July 14, 2010

• Plus sizes

  Ok so not even plus sizes.... I average about a 15 and a large size top... not bad not good... however most people who know me also know my rants about how it seems no two manufacturers can agree on same sizing across the board... heck most manufacturers change from piece to piece.  This has resulted in me having a crap load of brand new clothing that doesn't fit and that I refuse to get rid of because I paid for them.

  Though its not just a problem that plagues bigger women either because a couple summers ago I lost a bunch of weight and had pants ranging from a size four right up to an eleven and they all fit?  I totally think that a system has to be implemented to help everyone. Be it consumers who get the problematic sizing or the retailers who probably take plenty of returns.  And granted I could return most of the clothing but not so long ago i didnt drive therefore I usually went shopping with a friend and didnt want to have to bother them again to return stuff and now I think that has carried over even though I can go anytime.  The other problem I have always had returning things is for most of my life I have lived in the country and I still cant justify driving back to town to get back 5 bucks or whatever.

  I realize by now those of you still actually reading this are saying "well why don't you just try stuff on?"  And I have a good reason for that too. Though not everyone will understand.  For most of my adult life I have been a bigger woman and I find it extremely depressing and disappointing to look through a store for hours to try on a million things and 3/4 of them don't fit.  I have tried shopping in the plus size section only to either be depressed by the lack of cute and fashionable clothing or again because now everything is too big.

  So now my shopping consists of going into walmart maybe and knowing that I need 2 pairs of pants and a shirt and all I do is grab what grabs my attention and hope it comes in say a size 15 which in most cases it never does so I will grab the closest size and go.

  To some this may seem rather trivial but I think if there are any of my "odd sized" friends reading this they know exactly what I'm talking about and share this frustration. I'm faced with the epidemic of skinny people are the only ones who need proper clothing. I have watched as sizes have changed drastically yet myself and others like me remain the same size. 

  This problem also has been egged on by my recent meandering through ebay for lingerie and ideas for my honeymoon.  One size used to always be on the bigger side now one size fits all is one size fits small.  So again I thought well I'll check the plus sized stuff and again am faced with either its too big or plus size has all of a sudden become much smaller depending on who made it.

  And if its not the above problem in my lingerie shopping its the same old thing it has always been for bigger women which is well maybe you would like to be and feel sexy but the masses don't see it that way so the only lingerie we are going to make for bigger women is a goddamn tent... There is absolutely no style no selection and no sexiness to the plus sized woman seeking lingerie.  I looked at pages and pages of lingerie and they were all big drapy tentish style "baby dolls" 

  What if I want to wear a thong or a corset or a body stocking? because I'm overweight I should just wear flannel pjs to bed and hope my fiance loves plaid and it turns him on?  I think not! I'm rebelling against the masses and the big corporations! If you won't make me something sexy I'll do it myself! and If I have to I will make it for all the other large ladies too!

   

  Anyway thats my rant for this evening. Hope I didn't offend too many people.

   

  Later Dayz 

  Brandi

  • 3:05 am
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