Size Discrimination in A Small Place

Size Discrimination from Clothing companies.

(Page 8) It's a good thing that you brought your own books with you, for you couldn't just go to the library and borrow some. Antigua used to have a splendid library, but in The Earthquake (everyone talks about it that way - The earthquake; we Antiguans for I am one, have a great sense of things, and the more meaningful the thing, the more meaningless we make it) the library building was damaged. This was in 1974, and soon after that a sign was placed on the front of the building saying, THIS BUILDING WAS DAMAGED IN THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1974. REPAIRS ARE PENDING. The sign hangs there and hangs there more than a decade later, with its unfulfilled promise of repair, and you might see this as a sort of quaintness on the part of these islanders, these people descended from slaves - what strange unusual perception of time they have. REPAIRS ARE PENDING, and here it is many years later, but perhaps in a world that is twelve miles long and nine miles wide (the size of Antigua) twelve years and twelve minutes and twelve days are all the same.

It's a good thing that people make their own clothes these days, for you can’t just go into the store and conveniently buy some. Jeans used to be an easy accessory, but in these days (I repeat it again– these days; were skinny is seen most attractive, anything over skinny is seen undesirable, and more companies refer to this ) they are a complete struggle .

Take a look in-stores, you’ll notice a surplus of cute size zero pants that suddenly stops at size 10, companies are making a very blunt statement. “You’re not for us”.

 This is when the defensive questions arise, and bigger consumers start to wonder what kind of affect will selling a size 12 have on company image or profits –if anything companies should be glad for more customers. “ You’re not for us”, is clothing companies’ mantra to bigger prospective customers, but perhaps these ingenious clothing companies forgot in a world full of obese people ( talking about America especially) where McDonald is cheaper than fruits the right customer is a small.