Skinny Fit NOT!
I want to go on the record to say that I absolutely detest the "skinny fit" shirts out now. Now, I know that they've been out for a while, I just haven't had any first hand experience with them until recently, when I was in a Ralph Lauren Polo Outlet looking for some new pinpoint oxford shirts.
I took a bunch of size 10 shirts into the fitting room and could not even button them. I had to check the label again to make sure that I had not mistakenly brought is some size 6's. Discouraged, I turned over all of the shirts to the dressing room attendant and went out and brought in the same exacts shirts in a size 12. I was shocked to find that even these did not fit. Oh, I was able to button the shirt, but there was serious stress placed on the upper buttons. I smiled at the dressing room attendant as I handed her all on the size 12s and then again when I arrived with the 14's.
Now, I have never been a size 14 in my entire life, and sadly these shirts did not fit either. The main problem was in the bust area, where there was obvious pulling on the main bust button. While the bust area was tight, the stomach area was way baggy. A totally unflattering look. Apparently I do not have the body type for the "slim fit" look.
Of course, none of the patterns that I liked came in the "comfort fit" so I guess that Polo assumes that only frumpy people want the comfort fit.
Today, I am boldy announcing my own personal buycott against the "slim fit" style trend. Hear that shirt manufacturers? This Preppy Mom has money to spend and she will just not stoop to your body image harrassment. LOL, in all honesty, I know it doesn't much matter what I think about the "skinny fit" trend, but in my own warped mind, I feel that if I post news of my boycott, maybe some shirt manufacturer will read it and come to his/her senses.
Long live the comfort fit of old! Thank God for EBAY and Paypal!
I took a bunch of size 10 shirts into the fitting room and could not even button them. I had to check the label again to make sure that I had not mistakenly brought is some size 6's. Discouraged, I turned over all of the shirts to the dressing room attendant and went out and brought in the same exacts shirts in a size 12. I was shocked to find that even these did not fit. Oh, I was able to button the shirt, but there was serious stress placed on the upper buttons. I smiled at the dressing room attendant as I handed her all on the size 12s and then again when I arrived with the 14's.
Now, I have never been a size 14 in my entire life, and sadly these shirts did not fit either. The main problem was in the bust area, where there was obvious pulling on the main bust button. While the bust area was tight, the stomach area was way baggy. A totally unflattering look. Apparently I do not have the body type for the "slim fit" look.
Of course, none of the patterns that I liked came in the "comfort fit" so I guess that Polo assumes that only frumpy people want the comfort fit.
Today, I am boldy announcing my own personal buycott against the "slim fit" style trend. Hear that shirt manufacturers? This Preppy Mom has money to spend and she will just not stoop to your body image harrassment. LOL, in all honesty, I know it doesn't much matter what I think about the "skinny fit" trend, but in my own warped mind, I feel that if I post news of my boycott, maybe some shirt manufacturer will read it and come to his/her senses.
Long live the comfort fit of old! Thank God for EBAY and Paypal!
posted by Preppy Mom at 4:44 PM
3 Comments:
Hate the "skinny Fit" anything. I never was a size, 0, 2, 4 and for maybe one day a 6. I have been most of my adult life an 8 and now I have climbed a bit higher. What can I say I go to the gym, workout and still things and prts of me go in directions I never knew existed. I am trying to get used to it. Note the word trying, but that is hard. It is hard when one of my sisters is 18 months younger (41 yrs old) and she fits in a size 4 and another sister is 10 years younger than myself and she looks great for having just had her second child in 20 months. Just goes to show that there are all sizes and shapes out there even when they come from the same gene pool.
Have to jump in on this post a little late. BUT, I TOO, deteste the skinny fit. They have to be kidding, right? Some of us actually have CURVES, people! Maybe Ralph didn't get that memo.
Like SP above, my sisters and I are all different shapes and sizes with the same 2 parents so you never really know what the gene pool is going to dish out, do you?
OMG...I can so relate! I hate the way most of the tops fit these days. Not only did Ralph not get the memo there is a generation of teen girls who no one loves enough to know that a muffin top stuffed into horizontal stripe is just plain scary! OH MY!
I do have to admit I do like the skinny jeans, though and never quite adjusted to the wide leg ones! LOL Just my 80's genes not letting go.
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