Yeah, that's part of my point: petite is almost exactly average. Hellooooo? :-)
I really wish I had a backup option such as buying in the men's department. In fact, I wish I could buy in the men's department period; there are quite a few good styles and colors of shirts and sweaters there.
I like (er, mumble, forgot his name)'s idea of "custom mass production" (er, ok, forgot quite the phrase he used as well). The idea is to create a way of making objects such that a list of settings can be easily changed for each object. People with wide but short feet just use the settings width=EE, length=size5 and get what they need. The next pair of shoes could have different settings. This would work well if production were extremely automated and were moved close to the end consumer physically, much like photo development is. Imagine a clothing-maker machine the size of an automated photo lab machine, sitting at every Macy's counter. The rest of the shop has a few sample styles on display or to try on, and big reams of fabric. Maybe not 100% practical, but I know I'd pay a premium for it. Maybe 43% of women would too... not to mention taller women, larger women...
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I really wish I had a backup option such as buying in the men's department. In fact, I wish I could buy in the men's department period; there are quite a few good styles and colors of shirts and sweaters there.
I like (er, mumble, forgot his name)'s idea of "custom mass production" (er, ok, forgot quite the phrase he used as well). The idea is to create a way of making objects such that a list of settings can be easily changed for each object. People with wide but short feet just use the settings width=EE, length=size5 and get what they need. The next pair of shoes could have different settings. This would work well if production were extremely automated and were moved close to the end consumer physically, much like photo development is. Imagine a clothing-maker machine the size of an automated photo lab machine, sitting at every Macy's counter. The rest of the shop has a few sample styles on display or to try on, and big reams of fabric. Maybe not 100% practical, but I know I'd pay a premium for it. Maybe 43% of women would too... not to mention taller women, larger women...