Thursday, 13 January 2011

Fashion fascism

I read recently that many high-end fashion houses refuse on principle to make their ready-to-wear clothes in large sizes, on the grounds that they don't want fat people wearing their stuff, thus presumably making the brand-name clothes more desirable. I am tickled therefore by the fact that many of these same high-end fashion houses make baby clothes - including snaps down at the bottom end of the clothes expressly for ease of nappy-changing: what does it say about high fashion when being fat is considered less attractive than being incontinent? I think I'd rather be fat...

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