We came across a group passing out promotional t-shits to its members recently. It was a typical group of American adults, men and women, and it was sad. The t-shirt organizer looked to have purchased an even number of sizes: small, medium, large, and since this is The United States, extra-large and double extra-large. This quickly became a problem, there were simply not enough larges and extra-larges because no one, save for a tiny Asian woman, took a small or medium. Stylistically, most Americans wear their clothes too big, but this wasn't really the problem here, they were just too fucking fat.
This got Us thinking about a recent shopping trip to the mall. We were in search of some new threads and we had a really hard time finding clothes that fit us, but for kind of the opposite reason to the fatties from the first paragraph. It seems that many of the trendy outfitters have resized their merchandise to make their shoppers feel better about their ever-expanding waistlines. Almost every shirt, sweater and jacket We tried on just swallowed Us, and We are not small. At 6'1" and 175lbs there's no way we should be buying anything sized "small" but that's what we were forced to do.
Has anyone else noticed this? What are these stores trying to do? Is the marketing idea to trick the fat people that they're some how skinnier when they're wearing Abercrombie and Fitch? It sucks because mediums are now too big and smalls are still short.
We've never had problems with folks that have weight issues (We have had problems with all the people that bitch about their weight problems, then sit on their fat asses all day and suck down one 1000 calorie Starbucks coffeeato after another), but now that the masses of large people are messing with are ability to find a shirt that fits, We're starting to get upset.
3 comments:
Well your first mistake was going to "the mall", the second mistake was intending to make a clothing purchase there...next time, just go to Goodwill
Well put. Why spend $30 on a vintage shirt and another $60 on a pair of jeans with holes in them? You can go to the Goodwill, and get the same shit for under $10. With the money you save, you can spend that on booze and other parapenalia. Use your head. Only team Hair Gel and team Lambda Sigma Chi shot at the Mall.
i was browsing around today at a trendy shopping area in nice looking at the smalls and a few mediums. as we all know im not a very big person so my wardrobe is split 50/50 between smalls and mediums. well someone who worked at 'the players club' came up and informed me that i was looking at the wrong sections and that i needed to look at the larges. crazy french clothes.
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