What’s something you hate about the womens clothing industry?

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1. *p o c k e t s*

2. inconsistent sizing – especially within the same company (yes, i’m thinking of zara lol)

3. Inconsistency in sizing.

4. I’ll go first- I hate that athletic body types don’t seem to be on the radar at all. If you want something fitted at the waist, you better have teeny tiny shoulders or you’re out of luck.

5. Stupid sizing and lack of pockets.

   I’m eternally thankful for Dovetail jeans.

6. All women’s clothing is incredibly flimsy and thin compared to men’s. Even sweaters. Actually, especially sweaters.

7. Ultra fast fashion

8. Materials being crap and see-through. I just want a plain t-shirt that can either be worn casually or under a blazer for work, etc. I don’t understand why I am forced to have an undershirt for everything!

9. Fake pockets! Fuck that

10. As someone who happens to be flat as fuck, I *despise* trying to find dresses and tops that aren’t T-shirts. I will usually have to size down to get something that sits decent over my chest, but then it’ll instead make my waist and arms look like a bunch of stuffed sausages. And if I do go with my usual size, heeeeello top with a perfect slim fit except definitely not over my chest area! Usually I have to buy Korean brands that aren’t aimed at an international market, but I’m not a fan of constantly ordering clothes from across the globe. Partly because customs fees, partly because I feel like it’s extra environmentally unfriendly.

    I honestly don’t mind the popular opinion on the lack of pockets, though. I hate when they make an otherwise nice piece bulge out, especially around the hips. I prefer carrying a purse, I can’t fit everything I bring with me in pockets anyway.

11. The way it’s extremely intertwined with diet culture, fatphobia, etc. and fuels the development of eating disorders in many cases.

12. Need more daily wear clothing made of fabrics like Lululemon and Athleta, that travel well and are breathable

13. The thigh/crotch area on jeans get thread-bare so quickly, and it can really hurt/rub. Especially if you have larger than average thighs.

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15. Everything being cropped . Some people want a full shirt

16. most curvy clothing is catered to plus size body types

17. tall women’s clothing is a joke. i’m 6 ft and a size 2-4, but nothing is long enough unless i size up (unless it’s specifically branded as Tall). the Tall sections of certain brands also have significantly uglier and unflattering clothes than the regular sections do

18. Not enough “large breast friendly” tops/dresses 🥲

    Even if I buy plus sizes, the area for the boobs is still wayyy too small. And if I have to get a larger size than usual to fit my boobs, it usually doesn’t fit the rest of me properly because I’m a small person (besides my boobs lol)

19. Low cut necklines! I find them uncomfortable and wish more dresses didn’t have them.

20. Womens clothes are not as durable, not as cheap, and the pockets are too small half the time. Also, sizing never works out. They are all different.

21. The insisting on having pink on it somewhere, if not all over. Especially sports wear.

    The curse of things going in or out of fashion. I want the same shape of trousers that I’ve been wearing for the past 2 years but they’re nowhere to be found.

    Fast fashion, bad sizing, lack of pockets, and frankly, all of it. I don’t like shopping for clothes because I always know exactly what I want but the current fashion is not it!

22. I have a small waist and no matter how hard I try nothing is ever fitted. I have to get so much stuff tailored

23. That womens clothes are usually tight fitting and shorter but get the same shirt in mens style and it’s loose and long. I’ll buy a shirt 3 sizes too big because I don’t want it sticking to my body and I’d like to cover my ass please!

24. Most crop tops I see are made for petite people. I’m skinny but have big boobs so I have to get a larger size but then it just looks oversized and it i get a smaller size it looks like a bra.

25. The purse industry and the pants industry conspiring together to not give us pockets on pants so we can buy more purses. I just wanna carry my crap on my person and not in a whole separate bag thing.

26. Bullshit sizes.

    I’ll fit into a 12 somewhere, and a 10 somewhere else. And then a 14 will be too small somewhere, and too big in another place.

    Also a lot of beautiful dresses are only sold in sizes 2 to 6.

27. Jeans fit everywhere except the waist.

28. Fake pockets .

29. How most websites with such pretty clothes, are meant for houglass figures, tiny tiny waist and huge chest and bottom. Most of us are not like that!

30. Everything has holes/cuts/weird necklines, everything is too damn short and the sizes are totally different in each store. Oh, and pockets of course.

31. Any t-shirt, dress, skirt, etc., is often so sheer that you simply must wear a camisole and/or slip underneath, even with more expensive brands. It’s awful in the summer, when you have to wear uncomfortable layers just so that you don’t flash your undies to everyone.

32. How low quality yet expensive everything is. That’s why I exclusively buy men’s clothes. Less likely of the chance of me just walking out of my shitty women’s cloths after a handful of wears and a slight breeze.

33. The industry in general. Fast fashion is incredibly harmful for the environment. All of my clothes are 100% trifted but lately I’m seeing more and more low quality, tags still attached, shein clothes cluttering trift shops too. It’s literal garbage that nobody wants.

34. 1. Readily accessible stuff all looks the same
    2. My chest is too broad to fit into anything I really like that I see
    3. #2 makes me feel like shit about my body.

35. I need some thigh-proof jeans. They always wear thin because my legs rub together there. They always have, as long as I can remember, and that’s always the part of the jeans that got holes in it first.

36. I don’t know which is worse – fake pockets or no pockets.

37. Maternity clothes tend to be either super frumpy or ridiculously expensive and there’s no in between. Almost infantilizing.

38. Room for my arms. I have large arms both from muscle and fat and oh my gosh nothing fits. It doesn’t matter if I am a size 12 or a size 18 nothing fits.

39. Bathing suits being so expensive for so little fabric. While mens bathingsuits are a whole pair of shorts and they’re like 15$

40. Every top is cropped now? I’m tall and quite chesty so nothing ever covers me up!

41. I’m a just say I’m not a woman, but I do sometimes wear my sisters shorts and bruh, the pockets are ridiculous like why are there so many fake pockets or shallow pockets, ON MY REGULAR MAN SHORTS I CAN FIT A SWITCJ WJY CANT I WITH WOMAN SHORTS

42. “inclusive sizing” but will only go up to a large that won’t actually fit anyone unless they’re tiny.. brandy melville is the one that comes to mind

43. Tight fitting, specially for athletic wear. No pockets

44. That are clothes are purposely made paper thin so they wear out faster, thus forcing us to spend more on them.

    That the sizes have been so bastardized as to make an average sized woman purchase PLUS sizes. That’s some BS right there.

45. No pockets. I started buying men’s pants for that exact reason. Women’s band t-shirts also suck