Re: Have you guys noticed lately...

[Guest guest]

Hi Adelaide,

I'm not even an LP (but am definitely on the shorter side of AH at 160cm) and

find that most jeans have about 6 inches of excess material! I really need to

find the time to get the sewing machine out!

I have been VERY lucky when it comes to 's clothing tho, long shorts are

still in for boys, and the long denim ones fit him great for jeans and the

shorter ones fir great for long shorts! He is 12 and the only thing I've HAD to

adjust is his school uniform sweatshirt as the smallest size is a 10 and he is

now in a 7.

Caela

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> Have you guys noticed the latest fashion trend these days are the

> sleeves that hang WAY beyond the " normal " length of an average

> person?!! So if they are too long for even an average person, then

> what about US?!! Just recently I happened to try something on, and

> I kid you not, the sleeves hung BELOW my knees!!! And there is no way

> to try to roll them up, as there is nowhere for all that bulk of extra

> material

> (on us, we're talking YARDS, folks) to be redistributed! Then what if you

> need to put a coat on over all that bulk?!! It doesn't happen easily.

> Also,

> one's dignity may even be lost momentarily when attempting this feat in a

> crowded place.

>

> It's not just the sleeves that are much longer, but jeans for both men

> and women. For the trend in some styles these days, is to have jeans SO

> LONG one either keeps stepping on them, or they drag...something many of us

> have put up with for years. Who ever would have thought we were wearing

> these latest trends in fashion, huh?!!

>

> Still, there are those brief rare moments of shopping for clothes, I

> would give almost anything to be able to just buy something off the rack

> that actually fit like it does on the model, wouldn't you? ; )

>

> Adelaide, with the WAY too long sleeves

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[Guest guest]

I haven't seen that, extra material, as much, but what I have seen is this and

it's both, stupid and funny.

I will be shopping for a men's small size dress shirt, which is typically size,

14 & 1/2, and often clothing stores, even the big chains, will have the shirts

according to size on the wall in tiers. So, the top level/rung is size small,

then medium (size 15 & 1/2) is on the middle tier, then large (16 & 1/2) on the

bottom tier or the one closest to the floor or the one nearest to my height

level too:P. Now, aside from any dwarfs who may be shopping for small shirts,

just say that we forget them totally as we're a rare group to begin with, but

what about average sized petite men? Where is their shirts to be found, on the

top tier! It doesn't make sense:P. I never could figure out the reasoning behind

that one, because for the most part even petite/ shorter than average men, their

arm length or reach is also shorter, so why the top tier/rung?

my 2 cents, grady