If H&M is expanding, they should expand into selling plus-sized clothing again. The BiB line was hit-or-miss, but it at least offered the option of clothing beyond the occasional size 14 and verrrry hard to find 16 in stores. BiB is still offered in Europe, so it wouldn't be that difficult to reintroduce it to America.
It seems like H&M is missing out on a huge (no pun intended) section of the general public by not selling larger sizes.
H&M is expanding AGAIN but still no Denver store. Over the course of many years I've shopeped at H&M in Santa Monica, San Francisco, Lisbon, Munich, and I tried to go to the one in Seville, Spain but it was closed so I posed for a picture out front like a freak. Cheap Swedish fashion, I will follow you anywhere! Now come to my city, you heartless tease!
Creating clothing that does not sell in the interest of cultivating "dreams" makes about as much financial sense as me freely distributing pornographic pictures of myself because I just love thinking about people whacking off to me.
Sigh. I WISH I could take advantage of all the great sales, but unlike the Recessionistas, my broke-assness isn't a choice. Can't spend what you ain't got.
@Vivi21: that was my thought too. upon closer inspection, i really think that her lighter skin tone in this picture is just the lighting, whereas the other one (from vanity fair) looked really, really, really altered.
@ellaesther: Well, NO ONE needs advice on that anywhere. It's glamorizing poverty, which exists everywhere. That said, not everyone in India is living in abject poverty. I'm guessing the Vogue demographic over there probably isn't.
@LaComtesse: Word. And although India may be "known" for it's poverty there is a definite upper class that lives essentially the same life as a socialite who on Park Avenue. Let's just say, there is a Chanel boutique, amongst other fancy brands, in Delhi, and it makes money.
@LaComtesse: Oh goodness, I didn't mean to suggest that I think that all Indians are in abject poverty!
I just -- well, I honestly don't know how I feel about an American-run magazine empire "advising" foreigners about how to live/dress with faux-words that reflect a terrible economic reality created on American soil, in a faux-funny way. If you see what I mean (I don't myself, entirely).
@lilbobbytables: I am so with you on the pants hate. I have gone for years without wearing pants. To me they are about as comfortable as wearing a wet, sand-filled bathing suit home from the beach and being stuck in traffic in a car without air conditioning next to an asshat who has his base up so high your glove box keeps rattling itself open.
@lilbobbytables: I HATE pants. I have a boyish figure, so I wear skinny jeans to make up for it. They hurt my knees and make me inflexible. Skirts FTW!
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It seems like H&M is missing out on a huge (no pun intended) section of the general public by not selling larger sizes.
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Sigh. I WISH I could take advantage of all the great sales, but unlike the Recessionistas, my broke-assness isn't a choice. Can't spend what you ain't got.
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But Anne always looks so...classy...and appropriate...and not like everyone else!
Someone's pulling the wool over our eyes on this one.
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I just -- well, I honestly don't know how I feel about an American-run magazine empire "advising" foreigners about how to live/dress with faux-words that reflect a terrible economic reality created on American soil, in a faux-funny way. If you see what I mean (I don't myself, entirely).
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I need a stylist, dammit. I haven't worn matching socks in a week.
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Qua?
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I keep telling you people - the future will be all about widespread pantslessness. Lady Gaga is a fashion prophet.
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