Here’s a poster I passed in the subway station yesterday. Yes, it says “$9.95”.
For those of you who wear size 12 and below, how do you fare in “fast fashion” stores like H&M and Zara? I had coffee with one of my fit models last week. She wears size 8 pants but was so discouraged after an H&M shopping trip that she wanted to get a reduction.
The fashion industry is gradually accommodating more body types, but I don’t see how fast fashion can ever accommodate all possible dimensions of the hourglassy figure. However, rather than altering our bodies to fit into their inexpensive garments, I think the better solution is to help each other find things that fit. If you find something that looks great on you at H&M, Zara or Forever 21, let us know. We learned here that it can happen!
Tomorrow, I’ll share a few of my finds from Anthropologie.
I think you're a little bit unfair to H&M and other similar "fast fashion" stores. As I posted in http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6715610025719913655&postID=7104547950540665115 I do have exactly that dress and it fits beautifully with my 26" waist and 28GG/H-bust. Actually most of my wardrobe (the part that I have bought) is H&M-jersey.
A fast fashion-company has to ensure that their clothes fits as many people as possible in order to sell as much as possible. That includes quite a lot of body shapes. Of course, fitted woven non-stretch pieces is quite hard to fit to different bodies, no matter what kind of company where talking about, but when it comes to using stretch I think that this kind of stores do better than the more expensive ones.
When it comes to jeans I usually have to try 20 pairs to find one pair that I can fit into at all (I, ve got a lot of thighs and hips, but not much of a tummy and a small waist). I've never been able to fit into any kind of real "jeans brand". However, in these fast fashion stores fashionable cheap jeans with a lot of elastan in them exists. And, well, they fit me perfectly.
I can absolutly recommend jersey tops from the LOGG-department at H&M, as well as the zipped cardigans from divided. The same styles fits my pear shaped mother (34D), my apple-shaped sister (32F) and me (hourglass 28GG/H).
Your experience has made me re-consider our fast fashion options, especially in the stretch/knits department.