Dress Rant

This week's People Magazine is FULL of cute celebrities wearing these (in my opinion) AWFUL-looking sack dresses! There's no shape to them and they remind me of well, SACKS! The tops in stores these days all resemble MATERNITY TOPS! I did NOT lose weight to put on a SACK DRESS or, God forbid, a MATERNITY TOP!

I dunno, some of them I find to be cute. Just got a baby doll top recently that my mom swears looks like a maternity top. But I just find it adorable. Maybe its because I'm missing the pregnant belly days.

I wonder sometimes though if the clothing styles aren't due in part to all the concern about rail thin models and American teenage girls getting bad messages about body shape. Maybe they're trying to dress down now, in fashions that don't accentuate too much as some kind of response. Or maybe I'm just tired and overanalyzing. I do that sometimes.

That's an interesting point! Also, in the fashion industry they are always trying to be "fashion forward" and do fresh and new. (Can you tell that I watch design shows?!!!)

Cheryl

I know what you mean, Cheryl. Sack dresses are all the rage and I have no idea why. It's interesting because I think you have to be super skinny to wear them-- if a person of normal weight puts one on they'll look like a shapeless blob, but if a skinny person puts one on it'll only accentute her smallness (the "wow, she's swimming in that thing!" response). It seems like clothes last year were too tight, and now they're too big-- why can't we just get some clothes that fit?!

I don't like how they look. I prefer buying tighter fitted clothing because in those sack things I could gain 15 pounds and still look fine since I'm so covered up, but with fitted clothing I know I have to keep up the work to look good in what I'm wearing.

Then buy bigger?

I like that there's finally something fashionable that leaves more to the imagination.

I don't think buying bigger would help. It's kind of like in the 80s and early 90s where baggy sweaters and such were in. The skinny people looked like they were being swallowed whole by the clothing (the accentuating her smallness thing), whereas if a heavier person wore it (equally baggy), they looked "dumpy". I think that's the difference. People see small people in big clothes and think "tiny and cute", but see large people in even larger clothes and think "wow, don't they care about their appearance?".