Why don't we have FAT mannequins?

Question

I'm officially declaring that all stores are guilty of fatism - discrimination against fat people

Also, i don't see any elderly mannequins, which is ageism, but I have seen different colour mannequins which is OK. No racism there

Answer 1

NO OFFENSE but I think fat mannequins are difficult to carry around and they occupy a lot of space at the display window.

Answer 2

There Are Elderly Mannequins In M&S I Think,
On The Subject Of The Larger Mannequin,
I Think It's Because They Would Have Millions Of Complaints That The Store Who Had The Larger Mannequins Were Promoting An Un Healthy Out Look .
You Could Try And Ask The Stores Themselves.

Answer 3

At the end of the day the mannequins are there to make the product look good, if that product is designed to look at its best on a size 10 (mannequin size) then thats what it will be displayed on. When the sizes were invented size 10 was that of the average woman. Its only because the western worlds diet has become so over enriched and our jobs have become increasingly office based supporting a low exercise regeame that the average size has increased. Instead of getting the mannequins changed to todays sizes maybe we should all try and become healthier, as a result we would actually be the same size as them.

People go on about how glam mags portray an unsustainable image, causing crash diets in teenagers but surely in sted of trying to get them to change what they portray, more emphasis on the diets and exercises that create a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, and not a short term fix is more important.

Answer 4

Would you buy clothes off a fat mannequin? Maybe old people don't want o be reminded that they are old every time they go shopping.

The excuse that the population is getting larger cuts no ice as the population in general should lose weight. Larger mannequins just encourage us to see obesity as being OK. It should never be seen as OK it is lack of exercise and overeating and laziness makes people fat in the majority of cases.

And no this does not advocate that women look like anorexics, just normal sized,not the blimps we see walking around these days. Have some pride, lose weight rather than ask shops to provide larger mannequins, what next wider doors? Fat people parking spaces? Oh we already have those it seems you can get disabled parking badges if you are too fat to walk more than 50 meters to a stores entrance.

The population of the UK was at its healthiest just after WW2 because of rationing, you saw very few fat people then and human beings have not evolved to get larger since then.

Answer 5

You bring up a good point. I used to work for a store that specializes in large womens clothes and the mannequins we had were about a 12 or 14 and our clothes started at the size 18. We had to pin the clothes on the dummy and then it did not look like large clothes. We had people come into our store that were not of the sixe we sold because our clothes were cute and then when they realized that we were a "fat store" they would rush out like they were afraid theu would "catch" something.

Answer 6

I've wondered this myself. Even the mannequins at places like Lane Bryant (and other stores that offer large size clothing) are relatively normally sized. They have to get the smallest size the store offers (usually a 14) and pin the waist of them to keep them falling off the mannequin! I have noticed that Kohl's has mannequins in wheelchairs.

Answer 7

they dont do short mannequins either, mini skirt on a mannequin would be knee length on me, im 4 foot 11 and 3/4 ok im a man i wouldnt buy a mini skirt but the size thing would go for lots of short women

Answer 8

i agree but i hav seen old mannequins in specialist stores but not in fashion retailers as they tend to go for the teenagers so use the average teen size which is a uk size 12.
most retailers focus on teenagers and worry more about the colourof them than size they get past these claims as they sell bigger sizes or have a seperate larger line of clothes .
i hope this helps x

Answer 9

you're calling that variety fat and unattractive because of the fact it is not consistent with some anorexic plastic variety? In my honest opinion, it makes issues greater real looking. besides, it is not like the thin fashions made all the international over attempt to have appropriate bodies, it in simple terms made human beings so self extensive wide awake thinking that they have been gruesome in assessment.

Answer 10

I'd like to see larger mannequins then I could see what the dress might look like on me. Start a petition!

Answer 11

Clothing distributors have been getting away with this one for years. People (men included) want to look young and thin. So they show the clothes on a young thin model. Then you think the clothes will make you look like that even though you're old and fat.