Comments on: Fat, fat, fattie

By: Chameleon

Chameleon — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:57:00 +0000

Merry Christmas to you and Louise!
I hope you will watch the new Wallace and Gromit and review it – over here in Central Europe we are totally BBC-deprived, unlike in Belgium! We did import Cadbury’s Selection Boxes to ward off any twinges of homesickness, however.
May 2009 bring you both health and happiness!

This morning, I woke up to find the whole garden covered with a neat sprinkling of snow! A white Christmas, yay!

Whilst I am at it, you are NOT fat!!!!!!!!! I would have nominated that post for the BBRU if I had noticed it in time (before coming here, things were extremely hectic and I barely had time to sleep, let alone read blogs). For women, the clothes buying situation is just as bad. Every shop’s label, although ostensibly displaying the same size, is more or less generous depending on the style of the garment…for example, Marks and Spencers knickers fit generously in my size, but practically everything else outside the nightwear and lingerie section is out of bounds, skirts, trousers etc. all very tight and stingy. We larger ladies are, in effect, barred from the fashionable High Street shops (and, even if we could afford it, designers only cater for stick insects/supermodels, although nowadays, if you go to Harrods, there are bountiful girl equivalents of many labels, driven by the Middle Eastern market…). Searching for something to wear can be a humiliating as well as a depressing experience and you certainly can’t go shopping in groups unless you are willing to spend a lot of time hanging around outside the changing rooms whilst your friends try things on.

It is one of the ironies of life that when I had the figure, I couldn’t afford the clothes and now that I could afford them, I don’t have the figure.

Still, I am used to being big by now and as long as I am healthy, I can live with it. I iknow from experience what it would take to lose weight: approx. 2 hours of aerobic exercise a day. Every day. I just can’t be bothered any more approaching my mid-40s.

Anyway, I don’t want to spoil the season’s cheer, so have fun and I hope you tuck into a delicious Xmas dinner!

By: ST

ST — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:00:53 +0000

I’m not at all fat (except in my head), but at 6 foot 5, and with broad shoulders, I still struggle to find clothes that fit me right. Just goes to show that off the peg clothes are a nightmare for pretty much everyone because no one is “average” for their own size.

Happy Christmas. Worry about it tomorrow. Or next week. January at the latest….

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:45:34 +0000

Yes women have this problem too only its clothes made for girls with actual boobs. Look around, this is a nation of curvy girls so why are all the clothes made for girls with the figure of a 12 yr old boy? Perhaps the economy would be boosted if suppliers stocked their shops with clothing that fits their customers ACTUAL figures/sizes rather than the starving runway models.

ARGH!!!!

By: Ian D

Ian D — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:00:23 +0000

Totally agree. Having lost some weight but still being fat you describe exactly what I faced for a few years. It’s got a little better now but it’s still not ideal.

The bit I really can’t get – we’re a nation of fatties so why is there so little stock? I know not everyone is but you know what I mean. I don’t need software to tell me what to stock – open your eyes and look at what is walking up and down the high street – loads of fat people.

It’s totally demoralising too – I’d ended up buying mostly online as in store had become pointless and online, to me, felt a lot less embarrassing when things didn’t fit. There was also more stock too.

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:29:12 +0000

I’m not fat, but I do notice that women’s shops are stocking more and more on the very small sizes, and less on the average sizes, which makes me feel fat. I wear a 10 on the top and a 12 on the bottom (I’m 5ft 6) and I find it harder and harder to find these amongst rows of size sixes and size eights. It seems ironic, given that the population is apparently getting fatter…