I hate the fashion industry

[spinbaby]

Whenever they decide something is "in," the alternatives disappear. You'd think it would be easy for me to get women's pants in a lightweight cotton or linen that are not cropped. But no, the powers that be have decided that we SHALL wear cropped pants, no matter that they make most of us look short and squat. I'm going to muddle through with the pants I bought three years ago and the hell with them.

[yellowdogintexas]

1. not only that, but I can't wear cropped pants to work. Of course, being a short woman

I can buy cropped pants made for a 5 foot 9 inch tall woman and they will be the right length for me.

my silly company will allow women to wear skirts 2 inches above the knee but we can't wear pants more than 1 inch above the ankle.


The full length linen and cotton pants are out there. Dockers, Gloria Vanderbilt, and other brands.

[spinbaby]

4. I haven't found them

I'm talking very lightweight linen or cotton sheeting here--something us old gals can wear in very hot weather. I've found a lot of cotton twill which is heavier and doesn't breath as well. I've also found one pair of pants in cotton sheeting in an extremely garish shade of bright blue. Every time I find a nice fabric, it's in cropped pants. And when I wear cropped pants, I resemble a tractor in low gear.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. where do you live?

down here in Texas, it is pretty easy to find lightweight cotton sheeting pants starting around late spring.

I can't live without them, myself

I will poke around and see what/where they turn up.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. I've had a little bit of luck online

Although Land's End is not blue, they do have A LOT of choices in pant lengths, styles and sizes. L. L. Bean does, too, and I think it is a bluer company. If I follow their websites measurements and match them to mine, I rarely have to send anything back. Hope this is helpful!

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. L.L. Bean's is a chill company.

Very good, and I would say blue-ish (Maine blue, not one'a dem latte drinkin' blues).

:)

[hobbit709]

3. You think that's difficult

My wife's shoe size is a children's 2½. Try finding adult style shoes in that size.

[DarkTirade]

5. On the plus side though... she can probably find nifty Darth Vader sneakers in the kids section.

I've known a few girls whose feet were that small, and they loved raiding the kids section now and then and finding something cool. :)

[barb162]

6. I'm with you.

There was a story on some show about what makes women look good, bad, etc and they said forget the cropped pants. Almost no one looks good in those pants. (Unless you're built like and as tall as Nicole Kidman)

[WinkyDink]

7. EVERYTHING is cropped this season! Jackets, tops, pants, etc.!

July fire-sales, for sure.

[PassingFair]

8. I *ucking HATE cropped pants!

If I'm wearing pants in the summer, it means that
I HAVEN'T SHAVED MY LEGS!!

WTF, cropped pants?

If my legs are shaved, I'm wearing a dress, skirt
or shorts.

[PassingFair]

11. I found this blog when I Googled(tm) "Flood Pants"

I think I L-O-V-E this guy!


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://ihatecapripants.blogspot.com/2005/08/on-flood-pants.html&h=412&w=283&sz=61&hl=en&start=32&um=1&tbnid=kbJIjNbEnRqT4M:&tbnh=125&tbnw=86&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dflood%2Bpants%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. To hell with cropped pants!

I'm already short enough, thanks very much, with terrible piano legs, without needing to look any worse.

*gag*

:D

[lildreamer316]

12. Tell me about it. I HATE the new babydoll look shirts!!

I'm 34; I don't want to look 12!!!!
Grrrrrrrrrrr.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. I'm 59! I hate them. Even suit jackets this season are cut flared out

and they make you look bigger than you are. I didn't lose 58 pounds to wear sack dresses and baby doll stuff

[IcyPeas]

18. agreed. they look like maternity tops too!!

I'm afraid if I wear one someone will ask me when I'm due.

[AlCzervik]

13. i found some regular length cotton pants at old Navy---on the clearance rack, also can i

complain about fucking cap sleeves, we don't all have great arms and every frigging shirt now has cap sleeves that hit my arm at the absolute worst place, like you show a movie on my upper arm.

[MrsBrady]

14. strangely enough....

I am only 5-2

At least for once I can wear crop pants i don't have to hem.
I have your opposite problem.
But I hear what you are saying.

I can't wear petites...I'm not small all over, just short!

Somebody needs to make clothes that fit real women!!!!!!

Just because you need to wear a size 16 for your hips, doesn't mean that you are 6-5.
Why don't they make pants like they do for men....except do both HIP and WAIST...and LENGTH...where you choose the inches you need.

Seems like a no brainer to me. Instead, they take the pattern for a size 3 and just make it larger and larger like we all have the same freaking body shape.

idiots

[yellowdogintexas]

16. there are 16 and 18 petites out there you just have to hunt.

I found them at Foley's (now Macy's) before I lost my weight. I wore 18 petite pants, then 16 and so on til I met my WW goal.

it was wonderful finding them because they are truly cut for short women.

There are also WP sizes which are Women's Petites, still designed for shorter women but cut more generously. And even though I lost a lot of weight I am still somewhat top heavy so I have to sometimes get a size larger for the top than the bottom, or go up a size on a suit to get the jacket to fit.

[Sugar Smack]

20. I go to the thrift shop for jeans.

I'm not "all proportional" the way manufacturers are making clothes, so instead of buying new, I get used. It's great- someone else my approximate size has ALREADY done the work of struggling with the zipper/stretching them out. :D It's lovely. It's worth the time in flimsy changing rooms.

[spinbaby]

22. Don't you love the gorilla sleeves?

I'm a fairly average 5'6" but I can't tell you how often I've tried on something with long sleeves that come past my fingertips. Gorilla sleeves.

[LiberalEsto]

19. Try finding blue clothing

For at least the past 7 or 8 years it's been almost impossible to find clothes that are navy blue or any other reasonable shade of blue. I love blue and think I look best in it, but it seems like everything has been black, red, tan and white. Now a few shades of blue are starting to come back, but mostly this trendy pale aqua shade, paired with dark brown. Ugh.

Same thing with cars. For years you couldn't find a blue car anywhere. Green cars were all over the place. Now blue cars are back, and green looks as out of date as the avocado green appliances of the 1970s.

I wonder if it has anything to do with blue being associated with the Democratic Party, and the rethugs taking over in 2000.

[MorningGlow]

21. Oh yiccchhh I hate cropped pants

Capris, gauchos, a stupid fashion by any other name--HATE 'em! Every spring I kind of look forward to the new fashions to see if maybe, just maybe, this year capris will be out of style. But nooOOOooo every f*cking year they're BACK.

I have never bought a pair, and I never will. Severely limits my options, but I don't care. I mean, WTF is the point? Cooling your shins? If you're going to wear shorts, wear shorts. If you're going to wear pants, wear pants. Capris serve no purpose except to make people look stumpy if they're short, stick insect-like if they're tall, and wide-load if they're large.

[sarge43]

23. Try Land's End n/t