This article considers the possibilities and limitations of plus-size clothing— a subcategory of ready-to-wear that is deeply embedded in the history of dieting, exercise, standardized sizing, and the industrialization of clothing manufacturing in the United States. In doing so, it draws on fashion theory and disability theory in exposing how plus-size clothing functions as a normalizing mechanism, thereby inhibiting innovation in this sector. The article concludes with a counterexploration of the possibilities of “fat clothes” and the novel w ays of seeing and existing in the world that they might enable.

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关于胖衣服：解开大码设计话语

本文考虑大码服装的可能性和局限性——这是成衣的一个子类别，深深植根于美国节食、运动、标准化尺码和服装制造工业化的历史。在这样做的过程中，它利用时尚理论和残疾理论来揭示大码服装如何作为一种正常化机制发挥作用，从而抑制了该领域的创新。文章最后对“胖衣服”的可能性以及它们可能实现的看待和存在于世界的新颖方式进行了反探索。