Late to the party... but I don't actually see self-pity here.

This is the same old thing that starts all the fights around here: the old PC/anti-PC thing. Should we yell at fat people or give them pretty clothes? It's tiresome. It's all heat and no light. We've all got a right to butcher sacred cows... but now can we add something to the discussion?

What was interesting here was the notion that something like an implicit sumptuary law might be going on; a product that people would and could buy is not widely available because of a moralistic belief. (In this case, that inadequate clothes are a fit punishment for being fat.)

That's a hypothesis. But nobody from here on out was actually engaging with the hypothesis. It's all yay/boo stuff. Man, can't we do better?