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Indeed, your body may be elastic but your clothes aren't. And this is just lateral stretching, if you started to spread out your body in multiple directions then your clothes may end up constricting against and restraining you.
There's also an idea to alter mass or volume of yourself in parts, but you can't seem to come up with a way of doing so which doesn't prove futile against your own elasticity.
<span class="mu-b">"Tight fit in here... <span class="mu-i">hello Madam, do you take reservations? Why certainly, we have a table for two by the wind-</span> AGH! Spiders!"</span>
You've done a lot of stretching but how about compressing? You manage to find a hollowed out tree, with some narrow openings previously used by some critters probably. A normal person could only reach their hand in, but with effort you are able to squeeze your entire body through such a narrow space and fit inside. A very weird feeling as you relax and your body naturally fills out to whatever space is available to you, it's just a good thing you aren't claustrophobic! An interesting test, cut short by feeling that you aren't the only occupant of the tree, which you burst out of in a frenzied panic dance to get the creepy crawlies off.
When eventually you settle down, there's some considering towards how much you could compress. You wonder if it may be possible even to squeeze yourself underneath a doorway for example, but similar to the problem of elongating your body, you imagine your clothes would be the limiting factor. One other test of your compression is the idea of twisting for momentum, which feels tremendously weird but does seem possible. As you manage to twist your arm around so many times and release it for a staggering display of force. The same may be true for the rest of your body but the issue here is that you can't just twist or contort yourself alone, you need something to anchor yourself or hold onto, to do it.
<span class="mu-b">"...okay, this is a bit much..."</span> you murmur in awareness, feeling your altered curviness.
The final test. Well you don't suppose you could avoid the curiosity looming at the back of your mind, but... would any self-conscious young adult do differently when it comes to looks? Same as with any part of your body, you can grab and pull at parts of yourself to stretch them but the shape doesn't hold once you let go. One thing you discover almost by accident though, is how there isn't much limit to air you can breathe in. Thus inflating your lungs further and further and distending your torso. Too much becomes silly but even a little more than human limits, has a pronounced effect. In actuality it doesn't really make your chest bigger, but it does give that appearance. The other thing you discover when trying to lift heavy rocks, is there's a point where weight upon your body exceeds your natural elasticity, causing your whole form to compress to compensate. Naturally a lot of mass and weight orients to your hips for support, warping your figure noticeably.
