With rising affluence and better nutrition, children and adults today are getting larger and larger. Yet majority of the fashion industry still do not take the outsize market seriously, perferring to see their designs on thinner frames – which they deem to be the perfect ‘norm’. This is frequently reinterated during fashion shows, where models are stick-thin.

There is a distinct difference between the ‘average women’ and the ‘average women designers create for’. And it is extremely annoying that yours truely doesn’t fall into the category of ‘average women designers create for’! With onging summer sales, I could only stare and window shop as others stock up their wardrobes. And I hate the feeling!

Plus sizes, talls and petites can be beautiful too! It is how one perceive it to be. Why can’t designers, and fashion players cater their clothes and shoes to make them a little bigger, longer, so that I can fit into them? Argh…..

*Here, I take outsize to refer to plus sizes, talls and petites.