You know, maybe it is not so much that you are oversized but that the avarage size of those clothes is unrealistic and made for women who abide to the unrealistic 'beauty' ideals of starving oneself to the point of underweight? :)
When I go shopping (and I *am* fat, more than I care for, sadly enough), I see most of the avarage clothes size are bwtween 34 and 42 max, while everything larger is hardly in evidence. I do not know if they produce less of those greater sizes, or if, since most women down here *have* size 42 and bigger, those greater sizes are simply bought out sooner. But do they produce more of the bigger sizes to meet the need, then? Noooo.
On the other hand, I am about 5,7 feet tall. Even when I was twenty and weighted a lot less, I had just size 40, not smaller, and I was not overweighted then, but had the weight that was *healthy* for my size. So? I believe the beauty ideal is a tad unrealistic.
And like a lot of women at my age, I have gained a lot more weight now, and realistically I will never meet the weight I had with twenty again. Good thing that some companies have got the message and produce good and great looking clothes for 'oversized' women, too, now.
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Date: 2006-10-18 07:54 am (UTC)When I go shopping (and I *am* fat, more than I care for, sadly enough), I see most of the avarage clothes size are bwtween 34 and 42 max, while everything larger is hardly in evidence. I do not know if they produce less of those greater sizes, or if, since most women down here *have* size 42 and bigger, those greater sizes are simply bought out sooner. But do they produce more of the bigger sizes to meet the need, then? Noooo.
On the other hand, I am about 5,7 feet tall. Even when I was twenty and weighted a lot less, I had just size 40, not smaller, and I was not overweighted then, but had the weight that was *healthy* for my size. So? I believe the beauty ideal is a tad unrealistic.
And like a lot of women at my age, I have gained a lot more weight now, and realistically I will never meet the weight I had with twenty again. Good thing that some companies have got the message and produce good and great looking clothes for 'oversized' women, too, now.