In April, Lena Dunham unveiled her five-piece collaboration with 11 Honoré, a women’s ready-to-wear collection that starts at size 12. Moreover, whenever there is progress in the plus-size market, there seems to be two steps backward. No woman wants to live with limited options.” “You can only make up so many songs and stories and poems if you’ve got 10 words to work with. “It’s almost like, if style is a language, plus-size women are only given like 10 words to express themselves and everybody else has almost infinite words,” Olisa continued. “But what you don’t know is that she’s sitting at brunch, coveting the parachute pants that her best friend is wearing, but no one ever thought she would like them and therefore never made them in plus. So let’s just keep making more of those pants,’” she explained. “For example, the brand will say, ‘Well, women are buying those pants. We need more brands that can make us feel like ourselves. In the plus-size market, we get one tone, so we end up shopping in piecemeal: One thing from one brand and another from another, wherever we can find things that fit. There’s a never-ending way a straight-size person can express themselves.
“The options for straight sizes are epic. “More diverse options are what’s lacking,” said Lauren Chan, founder of Henning, a plus-size women’s apparel brand. But they’re limited, especially when compared with traditional sizes, or what the industry d eems “straight sizes.” There are clothing options in the plus-size market, of course. That is up 1 share point from the same time in 2020. women’s apparel sales, which was worth $113.8 billion, for the 12 months ending May 2021, according to The NPD Group. In total, the women’s plus-size market accounts for almost 19 percent of the entire U.S. There’s also tall plus, petite plus and juniors plus, all of which have special size requirements of their own. Other brands stop making sizes over a 12 or 14 altogether. As a result, some throw sizes 14 and up - or even as low as size 10 - into the mix.
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But all companies and brands are free to make up their own size guidelines. To start with, there is no industry standard for what classifies as “plus.” According to market research firm the NPD Group, most retailers define plus size as size 18 and up. What is known is that fashion is extremely nuanced. But where this data came from is unclear.
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But it’s so hard for me to encourage a plus-size woman to be confident when she can’t have a closet full of clothes that help her do that.”Ĭountless media outlets have cited the statistic that roughly 67 percent of American women are size 14 or larger.
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