#45

Everything I wear is reasonably comfortable, though as a tall man I could do with an extra inch or so on the average t-shirt/shirt, plus most jeans etc only come to a 34" leg. Relatively speaking though, it’s fairly easy to find clothes that fit.

#46

I had a little rant about this in the ask women anything thread earlier.

I am not the same height or proportions as an average man. There are definitely garments that could work as unisex - for example, skirt styles that only need to be close fitting around the waist. However when you see something labelled as unisex it’s never a fucking skirt, is it. It’s a pair of jeans that I wouldn’t be able to walk in or a top that would look like a tent on me while also somehow squashing my (not even particularly large) tits.

#47

I don’t understand why I have it so easy with clothes, despite my height. I’m like a medium in almost everything, and seemingly 32L in jeans. Do all my clothes just fit really badly and I haven’t noticed?

#48

Gap goes up to 36" #protip

#49

You’re about my height aren’t you? (6’4 or thereabouts?) I find that jeans are okayish these days because you can get away with them sitting at ankle height. Wasn’t so great in the 90s.

Also, I have it easy as a straight cis man (especially one in his early 40s) as there’s zero pressure for me to look good in my clothes.

#50

glad it’s easier to get men’s jeans in soft and stretch denim nowadays, can’t cope with rough denim on my legs

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#51

I remember when I was a little kid of about 4 or so I got bought some jeans that with the combo of small size + thick rough denim, I couldn’t bend my legs in

#52

Think bras are the only things that give me red marks.

I wear dresses mostly now though. Trousers get on my nerves and are cold (jumpsuits aside) obvs.

#53

Yeah, exactly right - seems like lots of people my height struggle and I (think) I’m fine. My biggest issue is people buying me clothes in XL size and them being way bigger/baggier than I would ever want :grimacing:

#54

Bras, tights, pants, socks. I think pants and socks are fairly unavoidable as they need to stay up. Tights I don’t enjoy wearing but have to with dresses to stop my legs getting cold. Bras are obviously evil but as I discovered during lockdown, I actually don’t like not wearing a bra as much as I thought I did.

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#56

Speaking of pants, does anyone else find it really hard to find pants that don’t end up going up your bum crack and giving you a wedgie?

I saw an Instagram advert for Monki underwear recently and in the video one of the models was briefly shown rearranging her pants in a manner that suggested that she was experiencing the problem I described above. Not a great advertisement for the product!

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#57

Weirdly I’ve had luck with Sainsbury’s own brand

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#58

I just wear massive pants now. I got them for after a c-section and I can’t go back. They’re right up to my belly button and they do not move.

#59

I wear Asda pants. Seem fine…

#60

@avocado
Pls join the DiS sewing community of…er…2 of us :joy:

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#61

See I want no waistline and baggy dresses!!
I want shapeless. I don’t want something to be “flattering”
God I hate that word so much

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#62

Always find you and @froglet really inspiring and actually the reason I want to try! I’m always finding ideas of things I’d like, especially in certain Japanese styles that I’ve loved since I was a teenager and could theoretically make myself, seeing as its hard to get the items from Japan and they’d never fit even if I did, and that I would want to adjust them to suit me. I just don’t know where to start and worry about spending loads on a sewing machine and fabric and then getting fed up and giving up

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#64

My usual pants are pretty massive haha. It would be nice to wear more stylish ones that have enough coverage round the back, because I don’t need them to come up to my belly button, but none of the nicer ones cover enough of my arse to prevent wedgies, even the ones that look like they’re not supposed to be wedgie-inducing!

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#65

Aah no no, I like baggy dresses, like smock dresses, or shirt dresses, it’s the tighter dresses you get that have no waist line that annoy me.

#66

Do we have a specific sewing thread? Should there be one?

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