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Ugh. So. I need clothes. I don’t go to physical stores anymore if i can help it because that way is just pain and annoyance.
I’m on Amazon, I have a coupon. Sure. It’s cold, I dress in a lot of layers. I need camisoles or undershirts or whatever, I just need like, a half-dozen identical ones in basic colors.
Cheapest camisole I can find in my size is $12. Each! For one! Now, I don’t shop a lot, but that seems really dumb. That’s like, a really good sandwich. Not an item of clothing that provides no structural support and is never going to be an outer layer.
I go over to the men’s section. The going rate is a 6-pack of undershirts for $15. Now, they’re cut for men, so they’re going to have armholes to the navel, and a neckline above the collarbones, and just generally aren’t particularly my-torso-shaped. But. They’re made of the same materials, same level of craftsmanship.
Why can a woman not buy a six-pack of basic camisoles for $15? I’m not asking for ribbons or lace. I just want a bound neckline, and arm-sized armholes. I feel like that’s a doably low bar.
Also, the men’s stuff goes up to a 60″ chest in literally every permuation. That’s just– the sizes start at about a 34″ chest and go up to 60″ like that’s totally normal.
I have a 46″ chest, and that is larger than any standard woman’s size. I am an extended size, and most of what’s on offer doesn’t come that big. Statistically, I am within the range of average, but by fashion, I am such an outlier as to have almost no representation.
So like. There. Y’all already knew that. But there it is. Again.
Also Amazon has like a huge lingerie deal at the moment, huge percentage off everything, woo, thousands of things on sale. Right? I need basic undermapants. Like, nothing fancy. I have fancy but my basic comfy granny panties have all had various elastic failures over the last like, decade, the collection’s getting pretty slim. So I hit up the category page, and there’s just thousands of items. I go to “plus size” to screen out all the ones that go up to a 36″ hip like that’s big or something. (HA) And now I have one option. I look at it. 3XL is a 42″ hip. Their hugest size.
What.
(I need 48″. Again, statistically, that’s not particularly giant.) I have zero options.
Amazing.
Ugh. So. I need clothes. I don’t go to physical stores anymore if i can help it because that way is just pain and annoyance.
I’m on Amazon, I have a coupon. Sure. It’s cold, I dress in a lot of layers. I need camisoles or undershirts or whatever, I just need like, a half-dozen identical ones in basic colors.
Cheapest camisole I can find in my size is $12. Each! For one! Now, I don’t shop a lot, but that seems really dumb. That’s like, a really good sandwich. Not an item of clothing that provides no structural support and is never going to be an outer layer.
I go over to the men’s section. The going rate is a 6-pack of undershirts for $15. Now, they’re cut for men, so they’re going to have armholes to the navel, and a neckline above the collarbones, and just generally aren’t particularly my-torso-shaped. But. They’re made of the same materials, same level of craftsmanship.
Why can a woman not buy a six-pack of basic camisoles for $15? I’m not asking for ribbons or lace. I just want a bound neckline, and arm-sized armholes. I feel like that’s a doably low bar.
Also, the men’s stuff goes up to a 60″ chest in literally every permuation. That’s just– the sizes start at about a 34″ chest and go up to 60″ like that’s totally normal.
I have a 46″ chest, and that is larger than any standard woman’s size. I am an extended size, and most of what’s on offer doesn’t come that big. Statistically, I am within the range of average, but by fashion, I am such an outlier as to have almost no representation.
So like. There. Y’all already knew that. But there it is. Again.
Also Amazon has like a huge lingerie deal at the moment, huge percentage off everything, woo, thousands of things on sale. Right? I need basic undermapants. Like, nothing fancy. I have fancy but my basic comfy granny panties have all had various elastic failures over the last like, decade, the collection’s getting pretty slim. So I hit up the category page, and there’s just thousands of items. I go to “plus size” to screen out all the ones that go up to a 36″ hip like that’s big or something. (HA) And now I have one option. I look at it. 3XL is a 42″ hip. Their hugest size.
What.
(I need 48″. Again, statistically, that’s not particularly giant.) I have zero options.
Amazing.
