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??

That isn't my experience. On the sale rails there are only ever sizes 16 plus left with maybe the odd size 8.

Where do you shop?

But I am talking personal insults. The OP has used an offensive term in her thread title and I was pointing that out. In the same way people would, quite rightly, point that out if the term 'fat' was used. I don't understand why OP think it's OK to use the term 'skinny' whilst moaning that she can't find clothes in her size.

have you tried hush?

Wish people would stop being offended all the time. We have lost touch as to what is offensive these days. We are way too sensitive.

It’s exactly the same. OP has the chance to change her weight if she wants to. Instead she prefers to moan nothing fits.

Ah yes, we should just go around calling people fat and skinny, that's much better like the olden days eh.

More people in this country are overweight so stands to reason bigger sizes sell out quicker. Its been worse since the baggy trend has been in, people who are actually a size 6/8/10 buying bigger sizes for the visual whereas the opposite can't happen (someone squeezing themselves into clothes a few sizes smaller). Even if shops estimate its only ever a best guess.

And what if she cant change her weight?

Its pig ignorant to try and claim that weight loss is a simple and easy fix.

Personally I have no issue with the word fat at all.

Why must everything someone doesn't like be someone else's "privilege"?

Shops sell clothes, and they sell the sizes people buy. If you're seeing lots of a certain size then it's either because they sell a lot of that size so keep more of them in stock, or because they don't sell them and that's what's left over after the popular sizes have gone.

When I was really thin a few yeara ago, size 4-6, I could always get clothes in my size, and always cheaper! Because no one buys them. Now I'm a normal size I really struggle to find clothes 🤦🏻‍♀️ anything from 12-16 is impossible. That's the size of the average woman so very popular!

Shops not stocking clothes you like, has nothing to do with 'skinny privilege' and everything to do with your personal taste.

Stop body shaming women of a perfectly normal size. They're very unlikely to be 'skinny' if they're wearing an 8 or a 10.

Oh OP - I remember that early 30s angst moment when I was still railing that I was young and not ready for middle aged clothes, but why didn’t these shops, that I’d shopped in for the last 15 years, not seem to cater for me any more? Surely I was one of their core customers - I’d been buying their things since I was a teen, but they just weren’t cut for me and when would I wear that? Etc.

honey, you are 31 - time to start shopping in stores for grown ups. You’ll look better, and they will cater for you.

why not start a thread in Style and Beauty for size 16+, early 30-somethings who don’t want to look like their mum and ask for ideas.

I'm size 6/8 and find it hard to find clothes that fit and arent meant for teens, lots of brands don't even make a size 6 and the size 8s seem to have got bigger than they were before as a lot of brands shift their sizing parameters from time to time (so size 8 is probably what used to be size 10 etc) to suit supply and demand

Your post sounds a lot more like your own sense of victimhood than some sort of global conspiracy tbh

@Lasttraintolondon Thank you. 😬💐

mean to to amend to ‘…trying to induce guilt and make out you are the victim, and that it is a ‘bad ‘ thing because it is not ‘inclusive’.

It is such a dumb way of thinking about so many things these days, it’s like a destructive mind virus…death by a thousand cuts.

People should learn about the Cultural Revolution of China.

It really depends on the shop. I am in the process of losing weight and am back in a size large rather than extra large (or 14-16 instead of 18-20), but when I needed extra large I noticed that some shops didn’t display the size in the store even though they stocked it as a brand. Hobbs is one example of this. It really annoyed me as I love their clothes but it seems that they want to cultivate an image of only going up to a size 14 equivalent rather than 16+. I am sure many other brands also do this.

I struggle to find clothes in my size that are not vanity sizes. I am a size 6 or 8.

I had no idea, I’ve shopped there for a few years, I just turned 35. Their skinny jeans are the best!

Clothes shopping is always a pain, Even the sizes vary depending on which shop you visit.

What a joke to say skinny is as pejorative as saying fat. I am a solid size 10 with a little belly, neither fat nor skinny - although, depending on their perspective some people could see me as either. I can tell you I would be considerably more genuinely upset by being called fat, than by being called skinny. The latter can even be used a badly worded compliment, given the value being slim is given in our society. Fat is most definitely never used as a compliment.

I don’t find that at all. People moaning there’s nothing for people size 22/24, well that’s because most people are nowhere near that size. It’s supply & demand. It’s not a personal attack on you & your size.

But “fat” and “skinny” aren’t opposing terms. “ Fat” and “thin” are opposites. “Skinny” is more like “porky” (or some other derogatory term.

What has privilege to do with it?!

I really think it depends where you shop. I can undersatnd what you're saying - certain shops (Miss Selfridge and places like that) have lots of skinny sizes but then to be fair they are aimed more at the young/teenage market.

I'm short (but not skinny - size 12) and I find lots of clothes stock big clothes that swamp me and it seems like lots of shops tailor to the national average in terms of height and size and it's not easy if you fall outside of that average.

Having easy access to clothing, on the high street for example, comes under the umbrella term of thin priviledge.

'Thin privilege encompasses the benefits that people in smaller bodies have—socially, economically, and structurally—which protects them from judgment, shame, or prejudices regarding health, well-being, and self-worth"