Dear Punk-ass

Dear idiotic designer of plus-sized women's clothing.

(1) There are certain anatomical things you clearly do not get. First off, if the rest of the top is larger, the [i]sleeves[/i] should also be bigger. Tiny arm holes mean the top does not fit, period. (2) Tank tops with a built-in bra should have an underwire, not one of those flimsy shelf-bra thingies that are totally useless. Gravity is not a pretty thing, no matter what your camisole looks like. (3) You think we don't want to wear bracelets or watches? Try providing larger sizes, or the option to buy extra links or a stretching thingie device or, hey, here's a concept, [i]list the circumference of the bracelet in your catalog or website[/i]. Then we might actually want to buy it. (4) We like wearing boots. Make the calf part larger or adjustable. Some designers get this, others don't. (5) While I'm on the subject of shoes - spindly heels mean we get major league back problems (which is true no matter what size you are). Make cute shoes with heels that will actually support a person, and not just a Barbie doll. (6) For any size woman - what the heck makes you think that we don't need pockets? Do we not have car keys, cel phones, tissue packs or hankies, a small box of mints? Yes, we have purses, but we do not want to have to dig around for those things, as they are items we need to be able to get to quickly. So spend a few more pennies and put some freakin' pockets on things.

Thank you, dumb*ss.

It's the clothing manufacturers, Kicky.

I'd swear I saw a commercial of women playing basketball in high heels. You mean that wasn't the truth?????

Take a bow, Jes.

And while we're at it...

Dear Punk-Ass Hosiery Manufacturer,

Do you think you could make different size waistbands for pantyhose instead of putting the same tiny waistbands on every single size you make? What practical joker told you that women who wear a size 14-16 have 24 inch waists?!

Someone should strangle you so you'd know how it feels to not be able to breathe.

Thank you.

--Eva

Dear as-holes who decidedto start womens sizes at the number 0

uh.. wtf? what in the hell is size 0? Common sense says that ISNT a size. Zero is the absence of numbers..
wtf?
and those of us who are of NORMAL size.. you start our sizes at 1 also but you have to include an X ?
did you actually - comepletely run OUT OF numbers? So that you HAD to use the alphabet?
Do you not realize that the average woman WORLD WIDE is size 14? wtf?

chage your ideas of sizes. Mens sizes are actual measurements of their waists.. what a damn concept I dont know any woman with a 14 inch waist. But we have to shop for a 14..? why cant i shop for a 38 waist? Guess what.. that is what I have!

have a nice day punk-asses..

Dear Homeland Security who was able to chase democrats into Oklahoma for Tom DeLay on an instants notice but couldn't get into New Orleans in a timely manner.....
eat me.

OHHH MY GOD...YOU PEOPLE CRACK ME UP!!!!




No ****!!

(1) How about making sleeves longer??? And the tail of the shirt rounded and longer??? Would that be too hard to do?

(2) Built in bras...WHAT A JOKE! The next thing I know, I'm having to go into the bathroom to tuck those puppies back into it..and pray that they won't fall back out! LOL Lets have some SUPPORT for our SISTERS!

(3) I started making my own...I hate manufactured jewelry...they are made for barbie dolls.

(4) I wear Mens boots! Enough said, I hate trying to find something to wear, so I stick with my Justin Ropers...or sneakers thus...they are big enough.

(5)HEELS? I stopped wearing them years ago, due to the fact that I can't pivot on a needle. I swirl.......and trip. F*** THAT!

(6) I agree...we need pockets!


[/B] Now I want to add my own!


(7) Could we have some color?? Reds.....Bright blues, tangerines...not NAVY BLUE or BLACK TO CHOOSE FROM?

(8) When making jeans for Grandma...could we realize that younger women want to wear them, thus the waist doesn't have to come up underneath my arm pits?? I wear mens jeans for the most part, because the waist is where its sopposed to be..and doesn't ride up underneath that bra that I'm wearing...and have to worry about the two overlapping! LOL


[/QUOTE] Dear as-holes who decidedto start womens sizes at the number 0 [QUOTE]

No kidding..WTF? And lets add in there: That manufactuers believe that if you are one those average women in the larger sizes that apparently you are a short women! Come on....Lets add some length to the legs of those god forsaken highwater waders! Never fails,.. to put on a pair and they hit me above the ankle!

I have LEGS..........thus the other reason for buying mens jeans....I can get the length that I need. WTF??

