If You're Gonna Wear the Style...

I just got back from the store. As I was wandering around, I saw two women in their 20s (I think) walking ahead of me. Each one seemed to be about 20 pounds overweight. No problem there - to be 20 pounds overweight is to be a helluva lot healthier than being 20 pounds underweight.

But they had each stuffed themselves into those low-top, skinny jeans, such that their 20 pounds of overweight puffed over the tops of their jeans like a muffin top (hence that name for this phenomena) and was really unattractive.

Had they been wearing reasonably sized jeans, their extra weight would not have been noticeable at all, probably. But because they were wearing the day's fashion - those low-top jeans to show off the belly button (not an item I've ever found sexy, by the way) they probably looked heavier than they were. And although they were wearing shirts tucked into their jeans so we didn't have to see their bellybuttons, they were the "fitted" shirts that only served to accentuate the muffin top.

So I wondered about them for the rest of the day. (Not that they were the only "muffin tops" I've ever seen - it's so prevalent that a term has been invented to cover them). Were these two girls so comfortable in their own skins that they didn't mind walking around like muffin tops? Or did they honestly think they actually looked good because they were wearing the latest fashions?

I've often wondered that, when I see people walking around in clothing so unsuitable or foolish looking, from the teenage boys walking around with one hand clutching the tops of their jeans so their pants don't fall off, to girls wearing low top jeans to show off their belly buttons in a fashion designed for a flat belly...only they don't have a flat belly. Far from it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that every woman must weight exactly the right amount so that she can stuff herself into low top jeans and follow the current fashion.

I'm saying that fashions for the last several decades have been geared solely toward the slender - even skeletal - woman, and they just don't look good on those who have healthy curves.

Instead of trying to wear skinny fashions when you aren't skinny, wear decent fitting clothes that make you look good no matter how much you weigh!

And don't try to starve yourself down to a skeletal size so that you can fit into those unrealistic fashion designs.

There's no reason for full-figured women to be ashamed of their curves or not desire to flaunt them (if you're the flaunting kind!) - just wear the clothing that accentuates those curves, doesnt' bunch them up artificially (as in what happens when someone tries to squeeze into pants too tight for them).