bluemagic
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I've been thinking about this for a while but now it makes more sense:
Fit is subjective. Yes, duh. But fit is objectively subject, in a way. Because really, height matters. A 6"3 person looking down at a 5"9 person with "skinny" jeans (say normal-SF slimness) will think the jeans are skin tight because they're looking at a downward angle that distorts the shorter person's distortions. But say a person of the same height, or a girl who is shorter, wouldn't have that same distortion since they are at/below eye level so what might jump out more is how slim the jeans are in proportion to the rest of the body so in their mind it's more of a normal height person with proportionally long slim legs.
And obviously your frame of reference is your own height and looking into a mirror.
Anyways, what I might have said is probably just a big "DUH" especially, I'd imagine, to photographers (angle of camera, height of camera, etc).
But if anything I think it says that taking WAYWT pictures at least helps you get a sense of your own fit from an objective point of view, at least one other than your own.
I think the main practical conclusion to draw from this line of reasoning is that photos don't really lie, or that they are at least closer to the objective reality than someone's self-opinion (by this I mean that when someone posts a picture in WAYWT, and says, oh, I'm not actually this fat, the fit looks much better IRL, they are just deluding themselves).