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From: jayt@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jay T McCanta)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The "Weight" Problem
Message-ID: <671@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 12:33:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 12:33:56 1985
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA
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> 
> It's been my experience that most women's clothing, especially
> "designer" or "good" clothing, <I do NOT equate the two, I'm using
> two different adjectives here> is built for the size seven model,
> and size 12 (about which I am informed) is
> build for someone with a waist the size of Mount Olympus, since there
> is bloody well NO scaling (it's called "fitting" for some silly reason)
> to different *relative* sizes of larger/smaller women.  Due to the lack
> of change of pattern/(in a shoe it would be called "last") the person
> in size 12 clothing LOOKS FAT, regardless of whether she is fat, slightly
> pudgy, or actually skinny (relative to the "best" body weight).
> 

I am a 5'4" male and let me tell you how many fashions simply don't look good 
on short men.  I have always wanted a waist-length ski jacket, but they make
me look an extra 20 lbs. heavier (and on short folk, it is a lot).  The same
is true for a double breasted overcoat and too many other clothes to name.

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