I'm appalled that my jeans size has gone up two sizes and I've lost weight over the last three years. It's not that I'm huge, it's that the clothes just are designed for people with any sort of ass or thighs whatsoever. It's very frustrating to know that I'm roughly the same size I was in early college and technically two sizes larger. How the frilly heck does that happen?
I think we should move to Ireland! When I was there, I bought some pajamas in a department store, a departmennt store mind you, not an Irish version of lane Bryant - and they were Large! Not Extra large, not XXL - which is what I'd have to buy in the States. And they hung loose on me.
Then I went to a Irish wool factory and found a perfect sweater that only came in medium. I bought it anyway in those deluded thoughts I always have, that I'm sure I'll lose the weight and wear it - but then I got home - and it fit!
I don't know why the US Fashion industry deliberately tries to shame it's consumers.
That reminds me of when (and why) I stopped buying stuff from Victoria's Secret. I am a busty girl, but I wasn't a D-cup when I stopped buying their stuff. I was a C, and yet, none of the bras I was trying on fit anymore. I thought it was highly suspect that I was a C one week and a D the next, and yet not with any other company. I suppose that some other less deep-bosomed girl was probably thrilled, but not me.
Also, kind of going along with Spuffylove's comment on Irish stores, I bought a skirt at Laura Ashley a couple of years ago in a size twelve. The weird thing is, I was a size sixteen at the time.
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I'm appalled that my jeans size has gone up two sizes and I've lost weight over the last three years. It's not that I'm huge, it's that the clothes just are designed for people with any sort of ass or thighs whatsoever. It's very frustrating to know that I'm roughly the same size I was in early college and technically two sizes larger. How the frilly heck does that happen?
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I think we should move to Ireland! When I was there, I bought some pajamas in a department store, a departmennt store mind you, not an Irish version of lane Bryant - and they were Large! Not Extra large, not XXL - which is what I'd have to buy in the States. And they hung loose on me.
Then I went to a Irish wool factory and found a perfect sweater that only came in medium. I bought it anyway in those deluded thoughts I always have, that I'm sure I'll lose the weight and wear it - but then I got home - and it fit!
I don't know why the US Fashion industry deliberately tries to shame it's consumers.
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Also, kind of going along with Spuffylove's comment on Irish stores, I bought a skirt at Laura Ashley a couple of years ago in a size twelve. The weird thing is, I was a size sixteen at the time.
US clothing manufacturers suck.
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