.... Stumbling around their sub... I found a post talking about Men's fashion.... Where they are moaning about being 6'4 men with 31" waists.
.... what?
No, hold on... 6'4" with a 31" waist?
That's not humanly possible unless you're part beanpole. I'm 6'. At my lowest when I was lifting just about every day I went from a 36" waist to a 32". I was literally down to under 10% bf and the only way to get any slimmer would have been to have an operation to cut parts off. I can't imagine 6'4" and a 31" waist.
C-can someone who understands clothing look at this thread and explain it to me? (
https://www.reddit.com/r/fatpeoplehate/comments/336d5u/mens_fashion/)
Because unless I am horribly misunderstanding them... Good fuck, guys, food is not your enemy.
Well, I worked in a clothing store for a couple years off and on during college so I'll try to explain things as I remember them.
Men's fashion is a lot less complicated than women's fashion where you have things like vanity sizing. This is where you take a size, say it's smaller than it actually is and make the person feel better about themself. This causes problems when a size is different depending on the manufacturer. So a size 2 from designer "A" is actually a size "6". But from designer "B" it's only a size 4. This also leads to such things as the 0 size, the 00 size and I've heard even 000 size. Before all this, a quick rule of thumb was take a woman's size, add 30 to it and you'd get the approximate men's size. This helped when a woman would come in looking for a man's jacket or suit that she then wanted altered.
Men's fashion is based on inches, or centimeters. You measure the inseam, get the length of the pants. Throw the measuring tape around the waist and you have the waist size. Arm length, neck circumference, chest, they're all straight forward measurements. What you then get, in a suit off the rack, is a six inch drop from chest to pants. So a size 42 suit is a 42 inch around your chest with an accompanying pair of pants which are 36". Now most people don't have these exact measurements so it's necessary to have things taken in a bit or in some cases let out. You can let out the pants in or out a suit by maybe 1/2". There's extra material in the seat for this. Why only 1/2", it then ruins the line of the pants making your back pockets too far or too close. Same for the jacket. You can move buttons to make it a little tighter or looser, usually half a button length plus little and tucks here and there to keep the suit looking good and not bunching up or rolling in areas especially around the neck.
This has also led in recent years to the so called "young man's suit" which is an 8" drop between pants and jacket so your 42" jacket comes with a 34" pair of pants.
To get any kind of clothes outside of these standards, you need to go to a specialty shop. Anybody over 6' is considered tall. A waist over 46" is big. A chest over 50" is considered big. A neck size over 18" is considered big.
So this freak at 6' 4" with a 31" waist is not going to be able to buy clothes off the rack because he's a freak. He needs to gain weight if he wants to do that. If he can't, or has an unhealthy aversion to food, then he needs to visit a tailor specifically one that can adjust his clothes or make him a new set.
