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clothes that flatter?
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Can anyone explain why the high street shops are full of clothes designed to only suit anorexic teenagers? At the same time we are being told more and more people are overweight. Surely clothes designers could come up with something that would suit everyone.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Since thin is decreed to be the aspiration, designers design for it - fashion is designed around notions of surface over substance - 'simply by wearing these clothes, cool is conferred', 'By having this body shape, fashionability is acheived'. One doesn't have to approve to recognise the essential principal at work is 'if you don't meet these criteria, then you're not attactive/ desirable; in short, you're not 'in''. Very few people, even fashion disasters like me, aspire to be undesirable...
good old M and S seem to have finally caught up and have got some nice things in sensible sizes. My sister shops in America, has gorgeous clothes and make me sick when she tells me what she paid. I get nice classic things from a mail order catalogue firm called Nightingales. I was born without chic, but have just bought a nice green trouser suit from them that makes even me look presentable
Redoute Catologue is good, they go up to size 30 Wallis, Per Una at M&S, H&M and surprisingly George at Asda I have a similar problem I'm no longer the 5'10'' size 10 Rock Chick I once was I'm more size 14/16 Rock Hen I find you have to shop around , buy plain understated stuff as a sort of blank canvas then glam it up with great jewellery, i.e. spend more on your accessories than your clothes!