You know what I was thinking of? I never see historical fashion for fat people like me. It's all skinny flappers and small waisted Victorians. Unless it's someone who was famous or a man, it seems no one cares to show what the average fat person wore in the past.
Most fat people just wore a sized up version of skinny people's clothing. For most of history a silouette was really the important part more than arbitrary unpadded measurements. Anything you've heard otherwise is a...hmm what's the word I'm looking for, a miss representation. What I mean is, most people wore literal padding to achieve a look, they didn't manipulate their natural bodies like we do now, they added material to achieve the silouette. Nothing about this directly excludes fat bodies. For most of history fat clothes was just like I said, skinny clothes sized up and capable of holding the same padding.
I hear about the 30 inch waist ideal for some time periods but that's the thing, it's the ideal, not a reality. Most existent surving dresses are "smaller" because fat people wore their clothes out, repurposed them into new fashions and decades, like most people did. Our survivors bias is weird like that. I was thinking about sharing some videos from some historical YouTube's and this is a good a reason as any.