Humm...my Quotes didn't work..about par for the day...lol


Sorry Gals..............but all of you have a good point about the clothes. Sometimes I wish I could design them...

"WE'd Be Stylin' by the time I got through!"

Dear punk ass-

who seems to feel a need to resend me that awful email.. as if i didnt get it before.
Did you not understand , from LACK of responce.. that I was NOT ineterested?
get over yourself. You are not worth being paid FOR. You are a sad person.
Thank you for the well needed laugh though, Know that alot of people on a HUGE forum read your pathetic " job description" and thought much the same as I do
wich is f--k off...

Requesting permission to freely use the term PUNK-ASS in real life, Shewolf. I just meet so MANY of them, and never had exactly the right name before!

Well, let's get going here....

Dear PUNK-ASS Corporate Dress Code Enforcers and Female Clothing Manufacturers all over the world:

1) Pantyhose are evil. Not only are they always too short, the waists are so freakin' tight they're like torture devices. Eva was right-on here. And what's with Control Top anyway? I'm not even TALKIN Control Top here, just the ordinary kind that aren't supposed to control anything.

Are you afraid they're going to Fall Off if they're not made with those itty bitty waistbands? And what exactly makes you think all our Tops need to be Controlled? Why not just reintroduce the Corset with boning and get it overwith?

Not only that, haven't you ever been to Florida in the summertime? Just try walking across a parking lot wearing a set of these too-tight nasties and you get an Instant Yeast Infection!

And don't even get me started on what happens when you don't have A/C in your car and have to wear these things! Ugh, how awful it is to have these danged things actually pasted to your legs, which are now pasted to the plastic car seat, when you finally arrive at work, so you have to freakin' Peal Yourself Off just to get out of your car!

2) Slips, bras, and underwear are inherently uncomfortable. What the heck ever happened to COTTON? Are you afraid that if our skin can breathe it might be, what, STINKY or something? What's wrong with a cotton slip? How about Linen, which is Actually Cool in the summer.... has anyone EVER seen one of these items made from Linen?

Did women just Vote for the most uncomfortable underwear fabric ever invented... that is, Nylon, to be used for practically everything?

Do we have some sort of Debt to Society which must be paid with eternal Nylon underwear torture? Is there a woman alive who hasn't had Nylon (or Polyester, or Acetate) stuck to her body from neck to knee and just felt like ripping it all off and screaming?

3) Make-up! Sure, you SAID you invented make-up that wouldn't melt off your face in Florida heat, but you friggin' LIED! Then you SAID you invented make-up that wouldn't end up on every piece of paper you ever touched in the office, and you LIED AGAIN!

Is there some sort of ceremonial reason that little bits of make-up have to be wiped on every single bit of paper in every file in Corporate America?

Same thing with Nail Polish! Why the heck does it still come off on these same bits of paper? We can send a man to the moon, but we can't invent nail polish that doesn't look like you bled all over your latest presentation?

4) We do NOT all wear a Size 6 shoe! I wear a 9 1/2, yes, that's right, and last I heard it was PERFECTLY LEGAL to do so! Do you MAKE any shoes in that size? Oh, wait, yes, America has manufactured exactly TWO PAIRS of shoes in my size, and they're both incredibly ugly!

You think just because my feet are big, I don't want to look nice? Think tall women should look even more dorky than they already are? Think I should have surgery to make my feet smaller so I can wear all those itty bitty shoes that look like they're made for ancient Chinese foot-wrapped hobblers?



Whew! I feel better now.

HEHE...your right Boris...lol

The shoe sizes are pathetic...I wear...a..umm, 10-12..depending on how its made.

Like you said.."UGLY".......

Go, girls, go....

Agree on the waistband thing - I remember them from when I used to wear nylons. Luckily I am not in any sort of profession where meetings require nylons.

I am known to wear tights in the winter, and recently bought a great pair of Danskins online.

Eureka is a comfy town in many ways. I hardly ever see nylons here - they might be startling.

Those darling little spaghetti strapped tees with bras inside... well, first of all they shrink. I've never wanted to remove a piece of clothing for non sexual reasons more than for those, a complete chance to hurl...

The plus market is a victim, and I'm not a fan of victimology, but yep, a victim. Almost as much as the skin/bones models who need to do coke or barf to keep going - all victims of some whipped up giant group psychology re trend. Not that I hate trend, trend can be fun, but this is a trend gone haywire.

