Last week in the USA Today's Money Section, they featured an article about plus-size women's clothing. It seems retailers have JUST DISCOVERED that plus-size woman want to buy clothes that, get this, ACTUALLY FIT and might even be somewhat stylish!
Talk about a Homer Simpson "Doh!" moment. Here fashion designers and retailers have been trying to lure skinny Minnie's into buying clothes when most of the country is --- SURPRISE -- overweight. In this time of recession, when nobody is buying much of anything, retailers have decided they might as well try to sell clothes to overweight people.
Then there's something that's just as annoying to me as a consumer. I'm sure you've all seen this Lee Rider Jeans ad in various magazines. Why does a woman without an ounce of fat in her body need tummy control jeans? And there's the equally skinny designer looking smug. Wow--that's something to be proud of. Making some skinny broad look -- well, the same. Come on, Stacy London, why don't you design something that will make, say, the size 12-18 crowd look halfway decent?
All I can say is: Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
How about you?
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UPDATE: I've been contacted by Lee Jeans. They offered to send me (and of course I accepted) a pair of the tummy-tuckers. I'll let you know when they arrive and how they fit.
