Nordstrom also recently announced that it is extending its size offerings for brands across 30 stores in , and will stock the new sizes ranging from 00 to 18 alongside core merchandise in stores, rather than putting sizes above a 14 in its traditional designated Encore department. Overall, however, the retailer stocks up to a size 28, and the smallest selection remains that of sizes plus.
Lane Bryant, which carries sizes 14 to 28, came in second, scoring 7 percentage points higher than last year in customer satisfaction. She told WWD :. Of course, this figure will vary based on a number of factors, including how many styles the brand produces in plus just one? A whole line? Tailored cocktail dresses?
You do intense market research, tons of fit testing, and then you make live adjustments on the body, and you keep prototyping.
The elevated basics brand AYR launched its Onelove skinny jean in size 14 to 22 last fall and is working on a more comprehensive plus selection for future collections. Some better-funded brands, like Eloquii , might even send technical designers to factories in order to train and educate the manufacturers on fit and construction, particularly if they want to throw the old plus-size rulebook of generous fits and stretchy fabrics out the window, as Eloquii did when it relaunched in None of the rules that apply to this customer are things that we were even interested in hearing.
Of course, economies of scale can bring fabric costs for mass brands down significantly, so these differences are felt most acutely by smaller labels, as well as those that use expensive, high-quality fabrics. ASOS has likewise committed to keeping pricing uniform across its various ranges, including curve, tall, and petite, going so far as to include a statement about it on its corporate responsibility page.
Even for labels that deal in pricey textiles, charging customers the same price regardless of size can be a conscious choice. Loft launched plus sizes in February, and already its parent company, Ascena Retail Group, is pointing to it as a bright spot on its balance sheet. It does its biggest business between sizes 10 and 18, she says, and the brand expects sales volume to grow around 69 percent this year.
Jeans — and bottoms in general — are among the hardest pieces to fit, so when a brand gets them right, word is liable to spread. AYR sold out of its Onelove jean in its first season, and has added size 24 for the reorder. After sampling the measurements of more than 5, women in the United States, the study revealed that over the last two decades the average waist size has increased 2.
Just knowing where the average is can help a lot of women with their self image," one of the study's lead experts, Susan Dunn, told TODAY via email. Dunn and co-author Deborah Christel — both faculty in the department of apparel merchandising, design and textiles at Washington State University — found that the average size of the American woman now falls between a 16 and an 18 , the lower end of plus sizes. The finding comes as body-positive celebrities like Melissa McCarthy launch their own clothing lines in order to make fashion more fun and accessible for consumers who wear above a size McCarthy's line, Seven7, carries an impressive range of options, from size 4 to size The report has the potential to not only redefine America's perception of the word "average," but also the way that women's retailers design, market and sell their clothing to consumers — which could make for a whole new shopping experience with less stressing and better dressing in the future.
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