Summer Clothing ALERT! BEWARE of the MALL!

[stonewall2]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 8:44pm

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!!!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 8:45pm

You are describing Seattle... though people here don't wait for the 60's... in the 50's you start seeing people in shorts.

[stonewall2]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 8:46pm

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

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 8:46pm

ROFL, I just spit-iup water all over my computer~!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 8:56pm

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.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:00pm

ew! we see those people all the time at walmart... and their carts are loaded with size 2 spandex

i agree with iflit, in that people should feel good about themselfs, but not taking it that far. they make plus size clothes for a reason, you don't have to squeeze into children's clothes.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:02pm

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.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:03pm

you are all describing my corporate office in Michigan!

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:08pm

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!

[bwaybaby891]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:10pm

Back fat is comletely wrong. I know girls who go to my school that have back fat as young teenagers. There is a time to buy larger clothes. These girls are trying to fit into the clothes they wore last year because they think they look cute.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:11pm

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

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:56pm

As my Mother would say... fat looks better tanned or layered over.

I'm a full figured girl, and I am pretty damn confident. But if one inch... wait one CENTIMENTER of my back or any bit of my fat is showing I will be there in less than a second to cover it up. Those people who wear **** like that, is the reason why people hate fat people. Because they don't know how to dress properly.

LAYER PEOPLE! The Gap is having an excellent sale on layering tops... go buy some.

[CJR]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:07pm

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.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:11pm

I would like a request that you may completely ignore, but I woudl liek you to read this anyway. I'm considered overweight and that's because of a metabolic disorder. So that means I don't like it when people make fun of fat pweople. I don't go out and wear slutty clothes that show back fat, but to those who do, why does it matter? Is it so disgusting that it needs to be psoted on a message board for people with disgustingly fast metabolisms to tease the people in the post? Honestly, in a society where everyone's supposed to embrace their bodies for what they are, it's pretty damn hard with all those people making comments about "back fat", which many people cant' prevent. So please, try to contain your disgust for the people who aren't so skinny who wear size 2 spandex. I know it's a bit gross, and I don't enjoy fat people i nbikinis any mroe than the next person, btu you could kindly refrain from postign about ti on a public message boards where not-so-skinny people can be hurt by wha tyou post.

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:13pm

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

[CJR]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:14pm

It's not that. Personally, I used to weigh 285lbs.. and no, Im not joking. This goes for anyone though -- at least from where I'm coming from -- be aware of what you've got on before you leave the house. I don't care if you're a size 2 or a 22, fcuking dress appropriately. I don't leave the house with my ass hanging out all over the place for everyone to see, so what makes other people think I want to see theirs?

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:14pm

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?

[CJR]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:15pm

Why would ANYONE wear leggings, let alone flesh colored ones? I saw a woman walking down 49th last week, I swear to you I thought she wasn't wearing any pants.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:18pm

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

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

[CJR]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:19pm

I recently found pictures of me from the 80's.... I looked at them and all I could say was "what WERE we thinking?"

[Aigoo]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:35pm

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...

[stonewall2]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:37pm

So sorry, MFL- I certainly didn't mean to offend you. I've been up and down with weight for years(can't squeeze into last year's size 8's anymore) so I do know what being overweight is like, but it doesn't matter if one is 100 pounds or 300 pounds, if one's clothes don't fit properly it isn't a pretty sight. There are places to wear a tube top and places to wear a blazer and no one should confuse the two... Couple that with the mega-portions that are served in restaurants today and it is no wonder that so many people are struggling with their weight today.

[bwaybaby891]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 11:12pm

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.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 11:43pm

In Wal-Mart today, I saw a horrendously dressed woman... a very, very low-cut purple shirt and a brassiere that was doing absolutely NOTHING for her (she might as well have not been wearing one at all), with a pair of white linen drawstring pants hiked up mid-rib-cage, tapering down to about an inch above her ankle. The pants were practically see-though, meaning VERY visible panty line. She was a bit overweight, as well... but come on. Anyone would have looked horrible in that. Talking about wanting to call Stacy and Clinton...

Why does it seem like the people with no taste all seem to congregate in the Wal-Marts?

And the teenage girls wearing too-small clothing is a rather large pet-peeve of mine. I just want to shake them and say, "Come OFF it. You have three inches of fat hanging over those pants. We don't want to see that, you don't look attracive. Come on, just wear a size eight rather than a three. It's not that painful. You might even look... nice."

Edit: "the a horrendously dressed woman"?
Updated On: 6/27/05 at 11:43 PM

[shlamdiddly]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 11:47pm

"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

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