[ SECRET POST #4497 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4497 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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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

[(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)]

Some styles just look dumb, though. It doesn't matter who's wearing them, they're unflattering and/or messy-looking on everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking a style looks shitty on most people is a perfect reason not to like the style, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Please point to where in the secret OP says everyone wearing the french tuck looks shitty? Fashion and one's personal appearance are touchy topics, but I don't think it's productive to go looking for offense.

[(Anonymous)]

OP says it looks awful...

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - Which is definitely not the same thing as saying "saying everyone wearing a certain style looks shitty". OP is criticizing the french tuck. They are not saying everyone who wears it looks shitty. The former is directed at a style, the latter is directed at a person or persons.

I don't always french tuck, but sometimes I do. It depends on the shirt. There's no need to take someone else's opinion on it so personally.

[(Anonymous)]

The way they reacted, it's pretty obvious that ayrt took it personally because they're hella insecure.

[(Anonymous)]

Criticizing people's fashion choices isn't exactly self-assured behavior.

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - Absolutely! But responding defensively and conflating criticism of a style as a personal attack is... well, it's a choice. Not a good one, though.

[(Anonymous)]

but it wasn't a criticism leveled at you, and you're kind of acting like it is

[(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)]

Thanks I hadn't thought of that! I'm also short and fat and don't understand fashion whatsoever so this really helps. ♥

[(Anonymous)]

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