I'm also terminally outta luck--5'10" and just can't win. Too fat to be a model today, too tall to be a model any other time. (And you'd think that what with models today being 7' tall, it'd be a bit easier to find clothing for tall people...)
The great thing about being into historical costume, though, is you can always find some era that really works well with your figure. Pretty much every figure has been fashionable somewhere sometime! It's very liberating. I've caught myself wanting to gain weight many times. I look at doughnuts and think, well, I do want to fit into those old comfy jeans again, but think how smashing I'd look in an Italian Ren if I invited it and all its little round friends into my stomach. (Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of the historical styles designed for skinny people wind up looking best on more substantial people. Like Franco-Flemish late 14th/early 15thC cotes; sure, they were designed for the waifish splindly armed set, but you stuff a belly and some triple Fs into a bust supporting fitted cote and WOW.) -E House mmmmm.... doughnuts.... _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
