....but will we see any of the plus sizes in the shops?
Browsing the Next website the other day (at last, they've changed it so you can browse for items like 'tops' rather than trying to decide which daft sounding themed collection would contain a blue vest top) I noticed, hidden away, and very coyly named:
Additional Sizes
On further inspection, they now have a range of 24 - 28 items for women which you can buy online. Presumably they come in a brown paper bag so that nobody knows you are actually buying (gasp) Fat Girls Clothes.
Most of the items you can get up to a size 28 are fairly basic, and they are all just bigger versions of the normal ranges, not specially designed for those of us with ampler-than-most curvaceousness. The day I see one of their size 28 specimens hiding in the shop, I will do a cartwheel. And as I can't do a cartwheel to save my life, you can tell I'm not expecting much - it's as much as I can do to find a 20 in there most of the time. But hey, credit where it's due, it's a start!