Guys, I really expected better from the generation who dunks on Five Minute Crafts like it’s their jobs.
Clothing hacks aren’t a new thing by any means — we’ve seen them a million times, especially by accounts that love “lifehacks.” However, I thought everyone knew by now that a ton of those hacks are… well, pretty damn useless.
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Why are y’all doing this?
This “hack” involves taking a perfectly fine tank top and stretching it to wear as a skirt. For the record, the poster of this hack said that stretching it ruined the shirt.
So… y’all are wrecking perfectly good clothing items in order to wear them as another clothing item? Why? You could just buy a skirt and then you’d have a whole outfit, my god.
The strap hack is even worse.
This hack involves taking your tank top straps and crossing them over your head. Because apparently people can’t log onto Shein and find a cross-strapped shirt, I guess.
As @hummusbird demonstrates, this hack doesn’t work if you have, you know, boobs. And she wound up touching on the root of my frustration with these hacks: they are not size inclusive at all.
A ton of those hacks are useless to plus-size people.
I’m fat, and I know it. I also know that NONE of the hacks I’ve seen by thin influencers will work on me.
For example, the hack where you can see if a pair of jeans will fit you by wrapping the waist around your neck? HAH. I’ll be lucky of those jeans fit one of my jiggly, fabulous thighs.
I’m sure that hack works for thin people, but man is that not for me.
I definitely understand that not every hack is for every body.
But I do think it’s a little insane that the “hack” sphere (and most of fashion itself) is dominated by thin people. While the body positivity movement has made massive strides towards inclusivity for those of us who aren’t thin, there’s still a long way to go.
It’s not that I don’t want to see those clothing hacks. I want to see good ones, and I want to see plus-size bodies featured in them, too.
I want the voices of plus-size people to be as uplifted as the thin ones.
