Obesity Support Group

I have to start out by saying that I love the activities that occur during Halloween. Carving pumpkins, decorating, passing out candy all that fun stuff. And I do like going to Halloween parties, but it is always horrible trying to find a costume. There are a couple Halloween stores here where I live so for some reason every year I decide to go there to look for a costume. I am not sure why I do that because I go in and there are all these tiny little people also shopping there which already makes me feel uncomfortable. But then I actually start looking at the costumes and that is where the depression starts to set in. I look at the bags that the costumes are in for what size it is and many of them say "one size fits all" and then I look at the back of the back and it gives measurements so it will say "fits people who are 5'7 - 5'10 who weigh between 130 and 150 or something like that. And this is on the back of the "one size fits all" now last time I checked not everyone is that size so for the front to say fits all then the back to say "as long as you weigh 150" seems pretty contradictory to me. And then they do have some "plus size" costumes I see them and think great I will actually be able to buy a costume and not have to go to 7 different stores looking for costume parts. Well the "plus size" costumes only go up to an XL and then on the back it says "for people who wears dress size 10-12. Now once again last time I checked anyone who wears a size 10 is not plus size. And that is defiantly not an XL. I am sorry that this is so long but it really bothers me that people actually consider someone who wears a size 10 "plus size" and that costume shops apparently do not think that bigger people like to dress up for Halloween. So I had to go buy a plain black dress from a plus size clothing store and figure out an idea for that because no places around here sell costumes for anyone who weighs over 150 pounds.

Thanks for reading sorry it was so long.
Posted on 10/31/09, 09:10 pm