“Here is a photo of two related people who look alike.”

Very valid points. All I’ll add is that I’ve never really experienced cornrows to be an inappropriate hairstyle for employees, and I work at a bank. We have some very high up managers, branch managers, bankers and tellers who wear cornrows and I’ve never even thought that this could have been an issue at some point,…

That’s understandable, but I don’t see how that justifies telling her that she shouldn’t wear them.

But she’s not wearing it at work....it’s a completely different situation. Celebrities are allowed to wear a lot of things that would get me fired or told to go home and change. Not to mention I have a hard time telling someone who is married to a black man and has bi-racial children that she’s being tone-deaf. What…

Am I the only person who struggles with cultural appropriation uproar? I thought different cultures mixing and borrowing from each other was the point of living in a diverse society. Is it reasonable to assume that people of different cultures living together would wall off the ability of their culture being used by…

Don't these same considerations apply to petite sizes? Maybe because you can cut more of the pieces from the same amount of fabric - they should cost less. Shouldn't there be care in designing for the tiny woman?

It wasn't condescending, she was just trying make a point about clothing manufacturing. You chose to take it as condescending and then, despite her best efforts to have a constructive conversation, just acted like dick.

You are absolutely right. I've been sewing my own clothes since I was 14 and I've had issues with my weight my whole life. When I was a size 12 I could make a cute a-line skirt with a yard of fabric. When I gained to a size 24 it took two plus yards of fabric. A column dress at a size 24 took nearly 3.5 yards where a…

That's been covered a few times. A re-design of the garment is needed over a size 12 or 14 because proportions on bigger people are more drastic than they are on small people (this is why some plus size retailers offer specific body-type sizing). You can only grade a few sizes from your main size (in most cases a 6 or…

I have never set foot in an Old Navy.

No, I don't think that's the only point Mildred is trying to make. Just as a designer in the industry, here is what I'm assuming or know. It's not about just having a special technical team, Old Navy has a separate design team, tech team, production team, merchant team, hiring it's own fit model and whatever else…

thank you. I came here to say some similar compact version of your post but you detailed it correctly. Im more in the sewing community than buying retail and even independent pattern designers have said that it is difficult for them to draft the same straight size pattern for a size 22. Not that it should be an…

You are being ridiculous. She did nothing but attempt to have a civil conversation with you, and you just come across as so bitter and spiteful. Here of kitty hugging his teddy bear. You should look at it for a while and chill the fuck out:

You bring up a really important point that I totally overlooked. $40 is so reasonable for jeans, it's sort of extraordinary that anyone would complain about it, but when your skinny friend can buy the same item for half the price it's hard not to take that personally. I like your solution, charging everyone across the…

Wow, people are pissed at this comment, but I will concur with Mildred here. I draft and sew for a living-not for the garment industry, so nothing to gain by posting this-but for theatre, where everything we do is custom for the actors. Mildred is right, to do plus-sized properly, you have to draft them differently to…

This is true. I'm a DD cup, and my bras are all fug and expensive, and the selection is poor, because big titties are a feat of engineering more than a fashion statement.

You said it best, Mildred! No one is out to extort plus-sized women...higher production costs and more fabric/materials = more money.

I don't know what their logic is for doing that, maybe they don't want to add sections in their stores that take space away from the better selling smaller things? Being a cookie-cutter box store, this might explain it, otherwise I'm as confused as you are.

I only do large sizes wholesale, I don't offer them retail…

I've made the case, as an industry professional, why I don't carry big sizes and how it has nothing to do with my personal feelings about plus size women. I hire them, they're my family, they're my friends, they're my collaborators. I want them to wear my stuff, it just isn't practical. Even massive companies struggle…

Let me see if I have this right: it is more 'convoluted' that plus size clothing sometimes costs more to make that standard size clothing, which is why many companies charge more, than it is 'convoluted' to believe that business want to punish plus size women because they're mean.

Men's clothing doesn't avoid the…