IT'S NOT ME, IT'S THE SIZE

More than a year after the size law in Argentina, structural changes have not yet been seen in shopping malls or businesses. What are we waiting for?

It is really about inclusion, without being a political critic of the situation, I think that one way to include social life is also through clothing sizes.

It takes a long time to see garments only for thin people... is oversize not in fashion and are they loose garments? Why can't we make plus sizes fashionable?

Many companies allege economic problems to comply with the law.

Their arguments state that it is more expensive for them to manufacture large sizes, that their designs are distorted, that there is no molding shop in the country for those proportions, that it is very difficult to unify sizes because there is no anthropometric analysis of Argentine women.

However, the brands that make large sizes say that the economic problems are not real, that a few centimeters of fabric do not have a significant impact.

That is to say, there is fabric for the oversize but not for a size 48. Not finding your size in any clothing store is discrimination that produces eating disorders and can lead to anorexia and bulimia; that violates a basic right: to dress.

There are well-known brands in the country that break the law, that have filed appeals, but in Europe they launch campaigns against anorexia and bulimia, organize parades with large models and make a wide variety of sizes.

The answers to avoid the bag of sizes are so varied that they end up sounding more like excuses than truths.

No body is standard, the only standard is mannequins, real people have as many shapes and curves as there are people, so as a society we should be a little more empathetic and include a series of sizes that reaches the majority of people possible. so that we all have the same possibilities when it comes to dressing.

The size law 27,521 was sanctioned, promulgated, but not regulated and since the study to determine the anthropometric measurements of Argentines requires face-to-face participation, it is currently suspended due to the pandemic.

Done the law done the snare

The law does not oblige businesses to have the complete curve of sizes for sale. The objective of the law is that everyone has the opportunity to dress, but that does not imply that each place must have all sizes.

Another trap is the lack of inspections by the relevant body, which should enforce the law, at least inspect the identification of the size that must be contained in the corresponding pictogram on a label attached to the garment, in a certain, clear way. and detailed, that is, easy to understand for the consumer.

And businesses are required to display a poster (minimum size of 15 by 21 centimeters) in an easily visible place, containing the table of standardized body measurements.

This fight will continue my dear readers, meanwhile I invite you to continue looking for options, and where there are none, do not go back!

GODDESS

Supermodel Ashley Graham acknowledges that in many photoshoots she ends up in her underwear or even naked due to a lack of sizes. “It is a reality and a delay: many curvy celebrities find it impossible to find a suitable dress for her body type. Designers don't broaden their size spectrum and many refuse to custom work with girls like me. It's a prejudice”, she complains.