What 2cm Does to a Skirt
You wouldn’t have thought two centimetres off the waist would matter, or be detectable, or for that matter that I’d now have a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.87 after six months of hard work — but the truth is it’s everything. And yes, I’m proud of the stretch marks too.
I started this because I wanted to look better in clothes styled for women. Take the humble pencil skirt I bought last year — a black Marks & Spencer midi, size 14. I loved the look of it in the shop, not so much on me. Looked like a tube of fabric with almost zero curve. The waistband sat on top of the obliques like it was balancing on a shelf. The zip pulled. The fabric bunched at the front because there wasn’t enough differential between waist and hip to let it fall.
Now the hips and glutes have grown and the hem sits where it’s meant to sit. The zip sits flat. The waistband finds the narrowest point and stays there. The curves look beautiful on me.
That’s what I’m really writing about here. Not the training log and not the wardrobe — the place where they meet. Where a 2cm change on a measuring tape turns into a skirt that finally behaves like it was designed to.
