Media Coverage
This story was released by the Associated Press April 2006 and featured in over 650 website around the world.
Maxine Monroe, the 37-year-old publisher of an upcoming booklet called “Curvaceous Fashion Guide for the Plus Size Woman,” said retailers have taken this market for granted for a long time. At least in the past, larger-size sections tended to be tucked away in less-visited parts of stores. “It’s horrible, just horrible,” said the size-24 Philadelphia resident. It’s as if retailers were telling her, “’I’ll sell it to you, but I don’t want to see you at my store,”’ she said.
