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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Yay -- pleats are not a good look. I also learned that telling my "pregnant" husband to tuck in his shirt and wear a belt was doing the opposite of what I wanted -- namely, a man with a belly should not tuck because it eccentuates the belly. See, I thought tucking and belting would show that he has a waist and thus detract from the belly. Not a huge belly, mind you, but a little out of whack with his build in general.
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Sounds like the problem is really that he is wearing his pants too low, which usually goes with wearing them too tight (and therefore dropping the waist below the belly). Wearing your trousers around your upper hips works only if men are approximately model thin. Potbellied men should wear their trousers at their natural waists - meaning within about an inch of thier navels. And tuck in. And not wrench the waist/belt tight (or surrender to braces). Oddly, the waistline going straight across the wide belly doesn't emphasize it, as horizontal stripes would - it masks it.
Pleats are fine on just about any body type, so long as the pants fit. Most men wear their pants too tight (& low) at the waist, and so pleats look like crap.
Nothing makes you look fatter than wearing clothes in the size you think you are, rather than the size you are.
BR(Mr. insists he has a 36 inch waist - um, yeah. I told his tailor to be merciful and not tell him the truth, which is about 40)C
