Oh, where to start, where to start?
First, the choices for clothing for overweight women are considerably limited if you are of modest resources and shop mainly in the malls and discount stores of America. Especially in the area of dresses and skirts. I can’t count the number of times I would shop for a dress at say, Kohl’s, and spot a pretty fabric or a flattering style in the misses department. I’d head over to the women’s size racks, and get giddy because I’d see the same fabric…only to pull the dress out and see they had made the larger size dress in a less attractive style…higher neckline, less detailing. So unless you can afford higher-end clothes, pants and a top are the most available choices. And unless you shop in places like Torrid, that specialize in lower necklines and trendy, cheap fabrics for teens and twenty-somethings, you are stuck with the higher, cleavage-covering styles in unattractive colors and prints.
Second…what do you mean by “They have this blouse – i can’t describe it, but it usually isn’t very feminine and almost never shows off the tops of their only ‘assets’.”??? You can’t describe it? Try. Is it long sleeve, short sleeve, basic T–shirt style, crew neck, scoop neck, button front, pullover, solid color, print, knit, woven, boxy, tight, dressy, casual…come on, you can describe it if you try! All you were able to spit out was that it didn’t show enough cleavage, which would apparently distract you from the rest of the person’s body and make you perhaps notice them. I personally prefer a lower-cut scoop neck, but they are hard to find, where I shop, though I see lots of big girls wearing them, so they are available somewhere…just not in professional, quality fabrics.
Three…your photo doesn’t work for your example, unless you were considering that woman to be over-made-up. And she doesn’t have the really short hair you seem to be criticizing. You seem to like long hair on women, and that’s fine…I, too prefer longer hair, and hate the short, “oh, it’s so much easier to take care of” style many older women adopt. But women working in a professional capacity generally don’t wear hair much past their shoulders because the moderate lengths look better.
Fourth, you seem to be criticizing bigger girls for not dressing sexy enough, but you admit that you don’t like to look at them (“as they are not photographed (for obvious reasons, no one wants to look at them).”) So can you imagine the criticism big girls get FOR dressing sexy when they can? And many women aren’t comfortable with the attention their “assets” get when they do show cleavage, so they may tend to cover up for day to day wear.
For many overweight girls and women, they just want to get through the day without the nasty comments from people who seem to think losing weight is as simple as slipping off a jacket. It’s not. It’s hard, defeating work, that gets sabotaged and frustrating and expensive and you can spend a lot of months following the rules and still not see enough progress to encourage you to continue.