Oprah to not only face racism detail mode, but by size

Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire success with an empire worth $ 3 billion, a woman whose public reputation was built on self-empowerment. She was open about stress in her life - racism and sexism often find out - and her struggle with her weight. Gucci backpack It is this latter aspect may be the most difficult to treat. Diseases of the thyroid Oprah Winfrey made her inevitable weight problems. It has to deal with the rebellion of his body. There are nice suits and fabulous shoes and accessorize with flying colors, but it probably knows that all women know: sellers not to be friendly to women over a size 10, and this is especially true for women of color. In order to find something nice for the wedding of Tina Turner, Oprah was alone in Trois Pommes in Zurich last month, a high-end boutique that carries clothing from the usual name of the title - Celine, Jil Sander, Lanvin - and has offices in the cities of rich skiing attract billionaires: St. Moritz, Gstaad, Basel. A shop employee refused to show Oprah a crocodile handbag $ 42,000. Here the incident in the words of Oprah Winfrey, the International Business Times: I was in Zurich, the other day in a store I will not name. I do not have my lashes, but I was in full speed Oprah Winfrey. I had my little Donna Karan skirt and my little shoes. But obviously the Oprah Winfrey Show is not represented in Zurich. I go into a store and say to the woman: "Excuse me, I only see the bag over her head and she said," No, it's too expensive. " Oprah to Larry King later thought of it as the following scenario Pretty Woman and use of his fortune by buying everything in the store, but decided not to give the seller the fulfillment of a high commission. The head of the luxury chain, Trudie Goetz, said later that the seller does not recognize Winfrey and that the rejection of the application for Oprah Winfrey, she tried to be "too nice." No doubt the details of the incident will be fully investigated. It has been attributed to racism, and rightly so: The Oprah started a thread that many women of color incident negatively and immediately race to assess worry, be treated as second class citizens in point to things that are not the best, but as only "good enough" for you. Maintained, with a rich-looking man, and usually is not a random, very thin: the best and most expensive, the implication goes, obviously saved for those with status markers. This is what Oprah and most other women rarely speak to: face the struggle for the respect of women color is shared, heard at times, with a different group size women, another category of Oprah. The scale is not the same thing - racism can be as ugly as all humans are capable of - but on a day to day, they are parallel. It's the same feeling of decline, the same assumption upper hand by others, the same battle for control of your own image. Race is on par with the struggles of socio-economic status, as is the weight. There are few studies on the relationship between the size of a woman and her socioeconomic status, showing that low-income women tend to be overweight. There are several theories about this - because of the atypical working hours, low availability of healthy foods in poor neighborhoods, and other factors that may influence the choice of food and metabolism. On the other side of the scale, anorexia and other eating disorders tend to be more common among people of higher socioeconomic status. You do not need science to tell you this: in the cold calculation of the premium or luxury jewelry or fashion bags, the size of a woman's dress is often regarded as a marker of status is far executed. Both show a certain institutional bigotry, a hypothesis on the basis of day - and simply wrong - shots on what the account balance of a person as to what her body looks like based. This is what most women know: when a woman is a high-end memory, it has been rated for the size of the account or bank loan (or if it looks like it can attract a man with two of them). Employee upscale store like everyone, the premium, commission or her mind works - Wall Street dealers and hustlers pool, for example - are taught a brand Size miles. Read grooming, body language, clothes and accessories, as a sign of the likelihood that someone can go - or lose - money. This is what was the sale of Zurich. Its size, its breed: Missing critical information that Oprah was a celebrity, it is based on the surface markers. Even Donna Karan dress is not sufficient to overcome this prejudice. Oprah was looking for a handbag that no size measurements has received, but the product is not the point in a high-end boutique are all buyers judged in part by weight. Many businesses want to look into the people "thin and cool," in the words of the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch. You can reluctantly sell larger sizes, but only online. The bottom line for people of all sizes to remain in areas where status is important hidden. The thinking seems to be quite unintelligent fat is contagious, or that thin people do not only with products that have been looked by anyone on a size 10th As a result, there is a kind of social segregation on weight and on the race. To test this, in another fashion store in Zurich, or give Gstaad, London or Paris or Los Angeles or New York, you see women in thongs, women with ponytail disorder, women in torn jeans. These are all perfectly acceptable - as it also carries an expensive handbag or accompanied by a man who says what he looks like. But you will rarely, if ever, or even a woman perfectly groomed perfectly dressed with a size 10th Providers become practiced in exclusive boutiques in upscale neighborhoods of large cities around women fully floating in a hurry to get them to remember: Oh, I'm sorry, we did not do everything in your size. And the influence of the size of the economic ladder trickles: clothing trade at all levels to perpetuate the idea that the creation of an additional £ 30 anti-fashion is. Identify a low body weight with a low status seems to infect Lululemon clothing retailers Abercrombie & Fitch. Said last week that Lululemon clothes over a size 12 "are not part of their business strategy" and cheerleaders has become only aesthetic Abercrombie legend. "Many people do not belong (in our clothes), and they can not belong," CEO Mike Jeffries Abercrombie said. It is of course ridiculous. There are many reasons for a woman to vary the weight, including medicines for thyroid problems to emphasize lifestyle. Fat-humiliation in the retail fashion often book is also a form of fat accusation: he assumes that the weight of a woman tells you everything you need to know about it. It is irrational and above all completely wrong. The common tendency to socioeconomic status with link weight is just a bad deal. The saleswoman was made on Oprah this assumption wrong - and his business has not only lost a valuable customer, but also pays a high price in a very public anger despised billionaire. Whatever the social form of these providers, you can often not really judge the ability of a customer to spend. It was, to quote Pretty Woman, "a big mistake". There are women who have access to high-end fashion and want to provide the means - if only to realize that business comes with a high income and good credit in all shapes and sizes. Perhaps clothing retailers should also learn that the cultural, social and economic power of women is not only the extremely short - by the color of his skin or his weight. Gucci belt bag It might help their bottom line when they stopped the judgment of others.