Some clothing comes in the generic small, medium, large etc. sizing. For reference, I’m XS, XXS if I can find it. Looking for size 6 clothing (my best-fitting size, though often clothing isn’t even made that small - usually starts at 8 or so) is next to impossible, unless you have lots of cash or your own tailor.
Size S is something of a saviour to me.
So when it’s not available, I get very, very annoyed. I hate clothes shopping precisely because it’s so bloody hard, and I don’t have the money to move to Japan (my sartorial Christendom).
But especially given that the average size of an Australian female is size 14. That’s fine - why don’t clothing companies make more bloody size-14 clothes then? That isn’t plus-sized.
Vanity. Being large is undesirable in this world, even when it is the majority. Admittedly, some such persons may just be overweight, but some are also genuinely big-boned. There is no shame in this; as long as you’re healthy (eating well, trying to be active) it’s ok to not look like some Dickensian street urchin (I was going to say ‘heroin-chic supermodel, but that is so 90s. Ugh).
Alas, many do not share or even want to share this point of view (which is a little saddening). And so we have the larger ladies cramming themselves into size S clothing. One last attempt at delusion.
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