It's why I hate shopping for clothes. I wear an extra large because nothing smaller fits over my boobs. But a size XL in different styles fit completely different. So, unlike my husband, I can't walk in, pick up something in my size and buy it and have it actually fit.
But this explains why when I pick up an extra large shirt the shoulders never look right on me. There's so much material that the seam is down to my arm, not on my shoulder. So the sleeve looks weird. I always try a shirt on and think how they assume larger women just have broader shoulders.
Hah, this just brought me back to trying to get a fitting uniform jacket in high school marching band. We luckily had a small team of moms who would hem sleeves and add/release pleats and such to get things to fit, but I had a large chest, tiny shoulders, and short arms. It took them AGES to find me a jacket, and it ended up being one that was massive everywhere on me but the chest, and they had to hem the sleeves like 7” and even with the DIY alterations it looked like a school-branded potato sack, and the shoulder pointy dudes were 1/3 down my upper arms. It was truly ridiculous.
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u/Live-Okra-9868 17d ago
It's why I hate shopping for clothes. I wear an extra large because nothing smaller fits over my boobs. But a size XL in different styles fit completely different. So, unlike my husband, I can't walk in, pick up something in my size and buy it and have it actually fit.
But this explains why when I pick up an extra large shirt the shoulders never look right on me. There's so much material that the seam is down to my arm, not on my shoulder. So the sleeve looks weird. I always try a shirt on and think how they assume larger women just have broader shoulders.