Breasts bums and muffin tops!

Guess I just try not to be judgemental about other people's choices - and hope they won't be judgemental about mine!

Hi Loopyloo (cute name by the way!) I bought mine from The White Company last winter in a sale. They aren’t cheap even on sale, but I really feel the cold, and this year I’ve been miserable with sciatica and don’t enjoy wearing structured trousers, so the leggings have been a godsend.
They also look gorgeous, I get so many compliments on them, I wear them with some mink pink jumpers and sweaters I got on sale so I don’t look sloppy and like I’m wearing my house clothes out!
I’m going to buy another pair when they are on sale this year and put them in a ziplock bag with moth balls so the bloody moths don’t get them next year!

I don't think it's hatred. Unless there are health issues, physical or mental, people can lose weight if they want to. It's up to them, maybe they don't want to and are happy which is great. Losing weight is hard but some of these women are so young. It just seems a shame.

I'm not Lesbian but I do like to see a pretty girl in a flimsy frock. Fat girls can look prettier if they wear a dress that doesn't cling to the less pretty bits.

Cashmere leggings, that sounds lovely where did you buy them?

BradfordLass72 - you make good points about comments on people's bodies. My criticism isn't about body shapes, its about the need so many British people have to strip off the minute the sun comes out. I suspect partly it must be deep in our DNA to know that we're starved of the benefits of sunshine 90% of the year. Blood tests in the north west/east of the country taken in February confirm we're short of vitamin D so maybe the stripping off is linked to magical knowledge of that.
I still feel there's something undignified and inappropriate about walking to the shops wearing next to nothing. Feel the same about going out pyjamas.

Another pet hate is the very large bride who insists on wearing a strapless wedding dress, preferably in shiny satin. Then she has all her fat bridesmaids in the same style

Try reading that sentence and substituting "black" for the words large and fat.

Rabid, blind prejudice is alive and well wherever you look and I have had to live with this sort of hated all my life.

It never ceases to amaze me, the amount of young girls/women I see, who have really fat, unattractive, tree-trunk-like legs, and yet they still insist on wearing teeny, tiny mini dresses with hemlines up to their bum! Now, if they were like Twiggy back in the day, I could perhaps understand it. In my younger days, although I was slim, my legs weren't my best asset, and I did my best not to show too much of them, unless I was on a beach, but girls these days simply don't seem to give two hoots. I don't know whether it's because they are far more confident, or they simply don't care about what they look like. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing ...

I hate tattoos - why the young (and not so young) spoil their bodies with them is beyond me. And rings in noses, and studs in tongues! (And I don't think my views would be any different if I were young again.)

Also, I don't like seeing pregnant women in tight clothes, with all their belly-shape on view, and sometimes part of their naked belly peeking out! It just looks so common and somehow ... disrespectful ... if that makes any sense ...? Just wear something loose, and pretty!

And older men in shorts, complete with sandals with socks. Ugh!

Suns out? Not in South London! I was in cashmere leggings and a scarf today. As another poster said, it would need to be many degrees warmer to show my face let along any other skin

Another pet hate is the very large bride who insists on wearing a strapless wedding dress, preferably in shiny satin. Then she has all her fat bridesmaids in the same style.

I've just been reading Unnatural Causes by Dr Richard Sheppard the forensic pathologist. He says one thing he has noticed is that bodies nowadays are much fatter than when he started.

If you’ve got it flaunt it by all means. If it’s wrinkly for God’s sake cover it up nobody wants to see It!!

Speaking for myself and my wobbly bits, I don't ever dress to suit someone else's ideas of what is appropriate.
(There are exceptions**)

I've heard expressions such as, "She shouldn't wear trousers with a bottom like hers.' Why not?

Do the critics seriously expect everyone to dress so that they are pleased with what they see?
Do the critics dress the way their neighbours dictate? Probably not.

Being a fat lady, I've encountered people who feel it is their right to tell me I shouldn't even be seen in public, disgracefully obese and ugly that I am (in their opinion) so I'll be jiggered if I'll try to please anyone other than my bulgy beautiful self when it comes to clothing. If they don't like it - look away.

** I need, on occasion, to attend funerals as part of my duties and then I dress in black, cream blouse, green scarf, the uniform of my group. I don't wear this at any other time, being a person who loves colour.

It never ceases to amaze, irritate and shock me, in equal measure, that when we have a little bit of sun, so many people feel the need to strip off. I saw a few chaps with their shirts off, walking down the road, this afternoon. Why? If you want to expose your skin to the sun, do so but not unless you're on a beach or in your own garden.
Yes I'm increasingly old.

Love the title for the post and nanny2507 you made me ?

Loose clothing will soon be trendy. BodyCon styles are passe.

i dont have a muffin top....i have an entire shelf in a cake shop!!!

It was a lovely sunny day here in the NE, and I walked down to the shops in the morning.
Just in front of me was a woman in shorts and croptop. She was sun-tanned all over, striding out, talking on her smartphone.
I saw her later in Tesco - she wasn't much younger than me! Facial skin dried out etc.
It's all about what's 'in' on the social networks.

KatyK.
Back in the 60’s, I think some girls would be plump, and probably wearing skirts that showed big thighs, but I agree not like some young girls you see nowadays who are just huge, and sporting numerous tattoos. I hate to see tattoos, think they look common, and why older women choose to have them done on saggy, crepey flesh.......?

My OH is like any other normal red blooded man and will comment to me as to how pretty a woman/girl is all in total innocense,the same as he would to our DD or DILs,what he says does surprise him when the sun comes out and extra flesh is showing is how far lycra can stretch over the lumps and bumps which some seem to forget about,he is convinced most do not pocess a full length mirror.

I was out for a drink with DH last night in a town centre pub. The girls were all done up. Lovely clothes, hair done etc but a lot of them were very overweight and were wearing tight, revealing clothes which of course they were perfectly entitled to do. It struck me that when I was a teeenager in the 60s it was very rare that you saw an overweight girl.

Most people look best modestly covered up, except for faces. (Especially me.)

One thing I hate about the summer is the amount of flesh on display. I don’t care if you’re fat, skinny, male or female but please show some respect and cover up. Men without shirts and hairy legs, in shorts is yuk. Same applies to visible tattoos and body piercings. Cannot imagine living in Australia where everyone seems to be half-dressed! ?

We had lunch at a local pub yesterday and a lovely looking young couple came in as we sat down to eat. The young woman was stunningly beautiful; very slim, beautifully made up and wearing a lovely floaty summer dress; she looked amazing. But as she walked past our table, I noticed that the whole of the back of her legs, lower arms and the back of her neck were heavily tattooed. I'm sure she was delighted with her tats but, for me, it seemed such a shame to spoil such lovely young skin.

A tattooed girl on the bus yesterday. Arms covered with them. She was quite plump. I pondered over what her skin would be like when she was old but I suppose by then they'd all be the same - all the old ladies would be covered in 'em. I think on balance tattooed arms were better than exposed white fat ones or at least no worse.