To be annoyed that modern clothes cater almost entirely for larger people?

[KookyNotOoky]

Needed some new jeans over the weekend - I am about a 27"-28" waist. Most shops (in the big city shopping mall I visited) had only jeans in the 30s" and up- i.e. too big. I eventually managed to find some 20s in TX Maxx - about 10 jeans in that range, squeezed on the end of a rack catering entirely for 30-35s.

Then later I had to take a couple of pairs back as I didn't realise they made were of that horrible stretchy denim which ends up falling down my arse after walking for 5 minutes.

Same with tshirts - I used to be a Medium, now modern Mediums are far too large and baggy, so I've had to shift to Small. As usual, the vast majority of clothes racks are taken up by Mediums and Larges.

Only thing I can think is that as people have gotten fatter the clothes industry has shifted to cater for that. As for online shopping - had far too many problems to buy clthes onlines, esp if they're made for the US market... think I'd be a XX Small there. 😂

I wish shops like zara would cater for cup sizes bigger than B.

Well yes @Dangeliss vanity sizing, as it's called by some, is real, but in the end it's just an arbitrary number. I managed to be a size 12 for 25 years even though I put on 2 stone, albeit slowly, over that time. I am now a 14 and there is no way I would fit into the old 14's in my mum's wardrobe. They look like a size 10-12 in today's 'money'! But that's neither here nor there.

The OP wasn't talking about vanity sizing. They were claiming that there were NO smaller sizes available because the clothing market only caters for 'fatter' people now. And that is complete and utter bollocks. I see every size of man and woman walking about, big, small and everything in between, and they are all wearing clothes. Unless some of them are whizzing their clothes up on a sewing machine, they likely bought them in a shop. I think the OP - who has not returned - was on the wind up.

I'm normally a UK14. Most shops, especially when a sale is on, they either have really tiny sizes or larger sizes. I find sizes between 12-16 seem to sell out the fastest!! At least in my experience.

I've not read the full thread, life is too short, but as a size 16 I feel like everything I want to buy only comes in size 10 and below, so YABU. As an aside, I had a 27in waist in the 90s and was considered obese, called fat regularly, couldnt get a date because I was too big and was even encouraged by an employer to abuse laxatives to lose weight so I looked the part, so to an oldie like me who grew up with the superwaifs, your blatant brag seems absolutely ridiculous 🤣 you're not as slim as you seem to think, I'm afraid!

If this is a serious thread, then I'd say it depends on the cut of the clothes. Also as a PP pointed out, clothes often don't seem made for people with curves ie boobs and hips but a small waist. Unless you want skingtight stuff which I'm far too old for. O get it's because everything is mass produced now rather than taolired, but still.

If this thread is a wind up - oh gosh wow you so thin, maybe you have da ana? you have such discipline, a mere mortal can only gape with wonder. well done you!

wow, you don’t appear to have an issue finding judging pants to fit you perfectly.

Dd is small, 6-8 and has no trouble buying clothes in UK. Try mango, h&m and Zara for starters.

‘your blatant brag seems absolutely ridiculous 🤣 you're not as slim as you seem to think, I'm afraid!’

Some bigger posters on here are downright unpleasant.

Not unlike the 'smaller' ones then. And at 5 ft 9 and a size 16 I'm still hardly huge. Jog on, there's a dear.

The over sized look is in hence the reason you need a small rather than a medium.

I definitely haven't found that there are no small sized clothes. My sister is a 10 and I'm a 12. She's always been a 10 and when I was size 18 after having my daughter I found it much harder to find larger clothes.

Not one single poster here is criticizing fat people. Fat people are fat, we all know what fat, thin and normal weight are. It's not an insult, it's a fact. It's also not bragging to disclose when looking for advice on where to buy clothes that fit what your size is.

I'm a size 16, sometimes 18, and I think it's a bit mean that some people on this thread are being sarcastic about the OP's lived experience.

I think it's either objectively true (I know I have times when nobody seems to have anything worth having in my size, and times when they all do) or it's confirmation bias: once you get it into your head that there's never anything in your size, you mainly notice the times when there isn't.

OP, depending on what styles of jeans you like and how long your legs are, I wonder if you might find some to suit you in the teenage girls' or even boys' sections of shops like H&M.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I wish! Just try actually BEING a larger person (meaning not a size 10-12, but ACTUALLY a larger person) and trying to find something that is actually made to suit a larger person rather than sizing up something that suits a thin person, that isn't made of nasty fabric or doesn't cost a fortune.

If you look at this thread objectively, the overweight posters have been far far more vicious than anyone else. It’s embarrassing to read.

When I was in my 20s and a size 8 I found it really hard to find clothes to fit, there was barely anything below a 10. I think it's easier to find small sizes now, as there are many more clothes around for teens which you can wear as a small adult.

Oh, do they fuck...

Should say that 'when I was in my 20s' means back in the 1990s!

Lol the OP got exactly what they wanted out of this thread didn't they.

How awful for you. You will have to shop in the Children's department.
Stop bragging and spouting rubbish.

The children's department is no good for slim people. The sizes get too wide by the time you get to the right length.

What is an average 'child'? Children's clothes go to 16. There are plenty of schoolgirls bigger than plenty of adult women. I mean, if someone needs an age 13 on the waist and a 15 for length, then children's clothes are not going to fit. They often don't fit slim children either, which is why many girls need to move to small women's sizes which are smaller for the right length.

I think it is because OP was mooching around TKMaxx. They buy end of line runs, the sizes that are still left in the warehouse. It is why they are cheaper, but also why it is hit and miss as to what sizes they have in stock.

27/28 inch is a size 10 isn't it? That's a very popular size and can sell out quite quickly. Essentially size 10,12,14,16 tend to be the most popular - and thus the ones most stocked (but also, least likely to be available in discount stores/ sales).

I always find, that whatever size I am (big or small - I've covered everything from 6 to 18 in the last 15 years) the shop always seems to have the size smaller and the size bigger - never the size I want to buy.

The OPs lived experience of being a bog standard size ten will constitute so little of note it's barely warrants the term. The OP isn't in some overlooked minority, unseen and unique amongst the fatter women the workd resolves around. She just hasnt, in one shopping trip, found jeans without lycra in her size, and has failed to note the trend for oversize tops. There are people on the thread with significantly larger (and much smaller for that matter) waists than the OP who from their own lived experience disagree with her and/or find it hard to take too seriously.

Yep.. most high St dedicated to undersizing! Can't buy from there any longer, go to sensible places (local boutique/M&S) the likes of Mango/Zara/Next cut so small and it's a common complaint! Have no idea what this post is 😑