I believe most major plus-size brands stop at 30 or MAYBE 32 - which is 9 sizes up. After that, I believe you'd just have to get custom stuff made and wouldn't be a particular "size".

ETA: I'm not trying to "argue" with you or be difficult...just thinking out loud/dialogue type thing...

What you assert is correct, but the reality is that, essentially, historically BGLOs and historically WGLOs exist in different social spaces in college life. Thus, there must be some intentionality for non-African Americans to participate in NPHC events like this.There are rare exceptions of this phenomenon. For example, a couple of years ago, the winner of the Miss Omega Psi Phi Pageant at LSU was caucasian.

http://www.mightyninth.org/docs/news...s/spring05.pdf (p.3)
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle...&ATCLID=174864

AlphaFrog, It's interesting to think about. Consider my comments in the same theoretical way please.

I thought you got into kind of a whole different system with W this and that. Do you suppose that the difference between the sizes is greater in the bigger sizes?

Because let's say for a second that a 16 is actually double the size of an eight, which I don't think is actually right (especially when you think about the fact that eights are not double the size of fours), wouldn't it seem like one sees a number of people who are more than double a 16 actually out wearing regular looking clothes in the real world?

The biggest people that I know are clearly more than double the size of other overweight people who I suspect are wearing 14/16/18 sized clothes. Yet, they are dressed like everyone else albeit on a greater scale.

I was assuming that the sizing continued in much the same way all the way up the human population range.

I think it's more like size 8 is 2" bigger (just an ex. - I don't know the actual scale) than 6, and 10 is 2" bigger than 8...I don't think the scale all of a sudden starts jumping at a certain point. There's still enough graduation among overweight people to warrant using the same scale all the way up. You don't go from slightly overweight to whale with few steps in between.

Oh, I understand how one gains weight maybe too well.

What I was trying to account for was how if it's hard to find clothes that fit in standard regular sizes, do some of the people that I see in public find normal looking clothes if the biggest size in 32?

I'm thinking of people I think are more than 32 inches bigger around than a size 16.

Maybe it is custom clothing.

PLUS 14W 16W 18W 20W 22W 24W 26W 28W 30W 32W
Chest 41 42 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57
Waist 33 34 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49
Low Hip 44 45 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60


Above is Fashion Bug's "Plus" sizing chart. (Sorry it's not in line, but you get the point) It's all in inches. 60" is pretty large.


MISSES 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Chest 33 1/2 34 35 36 37 1/2 39 40 1/2
Waist 25 1/2 26 27 28 29 1/2 31 32 1/2
Low Hip 36 1/2 37 38 39 40 1/2 42 43 1/2


Above is the Misses. It does appear that the scale does get a little bit bigger when you get into the plus sizes.

and the inches have to go up not only in the waist, but everywhere else...

ok, im sure you (collective you, not AF) already know that.

Thanks AlphaFrog, that explains a lot.

In somewhat related post to the real topic of this thread, did anyone notice that all the pictures, except for one, are head and shoulder shots of the contestants? That seemed unusual since you didn't get one of all of them on stage.

The women are beautiful!

I was agreeing with you actually. :)

The problem during this phase of life is that the abs are stretched out, your pelvis probably had to expand and possibly your rib cage too. My coworker found this awesome website and a few of the ladies that I eat lunch with have tried it, bought the jeans that it recommended for them and had great success...
www.zafu.com click on "Get my jeans" and it walks you through a questionairre then finds the brands/styles that work best on you!

Size 24 is a body type. It's a plus size body type.

Get over yourself.

Ha! This is funnier on the board than it is in the email notification. :) God bless big fonts and their emphasis.