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August 02, 2005
Hello! I AM A WOMAN!
I spent a wonderful long weekend in
Well at least I thought I was a female, until I visited a branch of a nationwide department store, which in my experience had always offered high quality as well as a very extensive selection of clothing in larger sizes. I felt a cold chill go down my spine as I fruitlessly wandered around looking for the “women’s sizes.” They couldn’t have succumbed to the chicanery of other department stores, hiding the plus sizes behind a pile of rocks, just to the right of the loading dock, could they?
Turns out, it couldn’t have been more of a slap in the face than if they were trying really hard to insult women of size… “go through the MEN’S STORE, and you’ll see it.” No they didn’t hide it in maternity, another common practice, this let me know that they believed there were three sexes...WOMEN (defined from size 2 to 16), MEN (obvious), and OTHER (women over size 16). Funny, my money is green, I get my hair cut at Gil Ferrer’s on the
Now every woman that shops for clothing sizes that are more than 14 or 16 knows that their sizes are often hidden in strange locations in stores. Better stores usually place larger sizes in the women’s department and gather all the sizes together. Or you might have a Coldwater Creek store near you and were surprised and delighted to find sizes 2-24 on the same rack and in the same style, with the same choices.
If we all know this, let’s demand size parity! I did find one article about this, by Marta Hummel of The News-Record,
Posted by Gina V. on August 2, 2005 | Permalink
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