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[owl]

Dear Topshop:

I note that you are having clothes designed by the Human Twiglet. No doubt this is why you have no T-shirts in stock larger than a 12 that fits like a 10.

But have you considered this well? Not only will your only customers be 13-year-olds, but you'll have to replace Ms Moss whenever her nose finally drops off.

Also, is anyone else feeling the urge to stick HUMAN WOMENZ and HUMAN MANZ labels on the appropriate doors?

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[aquarius-1977.livejournal.com]

We have a store here called Hot Topic that's a lot like that. Cool clothes, but I'm not sure what planet their size range was decided on. When I was much younger and thinner and cuter I bought a glittery Billy Idol shirt there; at the time I was usually a medium or a large, and had to order it online to get a 2XL. I think they used heroin addicts to scale their sizes too. And lord help you if you have any degree of boobs.

[owl]

Well, Kate Moss is on cocaine, but, yeah that's the idea.

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

See also: Zara, Pull and Bear, Bershka. I like their clothes but I am genuinely baffled about why their tops and dresses only go up to a 12 or a smallish 14, when they sell skirts and trousers up to the equivalent of a 16. It doesn't bother me exactly since the XL usually fits, but I have to be careful not to accidentally pick up my default M (and also: 160cm, 57kg woman !=XL)

[owl]

Gap's the same, I'm an XL or an L.

Perhaps they are catering for the pear shapes with the mismatch in sizes?

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

Funny, the last time I went in Gap I was about 10kg lighter, and I picked up a size 8 pair of jeans, thinking "these look a bit big" and then proceeded to fall through them, the size 6 and the size 4 before giving up. I was young, and used to shopping on the market, where everything was cut to the bone. I don't think I've ever tried on a Gap top. It is true that most British/Irish women are pear-shaped, and I'm not, but you'd think they'd at least cater for women whose hips and busts are in proportion. I am baffled by sizing generally, but I would have thought the way to go would be to make the clothes generous, because there's few of us that can resist buying the item that makes us out to be a size smaller than we are...Topshop's regular range used to be like that: I remember nearly shelling out fifty quid for a skirt that was telling me I was a size 6 when I was usually a 10, until I realised how silly that was...

[emmy-roo.livejournal.com]

Woe betide those of us with hourglass figures, too. For all that the hourglass is often called the "ideal" form, NO ONE MAKES CLOTHES FOR US. When I try to buy a standard buttoned blouse I have two choices - either it fits across the bust and makes my waist disappear, or I can only button it up to my ribs and must match it with a nice tank underneath. So frustrating! And I only wear a medium or large top anyway! I just happen to have more than my fair share of bust and butt, and less than my fair share of tummy.

[owl]

I think what they are really making the clothes for is the plastic figures in the window. I find dresses hard because I'm smaller above that below, and there's nothing I can do about it either, the width is the actual two outer bones of my pelvis, and I don't fancy rubber breasts, thanks.