Seriously, have you ever seen a lardy boy in a suit, or a band tee, or even jeans and thought that he looked good? The answer is no. There's a guy at work who tries the band tees but he's got moobs, and he knows he's got moobs so he walks with his hands up infront of his body and always scratches his chin, or messes with his fringe, or holds a drink up just so people don't look and tell him he's got an actual real proper chest. You can't wear nice trainer-shoes if you're a fatty, because your plates of meat slap down on the concrete and everyone looks round and wonders what that bellyflop-like noise is. Skinny jeans are out, so you were normal jeans, but they highlight your fat arse and when you sit down your huge belly pushed them down and occasionally you expose your builders crack. It calls for an almost permanent layering system that only makes you hotter, redder and even more blatantly like a chubby fat little splodgeman. Woolwear's a no-no, scarves are definitely out because if you're a gripper with a scarf, or with a long coat, or with a good haircut you just look like a really big gayer. In the end you stay safe, you go for generic jeans because ones with patterns or holes in make you look like a lesbian, you go for standard slightly townie trainers and always wear a jacket, the same jacket, the same boring fucking jacket. I need some tips, players, i need to look good despite appearing eighteen months pregnant. To sum up, how can you be a portly man and still appear slighly appealing?
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it's pretty much impossibly to look mildly cool if you're an overweight gentleman.
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if you like hardcore music
and dress as such, you can get away with it. good beard, tattoos and stuff. the way forward
Its not what you've got, its how you carry yourself
CONFIDENCE, etc.
^morbidly obese
and a hit with the ladies.
You'd know
I agree with that to a certain extent.
but if you've got bitchtits you've got bitchtits, and i can't get past that. A friend of mine's about 19-stone, ginger, with glasses and a massive beard, but somehow he's a player, i've honestly not seen him without a woman on his arm for years. Mental.
In the height of my cheese addiction
I was about 14 stone; 3 stone heavier than i am now. I pretty much wore the same kind of clothes as i do now and, at the time, i thought I looked alright.
Now, looking back at photos of myself, i can see that i looked like a fatty fatty try hard.
Try to make it individual
bordering on ecentric (sp?).
Ask for advice of sales people in clothes shops. That's what they are there for.
If you have a particular outfit in mind but don't know if it's gonna work with the final thing you need to purchase, take the other stuff with you to try on all together.
Take a girl shopping with you. An honest one.
If you don't mind me saying, you seem to have a bit of a problem (in your head) with your weight. Wouldn't you be happier trying to do something about that rather than having to disguise something you don't much like?
Also
there are hoardes of online stores for larger ladies, the same *must* exist for men. Find them and hunt down ideas that look good.
^ WOAH, hold your horses.
I'm not a LARGE GENTLEMAN. I just have a serious buildup of fatty tissue on my chest and a bit of a big ass.
I apologise.
In that case, I'm all out of ideas.
Thin
equals win.
^5
do some weights
i'm a seriously fat fucker (like 18st) but i've been working on my upper body strength and now have arms like doner kebabs. It's all about the chest area - lose the bitch tits and the world is yours
man bootyness is a continuing problem though
^ this
I'm 11st which doesn't sound bad but i'm only 5ft 4in and a guy. So I do have a little of the bitch tits going and a serious ass.
The best thing to do is to take serious action on your body. I'm as lazy as the next guy for doing something, anything to help yourself will invariably make you feel better than a better outfit ever could.
you don't look 18st
that pic is all disproportionate
i'm a modest 7'2 in real life
get of the internet
do some exercise
yeah i will.
i'll run to Norich and kick you in your ear, emoface.
...
http://www.trinnyandsusannah.com/rules/
hahahaha
see you in a few years...
:(
You're a skinny youngster with a high metabolism. Forgive us old fat farts!
i was only teasing
im sorry everyone
2 THIN 2 CARE
get some thinspiration
no. maybe a beard? i don't know.
i'm not even fat but i have trouble not looking fat in clothes.
i can't grow a beard.
i only started shaving at 23. Now i shave once a week but i'm not really shaving anything, i just do it to feel like a big man.
don't worry
at least you'll get better with age.
errm
me! at least I like to think my personality shines through the lard
ah wash mahself with a rag own a stick
http://home.nordnet.fr/~ccandaes/fatBart.gif
hoho
i know someone
who isn't thin at all, but always looks amazing. i think so anyway, and i've never told him this. he seems to wear slim fit jeans and hoodies and also band tshirts and shirts and gets away with it very well.
it's in the confidence i find, and also knowing what colours suit you! colours are underrated.
i know a boy who isn't that thin
and wears skinny-fit jeans and hoodies and band t-shirts and is all 'emo' and 'scene' and things.
he makes me do a sick in my mouth whenever i see him. his bum is always hanging over the top of his jeans.
not hot.
leave Jack alone.
he's just a good looki...you get the drift.
hahah
:D
(sawry jack)
BASTARDS
Get into jazz
and start wearing thirties, forties or fifties suits. Fat blokes looked great in these eras.
Al Capone was fat and ugly but still dressed cool: http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper736/stills/9yoe99o2.jpg
agree
muddy waters is the fattest/coolest guy around
http://www.atowncomics.com/images/muddy.jpg
*was
George Melly
FTW
Im fat
but not ugly. Does it still work?
My best friend (occasionally something more)
is a rather portly gentleman. And he's beautiful.
It's a matter of confidence really.
And beind quite eccentric and not trying to conform to fashion ideals helps.
:D
I certainly dont conform to any fashion ideals ever
I don't tend to either.
It groups you together with other people and so your more likely to be compared to others. In my most humble opinion.
Become Lord Bunn
of 65days merch fame, then I will find you strangely attractive even if no-one else does ;)
Dark coloured t-shirts FTW!
I will never be thin but definitely need to lose weight (again). Lost a stone and a half last year after joining the gym and not eating as much shit but then stopped going as much and started eating more crap again so put most of that weight back on.
I'm back on it again now though, and have been to the gym 3 times a week now for the last 3 weeks and am on a diet.
It felt good to get back into clothes that hadn't fit me since I was 18...
well done!
losing weight is so hard.
WRONG
http://i.somethingawful.com/u/elpintogrande/helswat/11.jpg
hmmmm,
just dress like dan deacon
http://thisisoffset.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dan-deacon.png
http://boudist.com/images/dan-deacon--5.JPG
its sickening how well he can pull off the weird nerd thing without even trying
i'd get beaten up, regularly, by kids.
i bet dan deacon doesn't!
get him to wander around Ordsall for half an hour!
lol, fair point...
look at him here though...
http://www.last.fm/music/Dan+Deacon/+images/2387151
its worth afew bruises and saw limbs, surely?
ooops
http://tinyurl.com/5udupy
When I saw him live I did have a strange desire to thump him
now I know why.