Business Booming For Plus-Size Thong Makers

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Retailer Torrid is carving out a niche that fits -- in the plus-sized market. The company sells sexy clothes for large young women in more than 50 stores across the country.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Torrid has everything from camisole-and-thong lingerie sets to belly-button revealing T-shirts. CEO Betsy McLaughlin said her customers want to be sexy and feminine -- in sizes from 12-26.

http://www.wftv.com/money/3245780/detail.html

I think.

I'll just say nothing.

Nothing wrong with it at all. I am married to a big woman and let me tell ya,she is a real sexpot. It is next to impossible to find a size 2 woman with a natural 44ddd set. :evilgrin:

I must send the mrs. the link. The more stuff available for BBW's and FFW's the better. :)

And as a curvier girl, I'm allowed to say that!

I'm so going to hell on the short bus

I like curvier girls too.... :P

in a bucket/
but at least I'm enjoying the ride.

The bigger the cushion................and all that.

:evilgrin:

Me like too.

Something about the thong...it can frame ANY arse well :)

Will it ever go away?

--bkl

Put yourself in that position.

I like to wear sexy stuff under my clothes or in private.

then, damnit, you are!

But as a general rule, I think heavier girls should shy away from the low-rise pants and thong underwear.

However, sizes 12,14 and 16 are, to me, normal sized not plus sized.

If a woman, no matter what size, wants to wear thong underwear under her pants to avoid lines why is that a problem? No one is being forced to see it and you wouldn't know she was wearing it anyway.

I just don't think it would be a flattering look on a very large girl. But I'm a just dumb guy, and I'm not thinking about things like avoiding panty lines and stuff like that.

I never was, even when I was a skinny teenager.

'Cause they are usually much prettier than the showoffs but they aren't as conceited.

Women who show it all do it for me

"Bad Fatties" = fat people who other folks feel they can make fun of.

Fat people are always portrayed negatively by the media. Hence, "Bad Fatties."

It's like "Uppity N*****s". 100% mockery, 0% insult. And reverse those percentages for the idiots who buy into the bigotry.

Incidentally, I am in that position.

--bkl

curves and thongs...
throw in a bottle of shiraz and some candles and I'm there, dude!

actually, the shiraz and candles are optional... as is the thong, for that matter... :evilgrin:

for the rest of the morning.

enjoy!

Call me old fashioned, but I think when you're in the plus size zone (at one time I was), thongs just aren't quite right. I wouldn't have anyway, but perhaps the world missed out because of it. :shrug:
I sometimes wear them now and I'm self-critical enough (I'm a size 10, borderline 8) but some pants just don't need the lines.

I'm a size 12 or 14 depending on clothing types. I think thongs are comfortable (gasp. I know, I said it!) and I rarely notice they are there (go ahead, say it's because of all the excess flab lol). Wearing a thong is basically like wearing any type of clothing, as long as you FEEL sexy in it, who cares? And I don't think that they descriminate because of size. Granted, some people may not want to think of me or anyone in my size or bigger in a thong, but oh well. I'm not here to please anyone else.

It's about what you feel comfortable in as an individual. For me, I might not, but then again I can be way to self-conscious about this stuff for myself personally and that's on me. However, even when I was a 16 or 18, I still bought lingerie (usually satin chemises and the like). Frederick's always had a great selection of stuff in bigger sizes.

Of course, I would probably say the same thing to a girl who felt she was a little on the skinny side. I've never understood guys who are so uptight about a girl's weight. It would be a turnoff if a woman were grossly obese, or if she were anorexic, but all those normal sizes in the middle are great.

NOTHING looks better than a curvy girl in a thong. NOTHING.

Put a little nothing girl in a thong and it's like you're putting a twig in a slingshot.

Booo.

Curvy girls rock!

Was beginning to look a little bleak in this thread. :hug:

what's the point of wearing undies that show off your butt if you don't have one? ;)

since I lost 15 pounds, I now have NO butt, none at all. I was only a size 8 before, and never had much of a butt to begin with, but now I'm flat as a ruler behind. It is not an attractive look.

