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I've had it with fashion.

By: JamiSings (42)  |  08/16/2009 01:52 AM
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Honestly I have.

First off, most of it is really, when you take it by itself, very ugly.

It's also very uniform. People just make bigger versions of the skinny girls' clothing for us fatties - and considering the skinny girls look bad in it it looks even more of a mess on us.

I've said it before, I'll say it again - fat women should NEVER wear sleeveless, capped, or slash-sleeves. Ladies, you look like CRAP in these. It's NOT empowering. It's SICKENING. It makes your arms look bigger and no one wants to see that jiggling flesh waving in the wind.

And skinny girls, you don't look much better in it. Especially those of you whom don't shave your pits.

Also, for the love of all that's holy, use antipersperant. Just cause it's sleeveless doesn't mean your pits don't reek.

Low riders are ugly on all women.

Ladies, ask most men and they'll tell you that capris need to go the way of the dinosaurs.

NO ONE makes good clothing anymore. Women are made to look like men. We don't celebrate our difference from men anymore. We try to look like them. It's sad.

Why is it that all companies make the exact same thing? It doesn't matter whom made it. It's all the same crap. Like cookie cutters.

There's no indivuality. No one pushing boundries. Everyone's making 80s fashions now. No one's thinking outside the 80s box and trying for the 70s or the 50s or 40s. (I'm skipping the 60s cause they've been brought back too much too.)

Why not disco clothing with a touch of 20s-flapper flare? There's no reason we can't bring back poodle skirts. How about a dress like the Andrew Sisters wore?

I speak as someone who buys clothing. Who wears clothing. I'm the customer. But no one is brave enough to listen to me.

I'm not the only one sick of it. Other fatties like me are sick of it. We know that horizontial stripes add visual pounds. Yet that's often all we're provided. Or big, ugly patterns.

I want to dress in clothing that HIDES my flaws rather then exposes them for people to make fun of.

I don't CARE what's in - I care about things that actually LOOK GOOD - but no one is providing them.

Fashion needs to stop being about following trends. It needs to be about MAKING them. Just cause Ralph Lauren does it doesn't mean everyone else has to too.

In the meantime I'm so disgusted I'm almost ready to become a nudiest.

I'm 240 pounds, no one, not even myself, wants to see me naked. Please, start making decent clothing already so I don't have to go that route.





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Oh Jami, Please don't give up on fashion :) I agree there should be more variety. From some unexplained reason designers target only a small group of women - about 10-20% of the entire customer base is my guess... but they aren't the only ones to blame. They are pretty much dictated by the magazines and their editors, not to mention the trend forecasting companies that come up with the 80s influences etc. It's the industry as a whole, which changed a lot in the last century. The mass production and fast fashion have their own rules, in which there is no value to proper construction, or the proper amount of fabric. What I wonder about is how come more designers don't see the potential in the plus-size customer base? There is a huge opportunity in that space, but from some reason most of them are focused on that 10-20% of women... Would be curious to see some designers weighing in...
Comment by: Yuli @ 08/16/2009, 09:44:32 AM

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