Breasts bums and muffin tops!

Cropped top. tiny shorts...and Ugg boots. Surely the height of British couture.

Very well said, Judie!!

I have seen some sights in our local high streets. There are people who, sadly, cannot have either a full length mirror or a tactful friend. I don't think it is catty to notice that someone is doing the reverse of making the best of themselves; a skin tight garment over rolls of fat is unsightly and also uncomfortable - I know this because I have a few rolls, and a top that fits properly looks a lot better and is more comfortable. I don't believe in cosmetic surgery, mad diets etc. but surely wearing something that fits reasonably is not too difficult, and noticing is something that can't be helped- your gaze has to land somewhere!

I always tell my daughter dress classy not nasty .

I am appalled by the nastiness of many of the above comments.
Is it anyone else's business really how another person wants to dress?
The comments that such and such is "common" is just plain rude.
What does "common" mean?
So if a young woman is overweight you want her covered up?

Just a thought ladies - if this conversation was being conducted by men they would all be accused of being body shaming sexists by the @metoo brigade

nipsmum that made me laugh but I'm sure you'll never get that image out of your mind.

I have been out to the Library & shopping this morning in knee length shorts & a vest top. I'm 63, far from slim. I was only out for about an hour then I will be in the garden for the rest of the day. Some of you may think this isn't suitable but I'm comfortable & living in a very touristy area full of "grockles" I don't look out of place

I'm another that dislikes pregnant women displaying naked baby bumps, why do they do it, it's a very "look at me, aren't I clever" statement, please cover up. I find that as offensive as flabby men with no tops on.

I was very slim, quite tall in my younger days, mini skirt, hot pants but I had & still have long slim legs bum & belly a bit bigger these days

I'm with Bradford Lass on the generous portions of my little body, I'm simply not tall enough. In my younger days ... up until maybe my mid 40's I was a lot slimmer but defiantly not comfortable with how I was. I'm now 60, live near the cornish beaches with my much younger 2nd hubby (who wears shorts and flip flops a lot ) I also have a tattoo which I love which is large and on my back. My dad in particular comments every summer when the jumpers and cardigans are no longer covering it up as he doesn't like women with tattoo's. I'm living my life for me, I've had a psychotic narcissist ex husband controlling my life for 30 years and he took over from my parents, so I try to be who I am, I enjoy the sunshine, I'm encouraged to ignore other people as they aren't aware of how little time I have left to enjoy these days before I'm too old and frail to take part in life. ..... I do however, ask "does my bum look big in this ?" or, "I know this is nice, but does it look nice on me ?" I also have mirrors around the house which perhaps some people don't have lol Let's just enjoy the life we have and stop judging too harshly

I was drivng from the supermarket and nearly had a accident when a motorcyclist passed me and all I could see was bare backside. It was not a pretty sight, and something I can never unsee. Yuck.

I used to call leggings worn with a short top "bird's legs." Now on fat women they might be called "elephant legs." they are all around everywhere. The worst thing is to see a fat girl in leggings clinging on to a skinny man in shorts...
Oh my days!

Reading some of these comments it's no wonder so many people have a problem with their body image,I have a 31yr old daughter who suffers with anorexia and has done since she was 7,she only ever wore very loose baggy clothes because if comments about her size,at her worst she weighed less than 6 stone.
In the last couple of years she has had a wonderful dr and mental health team and had managed to put on weight and keep it on,she now wears what a lot if you would class as inappropriate clothes and shows some flesh,she us proud of the weight she has put on .why should she be made to feel bad about it? She also had tattoos that she shows off,these also hide the scars from self harm.
Its national mental health awareness week,stop being so judgemental and be a little kinder and more understanding .
Yes some of the clothes are not to your taste ,but what has it cost that person to get out of the house.
Be nice it costs nothing.

BradfordLass, although it's inconvenient for me to strip off during daylight hours I know that I ought to because I am short of vitamin D. Usually I neglect this duty to get some sun about me as I am at the computer saying to myself "just one more click".

"How about men wearing shorts sitting opposite on the tube with their legs apart........"

I wonder why genitals are almost always covered up even genitals in good health are covered up, usually. My theory is that sexual arousal is often a social inconvenience.

I'd like the look of a pneumatic arse in tightly fitted white cloth if the arse were also shapely.

Oh and Gilly52....word of advice ...dump your chauvinist sooner rather than later. I hate double standards and so should you!

Pittcity....yes they tend to just ‘flaunt’ it rather than hide the flab....maybe their attitude is better than our was/is...maybe with girls accepting their bodies, there will far less body conscious teenagers trying starve themselves to look like stick insects ...far less conforming to the media’s idea of how we should look! Dyou think?

Why do so-called “red blooded males” seem to think it is ok to stare/letch at other women, especially if the women are scantly clad? My partner is like that and we have had many rows about it in the past - especially as he is so jealous and possessive about me and what I wear in the summer. We almost always fall out on holiday because of his unreasonable attitude! It’s ok for HIM to gawp at women, but he hates the thought of anyone looking at me, even though I am in my sixties! I asked him last year during a holiday to Greece if he’d prefer me to wear a burka! Then he got all stroppy with me and of course, a row began. I think us women are much more subtle - if we see an attractive man we might take a sly glance, but we don’t twist our necks round to stare - or sit with our tongues hanging out, drooling!! (Slight exaggeration but I’m sure you know what I mean). He likes me to dress in a little as possible in the garden - talk about double standards! Grrrrrr!! I am going away without him next month, so will be able to wear what I like without having to worry in case I upset him! Moan over!

Just this morning, a young-ish woman (mid-twenties approximately) who was definitely an acolyte of the Fat Acceptance Movement (another trend from the USA) who had poured her pneumatic arse into a pair of brilliant white stretch jeggings.......attracting attention for all the wrong reasons.

Didn't she have a kind friend to point out diplomatically that maybe it wasn't a "fashion statement" she should flaunt in public?

Lyndiloo, I think when a woman is pregnant enough to have an obvious bump, she can wear whatever she feels comfortable in!

I hated my body so much growing up I starved myself to the point of being severely unwell. If people are happy enough in themselves and with their figures to wear what they like, more power to them. Women are so cruel to other women. Would any of you say this to someone you love? "You look disgusting with your muffin top out"? "You're being disrespectful showing off the shape of your pregnant bump"?
Who honestly can say they care more about how a person looks or dresses than the content of their heart?

As soon as the first ray of sun is out I wear very little but I do make sure I respectable . Once I am home in the garden or on a Greek beach then it all goes out of the window & I wear as little as is decent. Back garden is not overlooked & what happens on a Greek beach stays on a Greek beach- I'm never going to see those people again anyway.
I KNOW the sun is bad for us but I'm the daughter of a sun worshipper & that is just how I have always been myself.
Love it!! Today is looking great.

Wow. What a lot of judgements are being made here...
This is my least favourite part of social media I must say!!

I really dislike the way we describe our bodies, or other women's. "Muffin Tops"' "Bingo Wings" for example. Why do we do it?

How about men wearing shorts sitting opposite on the tube with their legs apart........

I'm shocked

When I lived by the seaside you'd regularly see the 'grockles' strolling down the high street in flip-flops, shorts and flimsy tops. Men sometimes top-less - grey, hairy flabby chests. Enough to put you off your ice-cream!
A sign would go up in Tesco's window, "For your personal safety and comfort tops and shoes must be worn", or something like that.