Either way, though, I personally find thongs much more comfortable than butted panties, and if someone who's bigger than Gilbert Grape's mother wants to wear 'em too, it's no one else's beeswax. Wear what YOU like.

My very large friend used to visit the Caribbean all the time because men there appreciated her ample curves. She even married one, a Jamaican-- but that's another story, and not a happy one.

They have clothing & accessories for larger young ladies with attitude. The ones who don't believe that showing up in something conservative & navy blue will make them look like a size 2. Or don't care.

Very cool stuff. Mostly too young for me & mostly too large--but maybe I need the ankle socks that say "Bite Me". Just for lounging at home...

You don't like a big girl, don't date one. But don't demand we all go on diets to make the scenery "nice" for you.

Live and let live, people.

Thongs are much better if you don't like pantylines, no matter WHAT size you are! If you don't want to see chubby cheeks, then don't get a curvy girl naked! Why would anyone else care what someone is wearing under her pants?!

There was a group of large ladies who used to come into the bar I worked in. They always dressed very sexy and danced very sexy, and the men LOVED them! Sexy is 85% attitude!

Big beautiful women look better when they are dressed sexy than dressed to camoflage! I think one thing people misunderstand is that some women try to wear clothes that are not made for their size, such as a too-tight t-shirt, and that loks bad. But a fitted t-shirt MADE for a size 16 looks right on a size 16 woman.

I've been fit and I've been fat, and right now, I'm on the chubby side. I plan to get fit again, but I'll still dress to accentuate what I got in the meantime!

:evilgrin:

In fact I just ordered some gifts for her from www.trashy.com
Bring on the thongs!

am I gonna get any work done with images of Sarah, blondie and lisa in thongs in my head? Its just not fair.

:D

I'm no longer technically a "big girl" and I buy shoes from torrid. Got the greatest pair of Mary Jane's with 3.5 inch heels on 'em from torrid. :) They also have fun jewelry sometimes.

I don't buy undies from them, thong or otherwise (and yes, for the prurient among you I do sometimes wear a thong), but only because I have issues with buying underwear over the internet.

:puke:

I'm not attracted to plus-size women at all.

It seems to me like you only came in here to insult the larger sized ladies of DU and that's just sad.

I certianly hope you are buff and not carrying around the least little bit of excess flab. :eyes:

That's the way I feel. If you don't like it, don't read it.

if you don't like big girls in thongs then why did you read the thread to begin with? And why did you feel it necessary to make a rude comment?

It's my opinion. If you don't like it, ignore it. I have every right to put in my two cents worth.

Geez. :eyes:

you have a right to express your opinion and I have a right to express my opinion of your opinion.

Why else would you chime in with an insult in the first place?

:eyes:

It was my opinion. I didn't make fun of anyone, did I?

Didn't think so.

:spank:

that some of the larger women on DU (some of whom had posted on this thread already) might be a little offended by the puking smiley.

Simple. :)

to ignore it if I don't like it. You violated your own advice to me...you don't like big girls in thongs and yet rather than ignoring this thread you CHOSE to click on it and make a disparaging remark, to wit, "gross".

Plus-sized women look sexy in thongs? That would've been a lie.

what I would like is for you to admit that you aren't being internally consistent when you tell me to ignore comments I don't like while you reply on threads about things you don't like.

I should quit expressing my opinion on a subject because you don't like it?

tell me not to express my opinion of your opinion in return. If it's ok for you to say big sized girls are gross then it also has to be ok for me to say that I think you're being rude.

too bad. You're just starting this crap with me to fuel a flamewar. I have every right to express my opinion, whether you like it or not. Yes, you have the right to express your displeasure. Just don't keep bothering me like you are because I was "rude." I was being truthful.

without being insensitive. You chose not to. You chose the puking smiley.

And if you're so bothered then stop replying.

what's next..."I am rubber and you are glue"?

This is sadly turning into a contest to see who can get the last word and you may not realize the hard-headedness of your competition. :)

If you don't like it, you can stop replying. :)

I read that and got such a feeling of deja vu. :P

:)

when people run out of arguments and just start repeating themselves thinking that if they repeat something enough times that will make it right.

perpetually entertained.

