Fashion for Fat Girls. This has been on my mind for several days. I am, you see, a Fat Girl, er Woman. Fat, Fluffy, Plus size - whatever you want to call it. I prefer fluffy, myself. But I have issues...not with being fluffy, but with the ignorant minds that design and market fashion for us big girls. Why is it that if, according to statistics so many Americans are overweight, when you look in the everyday run-of-the-mill clothing stores (i.e., Penneys, Target, etc.) the clothing section for us Big Girls is about the size of your average master bedroom. I mean, there's this huge, entire store full of teeny-tiny anorexic-heroin-queen-sized clothing when those are the minority of women in America! And the few clothes they do have look like they were made from hotel-room bedspreads. I mean, do I really look like I want bright red and orange hisbiscus flowers plastered all over my size 18 rear end? Or across my 44DD chest, for pete's sake? Gimme a break, fashion gurus! Where are the affordable, tasteful, well-made clothes for those of us with ample figures? Are you hoping to shame us into becoming mere shadows of ourselves? Do you think that if you don't market to us, we'll eventually fade away and cease to be a reminder of what could happen to Barbie if she really cuts loose? Think again, skinny-minnie. We're here to stay, and we have a sense of fashion. Time to start catering to us as well.
--bru, fluffy and fashionable
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