They're taking over the word "Petite" now I went shopping with my mom today. It's my shitlord grandpa's 86th birthday party this weekend, and the whole family is getting together at a nice restaurant to celebrate. Aunts, uncles, cousins - everyone. So my mom and I went shopping today to find something nice to wear to the party. One of my mom's favourite stores is Cleo. For my non-Canadian shitfriends, its a dressy-casual store where you can find nicer everyday clothing and officewear. I think it's more targeted towards older women (30's 40's 50's) but they sometimes have trendy stuff too. Mom found something she wanted to buy, and encouraged me to have a look around. This skirt caught my eye, but it was in the Petites section. (Here's the skirt on a model) I lamented to my mother that I thought the skirt was really cute, but likely wouldn't fit me because it was a Petite, and I'm 5'7" (so definitely not a Petite). She told me I should try it on anyways since it was a skirt, so even though it might be a bit shorter than it was designed to be, it would probably still fit and look quite nice for the party. I agreed and headed over to the rack to grab one. I was shocked to discover the only skirts they had were sized 10, 14, 16, and 18. Here's the size chart for comparison. I'd be a size 6 with a 26" waist. The size 18 has a 34.5" waist and a 45.5" hip measurement! There's nothing petite about that!!! In the end, I found a lovely black lace dress from Le Chateau (which vanity sizes just as badly) but I'm fortunate enough that there are still stores where I can walk in and buy a dress off-the-rack, though it's becoming more difficult. I really feel for you shitladies who are either forced to have your clothing altered (which isn't cheap) or have to shop in the children's section. I'm disgusted and outraged that the fashion industry is catering to these pigs, to the exclusion of normal-weight, healthy women. It used to be that if you were approaching a size 12, you would go on a diet, reign it back in, and stop eating like a hog so that you wouldn't be forced to shop in a frumpy plus sized store. Now that the average "woman" is a size 16 (US statistics) a size 12 is now labeled as an 8 and even the "petites" go up to size 18. There's no shame anymore, and instead of making women feel like they need to be a certain size to find cute, trendy clothing, the fashion industry is catering to these hams to the detriment of human women. This is why we can't have nice things. Fats ruin everything.