I have all day. :)

do you have anything worthwhile to say in all that time?

I just like this "last word" competition.

The point is to make this at least mildly entertaining for our fellow DUers so they don't complain and get the thread locked. Not that matcom doesn't deserve a thread-jacking. But eventually they will get tired of us and someone will alert and Skinner will lock the thread while one of us is in the middle of typing and the person who posted last won't get to really be the winner.

Teach me how to get good material. You seem like you're a pro at it. :) :hi:

Dangit I never can keep a good flame war going. ZombyWoof is right...I'm too damn nice. x(

re: Good material...Watch matcom, ZombyWoof and GOPisEvil...they are the masters of the humorous threadjacking. I learned from the best. I am still a mere accolyte to the thread-jacking masters. :)

What were we arguing about again?

I'm not gonna rehash it again. :)

The thing you have to understand is that there are a lot of big girls on DU. Hell, the definition of what's overweight has gotten so out of control that some people still look at me as "fat" and I'm between a size 8 and 10. (I was a size 24 a little over 2 years ago. This is a sensitive subject for me.) You're probably lucky it was me who decided to smack you around instead of some of the women on DU who take MUCH MORE offense about weight-issues. There have been several flame wars in the last few months centering around discrimination against and insensitivity toward fat people. It can get really nasty.

puke smiley thing on. I know. I am sorry for that. But I'm still going to say I'm not attracted to them. I'll leave it at that.

that anyone ever apologizes around here? Wow. *blink* :yourock:

to any certain type of person. That's just personal preference. Thank you for retracting the puke-smiley:-) It was very *big* of you to apologize (pun intended)

B-)

Velma, you're arguing over body types with a man who worships steriod oozing men that prance around a square in tight pants and win competitions by holding the other opponent against a mat(tress) with their sweaty bodies. If that isn't appealing to some form of latent homosexuality, I don't know what is :eyes:

It's more than what I have been this morning. It's been a bad day so far (long story).

I'm glad I didn't keep the flamewar going then. I understand all about having a bad day and letting it affect what you say and do.

Consider yourself virtually patted on the head. *pat pat pat*

I hope whatever it is that's making your day bad gets better. :)

:)

Thanks.

and you're welcome.

As much as I seem to get in them lately, I really do hate getting into little flamewars.

I seem to be easily irritated lately and I'm gonna follow your good example and publicly apologize to every DUer whose throat I've jumped down lately.

:evilgrin:
(ducks)

even if you do like it. :spank:

:D
Surely, don't make me not hurt you would be a more effective threat?
Or don't make me treat you with cold disdain bordering on indifference.

is not fun for me. *pout*

I know, this is the eternal quandry for consensual S&M. ;)

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"Size doesn't matter" is usually a lie.

Sorry...

I have nothing to worry about. :evilgrin:

I've been attracted to big girls (and later on, big women) since I was ten years old - in 1962. Since 1972 (after a stint in jr high and high school when I tried to deny my preference), I dated (and married) large women exclusively. I've been involved with women who have ranged anywhere from 180 lbs to over 450 lbs.

To me, overly skinny women are "gross", to use your term. I find the sight of a woman's ribs showing through her skin to be thoroughly repulsive.

But I'm not attracted to the women you're attracted to either.

And that's the lovely Mrs. CO Liberal. And she's off limits to everyone else!!!

:-)

wwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

:bounce:

When a Matcom news item takes off like this. :bounce:

:D

:bounce:

:bounce: Don't you remember?

:spank: it! :P

:loveya:

:spank:

:-)

just...unattractive.

If that's what you like...then it's all good. :)

a woman who is comfortable with her body no matter what people think.

I was never that big...but I wish I had had that kind of self-esteem when I was a big girl. I'm not sure I have that kind of self-esteem NOW. :)

People should feel comfortable with their bodies, no matter what size they are. And no one should be discriminated against (especially in areas such as employment and housing) because of their size.

All people should be happy with their bodies and our culture SHOULD celebrate the full figured woman (and man)

HOWEVER, as a PT in a past life, I also don't want to see diabetes and heart problems go on and kill those rubenesque godesses...

