While I am most offended by the title of this article – LARDIES???  I am also offended by the statement  “Plus size clothing doesn’t fit their image” what, are plus sized women poor and gross?  Are they afraid it might be contagious?  Is our money not good enough?  ARGGG!

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Selfridges binning lardies clothes

Posh shop Selfridges bans size 18 women

Britain heading for super-size nightmare

By Jane Atkinson, 20/12/2009

BRITAIN’S bigger girls have a bone to pick with Selfridges… for SQUEEZING them out of their snooty stores.

Larger ladies are asking what’s your beef, after the flagship Oxford Street store decided their faces didn’t fit and CLOSED its plus size section.

Half the women in the country are size 16 and above, yet you’ll be hard pushed to find anything in those sizes on display in Selfridges.

An assistant at the London store admitted: “The biggest we sell in Selfridges is a size 16. We stopped our plus size range a couple of weeks ago.”

Shopper Karen Segal, 51, said: “I am a size 22 and I loved Selfridges’ plus size collection at Marina Rinaldi.

“But they closed it down. I was told they wanted to change their image. They are saying plus size clothing doesn’t fit their image – and therefore neither do I.”

Cheryl Hughes, who runs plus size modelling agency Hughes Models, said: “Half the country need size 16 or bigger. It’s disgusting that Selfridges won’t sell them.”

An assistant in the central Manchester store told us: “We did have a bigger range but now we just have a few 16s. I know, it’s really bad, isn’t it?” And in the Trafford Centre an assistant said: “We keep a couple of 18s in the stock room. We don’t display them.”

A Selfridges spokeswoman said: “Selfridges is constantly updating its brand mix. This is also reflected in the sizing we offer. At present customers can find sizes up to a UK 18 in store.”

Yes, size does matter

FABULOUS Magazine’s Fashion Director Tracey Lea Sayer says: “The fact that Selfridges think that it is a clever move to remove size 18s from almost all their rails is hilarious.

“It would seem Selfridges have become so high and mighty they want to dictate the look of their customers. What next, a door policy? Forty-seven per cent of women in the UK are a size 16 plus and Selfridges should know better than anyone that there are plenty of plus size female role models, like Beth Ditto, out there.

“Come on Selfridges, don’t be so bah humbug, let’s celebrate size… especially during the festive season when we all put on a few pounds.”

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