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plus size??
| Tue, 03-08-2005 - 4:37pm |
i was just on another message board site and there was an ad for lane bryant. i thought lane bryant was a store for plus size women, but the model didn't look plus size to me and i was confused. so i went to their website and none of their models look plus size to me. they just look like regular women. MAYBE they are a size 14 (that seems to be the smallest size lane bryant sells) but they must be 5'10" and size 14, because there was no one that was big enough to be 5'5 and size 14.
that was the last straw for me. now i'm officially pissed about the whole media-obsession-with-skinny-girls thing. and to add insult to injury, even though my body proportions look exactly like those "plus size" models, i could never be one because i'm a size 6.

Yeah, but it's always been this way. I was a Lane Bryant customer for many years and rarely did they show models who actually LOOK plus-sized. The pictures they have up in the store and the people who actually shop in the store look very, very different. The only exception I saw was the Lane Bryant catalogue (which is separate from the store and owned by different companies I believe). They would show real plus sized women but their clothes were also the typical large person clothes (tent dresses, etc.).
There used to be a magazine called Mode that catered to plus size women and I used to really enjoy that magazine. The women in it actually were plus sized and the clothes they modeled were usually fairly easy to locate and afford. I don't think it's published anymore...
Jean,
Oy, sizes. I have such size issues. I'm a size 12 (10 on a good day, or at the Gap), and I'm also 5'2". When I was a little heavier, it was IMPOSSIBLE for me to find something that fit. Petites were too small (even the largest sizes), regular sizes fit all wrong (especially fitted shirts and jackets -- the "waist" would hit me at the hip, so it would be too tight, but the rest would be too big), and the clothing in the Lane Bryant type stores was massive.
I can't tell you how frustrating it was to go suit shopping with my boyfriend and realize that men's suits are tailored so that every designer's sizes are EXACTLY the same.