anonymouslayabout:

sweetfatty:

sweetfatty: Plus size clothing pricing infuriates me. You use just as much extra fabric to go from, a size 16 to a size 20 pant as you do to go from a 0 to 4. So why not add to the price as the size increases through all sizes, why start at a size 18 or 20? It’s a fucking fat tax. The fact… No, your logic doesn’t work if they don’t have to entirely remake all samples to go from a size 0 to a size 16, why do they have to to go from a 16 to a 20. And when multiple companies and designers have came out saying they won’t even attempt to make a plus line because they don’t want fat people wearing their clothing, it really has nothing to do with the ” extra effort” it takes to extend the sizing. It’s not about me needing to lose weight to fit into the clothing it’s about them needing to not expect us to pay twice as much for the clothing. Just as some skinny people sometimes can’t find clothes to fit them because not all stores carry size 0 or 00 the answer is not to just tell them to gain weight. You need to provide reasonable options for all bodies.

Actually they do have to remake all the samples, but they sell more of these units. Also, the amount of fabric required to make the next size up is logarithmic, not linear. Going from a 0 to a 4 takes 60 cubic inches of fabric, but going from a 16 to a 20 takes 136 cubic inches of fabric, or more than twice as much. The relation grows as the sizes get further and further up. Look it up.

Again, the clothing industry is concerned with money, not fat people. I don’t know what about this is so hard to grasp.