Fat spawns mini fat I was watching our fitting rooms today and ended up chatting to a former lady turned sphere whose 13 year old daughter was trying on clothes for a school careers event in which she needed to wear something "work appropriate". So I'm trying to think what we could possibly have in the kids section which would count as work appropriate other than schoolwear when out comes daughter. In adults clothes. I have on a few occasions directed 13 year olds and up to the ladies section, usually they're about a 6-8 (UK), but this child was wearing a size 14 and to be honest, she was only just fitting in it. She had good fashion sense, it was a really nice, tasteful collection of clothing she'd chosen but the elegance of it was completely destroyed by her size. I felt so bad for her because mum quite clearly didn't think it was an issue that her child at 13 is only one size below the UK average for a fully grown woman, and in some pieces probably would be a 16. If she's not already being bullied for her size she's going to be soon and I don't think mum is going to be bothered enough to try and do anything about it, other than giving her ice cream because she's sad. She couldn't even be bothered to find herself some deodorant.