Dressing for your body, and wearing leggings as pants - a rant.

Hello fellow fashionistas & amateur critics,

Today I would like to rant about something that really pisses me off, and gets me more annoyed than pretty much anything else in the world... well, two things really: people who do not know how to dress for their body, and people who wear leggings as pants.

First of all, why is it that people do not know how to dress for their body? HELLO, not everyone is a size 2 people, especially in today's society, SO STOP THINKING YOU CAN FIT INTO A SIZE 2!!! You will look like a sausage. A yucky German sausage (not that I have anything against german sausages, but I have everything against people who look like them.) Have you ever noticed that sizes have gotten bigger in the past few years? A size 0 should not be too big on me, yet most of the time it is. You know why this is? To prevent people from looking bad when trying to squeeeeeeze into a size 2! However, it still happens. Also, just because you can squeeze into a size 2 does not mean you should. Question: since when are Muffin Tops and Love Handles attractive? Answer: since never. SO DON'T DO IT!!! People, you look rediculous. Do you really want people to be like OMG look at her muffin top instead of saying omg look at how good she looks? I think not. <--Look at this picture, for example. There is absolutely nothing attractive about her too-short t-shirt and her too-tight pants. Absolutely nothing at all. What she should do is get a tshirt that fits, and then go up a size or two in her pants. THAT WAY this muffin-top business can be avoided, and this poor girl and her poor fashion decision would not end up on the internet. SO LIKE I don't understand why people still try to fit into clothes that obviously do not fit them, or do not suit their body! Why not find your actual size and look good? Beats me. But also, it's not only people who have a few pounds to lose and try to make themselves into a German sausage that piss me off, but also people who just don't know their bodies, and don't know how to dress them! People who have a few extra pounds and try to cover it up by wearing baggy no-cling clothing look equally as bad. Your baggy pants do not make you look smaller, they draw attention to how badly your clothes are fitting, and actually make you look bigggggggggggeeerrr. Or, people who are tall and wear pants that are just a tad too short, and vice versa (although I'm sure I'll be going into detail about these issues a little later, so I won't bother to mention them now.) Mainly, people who have a little bit extra to them and think they're hot shit by squeezing into rediculously tight clothes are just annoying. You look ghetto, stop it.

On that same note, why do people wear leggings as pants? I'll never understand that. The worst is people who wear them with t-shirts. Hello, the last thing I want to see after a nauseating day at work is something even more nauseating: your ass. I get it that leggings are now all the rage, and it has to do with bringing back the '80s or whatever, and that's cool. Perfectly cool - but please, wear this fashion trend properly. Wear them with a longer t-shirt, perhaps put it with a long cardigan and add a belt. That's cool. Pair it with a nice pair of heels or flats, and you got yourself a nice outfit. HOWEVER, please remember that leggings ARE NOT and NEVER WILL BE a substitute for pants. There is a reason we wear pants, and that's so our asses are not exposed. Going back to the whole dressing for your body business, today I saw a terrible, terrible outfit that made me want to throw up a little in my mouth. This girl - poor girl - was wearing beige leggings with a huge sweatshirt... but her ass and ALL HER CELLULITE could be seen. Girls, please... please please please... never ever let your cellulite be seen UNDER your clothes. Buy one size bigger, it won't hurt I promise. Also, if you insist (and really, please don't) on wearing your leggings as pants, make sure they are not see-through and WEAR PROPER UNDERGARMENTS!!!!! La Senza and Victoria's Secret sell a nice pair of panties called the "ITEC" which allows people to not have panty-lines. WEAR THOSE. Don't even bother wearing a thong if your cellulite is showing, because your ass is probably wobbely. YUCK. Also, if you're wearing leggings that are tight enough to see your cellulite, your thong is also probably too small and is, therefore, digging into you. Another no-no that I will cover in a future post. And girls, just because you may not consider yourself overweight does not mean you should think it's ok for you to wear leggings as pants. Let's take a look at this picture of Jennifer Love Hewitt, shall we? She is, by no means, fat. BUT look! You can see her cellulite, her ass, the fact that her underwear is NOT fitting her properly, and she has a double butt (you know, that little part that bunches up under your buttcheek when your pants are too tight? Yah.). And to think people who actually are big wear clothes like this.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. People, just like age, clothing size is nothing but a number. You should remember that, when trying something on, look at how the clothes are fitting you rather than the size, and this goes for people of all shapes, sizes, and colours. I know in some stores I am a size 6, whereas in others, a size 0 is too big. Take a look in the mirror and think - would I criticize how I look if it were on someone else and I saw it walking down the street? If the answer is yes... get a different size. Ask people who work in the store their opinions - they are trained to tell you how to dress for your body, they're not just there to sell things to you. As for pants as leggings? JUST DON'T DO IT, and everything will be ok.


Love,
Hollista