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It just pisses me off that designers all make clothes for flat chested tall women.

Sorry my milk producing mamary glands and childbearing hips are getting in the way of your super special artistic 'vision' Mr. clothes designer, but other kinds of bodies exist too ya know.

Correction: designers all make clothes for flat chested tall women with narrow shoulders. If you've got broad shoulders you're out of luck.

That too Anon.
~~Its because designers are all male~~

Or women who hate themselves

Yeah, hi. I hate finding a nice shirt and then being unable to fit into it because I'm built like a barn door.

I feel your pain.

_{The worst are the shirts that fit PERFECTLY around the torso but the arms are too tight.}

Lord, this. I usually have to get a size up because of my shoulders.

OH, GOD, YES. Thisthisthis. ;^;

Even when they accommodate your height and weight, those shoulders...!

OMG THIS. According to anon above I'm small at 5'11 and a 36C but I assure you I still have trouble finding shirts that fit properly. GIVE ME AN OPTION FOR LONGER SLEEVES DAMMIT. :P

Torn between loling and agreeing so hard. Because it's true.

Clothes for fat women are the opposite - if you're fat and have small breasts, you're mostly shit out of luck. Not universally or anything, but a fat woman with small breasts has a future of nice dresses with enormous empty cups on her chest ahead of her.

I also noticed that they do not make very many nice clothes for fat women. It's like they think being fat means you don't have a personal style, or deserve to dress nicely, or that all fat women are supposed to dress in demure and boring clothes or something.

Man, no kidding. The only clothes out there for large women are frumpy at best.

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fuchsiascreams.livejournal.com - 2012-05-05 08:40 (UTC) - Expand

I don't know. I'm fairly flat chested and tall (6'0") and most womens clothing doesn't fit me because the length is too short. Or it just hangs off my frame. I usually have to buy shirts and pants that are an extra size too big in order for them to reach my wrists and ankles. So I guess women have to be skinny and tall....but also have disproportionately short arms and legs.

tall but not too tall is the key I think. my last roommate was slightly taller than you and she would always buy mens' clothes because she couldn't find any womens' clothes that fit. 5'11'' might be the ceiling for acceptable womens' tallness.

So much this! Not sure what the 'ideal' height would be for shopping, but it feels harder than it should be to find long sleeve shirts that cover my wrists at 5'11. :P

(Also I've found Victoria Secret to be one of the few main 'name brands' I can reliably get dress slacks from that are long enough the last ten years or so- since thankfully some of theirs go up to a 36in inseam.)

It isn't intentional. Designers make prototypes for tiny people because it uses less fabric and is therefore less expensive. They also design that way because they want people to look at the CLOTHES, not the women's bodies.

This makes sense for couture but for ready-to-wear, especially in the retail market, this doesn't make sense at all.

True. It is realllly difficult to produce fast fashion that fits a variety of body shapes while still being affordable to produce. But there are people working on it! Body scanning is becoming more and more popular where samples of women in a variety of sizes get scanned so manufacturers have more accurate body measurements to go by.

I disagree with this so hard. I've got small boobs, and most shirts look silly on me. I look like a pre-teen boy trying on women's clothes. My sister, who has much bigger breasts than me, looks 200x better in every. single. shirt. She looks sexy, whereas I look like a dork (we're the same size otherwise, so we share clothes all the time).

But there are so many clothes that are designed for people specifically with small breasts, and a lot of clothes that you just can't wear with a bra on (which large-breasted women HAVE to do). Which isn't to say, of course, that hating your body is better at ANY size: just that most clothing is specifically designed for smaller-breasted women.

It's also a lot easier to get called a slut for wearing certain styles of clothing if you have large breasts. I wear to school one day with my best friend wearing the exact same tanktop as her, and they forced me to wear a school sweater all day because it was "too inappropriate". My friend, wearing the exact same thing, standing in front of the principal with me, was not chastized at all. And I can't even count the number of times I've been groped because some guy thinks that me wearing a low-cut shirt and making jokes about my breasts means that I'm comfortable with him touching them, or been told that I was a whore based on nothing but what I was wearing, or told that if I ever got raped while dressing like that, then I clearly deserved it for tempting men with my breasts.

Because apparently if you have large breasts then you should only ever wear turtlenecks. BECAUSE IT ISN'T FAIR TO MEN.

relmneiko.livejournal.com - 2012-05-03 07:38 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2012-05-05 15:50 (UTC) - Expand

Lol, that's sort of like my sister and I. I'm a 32H and she's not even an A cup, we're now around the same size (around a 4) and can share some clothing, but most of the time things we like don't look all that awesome on either of us. However, she can get awesome bras to fix her problem, I'd have to get surgery to fix mine.

It's because tailoring for curves actually takes time and effort. Designers don't like that.

Tall flat-chested women with proportionally large hips and narrow shoulders, at that. So if you're slim because you're athletic (meaning there's a good chance you'll have muscular shoulders and less curvy hips), you're also shit out of luck. Seriously, just who exactly are we fitting here?