another idle thought

[rm]

Is our culture's excessive obsession with weight a partial product of the casualization of clothing?

I realize that wealthy societies as a rule tend to favour thinness and poor ones heaviness, because those things are markers of affluence (i.e., time to work out and be "healthy" or proof you have enough to eat and are therefore "healthy"), but as I was look at all the bad fashion choices in Union Square today, I realized almost everyone looked like shit because their clothes had no damn structure and excessive thinness can at least fake that structure or "require" less of it, than a larger softer body. That said, people are not made of perfect curves, straight lines and ideal angles at any weight, and I say this as a woman who can bring death with her elbows. I'm not convinced that better tailoring and accurate sizing can solve problems, but I sort of think the lack of both has caused a bunch of them.

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Moving the waist around doesn't seem to help either

[haya.livejournal.com]

As we speak... tons of very tiny women look very pregnant.

Re: Moving the waist around doesn't seem to help either

[rm.livejournal.com]

hahahah yes. Also, as someone who does Regency reenactment, I have to say, those dresses don't work on everyone and the short version everyone is wearing now? doesn't work on ANYONE!

Re: Moving the waist around doesn't seem to help either

[rothko.livejournal.com]

i haaaaaaaaaaate all that crap. and it's the only thing you can even FIND anywhere. i haven't been able to buy clothes at all for nearly a year now.