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My Clothes are For Everyone - except YOU.
From a mouse on Wank Report.

High-end fashion blogger, Susie Bubble, tries on an unfortunate creation by Pamela Hogg and posts the photographic results to her blog.

The designer's PR is not amused and demands the pictures be taken down for reasons that change with each discussion.

Defense of the designer ensues. Nasty defense!

http://pipeline.refinery29.com/daily_links/gaga_at_opening_ceremony_paul.php

"Susie Bobble isn't ugly but she's not pretty either. She's an average looking girl who loves above average looking clothes and therein lies the problem.

Message to Ms. Bobble: Make your own clothes from patterns and leave Pam and other talented designer pieces for the more suitable, pretty and slighter girls or women."

Susie pulls down the photos but is hurt and it's not from pulling off the tightest Spandex this side of the Power Rangers.

The imbroglio becomes the talk of the town.

Meow with a side of wank.

ETA: Deena of "Fat Girls Like Nice Clothes Too" has her own hilarious response.

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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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