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.)
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.)
I would have bought them anyway, and framed them.
Don't they have raspy tongues? Kitty-cats, I mean, not mythical creatures in panties.
I've actually had similar experiences in L.A.
Not selling clothes in your size? If I recall descriptions correctly, you're fairly small. Or finding bizarre panties for sale?
In a lot of L.A. boutiques, I am a "large."
4 -- suddenly that Japanese reality-show porn video posted here a while back is making a lot of sense...
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.
"I would have bought them, but they didn't come in my size."
LHF evah.
IIRC Zara is Spanish, no?
Mebbe that explains the sizes, or not.
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.
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.
thanks...although i think part of the hard part is measuring yourself properly...it helps to have the tailor there...
the hard part is measuring yourself properly
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.
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.