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missbuster replied to your post “beach towels”
Omg I love Theirs and Theirs. I will mention this to my poly clump family and they will probably adore it too.
I thought it was rather clever, lol.
millicentthecat replied to your post “beach towels”
my dude wears lands end too! that and ll bean
Right? Right?
I don’t wear them as much as I used to, growing up. Dude won’t wear LL Bean because their tall sizes are cut strangely for his proportions. I’ve grown weary of how Land’s End upcharges for plus sizes (why is a simple tank top $8.99 for regular and petite but $11.99 for plus or tall? oh it’s every garment? and like $20 extra for a raincoat 3″ wider? fuck y’all, but at least they do it to men too), and paradoxically claims “for Every Body” while offering rather a limited range actually. The problem with that last one is not that I can’t understand why a fashion company would draw limits on what they can cater to, but rather that their claim to total inclusivity is so confusing that I was tormented, as a teenager, by my mother’s inability to understand that I did not fit in their inclusive sizing, and this translated to both her and I sincerely believing that it was literally impossible that my body was that radically non-standard a size. Whereas if they’d just said “sizes up to DDD”, I don’t feel like I would have been quite so affected? I mean, at that point, there were literally zero companies selling any larger-than-DDD cup sizes anywhere either of us had ever encountered, so you could somewhat forgive us for genuinely not understanding that the sizing was to blame, not that my body was somehow contravening laws of physics. I genuinely used to think it was my fault and I was doing something wrong, somehow; I don’t know what I could possibly have been doing to make a swimsuit be the wrong size for me, but I was so ashamed and convinced I was somehow at fault, it really did a number on me. (In frustration my mother, an accomplished seamstress, attempted to make me a swimsuit, but the pattern companies also only had sizing up to D, and so she tried to just, add a little bit of fabric to it, and added like, a quarter inch, and I needed about four or five inches, and so it was a horrible failure that involved me flashing at least one or two of my siblings, and she didn’t say she blamed me, but it all sort of vanished and was never mentioned again, so, I just sank deeper into my conviction that I was some kind of laws-of-physics-contravening freak, instead of just… when I went to the UK a year or two later and they sized me at a department store and put me into an F and I was like there are more fucking letters and no one told me???? Yeah, Land’s End, fuck you, there are more fucking letters, and maybe it was okay to say “every body” in 1999 but it is 2019 and everyone knows the alphabet keeps going now.)
So I super hate Land’s End’s swimsuits, like unreasonably a lot. But obviously I’m so whipped I still fucking buy from them because listen that’s just the national dress of our demographic, whatever that is.
missbuster replied to your post “beach towels”
Omg I love Theirs and Theirs. I will mention this to my poly clump family and they will probably adore it too.
I thought it was rather clever, lol.
millicentthecat replied to your post “beach towels”
my dude wears lands end too! that and ll bean
Right? Right?
I don’t wear them as much as I used to, growing up. Dude won’t wear LL Bean because their tall sizes are cut strangely for his proportions. I’ve grown weary of how Land’s End upcharges for plus sizes (why is a simple tank top $8.99 for regular and petite but $11.99 for plus or tall? oh it’s every garment? and like $20 extra for a raincoat 3″ wider? fuck y’all, but at least they do it to men too), and paradoxically claims “for Every Body” while offering rather a limited range actually. The problem with that last one is not that I can’t understand why a fashion company would draw limits on what they can cater to, but rather that their claim to total inclusivity is so confusing that I was tormented, as a teenager, by my mother’s inability to understand that I did not fit in their inclusive sizing, and this translated to both her and I sincerely believing that it was literally impossible that my body was that radically non-standard a size. Whereas if they’d just said “sizes up to DDD”, I don’t feel like I would have been quite so affected? I mean, at that point, there were literally zero companies selling any larger-than-DDD cup sizes anywhere either of us had ever encountered, so you could somewhat forgive us for genuinely not understanding that the sizing was to blame, not that my body was somehow contravening laws of physics. I genuinely used to think it was my fault and I was doing something wrong, somehow; I don’t know what I could possibly have been doing to make a swimsuit be the wrong size for me, but I was so ashamed and convinced I was somehow at fault, it really did a number on me. (In frustration my mother, an accomplished seamstress, attempted to make me a swimsuit, but the pattern companies also only had sizing up to D, and so she tried to just, add a little bit of fabric to it, and added like, a quarter inch, and I needed about four or five inches, and so it was a horrible failure that involved me flashing at least one or two of my siblings, and she didn’t say she blamed me, but it all sort of vanished and was never mentioned again, so, I just sank deeper into my conviction that I was some kind of laws-of-physics-contravening freak, instead of just… when I went to the UK a year or two later and they sized me at a department store and put me into an F and I was like there are more fucking letters and no one told me???? Yeah, Land’s End, fuck you, there are more fucking letters, and maybe it was okay to say “every body” in 1999 but it is 2019 and everyone knows the alphabet keeps going now.)
So I super hate Land’s End’s swimsuits, like unreasonably a lot. But obviously I’m so whipped I still fucking buy from them because listen that’s just the national dress of our demographic, whatever that is.
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Date: 2019-06-19 03:32 am (UTC)It reminded me a lot of what I saw when I lived in California, but much less what anyone in the mountain west wears. It's quite possible the areas with more cattle than humans are never going to reflect the rest of the national priorities. The longer I live here, the more likely it seems that I'm going to end up wearing a rhinestone studded jacket and cowboy boots to my next dress up event. So far, I've resisted the urge.
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Date: 2019-06-19 10:57 am (UTC)ARE YOU KIDDING I WOULD JUMP AT A CHANCE TO WEAR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
Ok maybe not cowboy boots, I had a pair when I was a small child and i don't remember them being super comfortable.
I am almost forty years old and have never owned a rhinestone studded jacket, why is this??????
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Date: 2019-06-20 03:13 am (UTC)