I was excited for an instant when my eyes fixed on the tub in tubular shape, being more tub shaped than hour glass myself. Then I realised it was tubular as in straight up and down. The time when apple shapes are finally given their moment in the sun cannot come fast enough for me. #bodyshapes
Maybe we should just aspire to not describing ourselves using inanimate objects and fruits as descriptors. (i.e. apple, pear, hourglass, tubes, inverted triangles etc, etc.)
@Ulookinatmyjunk, JOC: we're not referring to "you" as that, just your silouette. I never heard of inverted triangle, was just always easier to say "V" shape.
not trying to start an argument, but its hard to paint a mental picture without some description like this. I have used it only for convenience and never for offense. #bodyshapes
@10pninjas: A body is a body. All of the descriptors sort of give an impression that one may be better than another and that's simply not true. It's a body. Bodies are different for myriad reasons: genetics, exercise and eating habits etc. I think we should probably grow beyond this. If you defy labels than they really won't apply. And the inverted triangle part was a joke. #bodyshapes
Yeah, tell me something I don't know. I find this out anew every time I try to shop for clothes and can only find pants that fit over my rear if I can stuff my four-year-old child into the waistband with me. #bodyshapes
@redqueenmeg: both Gap and Ann Taylor have a 'curvy' fit that helps with that. But, yes, I feel like enlightening someone to the fact that I have hips and a waist and that they are not the same size. #bodyshapes
@banana_grabber: I'll check Gap again after I'm no longer pregnant, but every time I've tried there before, since about 1992, I've found the same waistband problem. :D #bodyshapes
@redqueenmeg: It's a relatively new line. And I just recently got a pair of wide-leg trouser jeans at Goodwill made by Banana Republic that fit like a dream, so you might try there (BR) as well. #bodyshapes
I'm pretty shocked that the participants wanted 31" hips. I just checked the both the J Crew and Oasis (UK high street brand) charts and the smallest they carry is 35". 31" is literally children's sizes.
I'm not sure these numbers mean anything. If you don't actually know how small 31" hips are, the fact that you want them doesn't necessarily mean anything.
The whole hourglass thing is kind of meaningless unless people are using a tape measure on actual people. Often girls who are pear shaped or top heavy are described as hourglass because it is used to mean attractive and curvy.
Well, as a member of team-tube, I can say that many clothing lines are NOT designed for our body type. Good luck finding a pair of pants that is not too baggy on your small hips while making your waist-that-is-the-same-measurement... look large. And any style of dress that's supposed to be cut flowy and fall straight down? I look like a walking rectangle. Awesome. #bodyshapes
@bluetrain84: Ha! See to me, as a member of team hourglass, it seems the complete opposite!
Skirts that if large enough to fit nicely around my hips, have a good 4 inch gap at the waist that just kind of hangs there and looks like crap if I tuck a shirt into it...
Grass is greener, I guess, or we're at extremes of some in-between average that clothes are made in? #bodyshapes
@bluetrain84: @formergr: As someone sort of in between, it seems clothes from the rack will rarely fit properly--no matter the shape of one's body. #bodyshapes
@bluetrain84: ugh. yes. There are 2 brands of jeans that don't do that too me, and all of the others give me muffin top hanging over the top while still managing to be baggy on my butt and hips. HOW?!
And all the empire waisted stuff.... to make matters worse, I have large-ish boobs to go with the rest of me being straight with no curves, so it all hangs like 5 inches away from my actual stomach, making me look pregnant. Not "fat" but actually pregnant. :( #bodyshapes
@mrsdracomalfoy: Are we the same person?? I only own jeans from Express, nowhere else, and empire-waisted shirts/tunics are the bane of my existence. My sister and I call ourselves pancake people because we may look thin from the side, but look like a giant rectangle from the front. #bodyshapes
so, basically, we continue to want to look like we somehow avoided puberty?
The language used above---"aspire" is funny...really, aspiring to a body shape is an exercise in futility. You can gain/lose weight but you are going to have the body type you were destined to have, just with larger or smaller measurements. Aspiration is useless. #bodyshapes
@lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black: "Aspiration is useless." I picture a deadpan German nihlist putting this on a t-shirt and sitting in stone-faced judgment of others and, madamoiselle, it is a thing of beauty. I also dream of painting this phrase in my child's nursery in fanciful, mural-style writing.
(On a serious note: This. Absolutely.) #bodyshapes
@lucystrawberry: Women who wear under a C cup totes avoided puperty. They aren't real women. If a woman is thin, she doesn't look like a woman!
/extreme sarcasm. #bodyshapes
@lucy: You really want to go there and tell some of us that we look like we "avoided puberty"? Okay, then.
And I think rixatrix may have been on to something when she wondered what the effect of women being increasingly involved in athletics might have on our shapes. I'd love to be curvy and athletic, but when I am working out a lot, or playing sports, I get thin, flatter and strong, and I don't think it's a bad thing. No, you can't completely change your body type, but to say that exercising just makes whatever proportions you have larger or smaller isn't completely accurate. #bodyshapes
@femme-bot: gak. Open mouth, insert foot. I am sorry, I sounded like a real jerk above. Thanks for calling me on it. I will think more carefully next time before I write anything like that. #bodyshapes
That drawing is like a proto-photoshop of horrors. Also why does that corset thing have crotch-garters? Is that like, a menstrual corset or something? #bodyshapes
I was watching TV the other day, and a Victoria's Secret commercial came on, and I realized that the ideal shape for woman nowadays can best be described as "bipedal weasel with hair extensions." #bodyshapes
well this explains the modern fit of most clothing. however there is no way my body would ever, ever look like some sort of cylinder. sorry, hourglass haters. even when I gain or lose weight it still keeps the same shape. is this a curse now? should I be hating my body even more?? wait! I need to find the latest Cosmo! #bodyshapes
@andromache: I'm an hourglass too. And man, when you put on weight evenly, you carry it well, you know what I mean? I wouldn't give it up for the world, although my hourglass could use a little more uptop. #bodyshapes
@andromache: I actually get more aggressively hourglassy when I'm thinner, which is why the modern usage of the word "curvy" confuses me. So I guess I'm more tubular when I'm heavier, but still not to the extent that seems to be in vogue.
