Real women

Before I even start the post, go here to be in the same mindset as I am right now.

I think knitting is one of the healthiest things I’ve ever started doing.
Why?
Because of, after years and years of trying to make my body fit my clothing. After spending a large part of my teens as a very hungry person I now find that I don’t have to.
I can make my own and be happy with them. The confidence of knowing this is one of the things that enabled me to go shopping for some new pants the other day.

For most people, shopping for pants is a big nothing of an event. But for me, personally, it’s something I just don’t do anymore. Not after I started getting better. After I started eating again. Knowing that I no longer can fit into the smallest size has felt like failure for too long.

But this time I tried on a sweater in the store first. It looked terrible on, but that’s not the point. The point is in fact that I knew why the sweater didn’t look good on me, and that it wasn’t my fault. The store messed up enough to make a hip length cabled sweater in heavy cotton. Of course it looks like crap.
If they messes up like that when it comes to sweaters, they must do it with pants as well, they must mess up the shape completly sometimes there, not just in the sweaters.

The fact is that clothing companies mess up all the time. They make clothing for the kind of person I was when I was starved out of my mind. Stuff actually fit in that time.
The problem with mass production is that the human body isn’t mass prodused in a standard formula. The hip-waist ratio is different, freakishly so.
In the same way that handknitters discover how poorly store bought socks fit, they will eventually discover it in other clothes as well.