fat lady shopping gripe
Jun. 18th, 2015 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraI'm now too fat to buy pants in person at REI, bleah. "I would have to find plus sizes online." I know this is in no way a new discovery and some of y'all may have been coping with this shit for years, but, bleah, my thin privilege was *convenient* dammit. I have no idea if I want a 16 or a 16W (ha, or even if 16 is right) and I'm probably going to solve this issue by using my affluence privilege and ordering both and returning one but it would have been so much easier to just try them on when I was in the store today (dropping almost $200 on hiking boots, so fuck the implicit idea that fatties don't shop there).
(Just to be clear, the salesperson I asked was 100% polite about it, and another sales dude spent a really long time helping me with the hiking boots, so, no complaints about REI's courteous and competent sales staff. Their stocking policy bites though.)
ETA: if anyone has a good line on in-person retailers for convertible pants, please let me know. I love me some dorky zip-offs.
(Just to be clear, the salesperson I asked was 100% polite about it, and another sales dude spent a really long time helping me with the hiking boots, so, no complaints about REI's courteous and competent sales staff. Their stocking policy bites though.)
ETA: if anyone has a good line on in-person retailers for convertible pants, please let me know. I love me some dorky zip-offs.
