Worst of Social Justice

[Shane for Wax]

[chitoryu12]

^Pretty damn big.  I mean, I've seen some huge shirts and britches in the days when I was working retail.

That's actually one of the things that really gets me about people like her, like the woman a while back who was quoted complaining that thin privilege is not needing a custom bathtub in your vacation home or not being able to fit in showers and baths made for "normal people": they admit that they're so large that they can barely function in society, but their response to suffering from an extremely bad health problem that requires immediate attention to avoid them dying before their time is to complain that society isn't built around their needs due to some kind of bigotry.

[Sleepy]

[snip - pants picture]

This is exactly what I was talking about. I've got pants ranging from size 0 to 7. Even two pairs of pants of the same brand and size will often fit differently.

[mellenORL]

Macy's made a corporate decision years ago to never go down that bullshit ego-tease marketing strategy of fake smallness on their size numbers. You sure don't ever have to buy their stuff, but if you are curious what your true, original standard clothing sizes are, try on clothes and hats and gloves there sometime. Won't cost you a nickel to try, and they still have a rep for treating people nicely, unless you go there dressed in raggedy jeans and a t-shirt, so yeah, douchebags, but sorta honest douchebags, at least. Size 0 - zero - did not exist back in the day. If you were really that tiny, that was a matter of getting your store bought clothes altered, which the nicer/pricier department stores used to do while you waited, if just a simple seam intake, or they'd call the next day or two when your selections were ready in the....(drumroll) Alterations Department. Free.

[Shane for Wax]

Yeah. It's why I'm generally found buying where sizes make sense (men's section) even tho I'm short so women's sizes would be better but wow I hate trying stuff on for every single pair of pants.

[SpaceProg]

I have no idea what size I'd wear in womens.  How is that even calculated?  Man, that stuff is confusing.  I'd much rather go by inches-around/long when it comes to pants.

[mellenORL]

Yeah. It's why I'm generally found buying where sizes make sense (men's section) even tho I'm short so women's sizes would be better but wow I hate trying stuff on for every single pair of pants.

Amen to that. I find it so annoying that I only buy the same brand/style number pants and jeans that I know fit me nicely, and have remained standard. Dickies, basically, and they do make women's cut clothes. I actually buy 'em online, it's so reliable.

I have no idea what size I'd wear in womens.  How is that even calculated?  Man, that stuff is confusing.  I'd much rather go by inches-around/long when it comes to pants.

Go to Macy's then. Bring me along. I want to videocam it~!

[Flying Mint Bunny!]

I've never really had problems with the typical high street chains, I find they aren't more than a size out.

Independent shops can have incredibly fucked up sizing though, I remember trying on jeans that were supposedly a size 10, but they were so tiny I couldn't even pull them up my thighs.

[Shane for Wax]

There's no regulation so yeah.

[MadCatTLX]

Do we need a thread about clothing bitching now? Well, I might as well have a go.

I'm a fairly large guy, not just in a sense of being fat ( I am a bit) but generally tall and wide. I think even if I lost all my weight I might only be able to get down to an XXL shirt. As it is now I wear a 5-6X shirt. This makes getting shirts of any kind impossible anywhere other than certain stores. T-shirts other than plain one color shirts are pretty non existent. I need a jacket for winter but don't know where I'll get one.

Pants on the other hand are easy. 44 inch waist pants are common, unfortunately belts for that size are not. Which I don't understand at all, since pants sizes in most stores go up to at least mid 50s, but belts usually stop at 40 or 42. Although length is occasionally an issue with the bottom of the pant legs going under my foot it's not a problem if I'm wearing my combat boots, which is what I normally wear.

Hats that fit my head are also a bitch to find, and there's not shit I can do about that. It doesn't help that I'm going bald at 19 and consequently have started wearing hats more often. Hell, the white tag in my mesh fedora is already stained yellow and it's a little over a year old.

Gloves can be somewhat hard depending on how much of a selection there is or if it's a one size fits most thing. I wear a XXL glove, which is easy enough to find usually provided the gloves exist in multiple sizes.

[Witchyjoshy]

I don't know if it's because the pants stretch or shrink, but I'll have a size 38 that slides down my hips without a belt, and a size 40 that feels like it's choking my waist.

I don't have to worry about finding good looking t-shirts and stuff, though.  Turns out, they plan for guys with beer guts.

[chitoryu12]

I think my pants are a size 36 waist now? I have some 34s that still fit, probably from constant wear stretching them out.

[JohnE]

I'm sort of an awkward in-between size. I big enough (mostly because I'm tall) that most pants in normal stores are too small, but I'm small enough (around) that most pants in big and tall shops are too big.

Now that actually type that, it sounds like bragging. *hides*

[chitoryu12]

I'm not even fat. I'm just tall.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

o okay