There’s a saying, something like it’s not the clothes that shape you, but you who shape the clothes. Something like that.
Over this year, I have gone slightly fat. Not too much fat, but fat. I blame the coffee machine. As I started drinking a lot of tasty lattes, sometimes 3 or 4 a day. Oftentimes with lots of some sweets. Yum-yum!
I have these two white shirts from Next. If you don’t know me personally, you might be terrified by the fact that I have a couple of hundreds of shirts. It’s a long story, mostly containing shopoholism of some period of my life, plus the fact that I love shirts. These two — if I love something, I prefer to buy them in pairs, or even more — they are my favourite. They’re very worn out due to the fact I was wearing mostly them since I’ve bought it some 6 or 7 years ago. I don’t wear them in public, unless I know I won’t show them.
So, I still wear them in winter or late autumn… say, when I deliver kids to their schools.
Also, I wear them at home. Mostly at home, wearing them in public is just me being lazy, thinking ‘naaah, I’d just add a sweater above it and I’m good to go.’ If I’d be less lazy tired, I’d change it for some other shirt. I have plenty. I have much more than I actually need!
These shirts are slim fit, which is tricky. I’m still able to wear them, and they give me this impression I don’t have this awful fat belly that I actually have. And this gives me motivation to actually grow (or rather the opposite: shrink) into that shirt. Ideally, I’d like to have it being smaller than I am, due to the fact of me being muscular. But that’s a long way to go, and so first, I’d rather loss my fat. Which this shirt gives me an illusion of. I noticed that the shirt even motivated me to do some exercises (with Hnat teaching me).
So, sometimes it’s actually the clothes that shape you! I don’t like buggy clothes, I really enjoy the classical style. But you have to look good for them to look really good on you. Unless you’d like to look like some fat bald politician.