Why are lrg shirts so big

Are you starting a line or do you work for someone currently? This was so on target! So ridiculous! I have never worn a tunic and never will. I hope that someone is listening.

Puffy short sleeves on everything. Why do I want to make the thickest part of my arm look bigger? They can be pricey but you can catch really nice items on sale at the department stores — Macys has a sale almost every weekend and there are generally great markdowns later in the season. I hate strange cut outs in shirts. Why do my shoulders have to be exposed? Can I have a complete shirt? Plus designers and retailers have been doing the weird cut outs in shirts for over 10 years now!

No changes please! Give me the same looks as the regular sizes.. Like some kind of weird camouflage. Basically, I dont want to look like I am 60…and yes I agree that I want the same scale and fitting as what I have seen in smaller sizes. That drives me NUTS. And then when you sit it bunches up due to the seams and zipper etc. Why on earth is the inseam so LONG? My biggest pet peeve is not being able to find plus sizes in talls even in the plus size stores. I hate ordering online, I want to try them on in the stores!

It almost seems as if stores assume all plussize women are short. I seem to have no end of really long legged pants in plus sizes. Missy, you are right….

I can say this with certainty, since I am a plus size fit model. They will take steps to improve and address your concerns.

Get all your tall friends to do the same thing. I can tell you as a plus size insider, this does work! But that being said, I do see a lot of petites and rarely any tall pants. I live in Singapore and the average size of a Singaporean girl is a UK size Long sleeves, flimsy fabrics, weird hemlines, bad tailoring — its really hard to find good clothing for my UK 18 size body so I usually stick to purchasing online, but even then, its slim pickings to find something of good quality that does not burn a huge hole in your wallet.

I think we need a lot more variations, choices, accessibility to what we have. But like you said, our niche market is expanding in so many ways and frankly it can be a really exciting time for plus size fashion if retailers and designers take into account what we would like to see. Just like regular fashionistas would like clothing of good quality and a diverse range of options, so do we! Thank you for bringing this up! Its been a real sore point for me frankly, having to put up with shop owners dishing me their ugliest outfits in the most unflattering patterns just because I am not of the average local size.

I am a petite and I find that plus sizes clothing designers assume that we are tall and have big boobs. I also have a good tailor. Truthfully, it is harder for me to find well fitting clothing due to my height than being a size Having said that plus sizes have come a long way since the 70s.

At least, there is better variety out there in price, quality and styles available. I dearly would have loved something like Torrid to have been around when I was a teenager. Where are these magical clothes for tall plus sized women? I hate tie in the back. I would like to see more tailored pieces, more nipped in at the waist. Freaking maternity stuff has more style than plus sized. When I was pregnant I was like, wow, look at all these awesome clothes! They fit me and they have neato panels and are so comfortable.

Me too! Our JCPenney turned into an outlet years ago and I used to go out there like once a week to tear up the maternity department! Just plus sized women and average sized women and some super skinnies too that were smaller on top than they were in the hips.

Sizes ranged from XS to 4X And the quality shocked me. Oh, the delirium that ensued! Until the damned place closed! Oh and I forgot… I was talking mostly of tops, but I got a number of pants and jeans as well. One pair was a dark denim trouser office appropriate, in fact without the belly panel but with a wide elastic band in a knit casing that a lot of non-maternity stores were carrying that year in all sizes.

But I digress. My point was that without the baby bump it fell right across the waist and even provided a — dare I say it — flattening effect that was not to be believed. Long story short, we had family photos done last Christmas and I grinned and beared??? I get the impression from many plus size designers and retailers that they think the majority of women who are plus size… are age 40 and above.

I am 27 and I want to dress like I am. Another one is finding jeans that are sturdy enough for my thighs. You know? That inner thigh friction wears at the inside of my jeans. Trust me at 40 you will still be yourself and still want to be stylish. I have been upsetting those poor plus size store clerks for yrs now with my incessant bitching. Where is it written that the bigger the waist the bigger the pant leg??? No one has legs this big.. I have to spend 2X on alterations than I did on buying it in the first place.

Thank u. U rock! ROFL so true! The giant pant legs! Seriously are these clothes being designed by monkeys? I am sick of everything being black. Give me color; give me texture; give me pattern! I It floors me to walk through the average sizes and see all these cute colors and patterns and then get to the Plus area and see black and black and ummm black.