I will also grant, before someone instructs me to, that many of us on this side of the atlantic and pacific are too chubby.
Not arguing that. But we're still fine.

You're right, Osso, Plus sizes are even rarer than Tall sizes.

You'd think they'd get a grip on reality in this country and starting making clothing that might actually fit real people! After all, can't they make rather a lot of money by doing so?

Yet, every thrift store I've ever been in has 100 Size 6's for every one Size 20. How many Size 6 Actual People have any of us ever met? Who's buying all those Size 6's and getting rid of them anyway? Just 2 women, or what?

I wear a Size 12, and people think I'm Thin!

Thrift store queen here. I am in realm of 16 on a good day; re stuff in thrift stores, I can wear anything from medium to xlarge depending on the manufacturer's size assigner.

If you look at my last fifteen years, I float at around fourteen. I hope to do that again once I move and start the walks.

But so what, my numbers are lower than some, but the women with higher numbers aren't slugs to shrug off.

I think makesmeshivers should consider a business -- given her new schooling, and her sensibility -- re clothes and accessories for the rest of us.

Now then, mms, for that idea, I want some stock in the company, no, no, not stockings...

maybe some jewelry.

Or we could all start a company, what the hell, why not?

OK, why not is a matter of money, which I'll be the first to admit.

dear punk ass designers-

another thing..
forget the fact that the clothes you make dont fit a REAL body on this planet, and that we real people have to sacrifice comfort just to be able to join society by being clothed as everyone else is..

but .. err..... ahh.. whats up with the flower patterns?
or the paisley?
or the barf yellow?
Or baby **** green?

do you not have 10 thousand diffrent ways to die fabrics ?

Not for you, my sweet. Greyed colors, any subtlety, is useless on you people, y'know. You all like flash..

You have no money either, so you wouldn't appreciate good weaves, or any styling but the merest sprayed applique.

so bring on the mcdonalds red

be lucky if we throw in some wal mart blue for you as well..

Silk slips! SILK! Now there's a good natural fiber.

I like OSSO's Idea..about starting that business. But like she said.."It takes money". And not to count, I KNOW nothing about designing clothing from a clothing designers perspective, but HELL..LIKE THEY KNOW CRAP AS IT IS...LMAO

When I first read this thread, I liked it from the beginning...jus' for the mere fact that I can spew at someone and not take half the community OUT when I do..lol

But when Jespah brought up Clothing designers...ohhh weee, did that ever hit a nerve!

I agree whole heartedly with everything that has been said on this thread about clothing. We are basically, "**** out of luck", unless we want to sew and design our own clothing ourselves.

I'm tired of Black and Navy blue choices...unless I go to the Men's department, then if I were to be a Big Man, I'd have options.

Have you ever looked at Mens clothing in another perspective, as in for you? There is colors and patterns available that we don't have...its sickening.

Then I go back to the "Ladies" and I have browns, blue and more blue and black, with those cheap appliques on them, or something that I wouldn't sleep in to wear as dress clothes. PLLLEAAASSEE! I'm the wild print, western print, rude logo's girl...then some days, I want Newport News look..lol, a lil sexy and edgy. Wearing Grandma's hand-me-downs isn't going to cut it, cause thats what I feel like I'm wearing...so, I pass.

Why is it a man that is considered on the Larger Scale more priveledged than us women?

The only store that I have found in my neck of the woods that has nice clothing for women sizes 14 and up is Cato's. The only problem with that store is that everything is toooo short for me. The sleeves, or the leg length or the length of the shirt. I don't want a half shirt, unless thats what I'm looking for. And its not like I'm above average height. I'm 5-8, with a 32-33 inch inseam..and have fairly long arms. Womens jeans are made to fit a 30 inch inseam it seems to me...I don't want them at my ankles..or above, I want them where I want them...stackable. lol

I wear shirts untucked for the most part and want them to hang down to the bottom of my butt cheeks...fit snuggly up course, but to hang low.
Thats why I go to the men section..and find something..they hang lower. And I like an open neck, it makes the neck look longer and thinner. And not to be choked to death, by the neck in a shirt. Lets open that bugger up and have some breathing room! Portrait necklines are amazing on women....



For you OSSO...you got it! lol

Both of my girl cousins and my business partner are tall, and all of them use, what is it, Land's End online for jeans and such.