There should be, but it will cost more and there will be more limited options. Raising awareness can lower cost and help ensure more options, but there will always be a disparity. For example, someone who is claustrophobic may need 10X more space to feel comfortable. However, they are not entitled to pay 10X less rent…
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Yes, it requires to have a completely separate pattern made - basically doubling the time and expense. Generally a model pattern is sent to production, and different size patterns are adapted from that using standardized resizing - which is cheap and simple to do up to a certain point. In extreme sizes this doesn't…
Well I don't think anorexia is the ideal. We are talking about standard sizing. A woman who is size 4-8 is not anorexic.
Ok sure, I'll just leave my opinion as it stands above. I don't need your support for it.
Yes. If you are trying to say that I think being overweight or clinically obese is not ideal in terms of health as compared to being normal weight. Yes, that is exactly what I think. (being clinically underweight is just as bad).
Yes. A basic human body follows a standard bone structure, and up to a point, weight gain goes to certain predictable places (there may be some unevenness, but this is not too exaggerated to a certain point.) This means that clothes can follow a basic design. After a certain point, the uneveness of weight gain means…
That may very well be the case (I'd love to see an independent study though) - but more goes into weight and being healthy than just diet.
Ok I was simplifying the sizes, in that the standard sizes actually accomodate women that go up to 180 or so lbs. I think women at 180 lbs are still size 8-10 which is still in the standard range. But I think that just makes my argument stronger, as that means something like 80% of women are covered by the standard…
Thanks, just as strong as yours - eloquently refuting my argument by "calling bullshit".
Yes, drawing attention to this area is important, and hopefully it will have a positive effect. I was just pointing out that economics drives a lot of these decisions, not hostility to larger women. Clothing designers want your money too. However, just tempering the views that some people have that it is easy for…
Ok sure. If you think it's such a feeble excuse there's a huge easily tapped (because it must be so easy to make clothes that serve the plus-size market fashionably and economically) that there must be a mutli-billion dollar industry there waiting to be tapped. Why don't you go invest your life savings into one of…
I'm not saying fat people can't be healthy, just as someone can smoke a pack a day and still be perfectly healthy, but being overweight is not healthy in of itself.
Here's a figure to explain, since you want evidence.
It's a lot cheaper because a size 2 dress can be made simply by downsizing all the proportions of a size 4 and 6. It is the increased cost of changing designs to accommodate someone in a size 20 dress, combined with the fact that it's a smaller market that makes it unprofitable. I've worked and have family members who…
Very thin people still have body shapes that follow the basic shape of the human skeleton. And the difference between sizes at the low end are a lot different than that at the high end. There's probably only a 10% difference in body weight in standard sizes, but that can jump to 50%-100% or more at the plus-size…
Hmm, yes I think they do need to make some plus-size mannequins. And I can definitely see that they are two fundamentally different dresses. I can kind of understand though? XL's may be designed for women who are tall, so the length of the dress may be longer. Whereas the 1X line designed for women who require the…
And I am very closely related to people in fashion production and previously worked there - and in that capacity I also met a lot of designers. Designing for larger sizes is not simply multiplying everything by 2 (and even then that will involve a larger material cost, which can be high if you are using leather, fur,…
*cough* at calling not being overweight an "unhealthy body standard". I'm not saying that overweight people are at fault because I recognize t hat in today's lifestyle, it's impossible not to be somewhat overweight, and I recognize that models are unhealthily underweight - but aspiring to not be overweight is not…