makethwoman:

gloriousfatpoc:

Dear thin people, Please stop this! You repurposing fat clothes is really unacceptable. Actual fat people could be wearing these. It’s also pretty shitty to take something fat people are forced to wear that’s ugly and make a cute dress with it. Designers fail to see that fat people want to wear cute cloths. Yet all we get is Mumus, denim dresses for 80 year Olds and tents. This is the epitome of thin privilege. -Mod Mariah

This is…… a really, really weird thing on which to take a ‘thin people are entitled and stealing from fat people’ stand…

Actually, no. I take that back. The entire idea of ‘thin people are entitled and stealing from fat people’ is a weird as hell stand to take period. Especially when it’s over something as simple as a young woman using her creativity to make something beautiful.

Look, I get it. Sometimes fat people clothes suck. Far more often than not, clothes designed for thinner individuals are much more popular, much better looking, much better made, and much more widely available than what larger-bodied individuals can find. I’m not a tiny girl, I get it. I’ve had to hunt and peck for clothes that fit my body in a way I was happy with, and that looked cute enough that I liked it. I feel you.

But that doesn’t give you the right to throw a fit at this creative young woman who found something for cheap at a thrift store and changed it to suit her. Cause guess what. Some ‘fat’ person bought this, then gave it away because they no longer wanted it, gave/sold it to the thrift store so that maybe someone else could have it and use it. And someone else did. It doesn’t matter if that someone else is a thin person or a fat person; they bought it at the thrift store, and they have every right to do with it as they please.

If you want the fasion industry to change, so that larger-bodied people can have awesome designs that look good on them just like thinner people can, then go bug the fuck out of the fashion industry. Leave this girl alone.She’s not hurting you, she’s not hurting anyone else, she’s having fun and expressing herself. Being ridiculous about her flaunting the ‘epitome of thin privilege’ by ‘repurposing fat clothes’ isn’t going to get anything solved. So get over yourself, take a chill pill, and turn your anger and upset towards something productive that might actually change things.