Plus Size My Ass!

Why is it that when you're looking for plus size clothing, the models wearing the plus size clothing are always regular sized?  Look online and you'll see--Macy's, Old Navy, Jessica London, SimplyBe even Roaman's.  They show how drawstring linen pants will fit a woman who has a space in between her legs.  They show you fitted tank tops on women without backfat,  and dresses on women with big boobs and flat stomachs.  What the hell good is that?


Talbots and The Avenue have models who are slightly more realistic but are instead of fat, merely bodacious.  Models with 22" waists and 44" hips.   These women have near perfect proportions.  They are amazons with hourglass figures that cause fabric to skim the waist and cling in all the right places.  Most of these women are unnaturally tall and are more rubinesque than plus size.


IGIGI is yet another plus size store online that features women with cartoonishly big breasts and ass for days!  Like an exaggerated superheroes these women are nothing like me either.  The are not in between an obese and a fat place.  There's no chance they will ever lose weight and after looking at them you'd wonder why they'd ever want to?  Everything about them is lucious and plentiful and joyously curvy.  Their faces are beautiful and unusually slender given all the stuff that sits below it and they look like deliberate creations.


But then go to Zappos.  They make no apologies for their models.  Their models are the MOST realistic I've ever seen.   They have bad skin and double chins and bad hair days (which I find a little unforgiveable) and are apple shaped, like me.  Most of them look like shit in their "Maude-like" get ups with voluminous fabrics that are too colorful and have too much pattern.  When a Zappos model wears a tank top, dammit you see her rolls, her fat rounded shoulders.  Its a very good representation of how you will look with those same clothes on.  This is why I'd never buy clothes from Zappos.  Where's my inspiration if the models look like this raw and real?  Zappos makes me feel bad about myself and that's when it occurs to me: this is exactly why most other websites don't depict "real women".  I mean who the hell wants to see that when you can look at it every day in the mirror?!