those long-back women's tops

Hi there

I was searching for a casual summer top.  The sales assistant kept showing me tops that have a long back and a short front.

"No, no.  I don't want this type-"

"But they're all the rage," she said.

Obviously this woman had never ballooned up in weight in just a year (curses to all those cheese sandwiches!) " Long-back tops make me look ridiculous," I said.  "I'm sorry to all the manufacturers of long-back tops but for voluptuous and luscious women, like me, those tops just won't do.  When someone looks at me they think that my tummy is so fat that it's making the top I'm wearing hitch up in the front."

"Surely not," the assistant tsk-tsked. And she dug out half a dozen more tops, most of them still in the long-back style.   No doubt the woman was attempting to show me how wrong I was -

Nope.  In a case like this, the - cough-cough-ahem -  slightly overweight customer is always right -