To think summer is a miserable time for fat people?

[HackerFucker22]

Caveat by saying immediately I am a good 2st (actually closer to 3st!!) overweight so this isn't a fat bashing thread.

First few proper sunny days and I am frantically trying to find weather appropriate clothes that don't make me look like a whale.

I am hot and sweaty

I am stressed as I have 3 weddings need 2 outfits and I can't find a damn thing.

I went out to buy some new tops today and came back with baggy, shapeless t-shirts.

I am dreading the next few months.

And hairy people.
And people with self harm scars.

I love the summer but have very little skin I can show.

So all the women on this thread and the world over who are larger and have been told how great they look in maxi dresses are making it up?

Nothing like a nice Friday Night Fat-Bashing session, eh.

I'm 5 ft 7 and a size 10 and look awful in a maxi dress.. have no boobs so look like I'm draped in a curtain :/

Linen trousers or soft cotton hareem pants and a long linen shirt are my summer staples, as my 48 yr old legs need to stay covered. I would love to wear the beautiful salwar kameez that I see asian women wearing because I think they look beautiful AND comfortable but feel like I would be aping a cultural style somehow :/

We get it. Fat people disgust you

I think you need to stop twisting people's words.

The only person who has used the words 'fat' and 'disgusting' in the same sentence is you.

Here's a link where you can see the colours better.

www.amazon.co.uk/Womens-Long-Jersey-Racer-Dress/dp/B008GR4SQ6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_193_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=31QLEaR07%2BL&dpSrc=sims&preST=AC_UL200_SR150%2C200&refRID=AAQKR356D4TZAGA1P77P

I wish they made a few more maxi dresses with a bit of a sleeve on them. If anyone finds a cheap one in that style then I'll be impressed.

StillMedusa, I wear a lot of harem pants. They're nice and airy round the legs on hot days.
I try to stay away from the heavily printed ones as I can't get over the feeling I'm going out in my pj's.
Otherwise, they tick all the boxes.

NRTFT but I am also slightly overweight and I completely agree with you OP! Finding clothes that are comfortable and look good on me is hard work. This is one of the many reasons why I'm working on losing weight.

I've just ordered one in black and one in navy!

Solution to thigh rubbing - liquid talc. Rub on between thighs and it stops chaffing for a few hours. Remember to carry it with you though for when it wears off!

Love the egyption cat one in black on that second link :)

My dsis got given a book when she was a young teen, called something like....'how to dress well when you are fat' (it may have been more subtle than that, but that was the gist)

It was full of 'no-nos' for anyone with a bit of a curve to them, and lots of 'acceptable' ways to disappear make sure you didn't highlight any fat bits.

It was shit, and that book and the way it crushed my dsis made me determined not to give a stuff about all those rules and to just try and be comfortable and happy and to enjoy wearing clothes that I like rather than worrying too much how a spaghetti strap might look on my Popeye arms.

YY the cat one is lovely!

I always had chub rub as a child, a good 40 years ago. Hated it. We used talc back then - taught by my mother. Worked a treat until it got wet.

So chub rub is most definitely not a new phenomenon.

I'm a little overweight and hate summer just as much as when I was underweight. I got thigh rub then, too. I'm another one with a lovely combination of fair skin, hayfever, perimenopausal hot flushes and a tendency to feel faint in the heat, which I've since learnt is related to HMS (probably EDS, given family history). Add into that a tendency to both prickly heat and a sun rash which is made worse by pretty much every sun cream I've tried, apart form the ones that go on looking like calamine lotion.

In the NE and it's only been about 14C, here, today, but there's been no breeze and it's felt sticky. I preferred the snow we had, this time last week.

If I bought that Amazon dress in pale pink, I'd look like a really lumpy sausage.

Voodoo where are you buying your palazzo pants can you link

These threads really bring out the ugly people. No need to see what they look like. Their words suffice.

Missis, thigh rub has always existed It's just that people didn't talk about it - except sotto voce in the Ladies!

You don't seriously think women's thighs didn't touch in the 1990s?!

Blossom

I don't know how to link, but I've taken a screen shot. Hope that helps. I've got a couple of other pairs as well. The most recent ones are from Asda, both of the paisley print ones in the pictures. I also have a couple of pairs last year from Yours.
I quite possibly look a complete tit in them, but I don't care
I'm wearing them with vest tops/ t shirts. Saw a matching woman on the school, run, she'd teemed them with an Aztec print cardi which sent my eyes funny lol.

I had to try them on in store though, lots looked good online but we're very tapered at the bottom, making me look more balloon-esq than usual

Not fat and have the odd maxi dress in my wardrobe. I'm interested in fashion and style. It's never occurred to me to judge/laugh at anyone for wearing one. But I generally hate the ridiculing of people based on their looks anyway. I hope nobody thinks twice about wearing what they want based on these comments.

I'm not even fat and it's miserable for me- I've got narrow hips and chubby thighs which chafe until they're raw and big boobs which get sweaty. It's horrid.

Loosing weight isn't easy its bloody hard, however it can we done.

Bigger clothes are shapeless, ever I as a size 12/14 cannot get nice clothes to suit my body shape, no matter what size you are, its difficult to dress for the seasons.