Cheers to you on your recovery. You should definitely add your comment to the f-r thread. People do need to hear about it, and you bring up something that I don't think anyone else did in that thread... we are not, as a people, sized the way things sold in stores would lead us to believe.
I hope that's changing, though - have you seen this article about the SizeUSA project: http://www.iht.com/articles/131984.html? Basically, they went around and measured people and - shock - the biggest size on most racks was smallish for our measurements. You could read that as a sign of the mounting obesity crisis, or you could read it as symbolic of our thin-fixation - even clothing in department stores is wildly unattainable for a huge portion of the population.
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I hope that's changing, though - have you seen this article about the SizeUSA project: http://www.iht.com/articles/131984.html? Basically, they went around and measured people and - shock - the biggest size on most racks was smallish for our measurements. You could read that as a sign of the mounting obesity crisis, or you could read it as symbolic of our thin-fixation - even clothing in department stores is wildly unattainable for a huge portion of the population.