As illustrated so beautifully by Sarah Andersen, are clothing companies aware that bras exist?
Or that not all women are size extra small/double zero/you should eat something?
Or that the ones that actually do eat something may require something called a dart in their clothing. Anybody remember those?
Or that larger women do NOT require the arm hole in a sleeveless top to measure 22 inches and fall somewhere around their waist.
That what they do require is a larger width between those arm holes……Yes that might require an inch or two of extra fabric, which we are already paying for if we are plus sized.
Do you think they realize that larger women might also be petite at the same time? You know short…
They might want to rethink the longer-in-the-back styles for big breasted women because those girls actually require more length in the FRONT. You know that beautiful shelf that’s created when you’ve got a bust, yeah it hikes things up in the front.
Does anything get cut on the bias anymore, you know the most flattering cut for every single body type under the sun, on the planet?
No, none of this. Think it will ever change? Not likely. Why in this trend-a-minute, use the cheapest-fabric-and-labor-possible would any clothing company want to raise their awareness? They wouldn’t. So unless you’re willing to spend triple the price you’re paying, find yourself a good tailor, or drag out the sewing machine invest in yet another wardrobe of camisoles and suck it up.
Aggghhhh but find yourself a tailor anyway.
Oh, my! When I read the tag line, I thought it was going to be a rant about clothes on dogs and cats, lol!
It’s not just women with bosoms or those who don’t starve themselves who have issues with off the rack clothing. I’m a 56 year old woman, 5’4″ and 110 pounds. I’m short waisted and long limbed with a high, small bust and not much in the hip or rear end departments. If a shirt or dress has darts then I can guarantee you that they will fall waaaaay under the point of MY breasts…… usually somewhere around my third to last rib. Pants? Baggy in women’s sizes, too tight in juniors sizes and too short and baggy in petite sizes. I tend to have much better luck finding something to fit in the juniors department but that not saying much. Try finding something classic and well made in the juniors section of any store. Nigh on to impossible. I’ve been looking for plain fitted white t-shirts, a nice classic white button up chambray shirt and a nice pair of black dress pants for four years now with no luck.
I sew but patterns are so oddly sized in recent years that sewing has become an exercise in frustration and wasted money for me. And in my area, tailors are hard to find and very expensive.
I’m considering trying to bring back the mumu as a fashionable item!