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[–] farmer- 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The plus-sized dress is cheaper. Economies of scale hard at work.

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[–] Umrtvovacz 0 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago 

I don't understand. Shouldn't it be more expensive? There is more material. Or is it just that the majority of Americans are fat so to offset lower sales of small dresses they must be more expensive to be viable? If that is the truth, WTF?

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[–] farmer- ago 

Look up economies of scale. More fatties are getting that dress so there's more demand so they have to make more. And when they make more, it's cheaper since they can get the materials in bulk at a discount

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[–] 1F4A9 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Fat privilege: cheaper clothes because they're made in bulk for bulk sizes.

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[–] RielDtok_ 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

It's most likely because they produce far more circus-tent-size dresses than human-size ones. Thus, they can order more at a time for larger discounts, and the factory workers will be more experienced making bigger dresses, etc. The whole supply chain is geared better for making bigger dresses because they move more of them.

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