My dad felt the need to brave vicious shoppers today, all for a 15% off coupon at Macy's. So I tagged along since I needed some performance athletic clothing. I was immediately reminded of two things: everything that is on sale is something someone else wouldn't pay full price for (and thus, usually undesirable) and the smallest size available is L. If you are 2XL you are in luck - shopping sales is your Candyland.
I figure there must be some huge garbage dump out there that is composed solely of 2XL and 3XL+ size clothes. Everytime I go shopping, all I see are huge sizes. 40x36 pants. XXXL shirts. Why aren't there clothes for normal sized folk? I guess I should remember that America the beautiful is also America the obese. And full of gargantuan descendants of Nordics and Africans. It's possible that when your ancestors subsisted on low-nutrient content rice and handfuls of vegetables, with the occasional chicken that there isn't a strong selecting force for 6'4", 250 lb people. I think this might make a nice segue into my rant on the whole "theory of evolution" vs. "'intelligent' design" debate. Rant coming up soon.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
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if you are talking about finding clothes on sale that are your size, you answered your own question. if it's on sale, it's because people aren't willing to buy it. hence, all the plus-sized clothes.
I think that it amounts to discrimination - I should be able to find clothes in my size on sale! Why should I have any less opportunity to shop items on sale just because I am not enormous?
sue them
yo, are you making fun of my size?
Just cause you haven't outgrown your roots, doesn't mean you have to make fun of me!
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