Oh yes! True words. I do not want to look like a giant flower blob! Some of us hate prints, some of us hate solids, some of us hate bright colors and some of us hate black. When I find something that fits and is comfortable, I usually buy 8 of it. I found one style of pants once and got about 8 pairs I kid you not.

I hate shopping so much. I love fashion and have given up hope years ago. I get so excited when I see new collections, but easily become broken hearted when I see that there largest size is They are missing a huge market!!!

How hard could it be to extend the sizes??? I love the nicholas k spring collection actually each collection has something I want but of course no sizes that come close to what I wear, and if there was, I am sure I could not afford anything!! I am so sad that the plus size market is so limited. I really wish I had learned to sew many years ago, I definitely see a huge opportunity being missed!

I could read these forever. I hate a myriad of things in plus fashion! The over done, jumbo jewelry pieces that all seem to be beaded and clear, printed tees.. Behind the Water Heaters. On alternate Mondays and Wednesdays. There ought to be a requirement that the straight-size sales staff must wear and model the crap they are marketing to larger women. I have a 3x dress black dress that never goes out of style from 5 years ago, fits perfectly every time I put it on, so why when I go shopping do I have to shop for a 4 or 5x item.

Sure you mean that? Horizontal stripes can make you look bigger; vertical can make you look smaller. Usually, anyway. Well unless those vertical stripes sort of contour over your tummy, that can emphasize your roundness in that area, especially in a knit.

Can the over 40 plus size woman get a neckline that doesn't have the girls falling out? I want cute, pretty age apprpriate clothes. Everybody targets the 20 somethings… I have more money to spend than they do and nothing I like to spend it on. The closest ones to me are pretty far away, makes it easy to forget them! Apparently they were not to allow anything out of the store that hadnt been personally fit by sales staff.

Forget it! Overall stripes — OK. But how many times has a nice garment been ruined with a stripe at the bottom? Stripes make everyone look heavy and wide. Horizontal stripes should never exist in plus wear and hardly ever in smaller as well. My peeves sorry are appliques and cropped pants everywhere. And the legs are usually cut so full on crops. On a short, plus size woman it makes you look like a balloon on the bottom.

Also, plus-size jean pockets. They seem to just add fabric to the middle seam and keep the back pockets the same distance away from the side seams as with regular sizes instead of relocating the pockets to where they belong. The end result being that the back pockets end up on the sides of your hips, making you look even wider. Really lazy design or non-design. I can wear them BUT I have a very long torso and am tallish.

On us six-footers, capris are proportioned all wrong… In order to get the bit below the knee to land there, let alone be long enough, we need to size up one or two sizes. Other option, buy regular length plus size pants, and wear floods. Floods are not Crops or Capris! I hate that most of the Plus Size clothing has some weird pattern or has a stroke of silver in the shirt. Basically they take a completely wearable and almost cute item an make it unwearable and non-professional. It seems as if they do not put as much care and consideration into the clothing as they would straight sizing pieces.

Most of the patterns on plus sized clothing are inappropriate for the individual item that it is placed on. More than anything most of the pieces tend to be ill-fitting. I say hallelujahs when something fits great and does not have some God awful applique on it or some silver or gold shiny mess on it. I actually do make a cut up the side seam to make it less hip clinging and looser. Clothes that emphesize my hips are not my friend. Which brings me to my most hated trend. I have been saying this about the band at the bottom for the last 3 years.

Why they think this is flattering is beyond me…. No, not good!!! Smooth, no bulge, no gathers or pleats….

Ok, I have another gritch…. I hate those. I am good enough to have either a real short sleeve shirt or cap sleeves. I am not retiring and using my work clothes in different climates and I dont want the loop to crinkle when washed and catch on things as I walk by. I want pretty flowing shirts with sleeves. It is a complete and utter deal-breaker for me. I could find the absolute outfit of my dreams and would walk away if I saw those on it.

Just thinking about it makes the blood rush to the top of my head! Peasant tops? Dress blouses? Tee shirts?! Where are cap sleeves, flutter sleeves, and attractive cuffs? The styles: Hip, young, flowy, feminine without being matronly, funky without being outrageous. Plenty of great details when needed, simplicity when not. Nothing was a tent. Nothing fit like skin. Nothing was age inappropriate. Nothing overwhelmed the wearer. You were you — just in an interesting outfit or garment. Every now and then I see something in a store with a teeny glimmer of possibility — a detail, a cut, a great design, a great idea and then the manufacturer decides to completely bungle the whole thing by reverting to all the cookie cutter rules that say a plus-size garment needs this fit, this finish, this ugly sleeve, this hideous neckline, etc.

