Born Free

Goddam the management of your favourite shop that decides their petite range of clothes don't sell and won't be restocking anything in the petite range. Spent 2 hours looking and looking for trousers that will fit a 28-29" inside leg.

And I mean casual trousers not jeans grrrrrr damn them all. My favourite shop was the onlyonly one I could find that had fashionable casual trousers that FIT and at prices that won't send your purse into shock. Every other shop thinks everyone is 8 fecking feet tall. The only shops that don't think this way sell granny trousers and I ain't that old yet.

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Godless Dave

It is long past time for women all over the industrialized world to rise up against the fashion industry and DEMAND that they size clothes in a way that makes sense and does not assume all women fit into a narrow range of sizes and shapes. Basically, your clothes should be sized like men's clothes:

Trousers: waist measurement, inseam measurement. Maybe a hip measurement in addition to or instead of waist would make sense for the ladies

Skirts: waist size and length. I don't know why the industry assumes all women with a certain waist size are a certain height, but it's ridiculous.

Dresses: No experience here, but I'm sure you could come up with a better system than the "dress size" thing. Waist size, neck or bust size, and length should do it.

Shirts: neck size, sleeve length (which also addresses overall length)

I'm a tall, fat man and I have little trouble finding clothes that fit. I had just as little trouble when I was tall and skinny. My short and fat, short and skinny, and all other sized male friends have no trouble finding clothes that (more or less) fit.

Also, alterations to the length of trousers and jackets are usually offered free by most retailers of men's clothing.

I am dead serious. There is a terrible and completely nonsensical double standard in the way clothes are sized and priced. If enough women got together and formed their own clothing company you could change the world and make some serious cash.

While you're at it, someone needs to design a better bra (comfort of a sports bra with the looks of a regular bra) and (much more difficult) convince women they can wear it and still feel feminine.

abe smith

...."Soul, let them...". [I forget]..."There's more enterprise/ in going naked."

DMB

I hesitate to suggest this in case you bite bits off me, Alli, but I'm feeling reasonably brave so I will. If you haven't already got one, get a sewing machine (not too expensive second-hand reconditioned), buy a pattern and some cloth and make what you want. If you don't know how to do dressmaking, get a book from the library or ask someone who does.

I started making clothes about 45 years ago when it was the only way I could afford to have any. My first few efforts were not brilliant, but I soon got the hang of it and for a long time made all my clothes apart from bras and tights. I used to go to the sales twice a year and buy cloth at reduced prices.

Actually, it's not too difficult to shorten ready-made trousers either. Again, it helps to learn the technique, but any dressmaking book will tell you.

I don't need to make my clothes these days and because I am arthritic I find dressmaking a bit painful, but I have just finished making 7 new skirts for my mother-in-law, who is semi-paralysed after a stroke and has changed shape as a consequence. I couldn't find what was needed in the shops, so I devised a simple pattern myself and went into production.

Opera Nut

It took me 40 years to find the right man. Also, I started wearing his hand down trousers and found out that men's trousers fit me much better than women's trousers. I have a very slim ass, no hips to speak of and a fat middle!!

So a 36 waist/30 inseam fits perfectly. No women's pants would fit me at all. He is five foot eight, I am five foot three.

I agree that women's clothes should be sized like men's clothes.

Born Free

Will concoct a decent reply later, got a movie to go watch tonight!!!

Bree

i have relatively long legs, a short waist, and no ass to speak of (i'm 5'6" and a size 12-14). if the pants fit in the waist, they're too short. if they're long enough, the ass sags and i get penis bulge in the front. fucking ridiculous.

Bad Kitty

I have the exact opposite problem, being just about 5'11". All the pants I ever find stop an inch or two above my ankle. And god FORBID I want to wear like a wedge heel or something - fuhgettaboutit. I think anything over 5'8" is considered "extra tall" for chicks and nobody seems to manufacture clothes for us. Highwater pants are an incredibly hideous look and I just plain refuse to perpetuate that sort of ugliness on the world. I could catalog shop, but unless I can try something on before hand, I'm just not comfortable buying it!

Because of this, I wear skirts almost ALL the time (when I'm not wearing shorts).

Michelle

CX

MMmmmmmmm....tall chicks.

Calzaer

I second that "MMmmmmmmm..."