So, today when I was clothes shopping with my friend we went into one of the regular clothing shops. I know that in that shop if I’m lucky I can fit an XL with some pieces. And the current fashion with all the things that are meant to be “oversized” on skinny people I did actually find the odd bit.

In any case I saw this top I liked and started looking through the piles (they had like three or four stacks of these quite thin-material tops next to each other) and eventually after going through about all of them (mostly XS and S with the odd M) I found an XL. Now, until today and in the past whenever I had to dig through clothing displays to find my size at the very bottom or nonexistent I always tried to be very tidy when shifting the stacks as to not mess up the folding and not mix up the display and blah blah plus feeling uncomfortable that other people were watching me having to scrounge for my size and possibly leaving disappointed.

Today, this was over. After having tried and kinda failed to shift neatly through two massive stacks of S and XS I had had it and I started going through them in a faster more normal way that also made it easier to see the size tags. Because I am done.

THIN PRIVILEGE IS HAVING STACKS UPON STACKS OF YOUR CLOTHING ON TOP OF THE STACKS AND NOT A SINGLE ITEM IN YOUR SIZE RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM.

And I encourage you, now, if you have to dig through piles of stuff to find your size, do NOT try to be tidy. Fuck it because if they make it so difficult for you to shop for clothing, why should you hinder your own search just to make it easy for the shop staff? I know this is mean towards people who work in the shops and I’m slightly sorry, but come on. There are other ways to do it. If you’re gonna have three stacks already, stack them by size? If you at the end of the day have to tidy the display anyway, put the XLs back where they belong and not under a pile of XS and S.

I want to make clear that I in no way have a problem with the people who work at shops but with the trend there is in how clothing is displayed.