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Clothing manufacturers offer a great
variety of sizes to fit almost any
physique. However, traditional retail
clothing stores do not carry obscure
sizes, as it is more difficult to move the
inventory.
Here in the states we have "Big and Tall"
stores. These stores market themselves
as a place where large men can find
clothing. Unfortunately, these stores
only offer merchandise for the
horizontally gifted (fat). So, a tall yet
slender man must look elsewhere for his
garments.
Enter the Short and Tall store; a boutique
serving both little people and vertically
gifted community. Midgets will no
longer need to shop in the children's
section. Tall people will no longer need
pants with a waist 6 sizes too large.
Big Tall Short (Menswear only)
http://www.bigtallshort.com/
In Scottsdale, AZ and Peoria, AZ. [jutta, Jun 25 2007]
Big Men / Tall Men / Stout Men
http://www.bigmen.com/
In Boston, MA. Don't know whether they have anything for the short and thin, though. [jutta, Jun 25 2007]
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I like it for the freak-show value. (For women, a size two and twenty store.) |
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+ nice idea, and as a woman who constantly gains and loses weight, I usually have about four sizes of clothing. I'm not short enough for petite sizing but definetly not tall enough to wear most of the pant legs that I can find in regular stores. So your store may cater to women as well. |
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i give it a bun. i like the idea of a store that has clothes in hard-to-find sizes. there's one on the outskirts of Birmingham but it's a mens store. it would be neat if they had one for women. |
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Nice, [ed]. It irks me that although seemingly every cut of jeans ever conceived comes in a "long" variant, the "long" trouser is a rare thing indeed. |
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Stores like "High and Mighty" are generally split into two distinct sections; Big and Tall. |
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I'm not sure which section you would first visit if you were both big and tall :) |
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Reap - I think you need to read the idea. |
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Me and my misses could both shop here. |
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There are shops like this already in South Africa. One I know of in Pretoria called Short and Tall. |
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I was fairly sure that I had a similar rant, in a less idea-y form, elsewhere on der 'bakery, but I can't find it. Croissant, though, for I am also, as the men in the suit shop like to euphemise, "rangy." And my Better Half, being in many respects a miniature person, is often seen sporting clothes for people aged 11-12. |
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I checked out both links; neither of them
seem to provide (US) size 36x38 jeans or
pants. And where can one get size 14 or
15 sneakers in a narrow width? |
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Carrying women's clothing too would also
be a no-brainer. There must be a market
for designer womens shoes, sizes 10 and
up. |
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I found 36x38 at the first place I checked (the second link, under "Tall Men's Jean"), as well as at the Levis Internet store. (Also explicitly labeled as "Big & Tall".) |
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These stores aren't the way I'd organize them - you can't seem to just enter your size and then browse stuff that fits you [how hard *is* this?], but they do have stuff, if you're a little patient. |
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As for online shoes, the canonical place for that seems to be Zappos.com. They *do* let you enter a shoe size and width, and browse only shoes of that shape. There are lots of sneakers at 15/N, at the very least. (There was something about Zappos' advertising that rubbed me the wrong way, some time ago, but I've forgotten what it was.) |
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[jutta] Modern advertising logic wants you to be sold into the brand and product first, then simply accept the sizes that are available. The focus is on the brand, not on the purchaser. You even see this in some supermarkets where all the Kelloggs cereals are grouped together in one area, Post in another, and store brands in a third, so if you want to price compare the Corn Flakes(no TM, it's a generic term you leeches) you have to walk up and down the aisle. |
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Ed, narrow shoes are difficult to find, aren't they? Although I only wear 10's in narrow, I have the same problem. Red Wings shoes makes 'em, but I had to order them. |
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I actually did some market research with the intent of starting a Short and Small store in my area, because trying to find mens dress pants (or even jeans) in a 29/30 or decent shirts in a 14.5/32 is just about impossible in Maine. Ultimately I decided that the retail business wasn't for me. Definitely a bun. |
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//There must be a market for designer womens shoes, sizes 10 and up.// |
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There is. I once knew a woman with rather large feet that shopped online cross-dressing sites looking for shoes. RuPaul is not a small person either. |
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Why not a Procrustean clolthing store? It would sure cut (heh,heh) down on inventory. |
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