hi-low hems for womens shirts - WTF?

[Kali]

ya know, when you already cause that to happen because of your...erm..."front end" and they make it even worse by making the hem shorter in the front and longer in the back it really does NOT help.

do women with flat chests and large asses have to deal with shirts that are short in the back and long in front?

[HockeyMom]

1. Yep

Try being 100 lbs with a DD bra. Cannot wear button down shirts because the buttons open up. Gotta wear 2 sizes bigger?

[TeapotInATempest]

3. Yep.

[Kali]

10. I sew my button downs shut.

[CherokeeDem]

11. This.....

Button up shirts and suit jackets... impossible!!!!!

[mercuryblues]

31. And the sleeves are always too long

Drives me insane. buttons don't keep the shirt closed and the sleeves are always too long.

[smirkymonkey]

35. Yes, gaposis.

If I get button down shirts big enough for my bust, they are too big on me everywhere else.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. FYI: not a woman, don't wear a skirt

Questions:
I've seen the short in front skirts; are there really short in back skirts?
If this is truly a skirt, can one rotate the skirt to place the long hem wherever it's most aesthetically advantageous?

[Control-Z]

4. Shirts. Not skirts. Lol.

I read skirt the first time too. Had to go back and start again after I got to the second paragraph.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. okay

So there's a shirt that's longer in front than in the back? Why?
Women's fashions are confusing.

[Kali]

16. no they are mostly longer in back

for large busted women a bit longer in front would actually be OK because the large bust takes up a certain length of the fabric, but when you are large busted and the front is shorter than the back and you make it even shorter it just looks (and feels) ridiculous.

tell me about confusing! I mostly wear men's clothes because they fit better, the freaking buttons are on the correct side, they are better quality and often less money. But sometimes a girl wants a nice blouse, ya know? drives me nuts!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

21. Since the shirt v skirt confusion has been cleared up...

...I understand the issue. My wife has the same opinion due to equivalent, shall we say personal topology.

IMHO designers sometimes change style, cut or hem of a garment on a whim or to follow another trend that some other designer started (on a whim.)


Seriously, tell me this wouldn't just scare the average person:

[Kali]

22. looks like some kind of tropical vegetable

guess you don't need pockets either IF YOU HAVE NO SLEEVES!!!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

23. All I want to know is...

...how much jail time do you get for impersonating an artichoke?

[3catwoman3]

5. I am quite fond of long tunics, which I refer to as...

..."butt/thigh hiders." If a shirt/top/blouse is already pretty long in the front, even more length in the back is OK. When it stops at the waistine in the front, and is really long in the back, it tends to look like a poorly designed maternity top. At age 66, that is the very LAST look I am trying to create.

[Phentex]

24. this is it exactly....

they look like maternity tops!

[Arkansas Granny]

6. I don't care for the hi-low hems in shirts or skirts. I'm not fond of the "cold shoulder" tops,

either. They look OK on younger women, but I just don't think at age 70 that my shoulders are all that attractive anymore.

[Kali]

17. well my shoulders are better than my arm flaps, but those shirts remind me of those old Fredricks of

Hollywood fashions (are they still around? does anybody remember them?) or the country versions that we refer to as Fredricks of Bakerfield (Hee Haw fashions).

[Arkansas Granny]

18. I remember Fredrick's of Hollywood. You could find their ads in the old "True Romance" magazines.

My mom wouldn't allow those in the house. She said they were trashy. She was a little old fashioned. She said the only girls that got their ears pierced were tramps. She'd come unglued if she saw what all was being pierced these days.

[Phentex]

25. I despise these! Talk about dated...

I don't think they look good on anybody. And they make some cute looking tops that would be great except the shoulders are cut out. WHY???! I wanted this trend to die last year but it stuck around for summer.

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. Donna Karan had them back in the day

I remember Liza Minnelli wearing them.

[Phentex]

29. They come and go but

mostly they go.

I hate shopping so I like to get a few years out of my clothes.

[Coventina]

7. My brother calls them "mullet dresses"

[Kali]

12. OMG! that is EXACTLY it!!!

tell him I LOVE that!

[Coventina]

15. I will!!

[sinkingfeeling]

8. If you're short and big busted, they look like hell.

[tblue37]

9. I HATE that almost every top I see in stores now has an ugly hem--either

hi-lo, sharkbite, hanky hem, or some other g-d idiocy. No one looks good in those things, and older women, especially if they are heavy, cannot carry off the styles at all.

A lot of dresses are featuring those hem styles now, too.

BLECH!

[Kali]

14. ...

I hate going through a catalog (paper or on line) and find a cute pattern or cut and get ready to order and bam, fucking hi-low hem. arrgggg!!!
at least with those others you can kind of see it right away.

[3catwoman3]

19. I have one high-low dress that is a fall and winter...

...dress. Only a moderate difference in the lengths. It is dark gray, and I wear it with either black or red knee high boots.

When the front hem is knee length, and the back down to your heels, it rather looks like there was not enough material to finish the dress.

[Kali]

20. yeah! it looks like it is either not made right or doesn't fit right

I just don't get WHY in the first place? who thought this was a good idea? maybe on a wedding dress as a train, but otherwise I just don't get short front, long back. I do however love the description as a mullet dress.

[TexasBushwhacker]

28. And the back is always unlined n/t

[dhol82]

26. I just get pissed at tops that, as they get larger, only get longer and not wider

I am thick only through the middle and would love a top in medium that didn't just hug my gut.
When I go to a large it can then double as a dress while still hugging my gut.

[Kali]

39. hmmm

I have more problems the other way, at least for some knit things - and they get wider and shorter with every washing!

[MedusaX]

30. I love them... provided the front hem is mid-thigh length.

Asymmetrical (shark bite-ish) is my 2nd favorite version of hi-low...



{But I don't do the cold shoulder thing...}fwiw

[jpak]

32. We demand pictures

[Kali]

38. ...

[blogslut]

33. Want to know what high/low thing is pissing me off these days?

This bullshit:

[Kali]

37. OMG

wait, are you talking about the pants or the shoes?

[blogslut]

40. The shoes are stupid too.

I borrowed that image from some DIY fashion blogger. The detailed instructions she provided to turn good jeans into dumb jeans were a hoot. As for the paint-dripped shoes that's also one of her brilliant ideas.

[Rhiannon12866]

34. I wouldn't wear one, looks like a lousy hemming job. But the fad that gets me is the "cold shoulder"

I saw them advertised on sweaters during the winter. Isn't the point of a sweater to keep you from getting cold?? And now they're showing up on shirts and blouses - including long sleeves with the shoulders cut out. WTF?? And I've seen a couple IRL and they're not at all flattering, unless you're Twiggy thin, it's kind of a fullback look...

[Kali]

36. !!!

looks like the knitting machine malfunctioned and made three neck holes