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A Fat Screed
April 5th, 2008
To: Lane Bryant
Re: Your Spring Line
Dear Powers that Be:
Your new spring line is very colorful, full of interesting patterns and flowing, gauzy tops. There’s just one teeny problem.
90% of your tops are made for fat girls with boobs. I am not one of them. All of those wrap tops, and cute peasant tops and empire-waisted tops do two things, gape hideously and/or make me look nine months pregnant.
Not all fat girls are created equal, Lane Bryant. We all don’t have boobs. Note your bra section. I realize my more-endowed sisters love Cacique because at last they can find bras that can contain the chestiness, but finding a B cup is like finding a needle in a haystack. Why, Lane Bryant? Whyfore hast thou forsaken the lasses with little boobs?
You’re slowly coming to the realization that we’re not all alike…I mean, look at your RightFit jeans. The fatosphere says that they’re the best thing since sliced bread. I get a little pissy at the idea of paying fifty bucks for jeans, so I haven’t bought any yet, but I like the idea of pants actually fitting me in the waist and not having seven inches of extra fabric.
So, you’re on your way…baby steps and whatnot. Let’s just try to remember your customers who don’t have the awesome fat girl rack, like me, and we’ll all be happier.
PS: Oh, and one more thing. The 70s are over. Stop trying to bring them back, okay?
PPS: You’re offering maternity clothes on your website, but how about your stores? We do have sex, you know. You obviously want us to wear pretty lacy things while getting our bones jumped, hence the Cacique line, but c’mon, we get pregnant, too!
Sincerely,
Boobless in Texas
~Ellie
Filed under Fat(Riot)Grrl, Schnibbles |2 Responses to “A Fat Screed”
My problem is that I have big boobs, but I dont have a big belly. So I look like I am pregnant in most of the tops I try on in Lane Bryant.
and I tried on pair after pair after pair of those damned jeans that everyone has gone on and on about.
Couldnt find any to fit so i gave up.
I’ll buy bras at Lane Bryant, but probably not much of any thing else.
You know, it’s funny you should mention the bras. If you’re bigger than a DDD (which I can barely squeeze into in the soft cups, but forget underwires), they really don’t have anything in the stores; you have to order online. Which I consider downright bizarre, since they obviously have tops that fit women with boobs that size. They seem to have a relatively narrow conception of what a fat woman has on top, if both of us are grumping about it.
And are they really charging $50 for Right Fits now? I only paid $30. I like them, but not for $50.