The fact that three successful plus-size fashion brands have recently closed after several years of operation shines a spotlight on the dissonance that exists in the field of plus size in our districts. Potential customers claim that there is no fashion in the country in style for sizes 46 and up, but in practice they prefer to buy in Shane. We went out to check
07/01/2022
In a short period of a month and a half, three large-scale fashion businesses decide to stop working in the field. The Eddie brand, which announced its closure this week after 5.5 years of operation, and the Talia and Shugrash brands (of the same ownership), which also announced the closure a month and a half ago. This sad sequence illuminates in neon light the jarring gap that exists in our fashion industry when it comes to large sizes. On the one hand, there are quite a few brands in Israel today that specialize in this market segment and work to meet the seemingly high demand of women in sizes 46 or 48 and up, by providing an up-to-date supply with on-duty trends for women who really crave beautiful and varied clothes in large enough sizes. Address this in chains and designer stores. But on the other hand, these niche brands fail to keep the financial head above water because at the end of the day it seems that not enough customers come to buy in dedicated stores for large sizes, and small and medium-sized businesses simply do not survive.
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What actually falls here between the chairs, or between the hangers to be exact? After all, there is a large female audience in the country that needs quality local fashion in sizes known as “standard” and willing to pay quite a bit for the clothes, so why is the situation so different in the field of plus size fashion? We turned to small and medium-sized fashion businesses for large sizes, opinion leaders and customers themselves to try to understand the source of the gap. It should be noted that there are brands that did not want to be exposed and react to the issue, perhaps for fear of angering customers if they criticize their consumer behavior, in an arena that is as difficult as it seems to retain them as loyal and repeat customers.
“Fashion brands in large sizes in the country have been declining in the last two years and it’s not just the fault of the corona as many of us tend to think,” says Roni. Cohen, CEO of the Queen Size brand, which has been operating since 2016. “Along with the fact that the percentage of weight gain is increasing around the world, so are international companies such as Ali Express, Next, Asus and Shein, which offer significantly cheaper alternatives in large quantities. I have zero judgment, which each one will buy according to pocket and ability. I always say that food also has Rami Levy and there is a taste, each based on its ability or at all its free choice, really. It is better to purchase 2-3 good items a year than 15 items that will not survive a season or be thrown in the trash even before they are worn. As a client once told me, ‘I realized that Shane comes out to me in the end much more expensive than Queen Size’.
The one who provides another angle to the issue is Ray Segev, a model, mentor who leads women to the forefront of the Rollmodels escort program and owner of the closed Juicy Agency – “I think in-depth social research is needed to understand the reason The real reason why customers in large sizes do not buy enough from brands that offer such a size range and these are forced to close. In practice women buy cheap in chains or sites from abroad because there they feel they have more choice and more styles that can suit them. From age zero they have not learned what high fashion looks like on a body type like theirs. Recently, especially following the Corona, the world has changed and today the fashion industry from the band “Rollmodels” who are women with a story with an emphasis on values like sustainability, leadership, female empowerment and style, alongside external figures of diversity and uniqueness. In the eyes of every brand, regardless of the dimensions it offers, today it needs to create a community of customers connected to its creators and the messages and values they bring to the forefront, and an amount of style if it wants to survive in the contemporary market. “
More and more brands, from a variety of niches, are already realizing that in order to give a real answer to women in large sizes, they need to weave into a wide variety of sizes and offer something fresh. It would be good if they collaborated with characters that women can really identify with, just like the sportswear line launched by Simcha Guetta this weekend together with the Raven brand with a collection that appeals to all women, of all ages and sizes – from size XXS to 3XL.
The active and sportswear brand Girlfriend Collective, which recently landed in the Story network, also comes in a completely generous size range “that leaves no one aside”, from XXX to 6XL , Without compromising on quality or style. The brand increases and makes by investing in values that have positive social and ecological effects, such as a commitment to community building, sustainable production, transparency and fairness.
At the same time and under challenging market conditions, Tali Sharaf Hazan and Gili Zohar Elbaz, who own a company that owns two fashion brands that cater to the large size market – Talia, a 10-year-old brand and a one-and-a-half-year-old Shugrash – decided to close The activity in both. “There is a very big gap between the fact that there are businesses here that cater to this market segment and the amount of people who know that large-scale brands really exist,” Gili points out. “For over 10 years, the only progress in the field of large sizes in the country has come from the direction of small entrepreneurs. Our economic ability to realize the true economic potential of this market is too small.”
Her partner Tali confirms that not enough women come to run the small businesses in the field of large sizes in the country – “Most of the activity of Israeli manufacturers Like us it is online, in pop-up sales and in getting to the studio. Customers want us to be in malls and rightly so. What’s more the production costs of a small business are high, it micromanages the price and makes our product less accessible to the general population. Large sizes are not a trend or a passing thing. The great dimensions in the collapse, we go back a decade “.
Mazal Benamman, owner of the Lins Shop fashion brand for medium and large sizes, is indeed in a kind of grace period of business in his first year, but the conflict and difficulties are already tangible in her field as well. “The dream brand Q. Lee opened in April 2021 and as a new business naturally there is a lot of learning from the field and colleagues in the field, there are ups and downs and nothing is still stable. Lots of questions are starting to float in my head – why is the large-scale fashion business producing quality blue and white fashion (and all that that implies) closing one after the other? The competition is so small in fact and women demand more supply, what is happening here? Is it because our world sanctifies thinness in every possible way and women feel uncomfortable going in and purchasing in a place that offers a large and wide range of sizes? Is the fashion that the designers offer less trendy and fashionable? Has such a high unemployment rate created a new situation for many women who are no longer in the labor force or who work from home which means they need clothes less? I have not yet come to a conclusion. No one wants to work for free and we are not here to lose. I believe that if I can not survive from the business then it too will close like many others and that is very sad “.
It turns out that the situation is quite similar in the religious sector as well, “the noise they make around the large sizes In Israel, it does not match the actual shopping, “says Orit Shoham, head of the one-and-a-half-year-old Blash brand, which caters to the ultra-Orthodox and religious sectors. “I mean, there is indeed a demand but since for women in larger sizes it is important how the dress will sit and tend to stay in certain patterns, such as only a certain dress or black will suit them, so the buying process is more difficult. We make a lot of efforts to meet their need and understand what they want but it is definitely challenging. We have a supply from size 34 to 54, which means we actually make two collections and work very hard. I insisted that on our site we take the same prices for all sizes but it is not easy “The factory demands more money from me for sewing a large size as well as for a quality fabric that is stretched enough and durable, than it demands for the same garment to a small extent, and the customers are not aware of that at all.”
- In an industry that until then has dedicated one beauty model And contributed (indirectly or directly) to social harm, it is evident that we are in a much more authentic and correct place. Plus-size models and diverse women have become in demand and there is hardly a network or brand, even in Israel, that ignores the trend. On the contrary, they listen to the demand from the field and work to produce and offer clothes that will serve women of all sizes and styles. But still it seems that there is no match, yet, between what women in large sizes are probably really looking for and what plus size fashion in the country offers. What is certain is that customers are not willing to compromise – neither on style nor on a favorable price.
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