[ SECRET POST #4497 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4497 ⌋

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[Chef and food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the River Cottage series]

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[The Final Table, Rafa Gil (Brazil) and Esdras Ochoa (Mexico)]


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[James Bond/Moonraker, Jaws and his girlfriend, Dolly]


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[Luther]


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[Queer Eye]


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[Brooklyn 99, Rosa Diaz & Amy Santiago]

















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Comments

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06. https://i.imgur.com/1U5j3ap.png
[Queer Eye]

[(Anonymous)]

The alternatives for this fat girl are (1) fully tucked and feeling extra fat-looking or (2) fully untucked and feeling frumpy af.

I'll take the French tuck, thanks! Good thing I'm doing it to make myself feel good and not for you or anyone else, anon. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but chill. Everyone should wear what they feel their best self in. But people are allowed to criticize fashion and not like certain styles.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's a reasonable line to draw between saying you don't like a certain style and saying everyone wearing a certain style looks shitty. And it definitely feels like OP is a lot closer to the second.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course people are allowed to criticize! And I'm allowed to respond to their criticism. Yay internets.

[(Anonymous)]

How does it help you feel good? Just heard of this style and wondering if it’ll do the same for me. :( I feel fat and frumpy all the time and finding clothes that make me feel better has been increasingly hard.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I'm short and fat, so my torso and legs are about the same length, and I mostly wear shirts/blouses and pants. I feel like the French tuck does for me exactly what OP says it doesn't do. It makes my legs look longer in front, and it covers the back of my pants, which never fit flatteringly. It basically looks like a hi-lo hemline, which are also controversial but personally make me feel good. So try it, anon! Maybe it will make you feel better about your clothes, too.

Something that also works for me is wearing a shorter, structured jacket over a longer shirt. I just feel best when my clothes aren't visibly splitting me in half - which most clothes do when you have my proportions.

[(Anonymous)]

I like the French tuck. I don't like full tucks and a French tuck shows off my belt buckle.

[(Anonymous)]

It looks fun and casual and I have no idea why people hate it with such vehemence

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's because it makes you look like you can't dress yourself.

It's up there with getting a skirt tucked into your knickers. Just looks messy and does nothing for anyone's figure.

Well, unless you don't want people to notice it because they're too busy thinking 'yikes, this person can't dress themselves'.

But each to their own.

[(Anonymous)]

But you clearly are aware that it's something that people do intentionally. So you literally know that it doesn't actually mean that.

[(Anonymous)]

Because the world is full of snots who are completely up themselves over anything and everything even vaguely fashion-related.

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on the shirt and the body type and the overall outfit, tbh, but I agree it looks a little silly half the time. But not silly enough for me to notice unless I'm really thinking about it.

[(Anonymous)]

All I can think when I see it is that the person just came out of the restroom and was too lazy to finish tucking their shirt back in/they didn't realize that they caught the front part of their shirt under their pants when they pulled their pants back up. It just looks so stupid and sloppy.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.

[(Anonymous)]

The way people talk about French tucks reminds me of nothing so much as the way old people talk about tattoos

[(Anonymous)]

The french tuck will look stupid when you're in the nursing home?

[(Anonymous)]

well tattoos are stupid too so

[(Anonymous)]

you won't get a job with it? what if you don't like it in a few years?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like it, but will grudgingly admit it sometimes looks okay depending on the clothes involved. The way he's wearing it here, though, with a T-shirt and elastic-waist shorts, just looks sloppy and accidental. A long-ish dress shirt or button-down with slacks or jeans can work.

[(Anonymous)]

While I personally don't like it, I think it looks good on some people/with some styles.

My main issue with the clothes he recommends to people in the show is that it all feels samey to me. Like the underlying shape is the same, for every person he dresses. His habit of making everybody do the French Tuck, no matter what body shape or style, is symptomatic for that.

[(Anonymous)]

I love Tan, but I feel like his fashion choices for people are done through his own filter, you know? Which isn't the end of the world, but it's kinda tunnel vision. He's also handicapped by the fact that even in 2019, dressing well is a lot easier to do if you have money, and if you're a relatively skinny, standard body type. If you're overweight or non-standard in some other way (Too tall? Too short? Big bust but smaller waist? Pear-shaped? Small bust but large hip/ass?), it's a LOT harder.

Me, I'm short and don't have much of a waistline. I'm not skinny, I'm just sort of... a block, with wider shoulders.

[(Anonymous)]

i don't hate it when i see him advise it on the show, but trying to do it myself when i regularly tuck my shirts in all the way has made me just super confused as to how to make it look good. it just ends up bunching at the sides?

guess i'll stick with my fully tucked in.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it looks stylish af when done decently. A full tuck is usually too formal and/or preppy for most situations, and no tuck is bland and tends to look frumpy.

A front tuck looks chill, adds points of interest for the eye, and allows you to show off your belt and whatever detailing your jeans might have.

[(Anonymous)]

It can look great with the right clothes/proportion. People then to overuse it but that's true for any fashion trend.

What surprises me is how worked up OP is getting over this. Chill, man.