Astounded by trip to shopping centre today

No, it doesn’t mean a minor problem. The context of that line is when someone is complaining about something that’s actually got good connotations; a problem lots of people would love to have. Not a minor problem, but something other people would actually want as a problem because it means they’d have the same attribute.

Like complaining that your pool cleaner was late so you had to wait an extra hour to swim in your lovely big pool.
Complaining she can’t get a smaller sized which means she is very svelte, which is something a lot of people would want even if it means struggling to find the sizes.

That’s what “are your diamond shoes too tight” means. It’s about jealousy.

Is it? I think there’s quite a broad range of clothes there personally.

OP, m&s kids has some cracking bits! I’ve had a few tops from there I love

i was a size 6, 20 years ago and it was like that then too. Lots of stock wasn’t available in a size 6. I can’t remember the store but one I was in only had one pair of shorts they made in a size 6

They probably took the size 6s off today because of the high winds…

Seriously though- I was always very lucky in the sales when I was a size 6-8. Try getting any bargains as a 12.

Swings and roundabouts 🤷‍♀️.

Primark is primarily aimed at teenagers/early twenties age group though.

How on earth do you work out I’m jealous when you have absolutely no idea who I am or what I look like? It wasn’t “ pathetic” … it’s a well known quote from Friends when someone complains about a minor problem.

I agree.
My sister (in her mid 50s) is a size six and has always found it hard to find clothes. When it was around (and she was younger) she bought a lot in TopShop.

Yes the most common sizes are always sold out, why don't they stock more of them? You would think that if you were very small or very big it might be difficult to find sizes, but it seems to be the reverse, particularly in fashionable or sale items.

I was a size 6 about 20 years ago. It wasn't easy finding a 6 in a shop back then either. I'd sometimes go to the kids section as it was easier to find something that fit.

I believe sizes 12, 14 and 16 are most popular so shops tend to stock those in abundance.

Hardly anyone is a size 4-6 (bar teenagers), so that's why you see so few.

I don’t recognise this at all. 6 is a very common size. XS or XXS is stocked everywhere that I can think of. Primark particularly has tons of XXS

I feel your frustration Henrietta82! I spent an afternoon last week trawling Oxford Street for a size 10 Petite trouser suit to no avail. Finding a decent quality petite brand is hard enough (no one stocks anything Petite where I live) but to discover I couldn’t even get one in London was very disappointing. All I bought was a £4.99 pack of hair slides for my grandaughter - cheapest shopping trip there ever!

Why is it acceptable to abuse someone who is thin, but if you said anything negative about a fat person on mumsnet then you get your arse handed to you?

If a size 28 was posting, no one would say, “Do you love an all you can eat buffet as well then?”

My adult DD is tiny. A size 6 is usually too big for her. A size 4 sometimes fits but the styles in a size 4 are usually very low cut tops and tiny skirts. Clubbing gear really, which she has no interest in. She usually has to wear children’s clothes to fit at the waist, but then trousers/skirts/dresses are too short, or she wears huge oversized clothes that swamp her. This isn’t a boast. Cancer treatment as a child left her with various long term health issues that mean she struggles to put on weight. Being very skinny is judged by society just as much as being overweight, but somehow it’s far more acceptable to bitch about skinny girls. Comes across as jealousy, but believe me, you wouldn’t want to go through what my DD has been through .

Yea, teenage clothes are the answer surely? I thought that's why 6s aren't really stocked

Indeed!

I've sent a few slim ladies on tick tock saying they buy in the childrens department and it's quite stylish and a lot cheaper

The shops I’ve seen tend to have 10 - 18 or 20, sometimes an 8. If you’re outside these sizes then you have to order on line.

So it’s not just smaller people they don’t cater for, if that makes you feel better.

Out of interest op
Which shops had loads of 20/22 in
As I can never find anything

All the teeny tinies will love this thread

It depends on the brand in my experience so something aimed at super cool young things will invariably have loads of size 4/6/8/10 and not much in the bigger sizes. Whereas M&S cater for the larger sizes as their majority.

Yep!

Like others have said, the smallest sizes and largest sizes might not sell and an overwhelming amount of people shop online anyway. You can still buy the clothes, they just don't see much business sense in stocking them if they mostly don't sell.

For what it's worth, when I was a size 6, before Internet shopping, so a while ago, most shops didn't stock that size either. Did mean I'd occasionally find a size 6 gold mine in the sales racks if they occasionally did as they didn't seem to shift often back then either.

Feels like a stealth boast 😆