Some retailers’ plus-size range runs from 12 to 18, while brands solely focused on plus-size wear go up to size 42, experts said. Other brands, particularly in the high fashion space, do not ...

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Except Ms Kortleve was — and is — roughly a U.S. size 10. Which, outside the fashion industry, is very few people’s idea of plus. “It is problematic, for sure,” Ms. Kortleve said.