No consideration of demographics, the body shape of any woman on this planet let alone a plus-size one, or even the overall aesthetics of the garment in and of itself.

I come from an art background. I have a degree in illustration and a degree in graphic design. So most of this stuff makes me nuts just from a creative standpoint. And when designers do manage to get approval on a design the end result is so bastardized as to be unrecognizable from the original idea. I understand that manufacturing considerations must be made, but never taking into account the judgment of the person creating an item is like going to the dentist and having his accountant work on your teeth!

I live in in area that is cold and snowy in the winter and and long sleeve would be very nice in the cold. What is with the rare long sleeve blouse that can be found when a designer thinks plus size means short arms and narrow shoulders. Why does plus size also mean not tailored. Clothing is made in such a way that it actually makes you look 10 — 20 lbs.

How about some darts or princess seams to give a little more shape. How about tasteful colors and not patterns that make one look like a billboard? How about plus sized departments in brick and mortar stores that are equally sized to the misses department?

Or even better how about having a plus sized section in a brick and mortar store to begin with. After all there are just as many, if not more plus sized women than straight sized one. And one more gripe, for the online plus sized sites how about actually having a plus sized model wearing the clothes, so that we can see what it actually would look like on a larger body, rather than one that used to be considered a straight size, until designers decided to take what used to be a normal straight size and moved it into the plus sized section.

To make matters worse, I have some items of clothing that were made 15 years ago that are larger by several inches than the clothing of the same size now.

I went to THREE different stores shopping for shorts last week and every plus size short was to the knee. I was actually insulted! Curvy women would like to show off their legs a little in the summer too!

I feel towards the opposite end of the spectrum to this, I am a curvy girl, but plus size items are too large for me, even though they would suit my shape SO much better than regular clothing. I totally agree with your points, but feel they should make plus size items in regular sizes too, for those of us who are just the wrong shape for regular clothing! I agree with you. My ideal size is would be a Missy 20 for my tops and Missy 22 for my bottoms. Sometimes it costs me more to have my clothes altered down to fit me than it does for the item itself.

Even when I was thin I always needed waist taken in and hemming. But now that I am larger I have to practically have the entire outfit remade.

I would like to have jeans that fit correctly. Even though there are jeans available for us curvy girls, they still do not fit correctly. Many are made for women with smaller thighs, have no waistline, and for women who have a small butt. I would be nice to have some jeans that come up higher in the back and have contouring in the waist that will accommodate our tummy and thicker waistline. I have a couple of pair I bought last year but they look like granny jeans. How about some great fitting distressed denim.

You are right on the money, especially with the stupid bands on the bottom of every shirt, the lack of tailored pieces, and the stupid hemlines on everything. I need jeans that fit well too. Actual curvy fit jeans that go past a size Designers think that all very large women are one amorphous monolith. We actually come in shapes, just like small women, only larger ones. There are hourglasses and pears among us too.

I also want natural fibers, wool, cotton, whatever, versus all this cheap polyester that they want an arm and a leg for. Often the fabric is what makes the so-called professional gear look crappy and unprofessional. I like those design elements but I also need variety.

Please, for the love of all that is holy. Not even most of what I own. This is such a good article. But soooo overdue. Size 30 jumpers from Butterick patterns! If memory serves, Lane Bryant was in its infancy and I believe Penneys and Sears had a few larger sizes. I simply could not believe it when a category of larger clothing appeared unto itself.

I thought life would really change,,especially with the magazine BBW!! Really little. What other industry does NOT listen to its constituency?? What other industry ignores income potential in the same way as this industry??? I recall many many years ago, when Lane Bryant had clothes that fit my older sister, but the brightest color was navy blue. This was the late 60s maybe.

Rather than drag down the business woman, to Club Kid level of class by the way those skinnies are also wearing the total garbage being cranked out in China why not elevate the spandex hooker look UP to where we are all wearing the classic sophisticate look, like warm grey flannel slacks, blazers, simple black dress… You get what I mean.

QVC recently referred to one of their offerings as Liquid Fabric… pretty much sums it up. It makes me think of how they keep reducing the size of different products, from foodstuffs to cleaning products, etc. Prices increase.

