[toomuchmoxie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/bu...me&ref=general

A story on plus-size fashion week. Bring on the sexy curvy love, I say! Begone the frumpy muuumuuu!

[BethC]

Interesting... and it's about time!!

[Eliana]

That is not always so easy for retailers venturing into the world of larger shoppers. Some bigger women do not like to try on clothes in the same fitting rooms as smaller women. Plus-size stocks take up valuable storage space, and not everyone is big in the same way, meaning stores cannot count on, say, a size 16 dress fitting most 180-pound women — one might have a larger torso, another big thighs and another wider hips.

Is this true, that some plus-sized women don't like changing in the same room as thinner women? I'm sure there are a few out there, but enough to justify ghettoizing all plus-sized women?

[Beverlyjoy]

It's nice to have a fun choice on the way down to regular (not plus size) clothing.

[FitGirlyGirl]

It really is about time. The target stuff is actually cute. The plus size stuff at Wal-Mart also looks like it is getting cuter and younger looking. I've heard there are good things going on in the plus size section at K-Mart too, but I haven't been there yet since there isn't one in my town. It figures though, they finally start having cute plus size stuff when I FINALLY don't need it. Hmph! I am still very happy about it though for those who do need it. I do worry they will go too far in trying to make the plus size stuff too young and trendy though. I hope that the older ladies who need plus sizes don't end up with the same problem younger women have had until now.

[Eliana]

The fashion industry needs to figure out that one size does not fit all in so many ways and never has! We range in age just as much as in body type.

Careful, or you'll get me going on a full rant about "modern fit"!

[kaplods]

Originally Posted by Eliana

Is this true, that some plus-sized women don't like changing in the same room as thinner women? I'm sure there are a few out there, but enough to justify ghettoizing all plus-sized women?

I'm not sure it's the thin women, but the way changing rooms are designed for thin women. I hate when changing rooms are so so small it feels like changing in a phone booth. "Swingy" doors are also a nuisance when the room is so small (while you're wriggling into a garment, you end up wriggling the door open).

If the stalls are roomy, I don't even think of the size of the other women. However, 20 years or so ago many mall stores had changing rooms that weren't really private rooms at all. It was just a huge room with a few partitions with mirrors, but no doors (so everyone saw each other changing). I haven't been in those stores since, so I don't know if they still exisit.

I've never been super comfortable changing in front of other women. Locker rooms still make me somewhat nervous when there's a huge mix of body types. At the warm water therapy pool I'm stilll a little self-conscious (but much less so). Because most of the other women are old, fat, and/or scarred, I feel like I don't always have the worst/ugliest body there.

My mom is changing room phobic (every time she tries on clothes she gripes the entire time, about how much she hates trying clothes on). It's not uncommon for her to buy clothes, try them on at home and return them if they don't fit. When my sisters or I shop with her, we nag her into trying clothes on, and one of us has to go into the fitting room with her for moral support (and to hear the incessant griping).

[synger]

Originally Posted by kaplods

My mom is changing room phobic (every time she tries on clothes she gripes the entire time, about how much she hates trying clothes on). It's not uncommon for her to buy clothes, try them on at home and return them if they don't fit. When my sisters or I shop with her, we nag her into trying clothes on, and one of us has to go into the fitting room with her for moral support (and to hear the incessant griping).

I'm kinda like that. I've done the buy-first-try-on-at-home thing before. I really dislike trying on clothing. I've ended up in absolute tears in the dressing room too many times. It's the size of the room, having to look at full-lengthy me in the mirror, the frustration of not finding something that fits, or what's almost worse finding that the only thing that fits is something you'd hate wearing but you buy it anyway.

I find something that fits, and buy it in various colors. I buy very simple styles that can be easily mixed and matched. I buy clothes that are somewhat baggy, just because it's easier to wear somthign that's too large than too small.

I absolutely hate to clothes shop. Hate. Loathe. Despise.

It's like going to the dentist. I put it off as long as I can, then get it over with as quickly as humanly possible. And try not to think about it in between shopping trips.