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Growing Out of Our Clothes
The young lady I share an office with held up the newspaper. Do you believe that they put this on the front cover? There, among a collage of photographs, was a chubby girl with her belly hanging out.
She didn t expect my answer: You did it. Not me.
I did it?
Yes. You and your ilk. I ve seen you wear those hip-hugging pants and oh-too-short tops. You spend half of your day pulling at the bottom of your shirt trying to cover your belly It s not even your belly that you are trying to cover. It s the area below your belly!
Yeh, but I m not fat, she retorted.
No, but your clothes don t fit.
When you bend over and the world can see your underwear, your clothes don t fit. Or you re a plumber.
My clothes do fit. It s the style
and that s my point. It is the style, and you and your cronies have accepted it and made it okay for people not to fit in their clothes. It doesn t matter if you re fat or skinny you are all wearing clothes that don t fit.
It s not that I m prudish, far from it. Show some skin; I like skin. Just wear clothes that fit.
You look poor.
Comments
Jen said:
I am with you Jim. I also do not get all these people walking around HOLDING their pants up because they are 57392088 sizes too big. And the wearing of the underwear so that everyone can see them. What IS that?
*annoyed*
Posted on Dec 27, 2005 12:34 PM
Tricia said:
Why is it that young women today are wearing clothes too small and young men are wearing clothes that are wayyyy too big??
Posted on Dec 27, 2005 02:57 PM
BWG said:
I've often wondered why girls today not only wear those midi shirts, but think nothing of allowing belly fat to hang out. When I was growing up, women would have been mortified to allow flab to be seen.
But then, at that time, all the girls shoehorned themselves into jeans that were way too tight, much to the delight of most males within ten feet.
It's axiomatic that kids dress the way they do to annoy the previous generations.
Much as we did.
Posted on Dec 27, 2005 07:52 PM
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