gordon@bolton.UUCP (Gordon Partridge) (06/13/84)
I think a few months ago in net.women there was talk of having to pay the same price for a small size garment as for the same style in a large size. I was in Moscow about ten days ago, and in the huge GUM department store I saw a jogging jacket priced at 60 rubles for the smallest size, going up to 66 rubles for the largest. Nowhere else in the world that I have visited have I seen the price dependent on size. Gordon Partridge, GenRad, Inc., Mail Stop 98, Route 117, Bolton, MA 01740
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (06/22/84)
Mail-order clothing from places like "Haband's" has a surcharge for the larger sizes, typically $1.50 on an item priced at $11.95 or thereabouts. Of course, you will also see price discrepancies when you go to stores which specialize in large sizes. Equivalent garments at a "Big Men's" store will be priced higher than those at the department store across the street, and I believe the same differential exists at women's stores, like Lane Bryant, etc. Usually, of course, the wearers of larger sizes are discriminated against simply by unavailability. You cannot find T-shirts larger than size "XL" in any of the catalogs of dealers in decorated T-shirts, or at events where specially-designed T-shirts are sold, for example. Will
toml@druxm.UUCP (TurnbowGV) (06/28/84)
My wife gets several mail-order clothing catalogs, and I occasionally look through them. I have often seen larger sizes costing more than smaller sizes. The difference is usually not large (~ 10%). Tom Laidig AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver ...!ihnp4!druxm!toml