If clothing designers say their outfits look best while jumping off a bridge, do we do that too?

[slemslempike]

I found this site linked through Hoyden About Town.

Two further things I hated are:

1. "Our bras are designed to position the breasts halfway between the shoulder and the elbow, which is what clothing designers intended."

Yes. Definitely the solution to this problem of clothes not fitting is for bodies to fit the whims of the designers, not to encourage designers to recognise that there is no one body size and shape and maybe there could be a broader range of fits and styles.

2. "You cannot slouch in our bras."

I DO NOT WANT CLOTHES IN WHICH I CANNOT SLOUCH. I like slouching. I know it's not "attractive", (and probably makes clothing designers really mad) but that doesn't say "comfort" to me, it says "constricting".


Our windows are in. But I don't have a curtain rail anymore, something to do with the supports being too brittle. Which is fine, we can get a new one. But I don't know how to put it up and I'm worried I'll do it wrong and it will all break.

Comments

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I don't think I want my breasts to be halfway along my humerus. I think it would look rather peculiar, personally. Are leg o' mutton sleeves back, or something?

[simply-fly-away.livejournal.com]

I've just spent the last couple of minutes in front of the mirror trying to decide if my breasts are half-way between my shoulders and my elbows, and have decided that they are not, and if they were that it would look a little odd.

[morganmuffle]

DO NOT WANT CLOTHES IN WHICH I CANNOT SLOUCH.

And therein lies my problem with the diea of corsets HOWEVER pretty they may be.

[pescana.livejournal.com]

Do you remember oh, probably about ten years back when some designers used transvestites instead of women as catwalk models because the clothes fell better on their bodies? How did they fail to realize this made it even more obvious that they weren't designing clothes for women?

I pick comfort every time. Although I do think my breasts are somewhere between my shoulder and elbow - closer to the elbow, but I am not young and do not have perky breasts. Haven't, really, since I was about seventeen.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

That looks remarkably like an old-fashoned 'longline' bra, which I had a brief run-in with during the unenlightened 1980s. Though at least back then no one was telling me that clothing designers had the right to tell me where my breasts should be.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I hear the word “toxins” and reach for my gun.

Clothes designers/manufacturers do have to choose a position for the "bust point" of their basic fit, just as they choose a torso length, but this is not universal and will depend on who the garment is designed for - Topshop will use a higher point than M&S Classic Collection. But it's a silly thing to advertise a bra with, given that it is of considerably less issue to non-standard women buying clothes (only very fitted clothes) than breast size itself. The bra advert I have hated most was one in Debenhams that said a properly fitted bra increased the look of cup size as much as plastic surgery. So much Wrong!

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

Oh. Good. Grief! Everything you said.

In other news, I'm glad your windows are in, but that's a pain about the rail. If it's just the supports that are brittle, if you unscrew them carefully you might be able to re-use the rawl plugs that are already in the wall because those are the tricky bits. Was the curtain rail a standard track, or a fancy pole? If it was a standard track you can probably get another either the same size or an adjustable one with the same size supports.

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

2. "You cannot slouch in our bras."

Thank you. No. One of the happiest days of my life was the day I discovered slouch fit jeans. I feal strongly that there should be a slouch fit everything.