Who designs larger sized clothes and where are the SHOPS prepared to cater for us???
Walk down any high street in the UK and you wouldn’t actually believe that there IS an obesity problem in this country. The number of shops actually catering for larger sizes in ANY meaningful way at all is miniscule. Certainly SOME chain stores have SOME items up to Size 24 but certainly not their whole range – well it’s NOT ENOUGH. Usually these items are also the dullest items in the store – WE WANT EVERYTHING YOU SELL IN OUR SIZE! In a country where 1 in 4 adults are reported as being overweight/obese/morbidly obese, the clothing manufacturers STILL ignore this section of the market or tend to treat it as if everyone who is overweight should be punished by only providing only a few styles and then at a vastly increased cost. Many of the ones who do produce larger sizes obviously have NO CONCEPT of how the larger body affects the style. You cannot simply increase the size of everything on a garment and hope that it will fit the larger person – we come with a whole lot of different s
