Plus-sized ladies:

You gals say you want bike clothes. I've been buying and selling bike clothes for ~10 years now. I have a hard time convincing size 10's into Lycra, fer pete's sake.

Now, perhaps TE is blessed with amazing women with confidence to spare. But I guess I would really really like to know what you really really want when it comes to work-out wear (beside the super-supportive sports bra that doesn't look like your grandma's LOL--ok we gotta work on that!).

So are we talking about "baggies" here? Or skorts? What about jerseys? To get the full effect of "wicking" fabrics they must be pretty ...unforgiving. Is that ok? Or should they be looser? Comfort over performance? Or the other way around?

And to answer Twiggywinkle's question:

I've raced and I like very-
small-sized men's clothing best. Voler does a good job. In fact if you want the "perfect length" bike short just do women's shorts at the same length they do. Racers are a probably a "bad" market: we tend to get our clothing for free and we are pretty much built like small men.

Personal requirements include: bright, don't-hit-me colors, technical (wicking) fabrics, long zippers, three DEEP pockets, shorts(bibs are best) with small waist/hips and big, wide,non-binding leg-grippers. I *have* to have a separate sports-bra/jersey. Those all-in-one dealies are IMPossible to change out of in a parking lot!

If you have no bike-industry experience a part-time bike shop job would give you mucho marketing insight in a short amount of time.

And oh yeah, I'm in favor as "numbers" as measurements over ambiguous sizes as well.

Here is a bike-industry joke to lighten the mood:

Q: Wanna know how to make a million bucks in the bike industry?

A: Start with four million........


*Groan*, I know. Just came off of 6+ hours on concrete at the LBS. Sorry if I'm a bit crankkkyyy.