How I learnt to navigate the frustrating world of mid-size shopping

via Fashion Journal

If you’re a mid-size girlie, as I am, you know all too well the experience of walking into a store and digging to the bottom of a display pile in the hopes of finding a size 16. Spoiler alert: it’s never there. 

I’m constantly reaching to the back of the rack in a futile search for something that will fit me, and I’m so tired. It’s hard not to take it personally. Experience tells me that in most mainstream Australian stores, a 14 is the largest available size, and even then, it’s almost never stocked to the same degree as the sizes below it.

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