Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!cheryl From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Size differences between men and women Message-ID: <631@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 17:17:02 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.631 Posted: Tue Oct 29 17:17:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 02:19:49 EST References: <4472@alice.UUCP> <4500041@ccvaxa> <2729@ihuxf.UUCP> <882@homxb.UUCP> Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 28 >If I buy a suit, which goes by jacket size (actually the >chest circumference) to get the jacket to fit, the pants >are often too tight, either at the waist or hips. The latter >seems to be related to whether the European or American Which is EXACTLY why skirts are so great! Once you find the jacket that looks the best on you, the skirt is BOUND to fit, and if it doesn't, skirts are TRIVIAL to take in or hem. Now a fitted jacket is a drag to get fitted. But everybody knows how tacky fitted jackets can be, especially when they don't really fit. But then, for women anyway, the most formal suits have straight lines, and no lapel (a la Coco Chanel). The easier a style is to fit, the more fitting it will look. I have a hell of a time finding jeans to fit, and man-style shirts to fit. I have no problem whatever getting suits & blouses off the rack. I have a "lumpy" body -- not a "model" body. Chanel suits make me look like a female version of the perfect man: " ...filthy rich, able to fuck 12 hours a day, with a lifetime supply of cocaine, and GETS roses every day..." Cheryl Stewart