Sisterhood of Big-Footed Women & others forgotten by fashion

I have very definite shoulders, but I still have to pin scarves, etc., back. Everytime you move, they slide off.

How about a brooch? Or is that too European for a sari?

oooh, i love the blue saree. i do wear a lot of things in just that color. in fact, i brought a a blouse from india in just that color. with yellow embroidered flowers. i can also see myself in this. i have a dress from almost the same material. hmmmmmmmmmm.

-sigh- saris -sigh-

Love 'em. I wore my favorite one once, to a party with a "spy" theme (I was Mata Hari). It was so fun to wear, but totally there on the Westerner Affecting Foreign Airs thing.

Adore them, though.

You know, Dag, that brown-red-green was exactly the color combination that I thought of for you! But I can see how the blue-green color would work too, especially with your turquoise nose thingy.

hey, i can wear them all (or at least have in my closet to look at)

on second thought....no purple for me.

...I have small shoulders too...but as Jespah said, creative safety-pinning works
Also, the specialty of the sari is that you can choose to accentuate what you want to. if you have small shoulders, you should pleat the sari into neat folds and then put it over your shoulder (and of course pin it up). If you have definite shoulders like Eva and Soz, you can wear the sari without pleats, in just one layer over your shoulder - just like the model in Dagamaraka's pic.

A brooch with a sari - looks nice, especially with a plain, single colured sari.

Dag, that sari is beautiful too. Must be silk. The ones I linked to were cotton.

Sakhi--

Thanks for the encouragement.

I thought about this thread all day yesterday. I was trying to wear a long scarf flipped over my shoulder, and it wouldn't stay put.

No purple, Dag? Bbbbbut....your avatar.....???

I keep finding these topics with people who I miss.

When did I comment on a thread like this?

I'll give odds on alcohol being involved...

You would be no good as a bookie Rocky. You would soon be skint.

Yer prolly correct, I do better as a consumer there...

From personal experience, if I were to have commented on a thread of this type, I would have been drinking prior to posting, my friend.

To get back to the topic at hand -- and spendi, I'm not looking up your posts for you; I'm sure you can find them all by yourself -- I've noticed a lot of funky weirdnesses because most of my clothes are now too big for me.

Of course, that makes sense, they are whatever size and my body is now whatever minus three -- but what I'm seeing is how the sizes run. Back to, I think, the first or second page of this topic, people were talking about larger women's tank tops as having huge armholes. And I am really seeing that now. I can still get them on and they are basically decent on me, except for the armholes. Pants are too long -- that's a part of how larger women are fitted, and it's really not an accurate way of doing such things -- bigger sizes run longer in the torso (good) and in the legs (bad). I mean, I had a gut (I still have one, but it's smaller) but my legs didn't get any longer. What's up with that?

It's not a bad problem to have, of course, having clothes that are too large. But essentially what ends up happening is that once I'm more thantwo or so sizes from what the garment is supposed to be, all pretenses of wearing it for anything other than sleepwear are out the window. Belts don't matter, cinching does not matter. These are clothes that aren't nice enough to bother altering. So I can definitively say, that's where the limit is.

Amen sister. You know I know all about these weirdnesses. I have no advice other than not spending any more on clothes than absolutely necessary until you get where you're going!

Someone asked me the other day how many times I've replaced my wardrobe. I've dropped seven or eight sizes. I don't want to figure out how much I've spent on clothes the last three years.

Oy. On one of the diet/fitness sites I go to, I have a friend who I've sent some of my old clothes to. She doesn't have anything to send to me but I'm glad at least someone gets a few more wearings out of 'em.

jespah--Can the Brit thread you locked still be consulted?

And, would you mind clearing up the mystery why it was locked?

Yes it can be consulted, and no, I will not discuss why it was locked. Moderation is not discussed on the site.