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Nobody's body is an amorphous blob, male or female. It's simply a matter of design and convention - clothes are designed to fit some body types, and convention
by JulianMorrison 13y ago
Nobody's body is an amorphous blob, male or female.
It's simply a matter of design and convention - clothes are designed to fit some body types, and conventional clothing styles are predicated on "degrees of freedom" of possible design that can only comfortably suit some body types without looking like a tent or a gorilla suit.
Actually "male" formal styles have more give in their degrees of freedom than informal styles for either gender, or formal styles for women, because fat men have often been suit wearers.
Still, IMO, designers ought to see "fat people of any sex" as a challenge to their ingenuity. I'd really like to see what people would come up with if effort was applied, rather than merely shifting the proportions of something designed for thin people.
- acuozzo 13y agoUpvoted. You made some great points.
- ksar 13y agoMid-high end brands build their clothes to an aspirational fit model. Most people are forced to make that fit work for them, either through tailoring, or optimizing around what attributes of their clothing are important to them. Fashion is pretty backwards on fit - bottom line is wear your clothes the way you want to wear them, swag or no swag.