Really?

Ok, I lied, here’s a few more:

Should we tell all the petite women out there who don’t have enough useful options either to shut up and just get taller? I mean, if they would just eat their damned vegetables….

fat is a choice.

I’ve noticed certain stores in our local mall have these charming little signs in the window that say the size range carried in the store, which has gotten me in to some stores even if they aren’t my usual style. Because I *hate* walking in and asking if they have 18s.

As a businesswoman, I know that you can’t sell what you don’t advertise.

Also, on the “no permanent plus size” comment, it’s wildly unrealistic. For an un-fat example, when my girlfriend was an unhealthily skinny dancer and a model (and could span her waist with her hands) she still wore plus-sizes — she’s 6′2″ with broad shoulders. People come in a broad range of sizes, and you can’t tell someone’s health from their dress size. Why doesn’t everyone know this by now?

We’re just so inundated with fat hatred over here that I won’t be at all surprised if WLS became mandatory in my lifetime. You can get away with almost anything in the U.S., except being fat.

As far as (who, the gov’t?) limiting clothing sizes to encourage women to lose weight? No. It violates free market principles, if any company should want to provide plus-sized clothing for sale. And it’s just too controlling. Let’s just encourage people to be healthy and let the scales land where they may.

For example. In Australia, the clothing size standards exist from a 70’s women’s magazine survey that didn’t even represent all the women or a majority. So far, the same standards still apply and it’s ridiculous.

I’d be interested to know how sizing standards/measurements are gathered in other countries.

The way I see it is that there is a lot of outsourcing. No company is going to cave in. It’s annoying/unfortunate/a pain in the butt, but that’s how it is because all big clothing companies factor the loss into the manufacturing costs. Believe me, when 95% of the clothes made in China, clothing labels can afford the supposed ‘loss’ because there is no loss and no, they don’t have to cloth heavier women. They’re not going to lose any sleep over it, but it’s also not helpful when fat activists say that it’s perfectly all right to be morbidly obese. That, to me is irresponsible.

I’d just like to mention that Ann Taylor, in general, is the pits when it comes to customer service. I regularly shop at various retailers within the same price point, and I am consistently disappointed by the way I am treated at Ann Taylor.

I am not surprised to hear that Ann Taylor does not value its plus-sized customers. I was not even aware that Ann Taylor sold merchandise in sizes greater than 14. They certainly never did a decent job of promoting the fact that they carried larger sizes. Retailers always claim that the demand for plus-sized clothing just is not there. *Sigh* Don’t they realize that people will not buy something if they do not know that it exists?

I think it would be lovely if there were a clothing store where thin and fat women could peacefully shop together and all have a wide variety of stylish items to choose from. Does a store like this exist? I’m sorry. I realize that I am naive!

It could have been Ann Taylor, but they’re too busy digging their own grave. In the future, I plan to take my fashion-addicted, big money-spending self elsewhere.