Plus size? Better increase the size of your wallet too.

I recently read an online article about how some stores have started charging more for plus-size clothes. Of course I instantly had an opinion, but as I’ve started to write this post I’ve started thinking that this really could go either way on the offending people or not offending people front. It may start a debate (hello readers if you’re out there leave comments!) or you might just all agree with me!

So here goes. My first reaction was, that’s very unfair and bordering on discrimination. My further thoughts were, well when you’re in a restaurant you pay more for a main meal than you do for an entree because it is more food, same with a small coffee vs a large coffee. So in the case of plus-size clothes you are using more material. Right? Quite possibly, but is it really necessary for larger women to have to pay more for their clothes?

Actually no, I don’t think it’s ok. I passed this question around the office guys and they made the point that  there is no difference in price in mens’ clothing from a Small to a XXXL so there you go, the store in question isn’t discriminating against larger people they are discriminating against larger women.

The article claimed that the store normally absorbed the extra costs for plus-sized clothing, but occasionally had to pass in onto the consumer. So why not always pass it onto the consumer in the first place and then that’s just how it would be and that’s what people would expect, as opposed to not doing it and then introducing it and upsetting people?

Am I a plus-size person I hear you ask. No I’m not. So does that mean I don’t have the right to comment on this issue, because maybe it doesn’t bother plus-size people? Maybe? So why don’t you tell me what you think!

Shopping centreitis

So we went shopping on Saturday, nothing too out of the ordinary or dramatic you would think. Think again! For some reason everyone and everything totally annoyed the crap out of not just me but my other half as well! Let me just clarify, we went there to shop, not to just pick something up and try and get out of there.

Firstly, we both found ourselves getting very annoyed with the extremely slow pace people chose to walk at around the shopping centre. I didn’t think we were ‘hooning’ around, but maybe we missed the memo that you now walk around a shopping centre abnormally slow?

GFC… Global Financial Chic that is

You’ve no doubt heard the term GFC – Global Financial Crisis thrown around lately but I’d rather talk about the other GFC – Global Financial Chic!

One of the latest offerings from Tar-jay

To some people this means the day’s of expensive designer labels and regular shopping trips are dwindling. But for some people cheap chic is what they’ve always done!

I recently read an article about Target or  Tar-jay as we love to call it, becoming Australia’s version of Britain’s Topshop. The opening line read: “It’s official. Target has become our answer to Britain’s Topshop”. The words, “has become”, made me think. I have no problems what so ever admitting that for years I have shopped at Target, excuse me, sorry, Tar-jay! Never mind the GFC, just try being a Uni student.

(For those who aren’t familiar with Topshop, it is basically Britain’s answer to Target, maybe a little further infront in terms of fashion and has celebrity designers such as Kate Moss, just like Target did here with Stella McCartney.)

So I find the whole thing a little bit funny that it’s taken a CRISIS to bring Target into the Spotlight. Maybe it’s the once Target snobs that would now like this PR story to take off to justify that during these tough times it’s ok for them to be decked out in an ensemble from Tar-jay!

What are your thoughts? Have you changed your spending habits since the crisis, because you had to, or thought you should? Or are you a regular bargain hunter anyway?