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my heart broke at lane bryant
So I'm looking at bras (buy 2 get 2 free and I had a $20 coupon) today at lunch and this girl is SO upset. She's with her fiance, just bawling and red and raw from crying. She just kept saying she hated shopping.
So she broke down at the register and the manager grabbed her aside and was talking to her beside me.
The gist I got is that she's getting married in 2 months, she's been looking for some bras, she's gained a lot of weight somewhat recently though, she went to Victoria's Secret and they told her flat out that she was too fat for their bras and she needed to go find a plus sized store.
I almost started crying with her, I felt so bad. About 3 years ago, I actually went to Victoria's and was told they had nothing to fit me either (they didnt say I was too fat, just my boobs are too big). but they were totally not nice about it and I've always been really self conscious about myself and it made me cry too.
I think she felt better when she left, I told the girl they did a similar thing to me and all the clerks were trying to make her feel good too. Did you know that the same manufacturer makes Victoria's and Lane Bryant bras too?
Anyway, I felt really bad.
Re: my heart broke at lane bryant
My heart breaks at Lane Bryant because I have to freaking shop there! Beckie = Fatty.
Poor girl though, never good to see someone upset like that
What a$$holes. I once wrote to Victoria's Secret requesting why they don't make anything in bigger sizes but I never rec'd a response from them. Plus size is such a HUGE market (totally no pun intended) and I can only imagine the growth of business they'd achieve if they tapped on that market.
There's no excuse for anyone to be talked to that way, that poor thing.
heh i guess i could shop there for all my clothes now. I really only buy bras there. What do they start at 14?
I remember walking in there a long time ago because i relaly liked a skirt i saw in the window. So I go in and I cant find my size (maybe i was like an 8 or a 10 at the time) and i asked the clerk for help and they were laughing at me (in a nice way). I had no idea I was in a plus sized store.
I really wanted that skirt. Now I could fill it.
Dude, they are b!tches there.
A few weeks ago I went into the new Pink store at Fox Run and asked if they had swimsuits and the clerk told me "um yeah like young ones"
ok then.
Neither here nor there, but I'm only going on 30 and I can rock those teeny bikinis better than half the teenagers who wear them. I was totally flabbergasted....had I not been so stunned I would have bought one and walked out of the store in it.
I'm going with the fact they are bitter retail hags as opposed to the alternative which is they are heartless word-that-cannot-be-typed-on-the-nest.
That's disgusting, esp. considering that if you are referring to the Pheasant Lane location, if the manager is still the person I think, she is plus size.
If you decide to make a call, I will give you her name just in case she is still there. I have no doubt she will handle it, unfortunately, you don't have the rude salesperson's name.
oh, I wasn't IN Victoria's today. I was at Lane Bryant where they sent the girl and that's where she was crying and telling the story.
I wasn't planning on making a call or a complaint. I'd assume that's something the "victim" would do if she wanted.
It was Pheasant Lane.
My experience with vic's was several years ago, I wouldn't call about it now.
Oh that poor girl!!!
I effing hate Victoria's Secret sales wenches. Not to knock anyone who works retail but please- What gives YOU the right to judge? Go eat afucking cheeseburger.
Ohh they so piss me off. The Express is another one where they are snooty. And I fit in to all of their things!
Once when I was shopping with my mom I spotted a shirt or something in LBs window. I was walking over to look at it and as I am headed that way my mom is trying to quietly steer me away. I was ignoring her- I wanted the shirt! She pulled me out and whispers "that store is for bigger girls!" I had no idea!
Then, in college my two best friends were plus sized so while they would shop in there I would put the bras on my head. They were not amused. I was enthralled that people had boobies that big! (as mine as a mere handful-boo)
I think there needs to be a store that is for large breasted women. Or a segment inside of lane bryant for that. Nothing ever fit me right, I was short with a big bust and I was slender but not toothpick. I'd put on a dress and i'd look like I stepped out of a Vanilla Ice video. Nothing was in the right place.
Oh Chrissy, i'm so sorry. Mother nature can be so cruel
Carryl, they're the only bras im comfortable in. Beth turned me on to them ...i dont know over a year ago.
I'm 40DD in most of them 42DD int he ones I bought today.
The place rocks too, they didnt have my size in different colors and all they do is order them for you and ship them to your house, no extra cost!
So it was 20.00 off anything....40.00 off if I spent 100.00
So I got 5 bras for $56.00 They're normally $32-$38 a piece.Definitely awesome.
They're really slow though. If I wasnt on my lunch break I wouldnt have cared.
becky, you are priceless!!!! LMFAO!
i feel so bad for that chick that is horrible! what beyotches!
i would have gone to vs and asked where their 40Cs are and waited to hear their reply... and then unleashed.... if i didnt have the boys.....
and i love their cacique bras. i like them better than vickys... funny their made from the same company!
Stupid Victoria's Secret. The girl is better off at Lane Bryant anyway!
Chrissy, Lane Bryant sells Cacique!
Dont doubt Kim b/c she is that crazy (but loveable) to do that! lol
And ditto about those snotty skanks! How effin uncalled for! I feel like going down to VS and hosen them down with BM!...now ain't that a sight!!
OMG, that POOR POOR girl!!!!!!!! I've so been there, unfortunately I have huge boobs and I hate them, but finding bras that fit "right" is SUCH a challenge.....
I will NEVER set foot into a VS again, I had the worst bra shopping experience of my LIFE there when I was shopping for a bra for my prom 10 years ago (OMG I'm getting old)....they were SO rude to me (now mind you, I wasn't this big back then) and while I wasn't technically plus sized back then, they treated me like I was, and the girl said something about me being big boned... needless to say I haven't and will never go back!!!!!!!