Women’s Plus Size Clothing

It used to be that plus size women were excluded from fashionable attire that didn’t carry their sizes and relegated to the frumpy aisle. Times have changed, and now there are clothing businesses that cater exclusively to the plus size women. Stores like Torrid and Lane Bryant carry women’s clothing that’s far from size 0 and still trendy. Women’s plus size clothing is now a market in its own right. Perhaps it’s a development influenced by the influx of positive plus size women role models that have come into the spotlight like Mo’Nique, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, America Ferrera and Beth Ditto, who contradict the thin body ideal that the media perpetuates. They deliver the message that you can be “full-figured” and still be beautiful.