Women wore tight-fitting clothes back then? I thought they were more or less fat. Maybe I'm thinking a later period...
1. Depends on your definition of "fat". You have to bear in mind that the "fat = wealthy" thing often merely meant "this person has never gone hungry" and we might not even call some of the wealthy "fat" people plump (though others certainly were in the plump/fat/obese range, of course).
2. Why wouldn't you wear tight clothes to show off your wealthy body? Just because we tend to limit form-fitting clothes to skinny types these days doesn't mean they would then. They're used to show off bodies that you want to show off. If you want to show off your wealthy fat, it would work.
