Big Girl Chic: Plus-Size Retail Growing

[Proud2AVoter]

Thank you, sir. We ladies appreciate you.

Tweren't nothin', ma'am. You're welcome. My mother raised me right and respect is utmost when it comes to the fairer sex.

[packyderms_wife]

DUDE!!!
Are you out of your mind?!?!?! You may live in Kommifornication, but jeeze, pull your head out of your rectum and act like a gentleman. If you ever said any of that to a woman in my life, I'd be arrested for what would happen to your butt. Ladies, please let me apologize to you for the poor example of what may pass as a male human being. I know how the words cut on this, it's saddening to see women with intelligence and radiant beauty being defiled by those who are shallower than a wading pool.

Thank you, and you are correct words to cut deep!

K-

[packyderms_wife]

Big Girl Chic: Plus-Size Retail Growing

this is a video

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/



without getting into the whole overweight argument, this is just about the information that plus size clothes and how the fashion industry is starting to get better clothes for sizes 12 and up

There IS NO argument. Contrary to popular belief if I feel pretty and better about myself because my clothes fit properly, instead of my clothes trying to wear me, I'm more apt to take better care of myself, work out, etc.

One of the things that has totally baffled me in the past ten years is the media's outright attack of obese people and YET there are NO WORKOUT Clothes for fat people!!! I've never understood this, at all!

[Lady Liberty]

One of the things that has totally baffled me in the past ten years is the media's outright attack of obese people and YET there are NO WORKOUT Clothes for fat people!!! I've never understood this, at all!

I know one company that makes them, but they are expensive: http://junonia.com

[HeritageDoc]

It's interesting to see this concept flourish and overweight people in the spotlight. You'd think someone would have come up with this much sooner.

However, pick up any major national magazine and look for the fat people. They're still conspicuously missing. Much the same way Blacks were ignored on TV back in the 50's.

That's the first thing I do with any new magazine in a waiting area is scan it for the fat people. Still not represented.

[MinnesotaSmith]

It's interesting to see this concept flourish and overweight people in the spotlight. You'd think someone would have come up with this much sooner.

However, pick up any major national magazine and look for the fat people. They're still conspicuously missing. Much the same way Blacks were ignored on TV back in the 50's.

That's the first thing I do with any new magazine in a waiting area is scan it for the fat people. Still not represented.

Who would want to PAY to see them? People would rather look at pictures of attractive people; consider "People", "Playboy", etc. Periodical publishers are in the same situation as movie makers; they wish to sell as many copies in their niche as they can. There ARE magazines and websites devoted to pictures of morbidly obese people in the porn industry; like websites devoted to pictures of amputees (I know of one from someone sending it to me, but won't post it here), they're considered fetish mags/sites, not a normal/wider-based market.

[Summerthyme]

I can't imagine a loving father making remarks like that! Man, have I lived a sheltered life or what? My husband adored (still does!) our daughter, and thought she was beautiful. She wasn't conventionally pretty, but has a stunning, athletic figure. Even so, he'd have never criticized her appearance. What a world!

And speaking of "what a world", this stuff starts SO young, it's sickening. A few years back my youngest son was dating his girlfriend-from-hell (that's the politest term I use for her- don't ask!). Her family was best described as "poor white trash with cash"... IOW, they weren't poor, but otherwise...

She brought her little niece over one day... gorgeous little blond toddler, just over 2 years old. She picked her up, and the little one's t-shirt hiked up. Like you do with babies, I reached over and poked her gently in her tummy, tickling her, and pulled her shirt back down. She looked down, pulled it down even farther and said "I'z fat". At TWO!!! We assured her that she absolutely was NOT fat... and she wasn't.. she was a perfect, sturdy little toddler.

I haven't seen anyone in that family in years, and I don't want to, but I'd bet almost any amount of money that the little girl is now a promiscuous, possibly anorexic or bulimic teenager. Because that's where it starts...

Summerthyme

[Avandris]

How do you "ignore" someone on here? I am finally deciding to ignore MS. His comments are always so bigoted that they always make me sneer that I just don't want to read his comments any longer.

*** in response to him though... I would rather look at photos of HEALTHY overweight people than look at skeletons in clothing. You look at enough photos of starving people from WWII or work with the elderly that are slowly wasting away and you no longer view the morbidly thin (Fashionable) look as attractive. You only view them as photos of unhealthy or dying people. Maybe they won't die soon, but they will die earlier due to lack of nutrients.

[packyderms_wife]

Who would want to PAY to see them? People would rather look at pictures of attractive people; consider "People", "Playboy", etc. Periodical publishers are in the same situation as movie makers; they wish to sell as many copies in their niche as they can. There ARE magazines and websites devoted to pictures of morbidly obese people in the porn industry; like websites devoted to pictures of amputees (I know of one from someone sending it to me, but won't post it here), they're considered fetish mags/sites, not a normal/wider-based market.

wow MS's post is so inappropriate!!!