But those of us who actually do eat carbohydrates after 6pm know that concealment can be all. As we all learned with Ugg boots and giant parkas, if you wear an oversized garment, like a puffball, the rest of you will look smaller. No one - except someone with a very odd concept of weight distribution - would look at a person in a puffball skirt, with their (relatively) slim legs sticking out and think, "My goodness, isn't that woman's **** the size of Mauritius, particularly in relation to her legs?" More likely, they will be marvelling at how (again, relatively) svelte your legs are, not to mention envying the fact that you could eat a bucket of KFC and still have plenty of room to breathe whereas they, in their silly body tight number, couldn't eat so much as a sprig of parsley without their seams busting out.
And this brings us to another happy happenstance about the puffball - that one can eat in it. Too many garments seem to forget that ladies have been known to have a meal from time to time. Pencil skirts and slinky dresses don't fit if your stomach enjoys a post-prandial bloat, and there is now even a term - muffin top - for that inevitable bulge that tips over the top of one's hipster jeans. A puffball is brilliantly designed to waft over what ladies' magazines like to call "one's problem areas" - specifically, the tum and the bum - leaving plenty of space for breathing and muffins.