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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
To be honest, style and fashion just aren't designed for "large" people. When companies enter a market to sell their clothing, they immediately target the small-average range. You will find niche companies who design larger clothing, but like I said, they're niche companies operating in a larger market, no pun intended.
This is not to say that larger people can't wear certain styles, however, many times they have to alter the styles to make them more flattering. Extremely thin girls have a hard time as well, but it's easier to dress a thin girl than a large girl when pertaining to high fashion.
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That's true, but also perhaps a failing in the fashion industry as well as a potential cause for health issues for those persons naturally predisposed to be a little larger. It isn't neccessarily true that a person is always healthier if they are thinner; a fatter person, as a consequence of the extra energy and insulation is more likely to survive a long winter where there is comparative scarcity of food than a thinner person. Hence the need for body fat on larger aquatic animals existing around the antartic regions; seals, whales and so on. In temperate climates there isn't really any need for this extra fat and in warmer climates the extra insulation is a definite disadvantage.
Where we have an increasingly internationalised fashion scene, it seems somewhat unfair to favour one sort of person when people can look very different according to various social, economic and environmental factors. My sister, for example, is medium sized girl and an actress in the UK, I don't think that any reasonable person would take a look at her and call her fat, but in her earlier years she experienced some bullying, which when combined with the images she found in her fashion magazines, convinced her that firstly she was fat and that second she had to take drastic measures to correct a problem she didn't have. This resulted in her suffering from a serious eating disorder. She isn't alone, I'm sure.
Perhaps it would make better economic as well as health sense if the fashion industry as a whole marketed their products to a larger section of the world's population?