Sounds as if you are on the way to reaching my age, Carl. Although my waist is only a cm or 2 more than it was in my 20s, I too notice that a meal may well make clothing a little tight round the middle, which never used to happen. In the last few years my centre of gravity has definitely descended, and I have to make an effort, a big effort, to pull in the belly I never used to have. What shape will I be, if I reach 80?crfriend wrote: In my case, if I'm wearing one of my rigid-waist skirts (and I have a few) and am comfortable at the start of the day, I find that if I tuck into a good meal the thing starts to bind uncomfortably.
No. I refuse to do any more maths just because you people over there still will not use the metric system.At 20, I was 6'4" with a 32" waist (I used to be able to comfortably fasten a computer-tape-cover from a 10" reel around my waist; do the math)
Having hips a good deal wider than my waist, I never have fears of my clothes falling off. The unfortunate part is that I can never buy skirts "made for men", since they appear to be made for cylinder-shaped guys rather than for hour-glass types like myself. In the distant days when I wore trousers, it was not easy finding any that fit me; always too loose at the waist, too tight round the bottom.
Martin