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THE BIG SQUEEZE
say, ‘Clearly I can’t shop here.’”
Lululemon treats its larger sizes
differently because it sells so few
of the products compared with its
more popular, smaller-size offerings, according to a former store
supervisor who spoke to HuffPost
on condition she not be named.
Size 12 yoga pants were “not
displayed normally” in her store
and were consigned to a heap in
the rear because her store didn’t
carry much inventory in that size.
It would have looked strange had
workers put the few 12s out on the
floor with the rest of the sizes, the
former supervisor said.
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“We didn’t want it to look
sparse,” she said, adding that the
size 12s tend to gather dust. “They
just sit in the store and you sell
them like once every six months.”
In an interview with the Calgary Herald in 2005, Lululemon
founder and former chief executive officer Chip Wilson said that
it takes 30 percent more fabric to
create plus-size clothes, meaning that he would have to charge
a higher price for them. That’s
something Wilson would never do,
he said at the time, because plussize people are sensitive and the
company would feel intense fall-
Trendy
retailers
Forever 21
and H&M
have started
plus-sized
lines, but they
are exceptions
to the rule.
Most similar
brands carry
sizes that
favor thinner
women.