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Dani is fed up of not being catered for when clothes shopping on the high street
I am at home with the flu. Doing what people with the flu do best, which is watching daytime TV. During my morning chat show viewing an advert pops on for Marisota. A catalogue just for women who find it difficult to find clothes and shoes to fit. During the advert the narrator claims that: “Half the women we asked claimed they could not find clothes to fit correctly. Half the women we asked said they cannot find shoes wide enough. Sally was one of the women we asked and she said she could not find trousers long enough.” Or something along those lines.
Where did they find these women? How many women did they actually survey? I have a sneaking suspicion they only asked women who may already answer the questions the way they want.
“The only hope I had was the Kate Moss collection at Topshop – which I have tried on and been disappointed with”
I have no problem with there being special shops for larger ladies, taller ladies, and sections for wider feet. But why is it, that if I started up my own catalogue for skinny girls I would probably get shouted at by the kind of people who do that sort of thing for promoting anorexia.
I just find it slightly unfair. I sit there in jeans that hang off and a top that hides any of my female form. The only hope I had was the Kate Moss collection at Topshop – which I have tried on and been disappointed with. Each time a new season of clothes come out, the shops that do the occasional piece that fits seems to make their sizes bigger.
I am not the only person with this problem. A friend of mine is just as thin. (Naturally – no disorders here – for those of you who think it just isn’t humanly possible!) She has trouble finding clothes to fit, and has also noticed that clothes appear to be growing bigger.
think this whole area is governed by a woman, who strives for the bodies seen in magazines and, after many attempts, she has found it just isn’t possible and therefore has stopped catering for this phantom size group.
Just as when a larger woman can’t find a new pair of jeans to fit, it is just as disheartening when you are on the opposite end of the scale. I quite often go for a rummage in TK Maxx. It is not so much of a rummage as a scan as I look at all the hangers and try to spot a bright pink clippy thing which means the item on that hanger is a size 6. Roughly one pair in 20 jeans I try on will actually fit. And that doesn’t mean I like them!
I don’t fully understand why it is socially acceptable to be a size 16 but not a size six. Just the same way a very, very large woman might get funny looks when shopping, so do I. People always presume that skinniness is due to a disorder. Some people will just always be bigger or smaller, but it seems you only get catered for if you are a woman with the perfect hour-glass figure (because that is what all those magazines cater for really). I know I have said all this before but it drives me bonkers!
And what is with that advert for Coco Rocks with the cavemen? Who chose the music? Random!
