So true--I never felt like a giantess before I went to China. I didn't even try to shop for clothing there. Women with street stalls would start trying to sell me cheongsams, then we'd just look at each for a minute, and they'd give up.
Trying to buy underwear in Japan was similarly dispiriting. I was wearing about a size 8 at the time, and sometimes, but not often, the largest size would fit. (I did, however, see the best pair of panties ever. Grey cotton, with little kitty-cat footprints silkscreened on them, and the words "That was the worst tasting slop I ever ate." I would have bought them, but they didn't come in my size.)
Zara clothes are pretty small. Their guy's clothes are tiny -- a lot of the jackets, even in their largest size, are way too small for any guy over 160-170lbs.
zara is spanish but they usually go up a bit higher than that in sizes. i thought. they are going downhill in quality anyway.
most awesome of all is getting your clothes sewn specially for you. there are shops in berlin opening up where you choose from a limited number of patterns and it costs under 40 euros for pants. must. go. back.
most awesome of all is getting your clothes sewn specially for you
There was a thread on Making Light last year or so, about Indian shops that are doing this remotely via E-Bay -- you send in your measurements, they make you a suit. There were both women's and men's clothiings being made IIRC.
Their clothes for men seem geared at skinny-hipped 5'8" guys - Gael Garcia Bernal types [I know he is actually Mexican] - and don't really cater to the 'fuller-figured' man.
Dude, if you're in a size 8, I wouldn't worry. (On the other hand, I never did get skinny again after my kids, so who am I to talk.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 10:08 AM
So true--I never felt like a giantess before I went to China. I didn't even try to shop for clothing there. Women with street stalls would start trying to sell me cheongsams, then we'd just look at each for a minute, and they'd give up.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:04 PM
each s/b each other.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:05 PM
Trying to buy underwear in Japan was similarly dispiriting. I was wearing about a size 8 at the time, and sometimes, but not often, the largest size would fit. (I did, however, see the best pair of panties ever. Grey cotton, with little kitty-cat footprints silkscreened on them, and the words "That was the worst tasting slop I ever ate." I would have bought them, but they didn't come in my size.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:21 PM
I would have bought them anyway, and framed them.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:26 PM
Don't they have raspy tongues? Kitty-cats, I mean, not mythical creatures in panties.
Posted by John Tingley | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:29 PM
I've actually had similar experiences in L.A.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:39 PM
Not selling clothes in your size? If I recall descriptions correctly, you're fairly small. Or finding bizarre panties for sale?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:43 PM
In a lot of L.A. boutiques, I am a "large."
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:53 PM
that's just not right.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 5:01 PM
4 -- suddenly that Japanese reality-show porn video posted here a while back is making a lot of sense...
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 5:18 PM
mmmm..... Japanese panties.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 6:57 PM
Zara clothes are pretty small. Their guy's clothes are tiny -- a lot of the jackets, even in their largest size, are way too small for any guy over 160-170lbs.
Posted by Matt McGrattan | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 7:14 PM
"I would have bought them, but they didn't come in my size."
LHF evah.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 10:18 PM
IIRC Zara is Spanish, no?
Mebbe that explains the sizes, or not.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 7:06 AM
Check this out, with pictures.
Posted by Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 7:28 AM
eep, the bra picture was saddest of all.
zara is spanish but they usually go up a bit higher than that in sizes. i thought. they are going downhill in quality anyway.
most awesome of all is getting your clothes sewn specially for you. there are shops in berlin opening up where you choose from a limited number of patterns and it costs under 40 euros for pants. must. go. back.
Posted by mmf! | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 7:42 AM
most awesome of all is getting your clothes sewn specially for you
There was a thread on Making Light last year or so, about Indian shops that are doing this remotely via E-Bay -- you send in your measurements, they make you a suit. There were both women's and men's clothiings being made IIRC.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 7:45 AM
thanks...although i think part of the hard part is measuring yourself properly...it helps to have the tailor there...
Posted by mmf! | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 8:29 AM
the hard part is measuring yourself properly
So true, so true.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 8:33 AM
the hard part is measuring yourself properly
The E-Bay sellers that I looked at in the course of reading that thread had pretty detailed instructions for the measurements.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 8:37 AM
Yeah, they are Spanish.
Their clothes for men seem geared at skinny-hipped 5'8" guys - Gael Garcia Bernal types [I know he is actually Mexican] - and don't really cater to the 'fuller-figured' man.
Posted by Matt McGrattan | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 12:20 PM