No, not fashion shops.
Department stores and “typical” clothes shops cater for average people. Your typical department store jeans rack, for example, caters for a 32 to 40 inch waist. Sometimes they do go down to a 30-inch waist - but without exception, that’ll be with a 32-inch inner leg. In other words, they’re for small people. Shopping for trousers is a strain, for me. Forget about deparment stores. Zara and H&M might have some styles in 30/34 - or they might not. And to be honest, I’d prefer 30/36, which I only recently discovered do actually exist - online. As for t-shirts, I look forward to the day when I win the lottery and can get all my t-shirts tailor-made, i.e. without wings.
Now I am dimly aware that there are lots of small, painfully trendy shops around that exclusively sell clothes for slim figures. And I am also aware that the majority of the population have the reverse problem, and would dearly love to be able to fit into those slim clothes. That is not the point. Call me stingy, but I’m not prepared to pay upwards of €100 for every pair of trousers. I’m not fashionably-inclined. I just happen to be slim, that’s all.
And I’m not the only one. In fact I distinctly recall most of my college friends being skinny and untrendy. True, that’s because we were all geeks. Still, geeks have money.
There are high-street shops for extra-tall people, and for extra-fat people. Isn’t it about time there was a major chain of clothes shops for people who are skinny, but who otherwise just want to pay normal prices for normal clothes?
I hear marketing on Slashdot is pretty cheap…
I totally agree. The only trousers I can find small enough are either for extra small people or extra tall people. We need our own version of Evans. Maybe I’ll open one myself as a project on the side lol.
Ive thought about this myself many times and was searching for such a shop when I came across this, let me know if you find one.
Charlotte, 16 x
My wife has the same issues. When the size 0 is baggy, what do you do? So many times she will try the smallest version of pants that a company has, only to find that it is too big.
I think that they size things up to make some women feel better about themselves. In other words. They make a 4 really a 6 so that when a woman comes into the store, they try something on and think, “wow, I fit into a 4!” Thus, a 0 may not really be a 0. Just my theory you know, not proven fact.
Have a good one.
Bill
Have you tried Hollister? that’s where i get a lot of my stuff from I’m a 28X30 I’m real slim.LOL but they seem to always have my size in stock (in store, not just online) and they’re not THAT expensive..though not cheap eather. Sometimes you just have to shell out a few extra bucks for the perfect fit. Sometimes i even get lucky in H&M
yeah… my waist is 18 inches so it’s hard for me too. i don’t like “preppy” clothes and can’t afford them either anyway. i dress “punk/goth/emo” and it’s hard to find affordable clothes that fit and i like since my family is poor. And since hot topic’s clothes are for heavier people, i can’t shop there. but i can’t afford there either anyway. i always thought a skinny store would be nice. and i do think they make the sizes bigger than they should. people already have stores for heavier people yet they still complain. skinny people like me don’t have a store and we get harassed for being “anorexic or bulimic” but the truth of the matter is i’m naturally this skinny and i eat a lot so it isn’t fair.
Not sure where you live, but I have the same problem in the USA. It wasn’t always this way here, but I’m now unable to buy pants in department stores where I’ve shopped my entire life, despite that I haven’t gained any weight in over 20 years.
I wear a 32×34 pants size, which was once quite common. I can go up one waist size, but not two, and going down in leg length is impossible for me, without having my ankles showing, anyway. I am now limited to shopping certain stores, because others that have carried my size for my entire adult life, no longer do so.
So i’m in the same position. Which sites would you recommend?