"Goldielocks" clothing?

The first thing I think of is power.

Larger clothing: Pumping up and deluding yourself to how much power and space you actually take in this world. Like, feeling like a 'big man' even though you may not be in any sense at all. Or you may be a big shot.

Too small clothes: Seeing oneself as smaller and lacking power and clout.

This actually fits in with what you were saying, boom. Kev feeling rather powerless, so he goes shooting a bunch kids with a crossbow.?!

Well, that is how I have always translated it when it didn't seem to be about sex or pure body image (I AM not fat, dammit!).

Those little punks A.K.A. rappers trying to fill as much bloody space as possible, even though they are just skinny little jerks. Like, look at me, I'm the shitza and BIG. pfff

Re: women who wear too small clothing -- all I can say is thank heaven for expensive lable vanity sizing or my sister would never be dressed. The silly thing is is that she is probably a size 8 or 9 - a perfectly acceptable size - but it kills her that she is no longer a 6.

Okay. No longer a 6 unless she buys expensive lable vanity sized garments.

That's an interesting perspective, flushd. I'm thinking you are probably right in regard to the reasons in the book. That kind of ties everything together.

Now we just need to determine why Roberta (or should we say Puff-Berta) is trying to take up so much damn space with her big old gangsta clothes.

Hmmm....well, too big is fashionable for adolescents right now, or groups of them....but I always think of possible sexual abuse in the case of young people, and women, who always wear baggy clothes, especially if they are drab and dark.

I be da def. Dat's why. Or I can't afford new clothes. One or the other or maybe both.

P-B