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In your opinion, is it better to "camouflage" one's imperfections, or accentuate every bulge by wearing skin-tight clothing? I guess what I'm asking is: do you find skin-tight clothing attractive, no matter what the shape someone has?
I choose fashion items to accentuate my natural good assets and de-emphasize my less desirable ones. fortunately, there are many fashion options to accommodate all body shapes.
When i see people sloppily dressed, i assume they have poor self-esteem. Not caring how you look speaks volumes about your mental state.
I choose fashion items to accentuate my natural good assets and de-emphasize my less desirable ones. fortunately, there are many fashion options to accommodate all body shapes.
When i see people sloppily dressed, i assume they have poor self-esteem. Not caring how you look speaks volumes about your mental state.
Maybe they care about how they look to themselves, not so much about how others might perceive them. I do not like the way my daughter dresses, I don't think her style flatters her at all, but it's definitely not because she doesn't care. In fact she's very particular about what she wears, she has her own set of rules about what's acceptable and it's not based on what other people might think about her choices.
Most younger women these days seem to wear their clothing a size or two too small for their bodies. It's a look that I find tacky and unflattering on anyone, no matter how fit they are, and most aren't very fit these days. And leggings without a top covering your ass? Ugh. Leggings aren't pants, they're leggings.
Your clothes are supposed to fit like clothes, girls, not like sausage casings.
I remember when the "empire waistline" came in (around 1964). While watching a youtube vid of the Peppermint Rainbow singing "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" it's readily apparent what the empire waistline was for: it covered up "midrift bulge" which I presume became a problem in the early 60's as the late teens, early twenties born ladies were now 40-ish and getting tubby.
I don't worry about what other people wear unless they're walking around showing naked body parts. Some think thin people look great in skin tight clothes. Others think they look awful. Wear whatever you want. Not my problem.
I don't think there is any such thing as a perfect body. We are all imperfect in some way. So you dress in a way that you feel good about and what others think does not matter.
That said, I've never been comfortable in clingy clothing. Fitted, yes. Clingy, no. I might choose to accentuate one thing but not everything all at once. To each their own.
I do grieve over the death of dresses and skirts. One of the reasons for them is that they accentuated a woman's hips while hiding the bigger and less sightly bulges. They were sort of a leveling playing field for the bigger ladies to still compete with the still curvey but not so big lady. Women will ask, "do these pants make me look fat". Well, yes, that is the point. Skirts and dresses that drape and don't hug help bigger thighs and rear ends look not fat.
It is all about comfort today.
Not sure what you mean about the death of skirts and dresses. Lots of women, myself included, often wear dresses and skirts. In the summer, some of us wear them almost exclusively, because yes, they're more comfortable, but feminine.
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I'm thin and I work at it- just bicycled 15.5 miles this morning and generally I eat healthy. Still, my upper arms are flabby and I don't wear a lot of sleeveless tops. I DO wear leggings because my legs are great but always wear a top long enough to cover my crotch or I feel naked. I've always felt that if it's not beautiful you should cover it up and drape it gracefully, and never expose more than one area excessively: low-cut top means don't wear a skirt that barely covers your lady parts at the same time.
And I don't get tight clothes at all. I HATE that feeling. It was always mind-boggling to me to see women who looked a couple pf sizes larger than I browsing the same size racks.
I grew up in the 70s, and had a conservative upbringing.
The trend then was to "cover up" or "disguise" bodily imperfections.
My mother would make me wear loose and baggy clothing to "hide", or at least not accentuate, my bust.
No one wanted to see your "muffin top", or any other unsightly bulges.
But now in these modern times, all sizes are embraced, and that's good I guess, except I'm not sure about the overall attractiveness of this style.
In thinking about the past, Cass Elliot of the Mama's and Papa's comes to mind: she wore those gigantic tent-dresses/ muumuu's. I thought they were hideous, but what's the solution?
In your opinion, is it better to "camouflage" one's imperfections, or accentuate every bulge by wearing skin-tight clothing? I guess what I'm asking is: do you find skin-tight clothing attractive, no matter what the shape someone has?
I am still in the camouflage camp. I see some of the stuff the high school girls wear and it's disgusting.
Some of us never liked clingy close-fitting clothing regardless of body shape.
Oh my I think it feels aweful....... How can anyone like clothes that are too tight??
I like loose stuff,with alot of room and not clingy!!
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