Comments on: today’s question: why are you wearing those shorts?

by: michelle

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:39:12 +0000

Your pictures make me want to laugh and cry at the same time. What I always wonder is: at what point do these people check themselves out in the mirror and say, “Damn! I’m looking GOOOOOOD in these pants!” or do they say, “These shorts make me look DEAD SEXY?”
The answer is clearly that these people must not own mirrors. But I guess that is OK because I have enough shame and embarrassment for all of them.
I think, in retaliation to the tight-skimpy clothed masses, I will start wearing extremely loose clothing…and a lot of it. Maybe then the world seem more in balance.
Funny how my plan just happens to coincide with winter….

by: tequilaanddonuts

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:07:57 +0000

I wear shorts like this for the art performance of it all. I view my fat folds as a skin topiary.

by: Jen

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:48:15 +0000

I’m so glad to be in Northern Canada where everyone hides underneath parkas and sweatpants. I’m just perplexed as to how someone tries on shorts like that and decides, “these look FANTASTIC! I must buy them!”. I have the opposite problem, I’m not used to buying small clothes so I keep picking them too big and end up looking like a hobo…Thank goodness you’re in California and can’t catch me in my hobo gear.

I just can’t see the logic of, “I don’t want to wear pants, I’ll just wear my swimsuit instead!” HA -Yeast Jeans!

by: Matthew Brown

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:35:56 +0000

I really don’t get it either. Wearing clothing that is too small makes anyone look worse. Even thin people can look horrid by trying to wear them. I’ve seen people who would look great if they wore clothes that fit them manage to create waist spare-tires from over-constricting jeans.

As far as I can work out, denial about one’s true size plays a big part, as does, in some cases, unavailability of fashionable items in larger sizes. We’ve all seen the people who keep buying the same size of jeans that fit them when they were 18 and skinny …

As for the horizontal stripes, the least we could expect is that clothing manufacturers/sellers for larger sizes not carry such ugly things. But go and look in Lane Bryant or another large-size clothing store - horizontal stripes everywhere. They should do their customers a favor and sell clothes that flatter them, not make them look worse.

(and FWIW, I’m fat. But I try and wear clothes built to fit me.)