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Clothes shopping in Dublin

  • 16-12-2005 10:24am
    #1
    RobEire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭


    I can't be the only big person living in Dublin, yet whenever I have to go clothes shopping, I find it an incredibly frustrating and humiliating experience.

    Is it really possible that there are no people out there who wear XL and XXL clothes? From what I see on the streets everyday, there are quite a few larger than average folk wandering about this fair city.

    Why is it our retailers don't seem to want to acknowledge the presence of fat people in their midst? Why only cater for midgets and anorexics?


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  • #2
    Attol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Attol


    Fashion and Appearance


  • #3
    joejoem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭joejoem


    Lets not forget about the people over 6'1", and god forbid you have shoulders. I find the opposite problem, that if I buy a shirt to fit my shoulders I have a parachute around my waist.


  • #4
    RobEire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭RobEire


    joejoem wrote:
    Lets not forget about the people over 6'1", and god forbid you have shoulders. I find the opposite problem, that if I buy a shirt to fit my shoulders I have a parachute around my waist.

    Yup, I have this problem with trousers. They only ever seen to fit the leg or the waist, never both...

    I never thought about this before moving to Ireland. Certainly in South Africa I was downright average to small in size, and in the UK it was not a problem either. Here however it is a real challenge to find good clothes that fit. You either end up looking like a sausage squeezed into a too tight skin, or like a tent.


  • #5
    BEAT
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭BEAT


    ya know I asked the same question when I was there recently, spent a good part of the day going round the shops with a friend and I didnt see anything over a 16 in the womens shops, youd see an 18 occasionally...the thing is , what about women who are bigger than an 18 or 16? I know they are out there! where do they shop?
    seems like none of the dept stores catered to women of a larger size.


  • #6
    Dermington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Dermington


    joejoem wrote:
    if I buy a shirt to fit my shoulders I have a parachute around my waist.

    yeah i have the exact same problem!!. i spend 90 quid on a new shirt and its perfect on the shoulders and a bloody tent on the waist.

    waaaah! :(


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  • #7
    Sarn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭Sarn


    RobEire wrote:
    Is it really possible that there are no people out there who wear XL and XXL clothes? From what I see on the streets everyday, there are quite a few larger than average folk wandering about this fair city.

    Why is it our retailers don't seem to want to acknowledge the presence of fat people in their midst? Why only cater for midgets and anorexics?

    I have the opposite problem (as a skeleton with flesh), anything I want to buy is XL, XXL.


  • #8
    RobEire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭RobEire


    Sarn wrote:
    I have the opposite problem (as a skeleton with flesh), anything I want to buy is XL, XXL.

    I'll tell you where I am trying to shop if you tell me where you are trying to shop?


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