The only reason I’m trying to hang on and/or to lose weight is so that I can continue to have some selection in the clothing that I buy. In addition to starting to creep into plus-size territory, I am also 6’2″ tall. That means that I already have to buy all of my pants at Tall Girl (which declared bankruptcy recently and I just about had a heart attack…thankfully they got bought/saved by Long Tall Sally from the UK) and the selection of shirts, dresses, skirts, etc. that fit me in non-tall stores is very slim. But if instead of being able to look for the small selection of things long enough for me in regular stores, I was having to limit myself to plus-size stores, my selection would be very very small indeed. Plus I find that the clothes in plus-size stores are big in all the wrong places (as if every woman with a bit of extra meat on her bones has that extra meat in exactly the same spot).

Thank you for writing about this important issue. When I’m rich, I’m going to hire a personal designer/seamstress. Until then, I’ll have to battle the industry.

Your argument against larger fashions is as illogical as relying on BMI as an accurate measure of model health – until they get a coke-o-meter, there’s nothing that can sort that out. no fashion = nudity. And I get the impression that’s the last thing you’d want.

I own current Viktor & Rolf, Missoni, Antik Batik, Cavalli, See by Chloe and a few other notables – you just have to know where to look and what truly suits you, not just be a label whore. Versace used to do a line called Versatile back in Gianni’s day, and Valentino did Carisma – the sad thing is that the designers were completely unsupported by existing media that noone knew about it (didn’t help that Gianni insisted on using size 8′s in the look book) Cutting off their noses, as it were.

Diets suck!

Really maybe you should ask them what makes them any different than a sorority house at a college?

They’ve worked so hard to be thin, that now they’ve worked away any sense of morals or caring. I guess that’s the price to be thin, certianly seems like it with all the thin women viciously gnawing at their own.

I liked “Not Wear Dolce & Gabana?” I can’t belive they allowed this woman to be a mother. The hell her children must go through..oh I can see it all now..”I told you, NO METAL HANGERSSSSS!” ala Mommy Dearest.