Chicken bald back

[soapdragon]

Pretty obvious really but just thought I'd mention it in case any clothing manufacturers were reading this!

 

I took delivery of a new Weird Fish velvet coat today and the sleeves are down to my knuckles (which don't graze the ground!) I have several lovely plain Fat Face long sleeved t shirts with nice detailing on but they ruck up round my wrists. A TU pullover has to have the sleeves turned up at least twice to be wearable etc, etc, etc (I could go on; and frequently do )

 

I don't think that I am out of proportion so wondered if this is a recent fashion trend.....not being into such things I have no idea why sleeves are suddenly getting longer! Older clothes seem a better fit! Has anyone else noticed this or does anyone have a particular bugbear about clothes fitting?

 

 

 

 

Or is it just me

[Cat tails]

I struggle often too!

 

But being honest... I think it is rather my over enthusiastic thighs and other parts than to blame the clothes...

 

Although I really don't understand

- why people are making skinny jeans in my size... skinny jeans are ment for girls with sticks for legs

- why manufacturers think you don't have a waist once you are over a certain size

- why some tops grow in width and shrink in lenght on the washer (never the other way around...)

- why loads of tops always ride up on the front, leaving me tugging them down about once every 5 min

- why jeans can't be made of real jeans fabric, but rather some weird stretchy fabric that is very thin and clingy, making them last only months instead of years

 

 

Not have any trouble with Oerang Outang arms though.

[Luvachicken]

We went shopping for DS in Reading last week.

 

We needed 30" waist jeans - apparently you can only buy them on the internet

And slim fit shirts - which DS fancied in a dressy pink and a smarter blue - only to be told the ones he had chosen weren't made in slim fit He already has the 'normal' work shirts so there was nothing different for him.

We could have bought shirts that started from £50 but we didn't think that was acceptable.

 

I hate shopping and will buy two of things just to save me having to go shopping again

[sjp]

oh for sleeves that come down anywhere close to my wrists and not 6inch short

[soapdragon]

oh for sleeves that come down anywhere close to my wrists and not 6inch short

 

Swapsies?

[gavclojak]

oh for sleeves that come down anywhere close to my wrists and not 6inch short

My daughter says the same! Suprisingly enough M&S have a few nice floaty tips in at the moment but the arms are not only ridiculously long but like bell wrists...horrible and annoying to wear!

[Grandmashazzie]

Yes, Next too. I couldn't stand those sleeves flapping about.

[dancing cloud]

Still remember setting fire to a long floaty sleeve, as it wafted over a scented tea light

 

Never again!

[Valkyrie]

I'm with sjp on the sleeve thing - so many clothes are just way too short!

 

Then M&S mess around with their trouser lengths too, so some are too short and others too long. If you find the right one then they change it and you end up back to square one (if they aren't sewn up twisted - how uncomfy is a trouser leg when it screws itself round where it wants to go and not how it's supposed to!).

 

Dresses don't fit me at all. Hips need larger size (always - even in skinny times) but fall off the shoulder. Then dresses that do fit at the shoulder don't allow you to reach forward and riiiiip if you don't try and act ladylike! So shirts and skirts - that's OK - I get mens t-shirts because the ladies are too short in the waistline! Why is it if you do find a ladies t-shirt that is reasonable, it always stretches sideways eventually whereas the guys t-shirts seem to hold their shape?

[soapdragon]

Why is it if you do find a ladies t-shirt that is reasonable, it always stretches sideways eventually whereas the guys t-shirts seem to hold their shape?

 

Its a conspracy

[Cat tails]

Why is it if you do find a ladies t-shirt that is reasonable, it always stretches sideways eventually whereas the guys t-shirts seem to hold their shape?

 

Its a conspracy

 

Because men don't go out and buy lots of clothes all the time. Women do. And to make us buy even more, the clothes are "Ooops, word censored!"py made.

[Valkyrie]

Yup - and it's definitely a conspiracy to make us spend more. Back to wearing blokes t-shirts for me - sooo roomy!

[clootie]

Well I am an orangutan ...... long arms, long back. Buying school blazers was excruciatingly embarrassing for me as a child. Made me feel

like I was some kind of freak. Now I embrace the freak. Freaks-r-us. Jings we're all freaks in our own special way!

[Valkyrie]

 

Of course Cloots! Then again I married a gorilla. He's lost a fair bit of weight and now more like a spider monkey.

 

Last week bought a few pairs of trousers from M&S (much as I hate to) and all long legged versions. All fit except one. That looked like I'd been shopping wherever Dopey got his clothes. Oh to be Snow White for a change.