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3 unusual facts about Plus-size clothing


Plus-size

Plus-size clothing, a general term given to clothing proportioned specifically for overweight people

Plus-size clothing

U.S. companies Lane Bryant and Catherines teamed up over a three-year period to source data to modernize the companies' garment construction.

Lane Bryant began trading in the early 1900s as a producer of clothing for "Expectant Mothers and Newborn"'.


Joseph Sitt

From Sitt’s early realization of the retail gap that left broad swathes of inner city consumers largely underserved by major retailers, Sitt founded Ashley Stewart (a name inspired by Laura Ashley and Martha Stewart) in 1991 which sold modern and fashionable plus-size clothing to African American women.


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Aija Bārzdiņa

Aija has enjoyed lucrative contracts with many high-profile Italian plus-size clothing manufacturers such as Miroglio, Benetton, Gianfranco Ferré, Mariella Burani, Yamamay, Liu Jo, Sonia Fortuna, Mariagrazia Severi and has also appeared on the runway for Elena Miro (Miroglio) in Milan, Italy from 2004 till nowadays.

Christina Schmidt

She appeared in the Fall 2007 ad campaign for MXM, which is a Canadian junior plus-size clothing line, has modelled for Torrid, and currently appears in the campaigns for Nygard.