As a nation, we have become complacent about our weight. You can always find somebody bigger and you can always find somebody smaller. So much so that another phase of life has joined going to college and the kids growing up as a predictable period of weight gain: the later teen years.
You can suggest reasons. You can suggest solutions. I suggest what not to wear.
- Instead of the capsleeve top, choose 3/4 sleeve (or even sleeveless, if it’s summer).
- Rather than the stripe of a contrasting layering tank running around your middle, how about one that blends?
- Whatever you do, don’t wear a light-colored, flare legged jean, especially if they are the slightest bit tight. (Mine I’m wearing in this picture are going in the biffer bag today!)
This outfit is cute for the older teen, not that this one is overweight.
“I suggest what not to wear.”
I think that teen girls have this terribly mistaken idea that if they can squeeze into a smaller size, then they will look smaller. I want to take them all aside and tell them, “Honey, you don’t look smaller, you look like poorly-cased sausage.”
Karen – LOL!
And then there are the mothers that think the same thing.
The other thing I think, along the same lines, is that young ladies don’t buy new clothes when they gain weight. And they don’t really think about what they wear, they just wear what their friends wear.