The NYTimes is running a major style article on the dearth of plus-size fashions in the marketplace. We’ve read the article and also the comments, which are generally:

1) The ‘plus size’ customer has such a wide variety of needs, that within our own subgroups of women size 14 and over, even Lane Bryant isn’t satisfactory — much as they are devoted to servicing this woman. The text references endless physical combinations of sizes that must be developed to properly service today’s larger-size customers who have an endless configuration of proportions.

2) The politics of obesity indicate that retailers should be compelled to service all the needs of the larger woman. The lack of suitable size options is all the fault of selfish business enterprises, who are worried about their bottom lines.

Both the article and comments suggest that the challenge of great clothes for larger women is the fault of business. As expected the undercurrent is one of fat-discrimination against larger women.