{"id":1089,"date":"2003-04-05T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2021-05-20T18:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:24:16","slug":"when-you-need-something-a-little-more-formal-than-omars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/04\/05\/when-you-need-something-a-little-more-formal-than-omars\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Need Something a Little More Formal than Omar&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/mebug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The trouble with Big &#038; Tall shops is they cater more toward the Tall than the Big. There&#8217;s no such thing as a Big &#038; Short shop, so it&#8217;s extremely difficult to get a big size at a short length. I wasted several months trying to special order a jacket before I learned <I>that<\/I> lesson (as described at length in my <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/troubledloner\/02-11nov.html\" title=\"November 2002 through December 2002\">Diary<\/a>). Nevertheless I still need to find a suit jacket or a blazer brave enough to encompass my vast expanse.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The stores around town have let me down<b>*<\/b>, but luckily I happened to spot a few links which might help. I haven&#8217;t tried any of these, so none has any kind of endorsement; but they all reportedly have the Portly Short cut in larger sizes.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; For starters, there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigmen.com\/\">Big Men \/ Tall Men \/ Stout Men&#8217;s Shop<\/a> in Massachusetts and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsizedirect.com\/kingsizedirect\/layout\/layout.asp?\">King-Size Direct<\/a> in Indiana.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I was pleased to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.jcpenney.com\/jcp\/SpecialtyNav.asp?RefPage=SpecialtySiteB.asp&#038;CatID=4395&#038;CatTyp=SIZ&#038;DeptID=469&#038;Dep=men%27s\">JC Penney<\/a> has a decent selection of Big &#038; Tall sizes in the men&#8217;s department of its online store as well.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; But probably <i>the<\/i> one-stop source for clothing links and more is <a href=\"http:\/\/plussizeyellowpages.com\/\" title=\"Thousands of Resources for Living Large in a Small World\">Kelly Bliss&#8217;s Plus-Size Yellow Pages<\/a>. This site looks to be a great resource in many different areas (and provided some of the above links).<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>*<\/b> Hey, it rhymes! (And has a bluesy, big band feel to it.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The trouble with Big &#038; Tall shops is they cater more toward the Tall than the Big. There&#8217;s no such thing as a Big &#038; Short shop, so it&#8217;s extremely difficult to get a big size at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/04\/05\/when-you-need-something-a-little-more-formal-than-omars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}