So the other day I decided to have a look around. Now normally I love this store. They have awesome costume accessories and heaps of awesome stuff to decorate the house with for Halloween. See Halloween is my Christmas..
I went in to look at their awesome house stuff but to also look at their costumes and see if I can get any ideas for Halloween. First thing I noticed is that the majority of their costumes only went up to size 14. All their costumes were grouped together like Roman/ancient etc.. Witches and demons etc.. emergency people etc.. horror characters etc.. they even had a “sexy” section where all the costumes were called “sexy ??” for example Sexy nurse or sexy witch.. hell even an sexy Freddie Kruger (now don’t get me started on sexy Halloween costumes.. that is a whole other kettle of fish)
So I went to ask one of the girls working there is they have anything in plus size.. actually I think my words were “do you have anything above a size 14”. I was advised that they don’t have a section but if I look at the costumes anything with a yellow strip was plus size. I thought awesome it will be easy to find.. well not so much. O went through the entire ladies costume section and out of the hundreds of costumes there and the dozens of categories I found 4.. that’s right 4 costumes for plus size.. a witch.. a prisoner.. Cleopatra and a pair of stockings.. THAT’S IT..
And nothing in the so called “sexy costume” section.
What was more annoying is all these costumes were all long sleeve and long gowns.. WTF.. and where I found these costumes there was other designs available but only one for plus size. For example there were five other witch costume varieties if you were a 14 or under in size but only 1 available in plus..
This actually got me pissed off… for a company that boosts the largest selection of costumes you certainly didn’t carter for the plus size person and made them feel ashamed like they have to cover up their bodies while in costume.. screw that.. I don’t think Cleopatra had long sleeves while in ancient Egypt
I was so pissed I had to go play with the dead zombie babies to cheer me up..
And people wonder why I make my own costumes.. seriously Spirit of Halloween.. get your game up..