O.k. people. It’s time to get some of you involved in contributing to this blog. I propose a debate on the clothing manufacturing industry. Hence the following resolution:
Resolved: That the design and manufacture of clothing should be controlled by an international organization of REAL sized people who can grasp the concept that life does not end at size 12.
Please email your responses to me by February 13, 2009.
There will be a reward for submitting a contribution.
Far be it for me to pass up a direct challenge!! Please, please, pretty please, can I chair the international organization of REAL sized people?? The fashion industry in a word, sucks, for anyone above a size 14. And even the so-called plus sized stores cut off at size 24 much of the time. That just burns my waffles, let me tell you!! I haven't been a size 24 since...hm....let me see...can I remember that far back? For several years, I've been purchasing clothes from U.S. designers--designers whose clothes START at a size 22 and go up from there!!! Um...HELLO CANADIAN DESIGNERS!! Anyone up here have the...ahem...pincushions to start a company like that?? I guarantee that if you market well, the clothes will fly off the hangers. I've spent years writing letters to Pennington's head office and complaining and slowly I'm seeing some gradual, minute changes happening (like finally some bras for us gifted girls!!) but I can only live so long, and I'd like to see some serious change in my lifetime.
ReplyDeleteSo, yeah, if this coalition of ticked off fashion cheated women gets off the ground...I'm THERE!!!