Skinny privellege

[Annabella91]

Why is there shops full of clothes for women who are skinnt but nothing bigger i hate going clothes literally can never find anything in a size 16 it's all size 6 and 8 is the fat back in the 90s discrimination trend coming in again?? Shouldn't need to skinny to look nice??

Me too.

I completely agree with this. It’s now worse than ever. As a late 40s woman who is a size 8 (have always been pretty much the same weight) I am finding it increasingly difficult to find clothes to fit me. I went shopping very recently and went to lots of high street shops and unless you go to places aimed at teenagers, there are very few small sizes available (they seem to get snapped up very quickly) and the smaller sizes are often very big anyway.

Size 6 and 8 represent normal bmi, not skinny. There is no privilege in being normal healthy weight.

Perhaps that people assume you are healthy just because you are a size 10 for a start?

BMI means nothing in that regard.

And I am also getting increasingly fed up of normal sized women being called skinny and this nonsense that keeps getting carted out about how women who are slim constantly exercising and having to deny themselves food. Nonsense. It’s becoming obvious that it’s the processed crap that people are eating, in place of normal food, that is the issue.

When was the last time you were in M&S? I'm 32 and I shop there often. Good jeans and basic tops/jumpers.

There is 'priviledge' is not competing with the majority for sizes in the shop.

It also means the majority of clothes are in the sizes 10, 12, 14 and 16.

This 'priviledge' also means that certain shops don't do size 6 or 8 to begin with cos they don't sell enough and end up with stock to sell in the sale.

Swing / roundabouts.

I'm a 14 these days big for all my adult life I was a size 10 (did go down to an 8 after ds1).

I could ALWAYS find something to wear in a ten!!

Now I'm a 14 things fit weirdly-nothing fits on my boobs or if it does it's too big on my waist (I'm still an hour glass just wider all over than I was!).

I get it op!

As it happens I'm currently working on getting back to a healthier weight and size and have lost over a stone since Christmas.

I'll report back when I'm "skinny" again 😉

Eh?? Normal for very short women, perhaps, definitely not normal normal! Unless we're looking at M&S sizes: their 6 and 8 would be a real 10 and 12. That's normal.

My niece is size 4 to 6, she finds it incredibly hard to find clothing that fits. Not everyone wants primark.

I can never find the 4's 6's and 8's. Theyre always the first to go in my experience.🤷‍♀️

M&s is for older women 🤣 I'm 31 lol

Wait, are you lauding your youth privilege they're, OP?

You come across as rude.

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I don't think being skinny (underweight) is a privilege, it's usually because you are unwell, be that a physical illness, drug addiction, eating disorder or other mental health issue. When I was skinny I couldn't just walk into a supermarket to buy clothes as they often didn't have a 6 and sometimes it was hard to find even an 8, but there were plenty of bigger sizes.

I hate the term skinny, it's just as offensive as calling someone fatty

Some people on this thread would say that you can fix this though? They would say you should eat more?

Offensive to relate this to concentration camps.

I'm a 6 on my bottom half and I'm 5ft 5 with a bmi of 20.

Most people in the UK are overweight, with the average size being a 16, so obviously it will sell out first.

Next time you see a clothes rack with only smallest and largest sizes left, why not pull out a size 10 and a size 20, lay them out side by side, compare the amount of fabric in each, and consider that they cost exactly the same to buy. Then stop whining about 'skinny privilege' forever.

The term privilege is coined because in that body, you are still seen as aspirational. People assume you are healthy. You are seen as beautiful. Magazines say you need to lose weight to look like you.

I don’t think sizing is standardised anymore so completely impossible to get the right fit.
I ‘ve literally just bought some jeans from Boden that despite being a size smaller than my normal size ( and I’ve put on half a stone since Christmas) and in their petite range, are still absolutely massive. I read the reviews hence going down a size but they weren’t even close. £54 in the sale. £90 originally. If those prices don’t get a good fit there’s no hope.

I agree. Often people use skinny as an insult to describe a slim person who is a healthy weight.

No-one assumed I was healthy when I was skinny. The only person who saw me as aspirational was my dm who has had her own mh issues around food and weight since I was a child.

Not really, there’s no other example of mass starvation to compare to. Perhaps the starvation of people in Eastern Europe during WW2 in general. But the point remains. Nobody with extremely limited food doesnt lose weight.