August 26, 2009

• Gee, you think there might be a connection?

  MSNBC has a story titled "Recession puts squeeze on plus-size fashion".  The gist of it is that we pudgebuckets tend to be poorer than average, meaning new clothes are among the first things to be cut when times are tight.

  Okay, I'm a fair person and there's doubtless some validity to that.

  But there's the blurb or whatever it's called, leading into the story, which says:  "Plus-size brands are aiming to create sexy and sleek designs, but customer purchases are down."

  Look, one can be sexy and sleek or one can be a pudgebucket.  I suppose "sexy" can sometimes be managed, but "sleek" simply isn't on that particular radar.  We of, er, Junoesque proportions may be many things, but sleek isn't one of 'em. 

  It's frustrating to look through stores and catalogs and find all this idiotic "sexy and sleek" clothing being offered.  I'm 58 and while I don't want to dress as if I'm ready for a nursing home, neither do I intend to look like mutton dressed as lamb, not to mention a fat sheep trying to look like a skinny lamb. 

  Point being, perhaps if the stores would pay more attention to what we pudgebuckets want, they might find their sales of plus-sized clothing going up.  Most of us aren't interested in attempting to mimic our svelte sisters.  We've got mirrors, too. 

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