A Woman’s Right to Underwire!
As most women know, the Victoria Secret Semi-Annual sale just passed. We have but six more months until, once again, we can purchase our over-priced but terribly effective under garments. I think most people would agree that, while expensive to the point of absurdity, Victoria has a pretty good secret. She can make any of us stand at attention.
I’ve always been a big fan. Lately, I’ve become a bigger fan, and I don’t mean that my enthusiasm has grown. As you know from the South Beach postings, I’ve put on a few (dozen) pounds and I’m working them off. Not one to let a little thing like cellulite get in my way, I decided I’d hit the VS in my local mall anyway and find somethings that put my increased self where I belong.
I found lace and string and ruffle and feathers, but when I went to find my size, I couldn’t. I was bemused for a bit and realized that none of the drawers in the store even went up to my size (which, by the way, is only one up from what was on the drawer). Embarrassed and a little self conscious, I decided to bite the bullet and just ask one of the wee, petite things walking around the store with a headset and measuring tape to bring me something from the back.
I stood there, mortified that I’m shopping from the storage room because they don’t put out clothes for people like me in the main room, when the sales girl dropped the next load of self-esteem kryptonite: They don’t carry it anymore.
They don’t carry it!? Are you kidding? As I let it sink in that I’m now officially too big for VS, she added, “Well, you can still get it online.” Oh hell no! I’m too large to fit in your store, I’m too unsightly to be in your place of business, but I can spend my hard-earned dollars from the dingy comfort of my custom-made, big-girl house? I say again, “Oh hell no!”
So here is my call to you: Don’t avoid the stores. That’s what they want us to do. Go to the stores and ask about their sizes. Don’t shop at their website. Call them. Tell them how much we wish we could shop at their stores. Tell them that most of America does not look like Tyra Banks or Heidi Klum or whatever anorexic thing they have on their runway this season.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that obesity isn’t an issue. It is. If I wasn’t uncomfortable being this size, I wouldn’t be living on eggs, almonds, and Laughing Cow cheese. This isn’t about making it ok to be overweight. It’s about making it ok to be yourself. Eventually, I will fit back into the VS standards. In the meantime, when I really need the support (both literally and figuratively), they are backing away.
I’ve included their “Contact Us” links. Contact them! Email, call, and post about it. Tell people. Maybe we can bother them enough that they cave and realize that it’s not fair to withhold sex appeal just because they don’t get that the joy of a chocolate donut is not a sin.
Email Victoria Secret And Tell Them to Bring Back Big Sizes
Call Victoria Secret and Tell Them to Bring Back Big Sizes:
Sales: 1.800.888.8200, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week
Customer Service: 1.800.411.5116, 8:00 AM EST to 2:00 AM EST, 7 days per week
Fight back, ladies!