If you owned a clothing brand...

[Anonymous]

YES to the pockets! I search high and low for dresses and skirts with pockets.

And as a short girl, I'd love multiple inseam lengthy. I also factor $ for the tailor into every purchase.

[Anonymous]

Natural (or mostly natural) fibers sourced in an environmentally friendly. Manufactured in safe factories that pay a living wage to adults (and no child labor).

Machine washable and dryable. Petite and tall from 00 to the upper end.

Properly placed buttons (and/or hidden snaps) to prevent gaping.

Four color palettes for each style, regardless of season. And have this year's red be the same as last year's red.

And somehow make this affordable to a large enough customer base to be profitable.

I don't care much about pockets. As someone who has to go through a metal detector every day, much simpler to have everything in a purse than in pockets that have to be emptied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Natural (or mostly natural) fibers sourced in an environmentally friendly. Manufactured in safe factories that pay a living wage to adults (and no child labor).

Machine washable and dryable. Petite and tall from 00 to the upper end.

Properly placed buttons (and/or hidden snaps) to prevent gaping.

Four color palettes for each style, regardless of season. And have this year's red be the same as last year's red.

And somehow make this affordable to a large enough customer base to be profitable.

I don't care much about pockets. As someone who has to go through a metal detector every day, much simpler to have everything in a purse than in pockets that have to be emptied.

Oh, yeah, definitely machine washable, too!

[Anonymous]

Printed on labels, not the scratchy ones!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would you do differently? The vanity sizing thread made me think about this; I'm the 22/24 poster and one of the things I would do would be not to separate the regular and plus size clothing. I'm losing weight now, but one of the things that was hard for me when I graduated to plus-size clothes was that fact that very little of what I liked in normal sizes was available in plus sizes, and what there is is cut so oddly, which had the effect in me of making me feel like less of a human.

This question pretends there is a world in which clothing is easy and profitable to manufacture, which I do know is not the case.

As a former 22/24 plus size - I can appreciate why manufactures can't just make the same styles upsized. It doesn't work and many times is super unflattering. Face it size 22/24 is pretty large and they just can't put too much detail or do anything like buttons, or non elastic easily.

[Anonymous]

I have a 37" inseam (5'11") so I would make it easier for women with longer legs to buy jeans and pants! So difficult.

[Anonymous]

Longer seems.How is 32 inch long? Please make the inseams longer.I have to pull pants down and have them sag to cover my ankles-yikes.
Who said that if my tits are 38C then my butt must be size 22. I can't get dresses to go over my shoulders, and if I do, the bottom is like a boat.
All I need is a cotton t-shirt to cover my butt( it's not big at all but I want it covered when wearing yoga pants or even jeans).They are never long enough.Have to shop at men's big and tall.

[Anonymous]

Label clothes for different proportions. I, for one, would love to find pants labeled, "small legs, average hips and butt with huge waist." I'm sure others are similar in their unusual proportions that fixed sizing cannot help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you do differently? The vanity sizing thread made me think about this; I'm the 22/24 poster and one of the things I would do would be not to separate the regular and plus size clothing. I'm losing weight now, but one of the things that was hard for me when I graduated to plus-size clothes was that fact that very little of what I liked in normal sizes was available in plus sizes, and what there is is cut so oddly, which had the effect in me of making me feel like less of a human.

This question pretends there is a world in which clothing is easy and profitable to manufacture, which I do know is not the case.

As a former 22/24 plus size - I can appreciate why manufactures can't just make the same styles upsized. It doesn't work and many times is super unflattering. Face it size 22/24 is pretty large and they just can't put too much detail or do anything like buttons, or non elastic easily.

The styles I like tend toward the pretty simple and absolutely could be - think teeshirts. Also, I don't know why, but the cut they use in plus sizes is incredibly saggy in the weirdest spots. I don't know what fit model they're using, but it isn't my body's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Garanimals for adults b/c I don't know how to dress!

X10000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you do differently? The vanity sizing thread made me think about this; I'm the 22/24 poster and one of the things I would do would be not to separate the regular and plus size clothing. I'm losing weight now, but one of the things that was hard for me when I graduated to plus-size clothes was that fact that very little of what I liked in normal sizes was available in plus sizes, and what there is is cut so oddly, which had the effect in me of making me feel like less of a human.

This question pretends there is a world in which clothing is easy and profitable to manufacture, which I do know is not the case.

As a former 22/24 plus size - I can appreciate why manufactures can't just make the same styles upsized. It doesn't work and many times is super unflattering. Face it size 22/24 is pretty large and they just can't put too much detail or do anything like buttons, or non elastic easily.

Also, you think they can't buttons on plus sized clothing? Or non elastic clothing? I have experience actually making clothing (I started sewing at 8 years old) and these things are not out of reach for plus size clothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd work with a production model where you can try on basic pieces (pants, shirt, jacket) in the store, then browse online across multiple styles that work for that size block.

So you try on the store's pair of grey pants, 16, regular length, and find they fit. Then you go on the website and can choose from multiple colors/styles in that size, and you'd know they'd fit. Made to order--which in the current garment manufacturing world wouldn't be terribly hard to accomplish.

Also, pockets. And I'd manufacture somewhere that young women didn't regularly die in fires.

That production model idea is brilliant. Is any store currently doing that?