But at the same time, some women are big and at their healthiest - for some women size 10 IS the healthiest they can be, and any further weight loss would hurt them.

A conundrum for sure...

since when is size 10 big? The average American woman is a size 14. And I'm a size 10 and the BMI says I'm normal (finally).

Not that I'm not working to be an 8 mind you.

It was just a random number...I shoulda used X :)

But exactly my point

My mother was rail-thin and had hypertension and a weak heart, as a reult of scarlet fever as a child. She lived to 72. I also had an aunt who spent most of her adult life over 300 pounds, and she lived to 73.

A heart has to work harder to pump blood through a larger body. Some skinny people have heart problems, but when you are obese your heart risks increase by one hundred. Is this unfair? Yes but that's life.

On a side note, a heart has to work just as hard if it's pumping blood through a big fat body as it does to pump blood through a big muscular body. That means pro bodybuilders are also affected by bad hearts.

However, people can help the way they react to large people. It's wrong to automatically assume that a fat person is a lazy glutton - there may be a medical condition that cannot be seen.

NEVER! (Please, don't put words in my mouth - okay?)

And you are very correct, some people have heart conditions that prevent them from burning fat, some people have physical conditions that prevent them from excersizing.

And of course, some people can't afford to eat healthy. Lean meat is much more expensive than fatty meat.

I'm just arguing that size acceptance is important, and large can be sexy. Hell, I think a woman smoking a cigarette is sexy! But is it necesarrily healthy? Obesity is dangerous for your heart - I don't think you can find a doctor on this planet who will tell you differently.

It all comes down to how hard your heart has to work to pump blood, and how strong it is. If you strengthen your heart through cardiovascular excersize, you can have a bigger body as your heart can take it. Of course, the more cardiovascular excersize you do, the more fat you burn...so it kind of takes care of itself.

Just don't put words in my mouth - it's not very civil - ok?

I edited my message. Sorry if it came out the wrong way, but this is a subject that's very near and dear to my heart. I'm fed up with the was society in general treats my wife, just because of her size.

Society is very hard on people with larger bodies, and the size acceptance movement is a long time in coming. The fact that our society glamorizes pencil-thin waifs doesn't help shit any either...

I just know the health risks associated with obesity - and whats funny is weight really has nothing to do with it! Fat doesn't either (as I mentioned, pro bodybuilders often have heart problems later in life too)

As long as she has a fan as dedicated as you she'll be ok :)

While this woman is of value as a human being and may be very nice as well, it's not even close what I look like. I doubt these days, there are few who wouldn't mind seeing me in my skivies. I'm not perfect, but pretty darn cute if I say so myself. :7

Especially by posting a picture of a woman who I find attractive.

Glad to hear it. Peace. :hippie:

I'm as sweet as sweet can be unless people are rude and disrespectful of me. Difference of opinion is fine, but lack of common courtesy, I can't stand that.

That is almost as bad as seeing Man Coulter naked.

Coulter is repulsive inside and out. On the other hand, many men (and women) in this world find the woman in that photo quite attractive.

But I Like it :)

But then again I'm of the "Everyone should be in a thong" school of thought...

So, are you in one? ;)

No thong today...silk boxers

Oh well, I suppose that'll have to work.

*leans back to contemplate THAT mental image* ;)

That's what I thought :evilgrin:

Upset that someone they think is beneath them is not showing an 'appropriate amount of shame' in thier presence.

Fortunatly reality does not abide by thier narrow view and we have a multiplicity of people in the world. Black, white, sort of brownish yellow, fat, thin, somewhere in-between, gay, bi, straight, curious, short, tall, athiest, christian, catholic, muslim, satanist, pagans and more.

doesn't mean I'm an insecure elitist. I know what I'm attracted to. So...do you think I should find fat people hot now? Is that the only way a liberal is supposed to think? You know, people have their tastes. Some like women large, others do not.

I think you need to go back to school and learn that people have different opinions on what's attractive/unattractive. :eyes:

...

Fat-bottom girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round!