(Somehow I think the people who took this survey would not appreciate me pointing out that I'm most tubular when I'm heavier. They'd be picking bits of brain off the walls for weeks.) #bodyshapes
@bluewine: THIS! I was complaining to my boyfriend (who loves everything about my body) one day about how all clothes seem designed to hide women's body shapes, and he said, "So you mean to say, you look best naked? I can live with that." As fun as that would be, it is annoying having to hit 10 different stores to put together ONE flattering outfit. #bodyshapes
@bluewine: Very true! I like my hour glass shape...until it is time to go shopping. The brand Theory alone has thrown me in to a drinking binge. #bodyshapes
@bluewine: jeans especially seem to neglect this. either we have to go mom jeans so we can cover our ass or we're destined to be pulling our cool skinny jeans over our ass crack all evening. #bodyshapes
@lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black: The Gap is fantastic for jeans. They're one of the few stores where I can find size 6-curvy-long. For some reason, every other designer thinks long legs = flat ass. Puh-LEEZE. Kill me if that ever happens. I love my booty. #bodyshapes
@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Somewhat low rise jeans I like because I'm short and high rise jeans can double as a second bra band, but super low rise jeans manage to give me muffin top and show ass crack even when I'm thin enought that you can see pelvic bone. They're just not cut to accomodate curvy hips at all.
(Even less so in my case since I have curvy hips but not much of an ass to hold them up - belts are a necessity.) #bodyshapes
@CassandraSays: Where did I read that they're actually designing the clothes for more tubular figures now (which is why I have four sizes of jeans in my closet and never ever throw them out)?
Did I read that here, or was that in one of Jenna's posts?
"high rise jeans can double as a second bra band"
Heh. Sounds like something that's required for dance class but that, as usual, I forgot to bring. #bodyshapes
@bluewine: oh god, so much WORD. I'm an hourglass and a petite, so basically clothing designed for middle aged ladies is all that truly fits me without alteration. Le sigh.
@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Heh. I figured that would be the case for most people. But, I mean, it makes sense right? Men like timepiece-shaped bodies because it reflects that a woman is not only fertile, but punctual, and will have your dinner on the table on time. It's evolution, really. #bodyshapes
@LaComtesse: I have been working out for months in the hopes of being shaped like a sundial by the time swimsuit season comes around in 2010. #bodyshapes
@morninggloria: Don't be silly. Lots of guys like stopwatch shaped women: high school athletic coaches, for example, or anal retentive parents training their kids for the SAT, or frat boys trying to break Guiness Book world records. #bodyshapes
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not trying to start an argument, but its hard to paint a mental picture without some description like this. I have used it only for convenience and never for offense. #bodyshapes
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I'm not sure these numbers mean anything. If you don't actually know how small 31" hips are, the fact that you want them doesn't necessarily mean anything.
The whole hourglass thing is kind of meaningless unless people are using a tape measure on actual people. Often girls who are pear shaped or top heavy are described as hourglass because it is used to mean attractive and curvy.
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I am also wearing sexy patterned tights and high heels and managed to pull my uncontrolable hair into a purty cascade.
I got a couple good looks on the subway.
That's all I got. #bodyshapes
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Skirts that if large enough to fit nicely around my hips, have a good 4 inch gap at the waist that just kind of hangs there and looks like crap if I tuck a shirt into it...
Grass is greener, I guess, or we're at extremes of some in-between average that clothes are made in? #bodyshapes
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And all the empire waisted stuff.... to make matters worse, I have large-ish boobs to go with the rest of me being straight with no curves, so it all hangs like 5 inches away from my actual stomach, making me look pregnant. Not "fat" but actually pregnant. :( #bodyshapes
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The language used above---"aspire" is funny...really, aspiring to a body shape is an exercise in futility. You can gain/lose weight but you are going to have the body type you were destined to have, just with larger or smaller measurements. Aspiration is useless. #bodyshapes
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(On a serious note: This. Absolutely.) #bodyshapes
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/extreme sarcasm. #bodyshapes
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@lucy: You really want to go there and tell some of us that we look like we "avoided puberty"? Okay, then.
And I think rixatrix may have been on to something when she wondered what the effect of women being increasingly involved in athletics might have on our shapes. I'd love to be curvy and athletic, but when I am working out a lot, or playing sports, I get thin, flatter and strong, and I don't think it's a bad thing. No, you can't completely change your body type, but to say that exercising just makes whatever proportions you have larger or smaller isn't completely accurate. #bodyshapes
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@pesematology: I guess those garters are for the cage crinoline. #bodyshapes
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(Somehow I think the people who took this survey would not appreciate me pointing out that I'm most tubular when I'm heavier. They'd be picking bits of brain off the walls for weeks.) #bodyshapes
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/ generally just looks stupid at work with her work clothes but has stopped caring since she works in a Japanese school #bodyshapes
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(Even less so in my case since I have curvy hips but not much of an ass to hold them up - belts are a necessity.) #bodyshapes
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Did I read that here, or was that in one of Jenna's posts?
"high rise jeans can double as a second bra band"
Heh. Sounds like something that's required for dance class but that, as usual, I forgot to bring. #bodyshapes
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