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There Are No Vintage Fatties

A fatty blubbers — what else is new? — that she can’t find any vintage clothes in her zaftig size. (Early-mid 20th Century textile manufacturers hadn’t yet perfected the process of stitching tarps into dresses)

Why It’s So Hard to Find Plus-Size Vintage

Being over a size 12 isn’t new, so why is finding plus-size clothing from the past so impossible?

That’s where our special feeds fatty is wrong. As a demographically significant percentage of the total population (and of the share of customers for the vintage clothing market), being over size 12 *is* historically new. The obesity rate of early 20th Century children was near zero; likely the adult obesity rate wasn’t much higher. Obesity and overweight rates didn’t explode (heh) until 1980.

A size 12 dress on an average-height American woman roughly corresponds to a BMI of 27 — which is overweight according to CDC charts. Note that dress sizes have been inflated (heh) to accommodate the bulbously shielded yet still fragile egos of the rolling tide of fatties shambling into clothing stores and mashing keyboards at online retailers.

So to answer the question sloshing around our fatty’s gullet, she can’t find size 12+ vintage clothes because there weren’t very many vintage fat chicks. Take the Shed Pill, fatty!

40 Responses to “There Are No Vintage Fatties”

  1. Post-Hysterectomy (((Lena Dunham))), by (((Emily Ratajkowsi)))

    We restocked all our leopard and thought you’d like to see it on some of our muses. Here is @lenadunham shot by @emrata ✨

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  2. Special feeds…

    Hahaha

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  3. Truth-hammer says:

    Home Depot sells tarps.

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  4. mendo says:

    Hipster lardass: I was fat before it was fat

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  5. Discipline says:

    We can come to a clearer understanding of the assault on beauty by studying the philosophy of aesthetics, which not only improves our minds, but gives us tools to fight ugliness (evil) in our own lives.

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  6. Discipline says:

    Look at her dirty feet. Imagine the filth caught between her lips.

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  7. […] There Are No Vintage Fatties […]

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  8. Realist says:

    They say Marilyn Monroe was a size 12. When in fact in today’s sizing she would measure a size 4! Clothing sizes have definitely increased to appease the/their “masses.”

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  9. Anonymous says:

    Are there any blacks who’ve won the Fields Medal?

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  10. Oswald Spengler says:

    Watch some TV shows or movies from before 1980. The majority of actors and even background extras were of normal weight. Overweight people were a distinct minority and the obese were exceptional outliers.

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  11. ultimathule1 says:

    From the time that I entered kindergarten in 1961 until I graduated from college in 1978, there were very few fat kids and zero obese kids in the schools that I attended. There always seemed to be one or two fat kids, but they were so rare that they were known among us students as “the fat kids”, and they were made fun of. I was underweight myself even though my mother fed me hearty home-cooked meat-and-potato meals, but I was always physically playing outdoors. I began to acquire a compactly-muscled physique after puberty. So yeah, the obesity epidemic began sometime after that. Interesting.

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    • PA says:

      My high school yearbook from late 1980s has about five chubby people in a class of 300. Chubby, not waddling-obese.

      The epidemic started in the late 90s. Causes:

      GMO, HFCS
      Loss of personal pride, demotivation
      War on cigarettes

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  12. Ralph Stanley says:

    With respect to the Chateau, the entirety of the rockabilly-vintage scene is comprised of fat women emulating 50’s era women with curves. The style practically caters to big gals who over-paint their faces and dress in pin-up-style fashions.

    Overweight women with tattoos who never stop “speaking their minds”. God help us all.

    [CH: yeah, i know. that these whales can’t find fitting clothes should be a warning to them. there’s another vintage scene (slender hipsterette scenesters) who are into fishnets and thigh highs and stuff like that]

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  13. Vintage fatties were sewing their own clothing, . . . so they had that going for them, which is nice

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  14. Doktor Jeep says:

    The real war has been to destroy femininity all along.

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  15. Anon says:

    So ALL American women ended being ones that only black men prefer.

    Society changed to be a sexual bonanza for black men.

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  16. Jay in DC says:

    This is because like much in today’s world, the left wishes to re-write history to their liking. They got this idea because 40s and 50s women were curvy. REAL curvy, not harpoonable land whale curvy like today.

    So they just dialed in the narrative that ‘fat’ was attractive. It is a complete fabrication like many of their falsities. Yes models starting to get thinner in the 60s and 70s (which was awesome, Farrah Fawcett!, etc.) but they were hardly the pigs of today by any metric.

    Lana Turner:

    Jayne Mansfield:

    Marilyn Monroe:

    You get the idea. Three of the most iconic women of the era are feminine and curvy with great hip-waist ratios and big ole tittay. Nothing more to say / see.

    And just because…

    “The Poster that Launched a Million Ejaculations”

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  17. Moses says:

    Gen X’er here. When I was a kid there were very few fat kids or adults. The few there were got mocked relentlessly.

    I’m an expat where people generally are thin. A few years ago I was in Texas. In one public place I actually played a game — “spot a woman who isn’t obese.” Couldn’t do it. American airports are similar.

    America’s fat problem is horrible. Worse yet, people are normalizing the state of fatness.

    My mother and sister both are overweight. They don’t want to feel bad about it, so when I decline another slice of pizza or ice cream for dessert they say “oh come on you’re not fat!” My BMI is on the edge at 25.1 so I pay attention to what I eat. That’s almost like an act of aggression to them.

    Fat people want others to be fat so they don’t feel bad about their disgusting condition. It’s like a fatty contagion.

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    • Moses says:

      Funny story. Some time ago I was on a x-country flight in the window seat, economy. I saw a super obese couple coming down the aisle. Put my armrest down immediately to protect my seat space.

      Turns out the fat couple had seats in my row, both aisle seats across from each other in my aisle. The middle seat on my side was occupied by a skinny man. He arrived after the fat man and was unable to put his armrest down because the fat man’s blubber was spilling over into his seat. The fat man’s ass was too wide to fit into a normal seat with armrests down.

      The skinny man spent the entire flight wedged between the sweaty fat man and our mutual armrest. I felt kinda sorry for him but not enough to raise the armrest.

      The fat man’s belly was so big he was unable to lower the tray table to eat. He ate by balancing the meal tray on his belly and eating with one hand.

      Accepting, let alone celebrating, voluntary gross deformity like this is not the mark of a healthy society.

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  18. David says:

    Don’t forget size inflation. Today’s size 12 would have been a size 16 or 18 back before the obesity epidemic.

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