I work as a seamstress, which is a dying breed because people have lost the understanding of how clothes are made. When people used to have their clothes made for them, they understood that everyone's body is different. Now we buy clothes from a rack for a couple of dollars and think that if it doesn't fit, you can just throw it away because it cost virtually nothing. This is so depressing to me...

Rule of Thumb: what you see on media, classic of social, is just an illusion, optimized into this or that direction. It is neither natural nor usual. If you want to see true beauty and honesty, find a mirror!

There's one other reason people always look great in magazines. The next time you see Vogue or the like, riffle through it until you fins, somewhere near the front, a small box labeled cover credits or similar. It will name every person who worked on the model at the studio's cover shoot--usually five or six of them. It will list also all the expensive clothes and accessories worn by the model. That too, take plenty of time and money. And the result? As Cindy Crawford (I think) said, "Even I don't look like Cindy Crawford."

This is one of BP's very best and most helpful stories. The woman is right about almost everything, although her claim that the industry's fault are deliberate goes too far. The problem of poor fit is this: few customer can achieve fit by their own efforts (hemming a skirt is one thing, actually tailoring is a demanding craft) and few are willing to pay for it (I has a mass-produced $60 jacket tailored last year--the tailoring cost $80). The result is that hardly anyone knows about proper fit anymore, and the fashion industry can't be expected to deal with that. About a decade ago, responding to women's demand for jeans that fit, Levy's (I think) invested heavily in store-based fitting machine to alleviate the problem. You'd go to a store, step on or into the machine and it would measure you, then send the details back to Levy's for the production of your own custom-fitted jeans. Of course, this took time and cost more, and the program died for those reasons.

Makes sense. I'm a petite size 4 (US) and even though I'm slender, most jeans make me look like a dump truck walking. I'm too cheap to pay for tailoring, but I should rethink this!

Different manufactures from different countries have different basic patterns that better fit specific body types. Technically the same size, but in reality things like shoulder width, arm lengths etc may be very different.

I will agree with this to a certain point. Celebrities nowadays take much better care of themselves and have access to grooming and designing options that previous generations did not. Also, the entertainment industry is so dialed into beauty and looks and with each generation becoming more genetically superior, the designer clothes tend to fit certain body types better. The designers are also altering the measurements of their manufactured clothes to fit a more modern body. If you think every single celebrity who looks good in clothes has a tailor or a seamstress, you are smoking some good crack Our society totally over thinks EVERYTHING, not to mention we are focused on most of the wrong things. If you are so caught up in having clothes look perfect on you, then you are clearly focusing on one of the MANY wrong things.

For years most of my clothes came from consignment shops and thrift shops. If you hunt, you can find some great things. Go to a high end neighborhood, their thrift shops are amazing. THEN, because you've saved so much money, you can afford to have your favorites altered by a tailor.

Well, duh.

It's sad you never worked this out until now.

She forgot to say that celebrities have good tailors. Your clothes likely will be spoiled by usual tailor. I

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So, other people's ignorance about stuff most people don't give AF is now Bored Panda post material?

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If you have the room for a clothing form an have it in your measurements, you just buy a size up that fits the widest part an take in the rest. Hips. Waist. Shoulders. Or across the back. Even just tacking in an elastic across the back of a dress to bring it in 1/2 inch with safety pins can show you how much to alter something. And if need be remove the pins and return it after a nice night out.

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I guess her mind isn't the only one that's blown.

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