OBESITY

My word, the world sure has changed a lot in the past few years. There I was in the discount store where they sell clothes that are deemed "product overruns" - and I discovered that I now have to buy sizes 'S' for a proper fit. It seemed like just yesterday that I was wearing 'L' sizes (or when I was feeling really really vain and reminiscing my belly-free days of youth and forced myself into 'M' sizes and held my breath everytime I wore 'M' apparels). Sigh. The gone are the good old days indeed.

Now, although I should be gleeful that I can get into an 'S' size shirt of T-shirt -- the reality is that the world has actually grown larger and there are so many obese people that clothes too have gone through a metamorphosis. People who should be wearing 'S' need bigger 'S's' (oops, pardon the pun!) nowadays.

But are the shirts any cheaper -- afraid not! Inflation doesn't care if you are wearing supposedly smaller shirts -- the material costs have gone up and more material is used to make these 'S' class shirts and Ts.

For people who remain the traditional sizes, then the place to go to get nice fitting clothes would be fashion labels, where thin is always in! Amen to that!