriate dress is an issue, and most of the stuff that is out there assumes that you don't have significant boobs. As a hetero male, frankly, I like boobs but I can certainly understand having to dress for occasions where you don't want to "accentuate the positive."

It's only lately I've seen women's pants in Size 6 LONG--whereas men's have been proportionate ever since I was a teenager shopping in the guy's jeans departments! Also, shirts have neck widths: women's clothes get exponentially bigger thru the neck, shoulders, longer in length, et al as the sizes go up. Fuggeddaboutit if you happen to be a small size and over 6 feet! The runway models (who're my height but A LOT skinner and younger than I!) may look great in tall clothes, but they get 'em custom made by designers.

I either have to go to Korea for a wardrobe or Amsterdam, where they're all my height!

And one more thing: getting women's clothes cleaned at the dry cleaners will cost ya more than mens!!! Even a tailored, button-down shirt: if the buttons are on the left side, the cleaners will automatically charge you more!!

so wide shoulders, plus long arms on a relatively slender guy means impossible to find shirts or jackets that fit without paying out the wazoo for them.

Luckily, my job is informal enough that I can roll up the sleeves, so it's less obvious that they end before they get to my wrist on some shirts. And the shirts with long enough sleeves and broad shoulders I can fit two or three of me into the torso., so I end up with the balloon-blouse look where the shirt gets tucked in.

Again, I don't care too much, but it does get annoying sometimes.

Tank tops? Medium. Anything with a t-shirt style sleeve or longer requires large or x-large. I bought a nice button down shirt (blouse? dress shirt?) from American Eagle's online store once... I ordered a 10. Got it and there was no WAY. I could have done an Incredible Hulk style seam blowout if I'd flexed my arms the right way. I took it back to the store and tried to find one that WOULD fit. When I tried a 14 (after trying a 12) and it STILL wouldn't fit I gave up.

rather than underneath, because the girls are "ample".

x(

You know what I'm talkin' about! If I manage to pull the shirt low enough to get the line under the, uh, bosom (am I gonna get in trouble here?), I end up with such a vast expanse of cleavage I can't leave the house. UGHHHH.

Oh to be a 34B.

That's what cheeses me off the most. But then an undiagnosed thyroid was the first nail in the boobage coffin, having a kid was the last. And here I am today, with a bunch of empire-waist blouses rotting in the closet... :( Now I have to learn to STOP buying them--!

Oh, you know...

what color are my eyes? :evilgrin:

Wait. What was the question?

Why, I don't know.

Maybe just another way for the fashionistas to make we lowly mortals feel like freaks.

At 18 I was 6'3" tall, and weighed 120 pounds and wore a 32A cup. Stick figures had more curves than I did. And then the boobs came and I looked like the letter P.

and most clothes for tall women really suck--stuff you wouldn't bury your grandmother in!! I found Old Navy, Alloy, and Newport News online as well as Zara stores to have some okay selections for us tallies. I don't know about you, but I decided those baby-doll shirts don't look good on me anyway, I'd rather wear fitted t-shirts or tapered blouses or tunics. The older I get, the less I want to jump into any fashion trend anyway.

They look so cute...until I try them on.

Gah.

I hear ya.