Getting a suit

[spatts]

I have never been able to wear Levi's because my thighs and waist are the same measurement. I can wear my husbands baggy Silvertabs, but they stopped making them, and I do look rather frumpy in them (I just call that comfortable, but you know).

The Gap used to make a pair of jeans called "reverse fit," and I would by them 3-4 pair at a time in case they ran out. It was basically 1 size smaller in the waist than the legs. So if you bought an 8, it had a size 8 waist and size 10 legs...those were PERFECT. Wouldn't you know, they pulled them off the shelves.

(sigh)

 

[FatRat]

Can you buy 501 jeans. I find that if I wear a pair that is fitted to my waist I can barely squeeze my legs into them... and then they are tight tight tight.

Nope, they get to just about knee level.

And who has been stuck in a shirt (seems to happen with short sleeve ones most) in the changing rooms of a shop and had to walk out and get two assistants to help pull it off your back and arms, only for it to turn inside-out over your head and make it even tighter...?

I don’t know, when it says XL you just go for it cos you really want it to fit, then there is no going back…

 

[IronLion]

fat guy in a little coat syndrome...I get it all the time

 

[Backlash]

Re: Re: Getting a suit

I heard that over here clothes stores use a six inch differential between waist and chest for suits. A tailor told me thats been the standard in the UK for a very long time.

I think a 6 inch differential is average over here in the US also, except the stomach is 6 inches bigger than the waist...