I couldn’t shop in-stores, and even online my options were slim.“But shopping in stores, I’ve learned, is a privilege plus size shoppers don’t have.”
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In the south, the phrase, “the bigger the hair, the closer to God” is similarly applied to hair accessories — the bigger (and brighter) the better. And as a young Black girl struggling to fit in within suburbia and rural Georgia, I quickly realized that my darker skin and braids lay outside of the southern, Eurocentric standards of beauty.
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by Gianluca Russo
Pushes for size inclusivity in fashion have not gone unnoticed in recent years. And yet, while mainstream retailers seem to be catching on, Capital “F” fashion houses are still far behind…