Fashion Trends and Revivals Of Past Atrocities

[TheHuckster]

Nope. That's a common mis-conception. In women's clothing, juniors vs misses is about the fit. A lot of the problem is in the naming, really.

I've seen juniors go up to 17 (very rarely), but they usually stop at 13 (just below what I wear). Here is an article over on the eBay forums that gives a good basic outline of how women's sizes work. I'm definitely going to have to check into the "juniors plus" range; even if I am 41 as of last week, my body hasn't changed shape, just gotten larger.

Hmm... what's most interesting is I used to work at GAP and I was never trained about this at all, although IIRC all of the sizes were even numbered, so I guess we simply didn't have Junior sizes (except online, where did sell odds).

[AdminAssistant]

Another former GAP employee. *high five*

No "Junior" sizes, just 0-16, XS-XL (or, rarely, XXL) for women and....28-40, S-XXL for men? I didn't work much on the Men's side.

One think I liked about GAP when I could shop there - it's a great store for 20-30 year olds both in terms of cut and style. Most of the stuff is youthful but not tacky, and lordy did I love, love, love the Long & Lean jeans.

[Greenday]

AA, men's jean sizes are based on waist then length. A much more sensible way to design clothes IMO.

[Andara Bledin]

Men's clothes can also have numerical sizing that are only vaguely based on measurements.

I've wanted women's clothes to go to straight measurements for ages. With mass production how it is today, there's really no excuse to stick with the sizing system women's clothing uses, particularly when you know that, say, a size 11 from India is likely to be larger than a size 13 from Taiwan. (don't ask me why - I just know that I had two pairs of pants, in those sizes, with that result)

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[AdminAssistant]

AA, men's jean sizes are based on waist then length.

Oh, I know (The quote you were replying to, I just couldn't remember the range of men's pants sizes that Gap carried, since I didn't work in that section often.) My husband lost the ability to buy clothing right around the same time he moved in, so I'm somewhat familiar with Men's Big & Tall. It's the length that's so amazing - and in inch increments! The handful of stores that sell short/reg/long women's pants, there's too much disparity between the options. Shorts are too short and regulars are too long, so I just buy the regulars and let them fray and soak up water when it rains.

[blas87]

Some girls' jeans are waist/inseam. The Buckle mostly goes by that standard, Silver jeans do as well.

Yesterday I realized that just because I wear one size in one fit, doesn't mean it applies in another. But it still didn't make me feel any better about myself, considering I had lost about 10 pounds after moving back home.

[LadyBarbossa]

I can't believe no one has mentioned this one yet, or maybe it's just an issue in my area -

Cowboy boots with shorts. ANY kind of shorts, just no! To me, this says "I was too lazy to bother lacing up sneakers or finding a pair of flats/flip flops to wear so I stuffed these on instead." A five year old boy going through the cowboy stage can get away with this. Everyone else, NO. It was even weirder when we saw a grown man walk in wearing cargo shorts, a t-shirt, and freakin' cowboy boots. It was perfect fodder for People of Walmart.

IMO I also think that if you are wearing a skirt that exposes most or at least half of your leg and you want to wear boots with it, the boots should be form fitting, otherwise you look just as dumb as the girls I just mentioned. It just looks awkward.

[Dreamstalker]

I get all my cargo pants at the local surplus store. Yeah, they're not formfitting as apparently the pants I wear should be , but the pockets hold what they should (I have a pair of jeans like that and the leg pockets are almost useless) and the damn things last forever. I only recently had to toss a pair that I bought in 1998.

[Lace Neil Singer]

*shrugs* I wear boots with short skirts. Tho I don't have bare legs; I always wear a pair of leggings under the skirt.

[LadyBarbossa]

The leggins make all the difference, though.

I was talking about something more like this: http://blogging.la/archives/style10.jpg

Although I've never seen them with tube socks before O_o

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[blas87]

If skinny jeans work for you, you're welcome to them. I've addressed it earlier in this thread that the fashion takeover of skinnies and jeggings make it really hard nowadays to just find a pair of plain old bootleg cut, let alone flared jeans. I'm by no means a fat girl, but I think being short and having very taped legs (meaning bigger thighs, skinny knees, and big calve muscles) makes me look fat in skinny jeans, if I can even get into them with how muscular my legs are.

I also was "blessed" with that awkward situation where my hip bones are a good six or more inches up from where the full, fatty curve of my hips are. It makes finding a pair of jeans that don't give me a saggy butt or the other bad alternative, a so skintight I look like I have a fupa....very difficult.

[wolfie]

Now see I hate low rise jeans and would not be comfortable in them even if I could pull them off. I like my mom jeans

I'd imagine that you'd be even LESS comfortable if you couldn't pull them off - after all, it would make it VERY difficult to use the toilet.

I also was "blessed" with that awkward situation where my hip bones are a good six or more inches up from where the full, fatty curve of my hips are. It makes finding a pair of jeans that don't give me a saggy butt or the other bad alternative, a so skintight I look like I have a fupa....very difficult.

What is a fupa - never heard that term before?

[AdminAssistant]

What is a fupa - never heard that term before?

The fatty area that some folks develop between their belly button and their groin. I knew some kids who classily referred to the same area as a gunt, because it went from the gut to the...*ahem*

[blas87]

Fupa= fat upper pussy area

I know, classy.

Higher rise pants (think moreso in the past than the present) are notorious for giving even thinner women the appearance of a fupa.