<p>^^^^^^No kidding. Especially pants which ride just below the waist.</p>
<p>“But apples have a problem with the hem of the dress sticking out in front, making the front of the dress look shorter than the back!”</p>
<p>Isn’t that the latest fashion trend? ;)</p>
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<p>^Haha, the dress still has to hang flat. Imagine that dress sticking out at an angle in front! Eek!</p>
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<p>This apple has a terrible time finding pants. I have no waist, but I also have no hips. So most pants that fit my waist balloon out like the little Dutch boy’s pants or jodhpurs in the hip/thigh area. The pants that are designed “to fit a woman’s curves” are the absolute worst. Last year I found some slim jersey pants at JJill that looked good and were blessedly not too long. (Petites tend to work for me in pants, but not anything else.)</p>
<p>All of this harping on waist to height just makes me want to throw in the towel, because no matter what I will never be good enough. That’s why women look back on times when their weight was in reality just fine, but they were convinced they were too fat. Never good enough.</p>
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<p>The second ink made me seriously LOL: one of the records is listed was “fastest 100 meters hurdles with swim fins” ROFL!!!</p>
<p>Healthy body weights- knowing and doing are two different things, sigh. Having actual numbers regardless of the method used helps us face the realities. Easy to accept a “little extra padding” here and there but seeing how far off from ideal…</p>
<p>Fashion- they never made clothes for my body type so I never got into it. I am tall and my torso is long so no matter what weight/size I was I had problems. Add in a small bust relative to size. Manufacturers do not add as much length as width when they increase sizes. Petites get so many more choices than tall women who are heavy enough to need plus sizes but not tall enough for tall sizes (which are not available in the stores, btw). My proportions are such if I were a few inches shorter I would have so many more options. A lot easier to be short and fat. So- no sympathy from me about the fit of clothes. Shoes- another issue, they all too frequently don’t carry enough in larger sizes.</p>
<p>H has the opposite problem with clothes. Men’s clothing caters to the big and tall, not the short and slim. Some stores don’t even carry men’s smalls, many are too large for H. He has had the same weight for at least 30 years, he will not become heavier as he ages more.</p>
<p>"Fashion- they never made clothes for my body type so I never got into it. I am tall and my torso is long so no matter what weight/size I was I had problems. Add in a small bust relative to size. "</p>
<p>Many higher end Euro designers cater to tall ladies with small busts and longer torsos. The affordability of those clothes is a whole different issue! :(</p>
<p>Well, dear CC friends, pretty soon we will have very similar bodies. If Harvard research says so, it must be true! ;)</p>
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<p>I actually don’t match the people I spend the most time with. I am a bit overweight but most of my friends and family are very overweight.</p>
<p>The waist ratio thing bums me out. I used to have an hourglass. Now I am turning into a rectangle. With a head. And short stubby legs. And cankles.</p>
<p>Ha, ha, EPTR. Welcome to my world. Except that I have always had very nice ankles. :D</p>
<p>Well, I do still have good hair!</p>
<p>I like this waist to height ratio thing. With BMI I tend to be on the edge of too heavy, but with waist to height I’m not even close.</p>
<p>Waist to height reflects the important fact that visceral fat is what’s dangerous. Sorry, apples. And of course muscle weight is not in the least dangerous.</p>
<p>Interestingly, there are relatively few overweight women in my neighborhood and I can’t think of any who are obese. I looked just like Twiggy in the 1960s, but that’s the last time fashion and my body type lined up. Thankfully I became a little bustier after having kids, though I still have a big issue with dresses that fit my waist being too big at the bust.</p>
<p>Mathmom,
The wrap dress is a Godsend.</p>