ON has neat clothes that are too cheap to wash more than a couple times, they say. I guess they can buy a bunch of super inexpensive stuff at ON, wear a couple times, then buy a bunch more.

We finally have the disposable income, and can only find ridiculous sheer nighties for day wear?? On ipad and I accidentally touched send… I wanted to finish with critiques about the actual fashions. I agree completely with just about every single complaint mentioned here, and want to add these points. About the boxy tops, shirts, jackets… Really? Just about every single big gal knows that straight boxy lines not only are not flattering for most, they make us look bigger in a most unpleasant way.

Fortunately most of us are finally celebrating our bigness rather than feeling ashamed! But we want to be out there maximizing what we have, not bastardizing our look! But give those tops some darts, curves, shapes. Their store displays are filled with chic, shapely little jackets, until you look closer and see that all clothing on models are pinned in the back to provide shape!!!

When you pull your own size of that great jacket on display, it looks like a square box! Stop it!!! Stop it!! Showing off curves and experiencing sexuality and sensuality and confidence does not have to be all about super loe, super tight, super gaudy, super bright, super leopard print, super anything printed, super stretchy, super sparkly, super meshy!!!

How about super classy? We all have them memorized. A lot of classy dressing is about high quality fabric, superior construction,. When I poke through plus sized racks, I practically need a Dramamine to keep my balance against the assault of dizzying patterns and colors, frills, ties, strings and all manner of fringe—all in an attempt to what??? Make us feel all costumey, party girlish?

Infantalize the large figured girl? Dear god. This occurs lots in t-shirts, casual clothes, loungewear and sleepwear! On the chest. Why are they offering it to me now? There are more and more of us who are unwilling to be held hostage by stupid ideas. We will shop til,we drop to find the few good pieces out there. We are no longer willing to settle for being in that awful position of groveling with gratitude over a few morsels of something that, OMG, we can actually get pulled on a nd buttoned.

I go to the gym 4 times a week, do 5 cardios a week, have a personal trainer, use TRX straps and other up and coming training techniques! I am not interested in wearing those damn old lade clothes any more than you younger gals do! Show some respect for us regardless of our age and size! We all want the same things whether a size 4 20 yr old or a size 16 65 year old!!!

Remember those???? Now everything might as well be a tee-shirt! I like to tuck my shirts into my skirts and pants and wear a belt to emphasize my waistline.

Register to become a member today! I remember when I would purchase an LRG t-shirt at the mall and walk through the parking lot thinking and knowing I had the best underground T ever made. The witty tagline of "underground invented and overground effective" even proved why my thirty dollars was well spent. Today I see the same shirt I bought five years ago, at the same store, at the same mall, doing nothing for me.

I personally believe the sudden and excessive growth of LRG has created, "overbranding" across the country. The designs are clean, well thought out and sometimes classic. But why is there a sudden lack of interest for the brand? If you wear LRG I dont think any different of you, I just think you are wearing your lil bros clothes.

Learn to shop in the men's sections of the department store, not the kids. Your colorful shirts are bringing out the gay in you. I guess I was once there but now realize how much one brand can evolve over time into the complete opposite of what you though you rep.

I belive the tagline should be "underground invented, overground sellouts". Contrary to what you may feel, LRG is a sellout. A quick word on blocking ads. It looks like you are using an ad blocker. That's okay. Who doesn't? You can also put a clamp-style paper clip on the back. T-shirts come in all different sizes and styles.

Unlike many Hollywood celebs, Jessica Alba has perfected an ability to look fashionable while still being super-casual. Have you ever found the absolute perfect T-shirt but there was just one little thing wrong with it? Does fitting into a lower number work as a form of personal validation?

The answers are easy to figure out. Society celebrates losing a dress size, whereas going up a dress size is considered something to mourn. Did I feel better when I fit into a 10 rather than a 12? Hell yes, I did. Fashion stores understand this psychology all too well. Vanity sizing in some shops brands who purposely apply low numbers to bigger items can help secure a purchase. Fitting into a small size, could boost a customer's self-esteem; influence a sale and return custom.

At the very least it's good business. Even during this burgeoning era of body positivity many of us are still preoccupied with size. Because size does matter to an extent. It matters that some brands still consider a size 12 plus size, it matters that more brands include bigger sizes in stores and it matters that increasingly curvier women are now representing bigger sizes on advertising campaigns. Adblocker Thanks for coming to Confidentials.