![]() ![]() We all have different undergarment preferences brought on by various underwear-shaped woes we may have faced in the past. Whether you are more of a cotton underwear person or you love lacy lingerie, we’ve made finding your new go-to style easy. Although a humble pair of everyday underwear is seemingly simple, it can become a much more complex subject when you consider access and availability to quality pieces in plus sizes. As long as they haven’t already moved on.Undergarments may spend most of their time unseen, but a good pair of underwear and a dependable bra can make our outfit - and our day. ![]() Along with the models and the slightly-expanded cuts, Victoria’s Secret has also linked up with the soft-bra revolution to sell a selection of wireless bras and “ lounge bras.” It does indeed seem serious in its desire to stop actively insulting so many of its (potential) customers. Perhaps they’ll listen to their new hire. Elsesser told the Times that she will lobby the brand to carry up to an XXXXXL, which is good, but-why is it the model’s job to lobby for this? Either way, as Eliza Huber laid out in a Refinery 29 piece critiquing the brand’s use of plus size models showing off the swimsuits without offering truly inclusive clothing, it is not big enough-given that the average woman is a size 16, you can hardly call the swim offerings inclusive. Depending on who you ask-size is frustratingly a bit subjective-that’s a size 12 (according to a competitor), or maybe a size 18 (according to Victoria’s Secret). After launching a swim line in 2019 with suits going up to a size large, the brand more recently expanded that all the way to…. ![]() The brand now goes one size beyond a DDD (or E) to a G cup (if that sounds like a rather large pair of breasts to you-I blame Victoria’s Secret for spending so long refusing to acknowledge that they exist!). And along with expanding their range of models (a bit), the brand is expanding their sizing (a bit). I am personally more concerned with a bra brand supporting my breasts than my feminist ideals. It’s Undoing Everything He’s Ever Believed. The Hit Netflix Movie That Plays a Real-Life Tragedy as a Twistīiden Saw Israel’s Dark Future Last Week. It’s a riff on a regular feature called Make My Size in which she models the largest sizes offered by a brand to show how comically small they are on her (though in this case, she captioned the post #DontMakeMySize, citing the infamous Vogue interview in which the brand’s higher ups champion the skinny-fantasy world of the fashion show). In an Instagram post from 2018, influencer and author of Body Talk: How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your Best Life Katie Sturino featured herself wearing a Victoria’s Secret bra-with the bra effectively giving her two very painful looking sets of cleavage. The average breast size of the American woman is a 34DD, an oft-cited somewhat shaky statistic that traces back to a lingerie retailer’s survey in 2013 nonetheless, the point is that lots of breasts fall outside the Victoria’s Secret size range of yore. The brand has historically offered up to a size DDD, with sizes in the D range difficult to find in stock. But you know what’s a little more important than ads with high-achieving women that come in a diverse array of body types? Actually being able to buy something that fits your own body. ![]() If the presence of Elsesser, Rapinoe, and Jonas in ads for a mall-brand makes some slice of women, especially teen girls, feel more comfortable in their bodies-great. ![]()
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