I've never been too little for someone before. :)

You're not "too small"...:-)

I'm currently a 10 on my way down to an 8. 8 is my target...after that I think I'm done. :)

I still got a nice rear-view in a size 10. I got the greatest compliment of my life from two of the managers in my agency's HR department. They were complimenting me last week on losing so much weight without losing my butt. Given that they are two of the most beautiful (and curvy) African-American women I've ever had the good fortune to know, I was feeling pretty damn good about myself that day. :)

some women look like they might be...Yech!

I have heard of a size 0 and I do know a woman who used to have to shop in the girls section (she wasn't just thin, she was very very short, well under 5 feet tall).

I was at a Twins game with my cousin yesterday and she bought a size Large...in KIDS! I felt a bit large at that moment!

or buy adult clothes. I'm a very normal, not-that-thin, 5'2", 115 lbs, and I'm getting to where I can't buy clothes at some stores now, because a lot of them start the women's sizes at 6. A 6 is my normal size, but some 6's are too big for me now. I remember the last time I was too thin, when I dropped below a size 2 - it was more or less impossible to buy clothes that fit.

I only get that thin when I'm horribly depressed.

I think we have the same bra size too, but you're taller. I have managed to stop traffic again this Spring. I love it!!! :bounce: (Not that I want to be a tease, but in my "hot 20's" I generally wore mom jeans with side elastic and I'm so happy to not be invisible anymore.)

a couple of weeks ago and my bra size has changed drastically. I was kind of swimming in the old ones and I guess I had been wearing them for so long that I didn't notice. My cup size is still the same but the under the boobs measurement has gone down 4 inches. :)

I know I'm not (I'm still of the 36 variety and same cup size I think), but three years ago, I was breastfeeding, 70 pounds heavier (but I did just have a baby though) and something like a 42H. That was huge (backachingly huge). Uhhggg! Anyway, I'm very happy to be an hourglass again. I guess I was before as well, but more of a two hour glass I suppose.

Be still my.....Whatever...:evilgrin:
Shame I'm old enough to be your dad....:-(

I'm 33 believe it or not. :)

I had you pegged at around 23....Sorry!

Darlin'!!!!!

The worst part is up until about a few years ago I still looked really really young. I can remember being about 24 or 25 and having some punk kid ask me what grade I was in. :)

I don't know how tall you are, but they don't call it a perfect 10 for nothing!

If you've got back, make sure you don't lose it!!

Tall for a woman but not really tall. Which sucks. My daddy is 6'6" and I was kinda hoping for a career in the WNBAl...but alas. *sigh* :)

I don't think I have to worry too much about losing the "back". It's seems quite permanently attached. It's the "front" I'm working like a maniac to get rid of...I hate my lower abs. x(

Seriously, don't go below a size 8. I was thinking you might be 5'2" or something.

Also 5'8" is a great height for a girl to be.

Of course, maybe I'm a little biased. Your dimensions... ahem... remind me of someone I know in real life and should probably log off the computer and pay more attention to.

Have a great weekeend VelmaD, and all of you other plus-size thong afficianados!

Disappointed...

when you were gonna show up, thong-boy. ;)

call huge. It's really a shame that girls feel they need to be a 6 or lower to be pretty. Thank God for MrG...He's loved me at size 24 (and I didn't look that big) and he has loved me at a size 10 and all the sizes in between. :hi:

actually I'm a very proportionate size 18. I don't think that I look disgusting in a thong and I must say that it's a heck of a lot nicer to wear things when I am wearing light colored or tighter in the ass pants. Panty lines just suck.

I say hell yeah to this company. If size negative zero's can have tiny little thongs and no butt ot hold them up, why can't I?

I'm all about celbrating our selves no matter WHAT size we are!

I am woman, hear me roar? :) :P

:shrug:

what i would normally do, make a rude and offending comment; or I could just keep my mouth shut. Its so tempting, but what should I do?

Seems like every time I log onto these boards there's some group somewhere making unkind remarks about the hefty. Is this a tradition with you folks?

It's as if large people are the last group that is's OK to make fun of. Well, that's NOT OK, AFAIK. Fat people should be treated with the same respect and courtesy as others.

fat people and being unattracted to fat people.