With all the trends going around about body positivity and inclusivity, you would think more brands would take the step to make their clothes fit all body types. However, that is not the case. Trying to find clothes as a woman who is not a size small or medium is near impossible. 

There are quite a few brands that make clothes targeted towards bigger women, but many of them are the type of clothing middle-aged women would wear. It seems that clothing companies think that just because someone has a slightly bigger belly than another person, they do not want to dress the way other people their age are dressing. 

Torrid and Maurices are both companies that sell a wide variety of sizes and are very inclusive brands. However, a lot of the clothes there are not super trendy, they are targeted more toward moms. 

Aerie has become much more inclusive over the past few years, but American Eagle, which is the same company, is often sold out of their bigger sizes online and they hardly ever carry them in store. They have a newer style of jeans they call their curvy jeans, but they do not have many variations of different jeans in this style, and they are often sold out in their bigger sizes. 

It is absolutely ridiculous that there are women everywhere struggling to find clothes that fit and make them feel good in them. These companies are placing limitations on people by not including larger sizes in their clothes. 

Lizzo has been a huge advocate for plus size women ever since she started her singing career. She makes music about feeling good about yourself as a bigger girl and has never been ashamed of being a big woman. She started her own clothing line called Yitty, which offers clothing sizes ranging from a XS to an 6X.

While this is amazing, and the clothing line has a very wide variety of clothes, including crop tops and lingerie, you have to pay a membership fee to get the clothes for their sale price. In order to get any affordable deals from Yitty, you have to pay a monthly membership fee of $60. 

This means that plus sized people are still having to pay more and jump through more hoops to find clothes that fit them correctly. It is ridiculous that society has made it so impossible for plus sized people, especially women, to find cute and affordable clothes. 

I have heard many people try to flip the standard and say that people who wear a size XS or small have to go through the same struggles, but it is not the same. There has never been a brand that said they do not want skinny people wearing their clothes, where there have been owners of companies saying they do not want fat, ugly people wearing their clothes. 

Another issue plus sized people face is the thought that being fat automatically makes you ugly. It is clear that many clothing companies have this mindset because they make their plus size clothing much more plain and boring than their normal clothes. 

Big people want to dress cute and find clothes that compliment their body types just as much as smaller people. The stigma surrounding plus size clothing needs to change and brands need to be forced to become more inclusive.

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