Take the Jiggle Out of My Wiggle!

I’m having a bad day.  I can feel the plague coming on (thanks hubs!) so I’m crankier than usual, which might explain my almost meltdown at the store today.

See, we have this shiny new store in town that has all the exercise and sports equipment known to man.  They have thousands of square feet of bicycles, kayaks, snowboards, guns, and clothes…acres of clothes.  They have clothes for every type of sport you can think of.

Unless you need clothes of the X variety.  You know what I mean – plus sizes.  That dirty word.  Sizes that are apparently unwelcome or undesired in a store that is all about everything fitness.  I even asked, and the little blond salesgirl looked at me like I asked for the square root of pi.

Clearly fat people never work out.

Either that, or no one wants to see fat people work out and the powers that be have decided that the way to guarantee they never have to see fat people working out is to make sure we have nothing to wear.

There are, of course, websites where you can find clothes but you can’t try something on from a website.  You can’t fondle the material to find out if it’s well-made or crap.  And it’s bloody expensive!  $60 for a pair of shorts?  Seriously?  Then there’s the waiting for the mail, the trying on, and the returning.  It’s a whole hell of a lot of work for something that isn’t really all that fun in the first place.

You would think with all the talk of obesity in America that making attractive, well-made, and affordable fitness clothing in plus sizes would be a cash cow.  I don’t have numbers because I’m too lazy to look them up, but think of the percentage of our society that is overweight.  Think of the untapped market out there!  Who wants to go to the gym in ratty old t-shirts and sweats?  Not me – cuteness counts baby!  Then there’s the jiggle factor.  Think of the support clothing that could be invented to keep the jiggle out of my wiggle when I’m on the elliptical.  Who wants to be treading the road to nowhere with the thighs jiggling all over the place?  No one needs that!  There is a giant gaping hole in the market of fitness clothing and someone should fill it now.

Instead they treat us like we don’t exist.