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Friday, July 10, 2009 12:00 AM

A slap in the face to fat girls

Beth Ditto may be a hip plus-size icon, but her new clothing line feels like an insulting throwback to a 1985 Kmart

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 07:27 PM

A slap in the face to fat girls

Being6'6"+220lbs.,I prefer larger "women".What is important to me is clean,presentable and personality! Stylish is not a priority!!!

Sunday, July 12, 2009 01:57 AM

To scratchud

More to lick.

That's a plus.

Sunday, July 12, 2009 07:44 AM

you feminists are so into yourselves and your vaginocracy

you have billionaire women all over the planet.

why don't you plainters go to university to sudy fashion design, then go hoof it and learn the ropes in the field, then team up with your business school graduate sisters and build a business plan, then go knock on the doors of your rch sisters and make a business like this HAPPEN?!??!!??!?

THIS IS THE WAY WE FUCKING MEN HAVE TO DO THINGS if we want any change. Is this too much WORK for you? Easier to pop those bon bons and listen to Oprah?

What is stopping you people? Are patriarchal men lined up, holding hands, arrayed against you people, preventing you frm leaving your homes? Are you not permitted to write business plans unless you have a penis license? Are there not enough liberal toad guys in your camp who hate themselves and hate all men that they would GLADLY stick it to the man by helping you shepherd such a plan to completion? Are you so soused and sore from too much lovin with your douchebag boyfrields that you cannot bear he hought of lifting your ass of the bed to enact any change? Are you breastfeeding your octuplets while signing welfare checks that you cannot go to college and get a degree?

What exactly is STOPPING you from becoming the change you seek???

The sad cold hard PATRIARCHAL truth is that fat people look GROSS and that it is difficult to make clothes fit fat people and that those women who would, could, and should help change the business are too busy working on other things, like their nails, to bother to change the system.

And we men are too pissed at you women to want to bother to help....

bwaaaahahahahaha aaaA!!

Sunday, July 12, 2009 04:06 PM

"Hip" is probably not the place to go if you're just looking for decent clothes.

I actually thought the black prom dress and stained glass prom dress are sort of nice.

But "slap in the face" to fat girls? Are you being forced to buy her stuff? She seems like she's catering to an extremely specific niche fashion sense; she's not claiming to be making sensible everyday things for plus-sized women.

In the meantime, every time I walk by Lane Bryant, I see something that I wish they made in a size 4.

And I know it's pricey and not everyone can afford it, but Eileen Fisher is starting to get the hang of some super-cute and younger-spirited things, especially in spring lines. So watch out for sales....

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