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to be annoyed that it's easier for fat women than for short women to buy clothes.

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moxiemonster · 01/11/2012 15:29

A new Simply Be has opened here. We now have that and Evans. I should imagine the moderately stout can get into clothes in most shops. If you're short, there are rarely dedicated shops and the choice is limited and twee.
Obviously there is money to be made in the plus size market. It's just one of life's unfairnesses that the cake munchers are rewarded for their lack of self control with clothes to fit them.

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GwendolineScaryLacey · 01/11/2012 19:16

Fuck me, I've got to be grateful for Evans clothes now? Being fat is getting shittier by the minute...

fridgepants · 01/11/2012 19:47

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SecretCermonials · 01/11/2012 19:51

OP all i can hear when you post is "coookie coookie" go and stuff some in and feed that inner fatty of yours until she shuts up! Grin

Also might I suggest platforms? then you can climb back on your average weight high horse and trot in

IvorHughJackolantern · 01/11/2012 19:52

Is Simply Be the one where Claire Sweeney sashays about on the telly telling me how 'shape sure' all their clothes are?

Because if so, I refuse to be grateful for it op.

Everything that model is wearing looks like it's been eaten the 80s then vommited back up again.

And I have an allergy to the phrase 'trend aware'. Bluergh.

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moxiemonster · 01/11/2012 20:25

Simply Be is like going into a catalogue. it contains various brands in one shop. It caters for various larger lady tastes. if you're short you get a little section of Top Shop which seems to cater for mini teenagers or at the other end Minuet or more bleuurgh Next Petite. Wouldn't it be great if you could go into anywhere nice and normal like Gap or Whistles or Reiss and get a decent coat. I'm not Petite. I'm a bit short and nothing fits.

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waltermittymissus · 01/11/2012 20:31

If you're not petite stop looking in the Petite section. Solved.

You're welcome.

QuickLookBusy · 01/11/2012 20:41

Well I'm 5ft2 and slim. Plenty of stuff fits me in Gap, Jigsaw and Whistles.

Maybe it you? You know, you might have odd proportions rather than just being short?

imtheonlyone · 01/11/2012 20:44

Perhaps if you hadn't been so rude in your Original message, you might have got some useful suggestions here. You've shot yourself in the foot!
Go eat some cake and stop bloody whining! Lots of people have the same problem finding clothes to fit.
I hope you aren't really this shallow in RL, cos if you are, I pity you

IvorHughJackolantern · 01/11/2012 20:46

Yy. Have a nice biscuit and a cup of tea with sugar and re-post (naicely) in S&B.

Do not fat-bash. S'not becoming.

Dawndonna · 01/11/2012 20:51

Gosh, you're an unpleasant little troll soul aren't you.

SecretCermonials · 01/11/2012 20:51

Whattta dick.

OhlimpPricks · 01/11/2012 21:00

I hope they have a chemist on your high street. Treat yourself to a tube of Canesten.

OhlimpPricks · 01/11/2012 21:11

Canesten - the best treatment for irritating cunts.

SecretCermonials · 01/11/2012 21:13

oh Grin

VodkaKnockers · 01/11/2012 21:28

Awww!! My heart pumps piss for you!

sashh · 02/11/2012 02:05

Ah yes, bloody fatties, having the choice of two, TWO I tell you shops.

piprabbit · 02/11/2012 02:25

Simply Be are only able to continue their charitable services to fat women by removing all the sleeves from their clothes and using the spare fabric to make the rest of the garment wider.

So which clothes are nastier? The fat or the short?

flow4 · 02/11/2012 02:58

Can't you just roll your trouser legs up or something, OP?

(Why oh why hasn't MN got a nose-thumbing, tongue-waggling emoticon?!)

Guiltypleasures001 · 02/11/2012 08:58

Seeing as I have just spat my tea over the keyboard i shall need my Biscuit to mop up the residue...

lucyellenmum · 02/11/2012 09:10

LMAO at the fuckwittedness of the OP - what a twunt!

Next time you are feeling sorry for yourself, pop into Evans or simply be and console yourself with the vile polyester clothes that they produce for "cake munchers" I don't think you will be moaning about the lack of clothes for short arses.

You try being short and fat - because these places assume that not only do you, as a cake muncher, care more about cake than you do what you look like and produce clothes that are just awful and made from cheap material (well lets face it they need so much more material Hmm) they assume you are a giant as well.

Plenty of shops have a "petite" range, stop whining

Skoggy · 02/11/2012 09:15

I'm a short-arse but well endowed on top... trying to find clothes that don't have arms long enough for an orangutan is such a mission. Just because I have a big chest doesn't mean that I also have long arms and a long torso. It's ridiculous sometimes. Grin I have no choice but to go for the "baggy" look.

avivabeaver · 02/11/2012 09:23

are you my mother?

Gunznroses · 02/11/2012 09:26

I'm not petite. I'm a bit short......

So are you short AND fat then ? Confused

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