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	thebratqueen 2009-06-04 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	Slighter?? If Susie was any thinner she'd be frakking invisible! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eilisliana 2009-06-04 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	That's what I was thinking too, Susie Bubble looks dinky. These designers must think women like me are hippos. :/ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	judyhazeleyes 2009-06-04 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	And I'm pretty much a planet over here. Can someone get me a magnifying glass and tweezers so I can find my positive self-image? I went and lost it again D: /srs bzns (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2009-06-06 03:18 am UTC (link)
	You can borrow mine and my electron microscope after I find mine. Also, got any rose-colored mirrors I can borrow? /mithering (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2009-06-06 03:19 am UTC (link)
	Shit, wrong icon. I meant this one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sneer 2009-06-04 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Many of these people consider size 8 "plus-sized," so yeah, they're kind of not so much with the being in touch with reality. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eilisliana 2009-06-04 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	I'm 10/12 so yeah I don't exist in their world. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rachelmap 2009-06-04 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	I'm size 22, and they can kiss my extremely large ass for my money. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eleutheria 2009-06-05 02:52 am UTC (link)
	I'm a 24, and yeah, ditto. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	tree 2009-06-05 09:57 am UTC (link)
	16 here, the fat end of what regular clothes shops will put on the shelves. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gunshou 2009-06-05 12:34 pm UTC (link)
	14; I hear ya. XP (Reply to this)(Parent)

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	judyhazeleyes 2009-06-04 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	... hay-zooooooos. That's just criminal. (Reply to this)(Parent)

tachikoma01
2009-06-05 07:25 pm UTC (link)

I've noticed that many 'trendy' stores that cater to youth: H & M, Hot Topic, the high end of Macy's, Delliah's, ect consider a size 12 to be an "XL" and the largest size they'll carry in their stores.

Yet last study I saw, 12 is the AVERAGE size of a woman in the US.

So basically, almost any store aimed at the young and trendy crowd has decided you have to be in the bottom 50% of the population size-wise to shop there.

[I remember being so excited about a Torrid opening, because I thought I could get neat gothy-clothes and My Little Ponies shirts for larger girls, only to find out they don't carry what Hot Topic does only in bigger sizes- they carry clothes that scream 'Hi, I'm a fat gawth' and are still cut in hourglass shapes, which many bigger girls AREN'T.]

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	dragonfangirl 2009-06-06 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	I sympathize, although for all their faults, I still respect Torrid for at least trying, and not just declaring that all fat chicks must wear sweatpants forevah lest anyone look at them and mistake them for someone pretty. (Reply to this)(Parent)

vzg
2009-06-26 12:02 am UTC (link)

Aw. Maybe my local Torrid is different? Not that they don't have a lot of darker clothes and whatnot, but they also have a lot of color.

Although to find clothes I can wear there I have to try on everything. Almost everything they carry is cut differently, and while some stuff fits me like a charm (I bought my absolute favorite pair of pants ever there), other stuff is both too tight and too loose at the same time.

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white_tean
2009-06-05 06:55 am UTC (link)

I know! I mean, what the hell, by no standard is she overweight and hell, these twigs they're talking about (because you have to be thinking of twigs to beat down at someone with her body) aren't healthy weight. I mean, you generally need to have six kilos to lose off of your frame without looking like a skeleton because a prolonged flu like illness can wipe you out otherwise, so I don't know that the hell these idiots are talking about because her being "slighter" would be the most idiotic recommendation ever.

Anyway, she actually made the catsuit look fun.

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white_tean
2009-06-05 07:00 am UTC (link)

Oh, I should mention, the six kilos thing is just my own experience and not a medical opinion, it's what a friend lost in weight while she had the flu and even though she was curvy to begin with she looked like hell by the end of it. I've lost weight while sick too but I tend to only pay a vague attention to my weight - I tend to just rely on the mirror to let me know how I'm doing.

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	adevyish 2009-06-05 09:20 am UTC (link)
	If a model as thin as the designer wanted wore that, their ribs would be showing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tofuknight 2009-06-05 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	Clearly the Superhero Plague-victim! was what the designer is going for. Or maybe Femme Famine! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tachikoma01 2009-06-05 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	Marvel Zombies wear? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	adevyish 2009-06-06 03:02 am UTC (link)
	Zombies have more meat on them. Mummies, though... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lady_ganesh 2009-06-05 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	Ribs are sexy, didn't you get the memo? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	_goblin_ 2009-06-07 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	As a person who has spent unfortunate amounts of time being rilly, rilly waaaaay too skinny, I think I can say with authority that anyone slimmer than Suzy who wore that catsuit would look fucking terrible. I mean, it's spandex. It hides nothing, and hip-bones you can put an eye out on, coupled with a xylophone chest, just aren't nice to look at. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jaseroque 2009-06-12 10:54 am UTC (link)
	Seriously! I am a twig (not by choice, either) and I'll tell you now -- I would never have had the guts to put that thing on, and if I had and you'd stood us side by side, adorable little Susie Bubble would look about a thousand times cuter than I ever could wearing that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	adevyish 2009-06-13 03:54 am UTC (link)
	Same here—I've put on more weight recently, but my ribcage is ginormous, and I can't wear anything more revealing than a loose T-shirt. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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