May 15, 2013
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answer me this
aha! i walked by the television for the week later ollllld news that thirstey alley was displeased …cuss cuss… that abercrombie and fitch, a fashion retailer… England but i’m not sure… is against carrying plus sized ladies clothes. while some purchase upon the new argument that we all have merit regardless of our weight may be shown to be true… I’m curious and thus answer me this, doesn’t this amount to strengthening the divide between what fashion ultimately is…elitist – I’m different, thus fashionable?
we seem to live in a time where the situation isn’t a choice but a fight for who has the moral highground thus choose this way or that but i’m right…and thus have stolen any meaning from the situation. we also live in a time were only this or that one is allowed an oppinion and thus all opinions have the right amount of weight. this really seems amusing because we don’t want our chocies invalidated and thus our voice silenced and we all seem to swiftly damn preachers for preaching to us our new oppinion no thank you church who advances not my politics! yet here we are to shun abercrombie and fitch for saying fat women aren’t in the fashion club. abercrombie and fitch didn’t invent fashion but it would seem it adheres to the mantra they target their consumer model and pursue it. funny that’s the business side of fashion to choose their market directions… sour grapes on fat ass kirsty ally for what? getting your clothesline turned down now trying to make a company look bad for being not anti fat person but anti kirsti alli.. ..lord go ahead heap the old fashions on a pyre and wait 3 years for fashions to…what become rare and more desired. why do i get the feeling this is an abercrombie and fitch sneaky marketing ploy???
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furt5her on my hunh list of how rude could people possibly be?… we are what? supposed to round up all our abercrombie and fitch clothes and give them to the homeless… what so the homeless can be UNfashionable? geez! this is a circus of what side of how big an asshole am I in life to be? this is seriously funny! maybe it will benefit the homeless to be overcharged for fashionable name brand clothing…damn good will is in for a spike in profits hopefully someone has their deals in place for this and it works out for all… abercrombie and fitch will remain uber stylish and elitest…win for real fashion everywhere really…. kirsty a, said it again that plus size people deserve fashions but obviously thanks to kirsty had their cause set back to thinspo’s delight everywhere…being thin is work to you fat slob bitches… china and other overseas peoples now get fashionable prices for fabric…woo hoo1 and thus economy is stimulated and really in truth only fat people lose more money and reamin no further along in their quest to be told they’re pretty too…. so only plus sizers gain a wallet loss and everyone else wins..
Personally, A&F isn’t exactly my style of clothes. Even when I was a size 3, that just wasn’t what I wanted to wear. They have a right to sell to whatever customers they choose, just like I have the right to not buy even a scarf from them.
Kirstie has the same rights, she can buy, or not. She can sew her own, or she can pay to have something made for her. There are lines of clothing FOR plus sizes, that do not sell to smaller people. Different strokes.Different folks.
I’ve never shopped at A&F. I don’t know why they wouldn’t carry plus size clothing. I think calling clothing plus size is itself kind of marginalizing. Like if you buy clothing past a specified size you’re outside the norm. It’s not done with men. Think of Shaq looking for a pair of sneakers.
you has a point.
I imagine Kirstie is looking for a little publicity. If not A&F. I have never shopped at A&F. Looking in gives me hives.
@moniet@TheSutraDude - @distractedbyzombies -
- I like my readers… not always do we agree but for times like these no of you seems to see much passion in the story for mine or your points of view.
I liked how they were featured like what 26 years ago on married with children but otherwise I don’t shop there never thought of them realy, I have of course looked up a bespoke suit which doesn’t refer to them either but is also in the fashion world of tailored ware. if one can’t can’t wear this or that buy something equally fitting, but weather it’s gucci or prada or armani or abercrombie and fitch there is more than one store
I shop at Target and K-mart and Old Navy, etc….so they wouldn’t be aiming their ploys at me!
A&F and Kirstie are probably all looking for some attention! 
HUGS!!!
@adamswomanback - OLD NAVY? you shop at bold gravy?
@starmanjones - Yah. They have good sales!
I don’t shop much for me. I do like to shop for other people. 
@adamswomanback -
cool I’ve been in I just got out of the retail style racket apparently 20 years ago
I can’t wear BCBG. The sales clerks are always nice to me, though. They hint how they might have a size 10 in the back room for me. I giggle and tell them they know darn sure I am not even a size 10, either. It’s my goal, however, to walk in there one day and find something that I like that fits. Before I am too old. Which is also why I like Betsy Johnson. It’s ok for old people to have style:
https://www.google.com/search?q=old+people+with+style&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=VriUUfStGYL68QS0mIDwBg&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1092&bih=514
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@starmanjones - What kills me is the size differences that exist as a rule anyway. In ‘most’ men’s clothes a size is in reference to the exact amount of humanity it will fit. Shirts are sold by the sleeve length and neck size. So if your neck is like a redwood tree trunk, you know that a size 14 will not fit. Pants are sold by the waist size, and by the length, so Shaq knows that a size 28/30 won’t cut it.
Enter women’s wear. First of all, sizes are not at all uniform. Not at all. In a fancy high end store, a size 5 or 10 will cover…about 4 more ‘sizes’ than a size 5 or 10 from K-Mart. My bff is approximately the same size as I am, except that she’s shorter by about 7 inches. BUT, I shop at places where the fabric covers a certain amount of territory…and she pays 4 times as much to be able to proclaim that she is 5 sizes smaller than me. (lol not really, she just likes the clothes…) Now, we both know we wear the same clothes, because we’ve borrowed back and forth on some things. Shirts, skirts, shorts. All fit us both…from both stores. So I technically have a 5 size range to choose from, depending on where I choose to shop.
That is REALLY frustrating when you’re trying to buy a specific outfit…because it may fit…or it may not. I wish that the industry would have ‘rules’ of what sizes are supposed to be…instead of having to guestimate if an outfit actually fits or not. I can get more worked up about that than whether a store wishes to cater to small, medium or plus sized people. In our area, we have mens specialty store that cater to ‘bigger’ men…and no one has had a cow about them. Women need to get over themselves…if you don’t want the label of ‘plus sized’ eat less, exercise more, have some lipo, or buy your size 10 blouses at that fancy place that makes them…where they really are size 14, with a size 10 label.
@moniet - don’t have a cow man…bart simpson voice of course by julie kavner?
I love Julie Kavner and Marge Simpson – there’s come a point in my life when I’ve stopped growing and gaining, and as long as I take care of my clothes I shouldn’t have the need to go shopping for clothes at all….well unless I get attacked by a coyote and he tears my clothes to smithereens, then I think I’ll join a nudest camp – do they have plus sized nudest camps
@mlbncsga - if i can avoid preteen snorting for a moment, I suppose so.
would they be known as confidence camps?
@starmanjones - why certainly they would
@mlbncsga - which meaning of the word?
lol! (rhetorical)
@starmanjones -Of course! lol
@starmanjones - I pick “reliance on another’s discretion” … but can you classify nudist as discrete
@moniet -
@mlbncsga - lol