This should have been titled: How Clothes Should Fit __Thin_Men__
The same rules don't apply when your body is basically an amorphous blob.
The same rules don't apply when your body is basically an amorphous blob.
It's simply a matter of design and convention - clothes are designed to fit some body types, and conventional clothing styles are predicated on "degrees of freedom" of possible design that can only comfortably suit some body types without looking like a tent or a gorilla suit.
Actually "male" formal styles have more give in their degrees of freedom than informal styles for either gender, or formal styles for women, because fat men have often been suit wearers.
Still, IMO, designers ought to see "fat people of any sex" as a challenge to their ingenuity. I'd really like to see what people would come up with if effort was applied, rather than merely shifting the proportions of something designed for thin people.
Plus, going a size larger doesn't hide my belly as much as I think it does.
As noted by another poster: I'm better off working on the belly than finding the right length shirts and debating tucked in vs out!
Ignore this claptrap. Find good rules that fit your body within the following guidelines:
1 - shoulder fit is important, nothing says you don't know how to dress yourself like bad shoulder fit. This works for T-shirts to tuxedos
2 - sleeve length is important
3 - find comfortable pants you look decent in, don't hide anything, just fit in them well. What you wear up top is far more important than what you wear on the bottom
I'd say the statement in the article is more accurate. Fit rather than thin. And if you are not fit I'm thinking it would be better to work on that before the fashion.
Also, some people are overweight due to, e.g., medical issues and the consumption of medication needed to deal with said medical issues.
Would leangains.com help them too?
While I study biochemistry in school, I will not pretend to be able to give medical advice, so I can't answer your question with regards to medication. However, for those overweight folks who just haven't been tending to their diet and exercise as much as they'd like, leangains and a good strength-training program is a fantastic way to shed fat and become more "fit." Although, if you're really interested in getting involved, I personally believe http://rippedbody.jp to be a better resource for the information on leangains (although leangains.com is the original source), simply because it's better organized and more straightforward.
A friend of mine has Hypothyroidism and he attributes gaining nearly 100 lbs to that because his doctor told him that might be the effect of it beeing not treated for so long.
I find that pretty silly. It may add some water weight and another 10 lbs due to that and skew the balance between lean body mass and fat. But the body has to follow the laws of physics and adding 100 lbs of mass in fat requires massive amounts of calories above your daily expenditure for extended periods of time.