Plus Size Clothes
For some time those ladies with a larger body frame have felt left out of the fashion scene. The clothes available to them were unattractive and lacked style and colour often resembling curtains or tents.
Now these larger ladies no longer have to wear ugly clothes. Now a large woman has the same choice as the smaller frame ladies. Women are now able to dress to suit their bodies and size and not feel the need to hide in the shadows.
The market has at long last responded to the needs of the section of the shoppers that want larger sized clothing together with colours and style that are fashionable and comfortable.
Clothes manufacturers have at last acknowledged that there is a big business opportunity to respond to the needs of the plus size woman. The size of women has been increasing over the past few years and at last manufacturers are responding accordingly.
Larger women have become happy with both their bodies and their weight. Having gone through the process of dieting and working out to keep slim and finding that is does not work for them many women are now very happy with the way they are and the way they look and more importantly they way they feel. These plus size ladies now want clothes to fit their new found freedom
The quoted average women’s dress size has been fixed in the minds of people for many years and has at long last been acknowledged too be larger than has been previously recognised. Names given to clothing sizes has often been misleading and demoralising for the larger lady.
Frequently ranges of plus size clothes have been promoted with sizes 12 to 24 when it does not make sense to believe that anyone who is size 12 can be overweight.
Now all is changed, whatever your size a range of clothes is available to enable every woman to feel and look good in the clothes she buys. More and more stores are adding a plus size to the ranges they sell. There are also shops that concentrate solely on clothes in the plus sizes. Many on line shops stock ranges of clothes that are beautiful and appropriate for every occasion.
If you have been slow to catch onto this new shopping opportunity just go out there and see what is available for the larger ladies. No matter what size you are there are clothes of all styles, designs and colours that are ready for you to snap up.
Isn’t plus size the new normal?
Hell YES!!
For the time being…. until Plus Plus Size takes over
Once larger sizes become accepted, we will all grow to fit them
If people are told they are now ‘ok’ they will never make any attempts to lose excess weight
It took the fashion industry a while to get up to speed with social norms, but today, at long last we seem to have a massive variety of fashionable clothing for larger sizes. I’m a curvy 20 and have a great looking wardrobe
Totally agree, I struggled when I was younger, but the last 5 years or so the high street has improved greatly.
I’m an 18 and the smallest girl in our office…. though we have got a Greggs next door which doesn’t help!
Haha!
Those shops are too tempting …… for the weak minded!
Nobody forces anyone to binge eat junk food. If we are going to continue with freedom of choice as an underlying principle then we need to educate people about the necessity to eat some healthy food
Shops are becoming more reactive to shoppers needs and lots of bespoke outlets are popping up all over the place.
Isn’t it wrong to normalise overweight people? What chance does the next generation stand if we tell them its ok to eat junk until the get fat? It must cost the NHS Billions every year to deal with a problem caused by laziness and poor diet.
That’s a huge over simplification of a complex problem.
Why is it complex? We live in a lazy, gluttonous society, fed their addiction by a food industry that has been allowed by successive governments to peddle low grade crap loaded with suger and additives, supervised and monitored by idiots. Fast food companies are permitted to feed us convenience foods (which suit us down to the ground because we are all lazy) without redress. I am all for freedom of choice, and would quite literally lay down my life to defend the freedoms that we enjoy in the UK, BUT….. sometimes there is an argument for protecting people from themselves. We are walking blindly into a health crisis that is mostly driven by the fuel we choose to put into our bodies.
Maybe it should start at the beginning with better education in schools, teaching our children that our bodies need good fuel in order to perform. That junk food, prepacked food, ready meals, takeaways etc. should be an occasional treat, not a daily event.
The problem is that it seems to me that people think if someone is allowed to sell you something then it must be ok for you… so they do….
So normalise it all you like, but in two generations time we will all be too big to move….. and then we may as well be American!
Greatest country in the world you know!!
Hell Yes!!
There is nothing complex about being fat….. eat less and do more exercise…. and maybe a bit of self respect…….
Harsh but fair!
In a nutshell
As you so rightly say, major health crisis that we are sitting back and allowing to happen
It’s not complex though is it?
It’s not complex at all…. it’s really straightforward
Yeah right!
Surely that’s the biggest issue…. if there is a stigma attached to being overweight it acts as a driver for change. If you normalise being fat then people don’t care how they look or how healthy they are!
No one is going to lose so much as an ounce if they think they are ‘normal’ size…….. and it is costing the NHS billions a year
Agreed, if education doesn’t start early and people don’t learn to respect their bodies then what can we expect to happen?
As long as we live in a world where coffee concessions open up in Hospitals, selling 1000 calorie Latte’s then what chance do we stand in getting to grips with it as an issue….. either tax the crap out of calories, sugar or both, so it’s too expensive to get fat or teach people to love themselves
Good point, they are trying to earn money from the same businesses that are increasing their future customers!
Crazy double standards
Only a matter of time before McDonalds opens in a Hospital….. or a Dunkin Donuts???
Self respect sums it up
As soon as it’s not anyones fault, it becomes acceptable and no one will try to lose weight or diet
The other view is that the current plan isn’t working, so maybe something different might…. but I don’t think that saying it’s ok to get fat is helping anyone in the long term
That’s not right…. usually only overweight people who think like that?
I agree with Life5tyle, surely if we educate our children to fuel themselves with better quality nutritional foods then it doesn’t matter what the shops try to sell us, we would be healthier.
The problem with that idea is that i don’t have much faith in 50% of the people in the country to learn anything, or fight the desire for unhealthy junk food.
Education while young has got to be the answer hasn’t it?
Eat less, exercise more….. it’s not complicated
As far as I am aware it’s not compulsory to eat rubbish constantly. You have a choice.
Well said
Back in the day, only wealthy people were overweight, today, our growing size is a clear indication that as a nation we are prospering, can afford to eat far more than we used to and do less manual labour.
That’s like the truest thing ever
People will always follow the path of least resistance, with such busy, hectic, time precious lives, it is no surprise that people order in takeaway food rather than take extra time to cook real food…… how do you solve that problem?
How to solve a national crisis like this?
Weight and obesity is set to become a major issue that will bring the NHS to its knees.
The NHS doesn’t need much extra workload to push it over the cliff…. surely if we were to prevent future issues it would save millions of pounds and lives going forwards
Obesity will end up killing more people than cancer and costing us more to treat too…. and that’s if it doesn’t already