(This is part 2 of a series of posts discussing my thoughts on my current “glowing up while slimming down” journey.) Clothes shopping, as a fat man, isn’t joyous. Before I get lynched in the comments, let me clarify. By “clothes shopping”, I mean in-person high-street retail shopping. Y’know, the bread and butter clothes shopping experience, partly dictated by finances. I’m sure, with the right billfold and a stacked rolladex, employing a suite of bespoke artisans to tailor-drape me in fibrous regality would be quite the uplifting moment. Alas, funds allow what funds allow, and being fat and hitting the outlet village can be sobering at best, and dehumanising at worst. There’s a few reasons for this. The main reason is lack of options. Stores, in their wisdom, keep stock to cater to a bell curve. The majority of their lines will bell curve their garments, with the biggest fractions for those median-shaped people that surround us all. Average height, build, and so on. Sure, there’ll be some outliers to the sizes, curving down. But that means us “extremes” will have a playbook of maybe one or two items to choose from, while “normies” will have the whole store. And if Big Alan has been in an hour earlier and bought a pair of trousers, you’re just bang out of luck. (I realise there may be a UK filter on this comment. Presumably in the US, there’s a much wider and flatter profile of stock options, with the bell curve topping at some number of XLs. Everything is bigger and better there, right?) So the main stores have limited scope. What of shops that cater entirely to the Higher and Mightier folk out there? I mean yes, these are okay, but they are few and far between, and the ones in the UK at least seem largely generic in their designs. They also, in my experience, make a few assumptions in ratio that means people like the Historical Me miss out. Tall and Wide? All good. Small and Skinny? Covered. But us Short Kings with Extensive Circumference are told to just roll on by.

FB marketplace thrift find for $10. officially have a leather jacket again

I'm 60 years old still asking what I want to be when I grow up. Anyone relate to that?

Good morning/afternoon Gents During this journey, I realized that smartwatches aren’t allowed because they’re too casual. And I, as it happens, always wore one! Even though I’d replaced the strap with a leather one. But I’ve found the solution to this dilemma! Introducing the smartwatch from ONE Watch, a Portuguese company! At first sight, you might think it’s a regular watch, but it’s actually a smartwatch. This is a great advantage for men to continue wearing nice watches, Because when you have a woman in your life (Mommy in my case) and you don’t answer the phone in the first 5 seconds of the ring (because you didn’t feel the vibration or it was on silent), you have to calm her down since she’s worried that “I didn’t pick up soon enough” Thanks for reading, and good luck with your studies! Let me know if you like it or not!