Summer Clothing ALERT! BEWARE of the MALL!

Oh my God, does no one own a full-length mirror anymore??!! We live in a "cold climate" here in upstate NY, so the minute it hits 60 degrees, people break out the shorts and T-shirts, so you can only imagine what happens when the temperature hits 90!! Took my daughter to the mall this afternoon (spend the 2 gift certificates she was presented with for being "Oustanding Musician" and "Outstanding Chorus Member" when school closed last week!) and headed to the music store to buy a cast recording that she didn't have yet(getting tougher!). Well, we hadn't gone 250 yards before I just wanted to call the "What Not to Wear" pair and arrest dozens of horribly clad people! Just because fabric stretches doesn't mean that is HAS to, much less expand to cover a butt bigger than a Mini Cooper! Spandex, racer back shirts, rolls of flab beneath the crop tops and the low riders, thighs that create enough friction to start the Great Chicago Fire- enough already!! The crowning moment was when we looked at the woman walking in front of us and I thought that we were behind a cow with it's head on backwards!! She had on a little-bitty top and had so much "back fat" that it looked like she had four breasts growing from her back!!
Now, I have to admit that my back is the first place that I put on any extra weight, but this woman made me want to live on bread and water for a month!
I don't see this when I travel;not in California, Florida, New York City, or even Toronto. Is it the long, cold winter spent in the middle of nowhere that make folks pack on the pounds for extra insulation??
I hereby vow to NEVER leave my front(or back) door without checking myself in the full-length mirror first!!!

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Oh no!My eldest son just moved to Seattle and now he'll feel right "at home"!!

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The backfat phenomenon is everywhere, Stonewall... I don't get it either. On one hand, I have to admire people who feel good about their less than perfect bodies. But it becomes troubling when the person is totally deluded about how they look, and squeeze into something two sizes too small. The overflow effect is never pretty.

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My favorite's when I can count the cellulite dimples on a woman's thighs.
That's good times, I tell ya. And it makes up for always forgetting a book for the subway.

Blech. I am in upstate quite frequently, and the fact that it needs to start out freezing, then get blistering hot, and then downpour complete with thunder ag lightning, and then get really hot again, and finally cold in the Hudson Valley REALLY upsets me. And, you can't wear proper clothiung because you never know what it is going to be like!

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Updated On: 2/23/06 at 09:11 PM

Please dont get me started on the two outfits I saw the other night outside Spamalot... just GHASTLY.

One woman, her breasts had to have been a double E, easily.... She was at least 5'8" and looked like RuPaul with really bad drag queen make up and a crack habit.... and she was wearing a tube top that, I kid you not, barely covered her nipples.

Saying she was falling out all over the place is a vast understatement.

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Haha. CJR, I'm glad I missed that.
Yep, stonewall, this is (unfortunately) not just a regional phenomenon. And it only gets worse as the summer goes on.

ETA: MFL, I don't think anyone was making fun of overweight people, and I'm sorry if you were offended. I think the problem is people wearing clothes that don't fit them.

Updated On: 6/27/05 at 10:13 PM

I call the rolls of hip fat that bulge out of too-small jeans "double hips." I have seen so many good-looking girls crammed into jeans at least 2 sizes too small. Don't they realize that makes them look like whales, even if they're a size 4??
And why is it that extremely overweight people LOVE flesh-colored leggings?

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"Why would ANYONE wear leggings, let alone flesh colored ones?"

I don't get it either, but lots of women do it...

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So many girls at my school follow this trend. All year round. I mean...I just can't imagine how they manage to stuff their butt and their "fat" inside these size 0 jeans when, clearly, they need ATLEAST...size 6. They think they can pull it off, but the first step they take, it all just tumbles out.

And I'm not talking about vastly "fat" people. These are quite attractive girls that aren't anywhere near what we could call "overweight". But, would it really kill you to wear a size pants that's ONE size bigger? I mean, it's not like it costs MORE or anything...

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I am five foot six and wear a size 4. I know girls who are bigger than me and would be really attractive if they stopped trying to shove themselves into a size 2 when they should wear an 8 or a 10. It is absoultly ridiculous to try and wear a larger size when you could be really pretty. I just don't get that, especially in a society where there is so much "love your body" stuff. At my school we don't pick on the fat kids. We pick on the kids who wear the latest clothes that are way too small. It is just nasty to see the back fat hanging out when it could be covered with nice clothes.

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"Just because fabric stretches doesn't mean that is HAS to, much less expand to cover a butt bigger than a Mini Cooper!"
"I thought that we were behind a cow with it's head on backwards!! She had on a little-bitty top and had so much "back fat" that it looked like she had four breasts growing from her back!!"

That just made my night!
I was San Diego a couple years ago and A rather...large...girl was wearing a backless shirt that came to a point just below her belly button. It was gross to say the least

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Updated On: 6/27/05 at 11:47 PM