{"id":5270,"date":"2010-09-07T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2010-09-17T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:16:02","slug":"another-reason-we-dont-think-were-as-fat-as-we-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/another-reason-we-dont-think-were-as-fat-as-we-really-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason we don\u2019t think we\u2019re as fat as we really are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/mens-fashion\/pants-size-chart-090710\" target=\"_blank\">our clothes are lying to us<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>. . . I immediately went across the street, bought a tailor&#8217;s measuring tape, and trudged from shop to shop, trying on various brands&#8217; casual dress pants. It took just two hours to tear my self-esteem to smithereens and raise some serious questions about what I later leaned is called &#8220;vanity sizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Your pants have been deceiving you for years. And the lies are compounding:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waistline-measurement-chart-for-men-090710-xlg.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"waistline-measurement-chart-for-men-090710-xlg\" width=\"614\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waistline-measurement-chart-for-men-090710-xlg.jpg 614w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waistline-measurement-chart-for-men-090710-xlg-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/waistline-measurement-chart-for-men-090710-xlg-480x531.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/09\/07\/fantast-waistline-si.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Frauenfelder<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s because our clothes are lying to us: . . . I immediately went across the street, bought a tailor&#8217;s measuring tape, and trudged from shop to shop, trying on various brands&#8217; casual dress pants. It took just two hours to tear my self-esteem to smithereens and raise some serious questions about what I later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,73],"tags":[97,167,618,336],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-randomness","tag-advertising","tag-baitandswitch","tag-clothing","tag-fashion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1n0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}