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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2008-06-23 04:22 pm
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dudes. DUDES. what, if i may ask, the fucking fuck?

So I just got an e-mail from [livejournal.com profile] sanj, talking about shopping, as we sometimes do. Not trying to buy this dress at full price, she says to me, but I'm watching like a hawk for when it goes on sale.

Here is the dress. Nice dress. Will look great on [livejournal.com profile] sanj. But does anyone besides me see the SERIOUS GLARING PROBLEM with this thing?

Note please that this is a merchant that declares "Sophisticated Style, Size 12+", and that in the URL for this item we find that we're in the directory "plus-size-clothing". We will skip over the rant about how if you're going to create a boundary between "plus" sizes and "regular" (or, as I like to call them, "minus") sizes, size 12 shouldn't be it, and look in the size bar for this particular dress.

The smallest size available is "0X (10-12)". ZERO-X, y'all. NOT-XL. Why would you offer this in a "plus-size" line? If you've set aside a place where the "plus-size" have to shop by themselves, isn't it, forgive me, at least rude and possibly even cruel to clutter up their options with "not-XL" sizes? And THEN there's the fact that they wouldn't have such a thing if some size 10 somewhere hadn't felt driven out of the minus-size department.

I can't decide on whose behalf I'm angrier -- the perfectly normal and happy fat chicks or the medium-sized girl who thinks (a) she's fat and (b) that's bad.
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[personal profile] thalia 2008-06-23 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno... did you look at their size chart? According to that site, a size 10 is approximately 42-34-45, which I think is traditionally plus size-ish. (I mean, I'd wear an 8 by that chart, and I'm not an 8 in any store I've discovered.) I think their numbering might be goofy, but I don't think the sizes they carry are unusual.

And I'm kind of disappointed, because they had some seriously adorable dresses.