oh i thought they were designed to like give your body more volume =P
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/alwaysontime6/littlewhitedress.jpg ^this kind of shape
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I really wish dresses cut like that wouldn't invariably look like a potato sack on me. They look so chic and comfy :(
― quincie, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
same here. i suspect its a chest size prob.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
YES that is clearly why i can wear them horray for the 1 dress that looks good on the flat of chest
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
To learn more about vanity sizing, take a tape measure and your favorite jeans and measure the waist and compare to the stated size.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ignorance in this matter is preferred
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i don't want to get even more depressed
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
tho truth is that i do measure my waist. b/c it is for me the best indicator of weight gain reality and when to do something abt it...
p.s. let us pls not start a diiet thread on i love style unless it is a thread abt an all-lobster diet and what restaurants have cute bibs
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yes plz no diet threads
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Or unless it's the "Popular" diet, in which the lunch kit consists of a carrot stick and a cigarette -- and you vomit up the carrot stick.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Pass the lighter, please.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the thing is, jeans don't sit on my waist. the waist is the narrowest part, by definition, right? even the highest cut jeans go just about to my belly button and then the waist is 2-3 inches above that.
but it still pisses me off that a.p.c. makes only up to a 30 waist (by shasta's math, a 28 to vanity sizers)
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean that's kind of ridiculous right?
i get 34 in waist & they are down around my hips by around a weeks worth of wears
but that is my STYLE
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, bell, I agree it seems ridic. I've never even tried on APC jeans but I don't think a Levi's 12 is going to translate so well. (I did try Uniqlo once but since I couldn't even fit into their 14 and I think that was their largest size, uh fuck 'em).
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
lol srsly there's like nothing that's an actual size 30 or size 10 or whatever, it's either vanity sizing or under-sizing or patterned all wrong. so weird. i tend to these days just hold things against my body and guess. sometimes an 8, sometimes a 12 who freakin knows
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
uniqlo jeans fit so weirdly on me - extremely low-riding, like they only went about 2/3 of the way up my ass.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't care about the number (witness my posting my jeans size here), I just think it seems extreme for me not to fit into any of the available sizes. Like, I am not a very big person, all things considered? How can I be too big for your line of clothing? Ditto the 30-inch waist etc.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
laurel, aren't uniqlo clothes UK sized? which means a 14 is a US 10...
i think i'm going to take the J brand jeans back, maybe think about tracing them and trying to find a tailor that will make something similar but that fully covers my butt.
― colette, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know if it's necessarily vanity sizing as just.. resetting the median of the range according to the size of the average customer. this blog has some thoughts on it..
― daria-g, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I love you and I am going to read that entire series, just not tonight.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
that blog is 100% wrong btw. trust me.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
whatevs i am down for the vanity sizing trend please keep it up so i can keep that ass fat
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
where does one get apc jeans anyway (in loldon)
― warmsherry, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Any of you know about the APC New Cure/Very Tight Jeans thing? I'm a 30.5 waist (muscle, big ass, package sticks out), and I decided on a 31 waist since I'm a 31 in other "skinny" fits. Good idea? I read those jean dork messageboards and they always say to size down ... though these jeans I'm buying don't happen to be raw denim.
Anyone know?
― burt_stanton, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
package sticks out
ha.
― ENBB, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
why dont you go to the apc store and try em on burt_stanton
― max, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the new stuff on the website that sells out in a day, and the store in SoHo is always sold out of my size range. I can always just return 'em.
Here's some Levis 514s I sold last year. If the jeans are any tighter it looks like I shoved a grapefruit down the front and I'm wearing some kind-of ass implant like in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/mzing12/Picture025.jpg
― burt_stanton, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
lol burt
― J0rdan S., Friday, 25 July 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
<3
I'm wearing APC's size 31 right now and I'm def not skinny
― baaderonixx, Friday, 25 July 2008 07:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm about to fit into my skinny jeans when i do, i'm going to post pictures and you're all going to love them
― Surmounter, Friday, 25 July 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
;]
― Surmounter, Friday, 25 July 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i just love how much she cares
http://www.dlisted.com/node/27616/images/spl43131_005.jpg
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
do those other paparazzi really think they're gonna be able to sell photos of her back?
― phil-two, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe if it was j.lo or francois sagat
― phil-two, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
those are quite unflattering, btw.
― lauren, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
no but they best is when she rolls them up!
http://www.dlisted.com/node/27631/images/katiepark6.jpg
so mom
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've been kinda weirded out by seeing those photos and thinking the pegged cuffs look nice -- a thought I don't want to follow to its logical conclusion or anything.
― nabisco, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
P.S. in response to this picture from Colette way upthread --
http://bp2.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R_zkRGQgcUI/AAAAAAAADPE/WNXvMaAu_sI/s1600-h/BluJ1web.jpg
Am I the only one who intensely dislikes this habit with women's jeans to have the hem swallow the shoe entirely? It bugs me even without total swallowing, like when jeans are worn with heels and the back hem drops almost to where the heel meets the ground.
― nabisco, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
so basically, you do not like a trouser cut/fit.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i think on the right person it is very elongating/slimming, though i do not like too much flare.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't care for it on jeans, especially when the jeans fit up top not in a trousery way, but in a low/tight regular-jeans way. But maybe I just associate it too much with over-made-up women standing outside downtown bars on Saturday nights, or whatever.
― nabisco, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i agree, if you have a trouser leg, you should have a more normal waist. honestly, i don't think anyone should be wearing the low low waist muffin top butt crack thong showing shit, and that's not just bc i can't pull it off.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a very fashionista look, and therefore much copied by the weekend crowd. Unfort for the weekenders, the original fashion-plate wearers are more like the woman who crowed about being too small for the clothes at Jil Sander: People who think a 6 is time to go on a diet.
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the look -- and the bag in that photo!
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't like when the whole show is swallowed very much either but I love wide-leg trouser style jeans in general. I want that bag soooo much.
I am so confused by Katies jeans. Is this going to become a thing? I don't know if I'm ok with that.
― ENBB, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i actually like a tight pant that swallows a lot of the shoe. is that outlandish?
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link