Astounded by trip to shopping centre today

Unusual to be wearing the same lines and shopping equally in all stores...teenagers usually have a different style to middle aged women and some shops are aimed at certain age groups and profiled accordingly for style and sizing (teenagers tend to be slimmer).

Wasn't there a Victoria Wood sketch where she talked about a tiny friend who bought children's clothes and spent the VAT on tequila? 😆

My daughter shops in the same stores I do. Primark, M&S, supermarkets etc. Size 6/XS is very common. If there is some “over 50” store I’m supposed to shop in, I’ve no idea where it is.

I’m not making any nasty comments about thin people. It’s annoying when you are outwith the “average” range for anything (try finding short length trousers anywhere and size 7 ladies shoes)

I’m talking about the people who look at someone who is a size 12/14 and declare them unhealthy because “we’ve lost sight……” yadda yadda.

I do laugh at the suggestion that people posting about being overweight are totally supported though. You obviously don’t frequent those posts enough because there definitely is not a lack of nasty comments there. Even if some of them do start with “Kindly……” 🤦🏻‍♀️

The OP responding in kind. Half this thread is people thinking it’s ok to judge and comment on someone’s size… but because it’s about a thin person, the insults are seen as totally ok. But when she claps back, after taking it for pages, you come along and act like she started it?

Mumsnet can be disgusting sometimes and this thread shows it.

🤣🤣 such ground breaking advice . You need to try much harder 1/10

I doubt you're all shopping in the same stores.

What shops were you in? I was in Zara, H&M, Mango, River Island, Next, Primark H&M and M&S today and they all had size 6/XS. Even F&F did when I popped into Tesco!

My teen and most of her friends wear sizes 6/8 and don't have any trouble finding clothes 🤷‍♀️

I, on the other hand, am a fatso and can hardly find anything decent.

Diet down to a minus 10, you heifer.

I am a size 8, and do not refer to myself, or others of a similar size as 'teeny tinies'. It sounds a bit mean to me.

Definitely nothing below a size 6 in normal shops. That said I am not obese and I don’t think I’ve ever been a size 6. 😂 It would be really quite a small size for most adult women. Especially those of us who are very tall. That said, we found plenty of small sizes (0!) in places where teens shop (Hollister, for example). But I think most grown women with money to spend and shopping in Next or whatever are not buying size 2. I’m at a loss for where to buy things for teen dd though. Just somewhere normal and not designer.

Same...I used to be a size 8 (many years ago!) and it was usually the smallest size available in most shops.

Primark quite often has size 6.

What I’ve noticed is, whatever size I’m looking for, they always have loads of the next size up and the next size down but none in my size.

My teenager wears xs/size 6, she never seems to have any trouble finding them in stores.

Honestly I just think it's sod's law in action. Plenty of 8's and 12's in my local shops here in Yorkshire but never find a sodding 10.

But on average there's good stock of 8-20 in the shops. Primark have the dolly sizes that Topshop used to have, not sure about the others as I'm a creature of habit and shop on line if it's not local.

I used to work for a young fashion retailer, and if we have an arm of new stock in, there’d only be 1/2 size 6 in. So this is nothing new.

Nope, the only thing I noticed is that size 6 in 2025 is much larger than size 6 in 2005.

Why is it ok to post about being overweight and everyone just chats and supports, no nasty comments. But when you’re thin… look at how you’re behaving.

You are shopping in the wrong places op. Maybe you need to budget for better clothes? If this is beyond you, maybe try Brandy or children’s shops? I am sure you can be creative and make it work 💅

As will the “we’ve lost sight of what is a normal size….” Crowd.

What’s with thr two teeny tiny comments. Would it be ok to say to a larger person are you a fatty then. If you feel no then don’t do it to smaller women.

I think what you missed is that the sizes that sell the most in the UK are 8-12. I used to work in retail (albeit many moons ago) and we used to get 1 size 6, 2 size 8s, 3 size 10 and 12 and 1 14 and 16. It’s been like that for years. But I get you. I was in a European country a few months back looking for a size 32D in a bra and was told that 32 is not common at all and mostly children’s size 🤣. Was then offered a 34 to try on and such small cups that in no way I could even fit half my breasts… frustrating but it has to do with demand.

Um… you said it meant a minor problem. It didn’t. I helped you with a phrase that did. Nit read your mind once. I judged your jealousy on you using a phrase which means you’re jealous. I gave you the correct phrase because you clarified what you meant.