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Next tentatively enter the plus size market...
by QueenSimplyBe @ 16/05/2008 - 12:43:18

....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!

Fat Girls Clothes at Next

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VisionInBlueVisionInBlue pro
2008-05-20 @ 17:49

That makes a change, I normally just walk past Next completely.

sue [Visitor]
http://www.foodphilosophy.co.uk
2008-06-09 @ 15:04

Where are you? I miss reading this blog. It's the best thing on the net.

Sx

QueenSimplyBeQueenSimplyBe pro
http://www.relentlessly-positive.com
2008-06-09 @ 16:59

Thanks missus....I have been up to my ears in work and life, and keep thinking "that's a good idea for the blog" then forgetting what I thought was a good idea. Normal service will be resumed very soon I'm sure...

Ali [Visitor]

2008-06-23 @ 21:07

Ok..great news! Next stocking plus sizes....Just checked and their is limited choice of the new range of plus and tall sizes in their catalogue(but its a start!!) A lot of the choices are out of stock...so hopefully that will encourage Next to continue and add to the range.
But will any of the stores actually stock the over 18 sizes? I took stock of my local branch and there were three pairs of 18 jeans, two size 20 tops, and the majority of the sizes displayed were between an 8 and 12...with five of one top sized 10!!!

MissyMouseMissyMouse [Member]
2008-07-04 @ 16:28

Great news!
If I hadn't have come across your blog I wouldn't have known....thank you so much :)

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