sometimes i have to be mean to my favorite store. i figured i might as well piss off someone tonight with this but i couldn't help laughing at my own email to the company who i've supported for years as a fat girl who loves fashion.

so here is my angry letter to my favorite store:

Dear Torrid,

Apparently once every year or so, I am required to send you a letter do remind you who your demographic is in this world. I've put up with your abuse of espadrilles, I've accepted your necessity to clothe fat girls in bermuda shorts, and I've even accepted your need to sell out to brands such as Ed Hardy raising the prices on everything you sell in the store to match his.

But today you've crossed the line.

I opened my email today and found a picture of a lovely curvy fat girl in a romper. not just any romper, a freakin micro romper.

What the hell were you thinking!?

First of all, I'd like to remind you that if a fat girl is not wearing stockings, pantyhose, or tights of any kind, her upper thighs look like bean bags. seriously. I would also like to remind you that when we walk, said thighs attempt to start camp fires. And only you can prevent <s>forest</s> crotch fires.

I would also like to let you know that rompers in any way shape or form should be left back in the early eighties. I hate to be the reality check fat girl in your corporate life, but not everything you see in last year's vogue should be worn by curvy women. Rompers are very dangerous. they look fantastic if they are wideleg panted, or even made into a coolock kind of short with a tube top princess waist.

But do make them booty shorts in some crazy shimmery stretchy dark denim makes me wonder if you're trying to turn us all into hoodrats. and I can't just abide by you convincing the young and impressionable that its cool to be a hoodrat. Whats next? stencils to teach them how to paint on crazy chola surprise eyebrows?

fire that buyer.

I'm just sayin...

formerly yours,

yas
angry shopper
formerly known as loyal shopper

(this was originally posted on my blog in which i decided to just email them and let them know how i feel)

this is awesome!!!

im a big girl and i am always showing my shopping buddies the clothes in my size that are so hoochie-rific...

and im always like WTH???


great GREAT letter!!!!


and i dont get to go to the store mentioned, but i saw it when i was in cali....we dont have one here that im aware of....

Whats wrong with bein raised in the hood? <,<

please. i was raised in the hood.

but i don't look like a hoodrat.

there's a difference.

i absolutely love torrid. sadly, they make just as many mistakes as they make fashion triumphs. they can make me scream with delight and moan in embarrassment.

its amazing how that works.

i think they have skinny girls as their buyers, merchandisers, and stylists.

gawd, I almost gave up on this site untill tonight.

LOL bobbysox to the rescue!!!

DUN DUN DUHHH NUUUHHHH!!

OMG awesome, on point, and brilliant. (did I leave out riveting in a gay voice)?


Yes apparently someone wants us to look like giant children in osh kosh.


Im just glad the sailor shirt, and the moo moos arent out there like they were.


I dont want my clothes to shimmer in any way, shape or form. (no pun intended)


I do thank the world for making the empire waist more popular.


What will these fashion queens think of next though with making us grown women, who are bigger, dressing us like angry kids on welfare.

I am so grossed out by those dirty looking jeans on anyone.


Oh yeah, and giant flower patterns. to make us look like we are wearing grandmas couch.


YUCK!

I think that the companies think that since the skinny girls can wear them why not the chubbie ones???? I dunno.....Ive always been skinny, but Ive been with my friends who are size 22 shopping and they get so frustrated because they wont wear this or that because it will make their ARMS look fat!! WTF.....just try it on ffs!!! You cant live in a mu mu can you???

last summer i sent them an angry email about their need to sell fat girls bermuda shorts. i wish i'd saved it.

narrow shorts down to the knees in plaid patterns just make us look like upside down bowling pins. i laughed so hard until a cousin bought a pair. then i kinda cried a lil.

"but they girl at torrid said everyone's wearing them."

yeah.. everyone thin honey.. everyone thin..

In all honesty, at least IMHO, if a girl can work with what god gave her, it is FAR more attractive than the woman who wants to try to look like something else. I dunno, that's just me.

hey rock,


im just curious???

did torrid respond back to you about the berm shorts??

very true. you can't live in a moomoo.

but you can ask for fashion that is not only complimentary and sexy and classy without being just the carbon copy of what another demographic is wearing. there are things a plus sized girl need to not wear....

spandex is a famous example.

and i've never balked about showing my fat arms but it sucks when i want to buy something with a cuffed sleeve and it doesn't fit around my fat arms. thats always slightly depressing.

but thats how it works. so i know what works and doesn't work for my body. i also know what i see out there in the world and know that you don't have to be skinny to be deemed at the height of fashion. you just have to know what looks good on you.

they did!!!

they actually apologized to something along the lines of "we are sorry that you feel that our choices for this year's spring fashions do not fit our demographics. we strive to work for ... " soemthing something something.

and then at the end the dude wrote ... You seem to know what you want and we appreciate the feedback.

they still sell them and i still laugh at the picnic table design across those *****. :p

nvkikigirl and Rockmybobbysocks, you two are my heroes. :)

you know rock.......when I lived in california, the best dressed women seemed to be the overweight black women. Beautiful outfits. I have no idea where they shopped but they always looked like they were dressed to the 9's. You dont see alot of that here in overweight women. Here its if you are overweight, usually a really loose top and baggy pants. But the women in cali.....knew how to "work it"

LOL thanks.

specialty shops, seamstresses, and online these days. they are oldschool when it comes to attain what they want and i envy that. I used to make sunday suits for alot of them. they would bring me a hat and say "match this!" lol

you're very right. i see that alot up here. they look very powerful and fantastic.

rasmus:





rock: you have a great attitude!!!


im gonna tell you a secret...

you know that show...what not to wear? i so want them to pick me....LOL

TY both of you!


BAH! I say you and bobby there just sit down and have a girls night out, you both might be able to teach each other somethin!