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pants
clothes for big guys "potbellies" | |
How about pants for men with potbellies strecthing material like womens maternity pants but strecth would be located in rear so front countours but looks normal. any comments
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Comments? OK, learn to spell, punctuate, and use capital letters properly, please. |
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sp: pot-bellies, stretching, women's, stretch, contours. |
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Thang kew, i'fe eel sew mutch bettor, know. |
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It's tough being a potbellied man. I know, because I have had to look at a good many of them. And, yes the large poppa is correct in that trousers are an issue. While the slender male is afforded a certain latitude in waistband height, from the lo-slung favoured by emo teens, through the sensibly mid-positioned office worker fashion, to the just above the waist "Simon Cowell" steez, the fat man is pretty much buggered. Either their trousers sit below the pendulous pannus of fat(*) or across where the waist would, on a slimmer version of the self, be. Neither option works. The low method has arse-exposure risks and, as well as risking revealing to all and sundry the pasty flab below too-short shirts, generally makes the portly gentleman in question look slovenly. The round-the-imagined-waist approach, on the other hand, draws attention to the gut, with it's equatorially bisecting line, enhancing the apparent planetoidal form of the wearer. What I am saying is, I guess, that fat people - really fat people, that is - are ill-served by traditional fashion forms and therefore it is up to some enterprising type to develop and market an entirely new tubby cotoure paradigm. |
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* this is a bungston-ism and one of the best phrases I have ever read. I have been waiting some years for a chance to plagiarise/pay homage to it. |
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The stretch material option wouldn't really help matters. As calum so eloquently points out, it would merely draw attention to that which is to be disguised.
I feel that a move away from clothes that are designed to fit or even hug the body is called for. Perhaps something along the lines of a large cardboard box with holes cut in it for your head and arms? That should do the trick nicely I feel. |
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Indeed, it is a strange disposed time:
But men may construe things after their
fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things
themselves.
Cicero, scene iii
from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
(of course) |
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Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?
Cassius, Act 2 Scene 1
from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (of course, of course) |
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The box form, as the House of Bob puts forth, has some merit. Pleasing side effects include an increase in apparent robotness and a more clearly delineated area of personal space. I suppose the downsides would be chafing and the lack of room for expansion (though this is not particular to la box-forme, as they call in in Goole). These downsides could be amerliorated by use of taffeta and perhaps also mohair. |
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La Maison d'Malky, on the other hand, is in favour of adopting and adapting the phoncho paradigm, this form allowing for such innovations as roman blind-style length adjustnment and accessorisation by way of switchable-detatchable velcro flap fasteners. with the poncho, the chafing issue becomes interdermal, rather than fabric based. Gusts, however, become vexatious. |
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Please allow me to be the first person to welcome you BTW |
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...But did you read his profile? His profile *is* this idea.
I can't figure how the stretch in the butt-side wouldn't pull the front side and look normal. (?) (Then I can't stop laughing at [daseva]'s comment... |
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For starters, from a marketing perspective I think the term "pants" is widely used and unlikely to be brand-able.
How'bout Girthbrooks denim-wear for country folk.
and O.B. City-wear for those near the downtown core? |
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Some of us solve the problem by working behind a desk until everyone else has gone home. |
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Maybe some sort of fat shielding desk or clipboard to go along with your line of pants. |
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No wonder you left after only one idea, the almost nasty comments can be a big shock, even if you have read the site and think your prepared for it. It's not a personal attack, even if it feels that way. Sorry. |
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They have nylon stretch pants that are cooler than sweat pants. |
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a) Find a cardboard box, big enough to hold the belly.
b) Cut a belly-shaped hole in the top
c). Insert belly. |
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Now you're just some trim dude walking around, carrying a box. |
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I thought it was trav who churned this up for sure but no! Popbottle! I am so glad. There are good annos here. |
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/Just a trim dude carrying a box!/ |
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