Unbelts founder Claire Theaker-Brown demonstrates the stretch in the company's size-inclusive belts.But for many people with larger bodies, those changes aren't coming fast enough.
There's a stigma around catering to larger body sizes, according to Anne Bissonnette, a dress historian and associate professor in the University of Alberta's human ecology department.Bissonnette, whose research includes studies of how clothes and the body interact, says many manufacturers still base their measurements on a sample size from the late 1930s.
However, bodies change as a person gains or loses weight, meaning clothes may fit or hang differently on different body types, Bissonnette added. Stephanie Jonsson, who runs the plus-size fashion blog Hourglass Darling, is part of an Edmonton community of people who call themselves fat. Even at some plus-size stores, Jonsson has had to order her size online because the store didn't keep the larger sizes in stock.
"If I don't have access to that, there are things that I concretely can't really participate in. And that's a form of social exclusion.""When a clothing store only goes up to a size 3X, they're basically saying anyone who's bigger than anything above a 3X is really not part of our market," Rodier explained.
I've been skinny and I've been fat and nothing looks good when you are overweight. It's all tunics and hiding flaws, that never works. 10 pounds over, you can mask but nothing more than that.
Still waiting for the same shoe sizes they had in 1900. All shoes came in 5 widths, not everybody squashed into medium.
No one on this planet willingly chooses to be overweight, and these comments show why.
Put down the bloody donut and eat an apple. That will help
Who urged?
You could try jogging. You know what jogging is right? It's that thing you do when the ice cream truck passes by your house.
I just wish fashion would standardize sizing for online shopping. EG: In UniQlo-Japan I'm a massive sumo XL and in UniQlo-Canada I'm an M. EG: USA GAP says I'm a S...while I appreciate the compliment....in any other country than the US I'm not a S.
Western women are fat because they dont exercise and eat like crap. This is sad.