Whats your size/challenge?

[PinkDaisy]

Wow... it's so nice to see people talking about similar problems. Sometimes I feel so alone.

Anyway, I am 20 years old, 5'7, and I wear a size 24 right now (in the process of losing weight). I have the most problem finding pants that actually look nice and fit me right. Everywhere I go to find pants for people my size... they all are "super low rise". Uh... no thanks. I do most of my shirt shopping at Torrid (oh, how I love Torrid) and I have gotten most of my pants at Avenue. I've always been really into fashion, and it's really upsetting to see all the super cute clothes in the junior section, then you head over to the plus size section and there's nothing but tent-like tee's with the ugliest prints. I went to Target a few days ago and the clothes in the Junior section were soooo cute! I went to the plus size section, and I swear there was like 4 different shirts and a few pairs of pants. It's SOOO not fair!

[peachsorbet]

PinkDaisy:

I find the worst part is not just that all that's available are ugly clothes, it's that the ugly clothes usually cost an arm and a leg. I don't want to get into conspiracy theories but it's as if we're being punished for not being the "right" size.

[sam07]

Nothing ever fits me either-i haven't had a pair of jeans in years. I am 5'6" and weigh( today)140. I have no waist and I have had 5 kids so my weight is in my middle. Everything that fits my bird legs and thuttock( my 15 year olds name for my buttless thigh area) won't button. A few years ago i went to gap to try on jeans -i picked up size 10 and maybe an 8. I walked out to look in the mirror and the sales girl goes "oh, you need a different cut and size, i'll get a pair". They fit, however, women who have had 5 kids should NEVER try low rise. Extra flesh overhang is gross. Also for added fun i wear a 36/38 aa bra. You all can now laugh at my sad shape!

[mjane79]

I'm a size 9. I have a small waist and a big round butt so it's impossible to find jeans that fit properly. They're always either too big in the waist or too small in the booty. Even J-lo jeans aren't quite right.

I have the same problem. I'm not big and while I never view myself as that curvy, apparently I am curvier than most my size. I normally wear a size 6 but sometimes have to go up a size to fit my round butt into jeans and pants as well as my, not fat, but let's say my thighs and calves have much larger muscles, proportionally, than my arms do . And button up tops? Forget it...my arms, waist and ribcage are fairly small but I wear a 34C so I can never find button up tops that fit my chest and the rest of me correctly. I think companies just don't make clothes for people with any curves, no matter what size you wear. They think all peoples are model-skinny. I have tried on many pairs of jeans that just don't fit over my butt or thighs. I am happy with my body and happy with my curves, I don't mind that my thighs are bigger than "average" since I work out and they are muscled.

If anyone has any suggestions on good jeans for people with smaller waists/rounder butts, please let us know!

Melissa

[lilravenclawgirl]

I'm almost 19, 5'6" and I'm between size 16 and 18 (but mostly 18)

My challenge is finding something that fits in legs, waist, and hips.  I'm pretty big in all three places, but I'm not proportioned for the jeans I wear.  They're usually always loose in the legs, but sometimes they are tight everywhere else, particularly in the waist.  Hips are a problem in some jeans.  And they don't make half sizes wear I live, so, an 18 can be huge, and a 16 can sufficate me! 

[dntysgrplm]

Gosh do I ever sympathize with ya'll.  I too have a freakishly weird shape.  I am a 18 pants and I have NO ASS.  Now the fat above my ass is pleantiful so all these mega lovely low slung pants are just UBER HAWT on. NOT.  I end up hiking my pants up all day.  Cute.  Then, I have (as I may have mentioned before) massive shnoobs.  I'm a 42G across the chest. So I need like a 22/24 shirt or a 2 or 3x.   My legs and arms are spindley and my middle is definately an apple.  I feel like one of the fruit of the loom mascots.

My god, we're the exact same person.  I'm 5'10" and after gaining fourty pounds with my last pregnancy, I'm now a size 18-22 pants with NO ASS at all.  Also size 42G breasts with very broad shoulders.  I go back and forth between thinking I'm an inverted triangle shape and a rectangle shape.  So yeah, I can't wear shirts with buttons or sweaters with buttons, or bathing suits, or tank tops, or dresses, or really anything.  I've found that my best option is jeans that fit my non-existant hips, leave them unbutton, wear a belt with a longish shirt and a one-button blazer.  I can't even adjust my dress-form to my measurements.  Oh well, enough of my whining.  One day I'll get a breast reduction and ass implants. 

[teapotdnky]

thuttock( my 15 year olds name for my buttless thigh area) won't button.

Priceless. My husband is going to love using that word. 

[miss brianne]

If anyone has any suggestions on good jeans for people with smaller waists/rounder butts, please let us know!

Melissa

I don't know if this is just a canada thing but my sister buys lee jeans at marks work wearhouse. They have a special kind that have a higher waist and more butt room (somehow she got a bum and I didnt, I am just a little bitter).
Hope that helps!. I know she hated buying pants because they would gape around her waist and be too tight on her bum. But she loves these jeans.

[starlette13]

I work at american eagle and usually people with that problem like the stretch super low rise best - it's our middle rise. the highest rise (low rise) doesn't fit them... i understand the whole 5 kids thing, but look at it this way - how often do you wear a shirt short enough that it will show your midsection, even WEARING jeans that low? if the jeans look great, they look great.

if you try and cover your midsection up, it doesn't look good. best to wear a lower rise and a structured shirt overtop, i promise.

[Effylicious]

I work at american eagle and usually people with that problem like the stretch super low rise best - it's our middle rise. the highest rise (low rise) doesn't fit them... i understand the whole 5 kids thing, but look at it this way - how often do you wear a shirt short enough that it will show your midsection, even WEARING jeans that low? if the jeans look great, they look great.

if you try and cover your midsection up, it doesn't look good. best to wear a lower rise and a structured shirt overtop, i promise.

Too much belly. Overflow. It's ugly, and horrible. Belly is my big big problem, I have PCOS. D=