Changes are coming to sizes in feminine fashion.
Unbelts founder Claire Theaker-Brown demonstrates the stretch in the company's size-inclusive belts.But for many people with larger bodies, those changes aren't coming fast enough.
There's a stigma around catering to larger body sizes, according to Anne Bissonnette, a dress historian and associate professor in the University of Alberta's human ecology department.Bissonnette, whose research includes studies of how clothes and the body interact, says many manufacturers still base their measurements on a sample size from the late 1930s.
However, bodies change as a person gains or loses weight, meaning clothes may fit or hang differently on different body types, Bissonnette added. Stephanie Jonsson, who runs the plus-size fashion blog Hourglass Darling, is part of an Edmonton community of people who call themselves fat. Even at some plus-size stores, Jonsson has had to order her size online because the store didn't keep the larger sizes in stock.
"If I don't have access to that, there are things that I concretely can't really participate in. And that's a form of social exclusion.""When a clothing store only goes up to a size 3X, they're basically saying anyone who's bigger than anything above a 3X is really not part of our market," Rodier explained.
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