I wonder if the people who order merchandise for clothing stores ever notice what’s left on the racks at the end of the season. I estimate it’s 90% extra small, 9% small, 1% medium, and 0% large or extra large. Maybe I’m missing something, but if I was a store manager, this would tell me I should order MORE large and x-large, and FEWER x-small. Just once I’d love to be able to scoop up an armfull of five dollar t-shirts!
PS, before you fat-nazis start running your mouths, not everyone can or should weigh ninety nine pounds. I could starve to death in a third world prison and they wouldn’t be able to bury my emaciated corpse in an extra small.
—Tall and Busty
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2009.
Interesting…whenever I look at sale racks, it seems to mostly be L-XL sizes. Just my personal experience. But I’m talking about Le Chateau-type stores.
me too. I wear small and med and when I shop sales, not only at the stores that are geared towards smaller woman, but walmart, winners, places like that, its the bigger sizes that are left.
I agree with the OP. When I rummage through a sale rack and find a L mixed in with all the XS + S I feel like I won the lottery. (okay maybe not the lottery but it still rocks). I often thought of this too…If they are regularly selling more Larges and Extra Larges, common sense would tell you to order more; maybe they don’t have control over that sort of thing but I long for the day when I can find pants that aren’t between size 00 and 5. I also noticed that the larger the waist/hip size on pants, the larger the flare. Are bigger women suppost to have larger ankles?
I agree with the OP. I’m not fat, but I am tall, and wear L or XL, and the majority of shops that I like have pretty much all smalls and extra smalls left. Frustrating! That or any large/xl’s left are hideous. lol
I love me some XS – S sale shirts! Keep ’em coming!
I have to buy medium men’s shirts at Sally Ann to accomodate my mother’s twin legacies. I gave up on women’s clothing years ago – as a tall and well-endowed female, I find women’s shirts horrible – too short and waaaayyyy too small. XL is a fucking joke – it looks like something that would fit a fucking Furby. And don’t even get me started on clingy polyester – I can’t believe almost every morbidly obese female in this burg want the general public to count their rolls of cascading fat.
I love how “bigger” women call themselves “real women”. That shit is fucking hilarious. So the women who range from size 00-5 as EGG points out, aren’t “real”?? Do these women not exist simply because they’re a smaller size? “Bigger” women love to belittle (no pun intended) and deride women of smaller sizes, just to make themselves feel better and it is quite frankly, disgusting. Small, medium, large it doesn’t matter, you’re all “real women”. Stop playing it off as if you’re somehow better than your smaller counterparts. It’s called genetic variation ladies. Some of you will be tall, some of you will be short. Some of you will be busty, some of you will be flat chested. Some of you will be thick, some of you will be thin. That’s just the way it is. Just because you’re bigger/taller than them, it does not give you the right to look on them. Grow up and just be yourselves.
I wear a small, and I have to admit it – I love Joe Fresh! But I find the opposite – there are never any smalls left, just XL and XXL. It’s super frustrating.
No where in my post does it say that smaller women aren’t “real”. I simply said they tend to sell out of Larges and Extra Larges and therefore one would assume that clothing stores would increase their stock of such items. I’m not a big girl, I have curves and I love them; I just don’t like to suck into shirts that stick to every crevace of my body and ride up and show the public my backside. I just want clothes that fit and I can’t seem to find them. On a side note, I would never belittle a skinny chick; small or large, it’s not the size of the body that makes the person.
I hate that “Real Woman” Tag!
I’m fat, because of some medications I take, but mainly because I drink and eat too much.
That doesn’t make me a “Real Man”.
or does it……
to TTFN point, why is it so hard for a large busted woman to buy a dress shirt that fits? If it fits my boobs, it’s giant in the shoulders and if it fits my shoulders then there’s a window looking onto my bra because the fabric between the buttons gets pulled open.
There are women in this world who are petite AND have big boobs and we’ve got nothing to wear!
Also, and I don’t know why this is, you cannot buy a good quality white dress shirt for a woman. They are all transparent!
“”why is it so hard for a large busted woman to buy a dress shirt that fits?””
I like to think it’s because they spend all their time soaping them up in the shower…and don’t have time to shop?
Yeah, I hate the puppies peeking out between the buttons. Feisty little fuckers.
EGG: To clarify, I was not implying that you thought the women weren’t “real”, rather I was referring the range of sizes that you indicated in your earlier post.
fat chicks in spandex . . now that is hot!
“”It’s called genetic variation ladies.”‘
While I agree with your post, N-W, I would like to add that along with genetic variation, there is also a bit of the old ‘see-food’ diet at play here as well.
I look forward to the day (actually it’s coming very soon/already here) when the anti-smoking brigade turns it’s attention to obesity (or will they?). After all, it’s probable that the myriad of life-long health problems of chronic over-eaters rival the last year or two of a smoker’s life in public health-care costs….for those that care about such things ( I don’t, really).
Like the big fat fuck bus-driver that has a heart attack and kills her passengers, or the grossly overweight trucker than has a stroke and drifts his super-Bs into my lane…obesity and over-eating are an issue that affects MY health as well as yours!
I say, bring on the fat tax, AND the caffeine tax, and the bi-cycle road tax..and let’s see how the story changes when the gov’t “steps in” with blanket bans for the “common good”, lol..
Then we’ll see the “moral outrage”, that the anti-smokers feel so entitled to, quicky disappear..
Ummm … if you’re shopping at the END of a season on a SALE rack, why the fuck would you expect to find your exact size? Have you ever been to Winners? It is the luck of the draw when it comes to sale merch. Also, try some shit on. Sizes vary. And honestly, walking the streets of the city are you at all surprised the bigger sizes sell out?
Not surprised, hellakitty. It just seems that if a store is selling out of a certain size, whatever it might be, that store would stock MORE of that size in the future so they could SELL more of it. It seems stupid that stores continue to overstock one size and understock another. All value judgements aside, that’s just not good business.
Heathro, lets go shopping…
How come no-one wants to go shop for 38DD clothes with poor ole fRosTy?
🙁
I’d go with you Frost; but I’d just want to burn a few and listen to snow stories.
Don’t go shopping with NGF, Heathro. He cunts his fucking ass off and gets mad whenever you look in a shoe’s direction at a mall.
I am a very, very ordinary-looking woman—5 foot 8, 122 pounds, no fabulous bust to speak of.
I am wearing a “tiny tee” right now that is “XL”—everything else in the “medium” section looked like what they used to call “6X”. I didn’t intend for it to be a “tiny tee”, I just needed an everyday t-shirt that was a little more fashionably fitted than the baggy concert shirt I picked up Lollapolooza in 1992.
It’s still a bit small—It’s fine for my off-duty life, but I could never wear this to the office. I always thought “medium” meant something like “normal” or “ordinary” — as in not really small but not really large either.
Guess I was wrong.
(Or maybe I should stop shopping at Gap Kids.)
One other thing,
To deal with that shoulder/bust discepancy, I have been buying some of my tops for office wear a size bigger and getting certain ares taken in. I get the looseness where I need it, but avoid looking like I’m wearing someone else’s clothes.
It’s not as expensive as you might imagine, and it is almost like wearing something that was custom-made. Ooh, luxury!
I buy all of my clothes at Frenchys.
Right on, Bon. I’ve been shopping at Sally’s and other thrift stores for almost 40 years and saved a shitload of dough, especially when the sprogs were young. I even worked in the biz for a while and remember fondly my 14 pairs of practically new Italian shoes and incredible wardrobe, mostly designer shit. When I retire, I’d love to work at Value Village. I might not want a fancy wardrobe anymore but I’d go nuts over the retro knicknacks and books.