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I'm not a small guy, in fact I'm taller than the average guy which is why it's so degrading for me to have to buy clothes labelled "small". That aside, it really comes to something when even small is too big.

I got a jumper from a retailer, nothing unusual there. I got the same small size that I'm always forced to have, took it home and it was too big on me, too baggy and the sleeves were too long. How very annoying as I was rather fond of that item of clothing and the retailer doesn't do "extra small".

This made me question the whole size rating scheme. If your a big guy you can choose from "large", "x-large" or sometimes "xx-large" depending on how hungry you were this morning. If you are a small guy you have no option since small has been removed and medium re-branded as small. So why has this happened? Well, the UK is the third fattest nation in the world so perhaps, if we factor in all the obese people I am indeed small by comparison. It's also possible that it's ploy to re-rank all clothing one size lower in order for obese people to get the impression they are fitting into some clothes smaller than they really are.

With the joking aside I think it's a simple case of supply and demand, there's little call for normal sized clothes in England nowadays so rather than remove the "small" range they just increased the size of each range. Curse you abnormally oversized people, I shake my fist at you sirs!

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