Today, Refinery29 and Lane Bryant CMO Brian Beitler had a friendly little live Twitter chat where they asked tweeters to send in their questions using the hashtag #AskLaneBryant. Lots of your burning questions were sent off, and, as could be assumed, a lot of people have beef with the “body positive” mega retailer not necessarily known for representing all women in their advertising campaigns for their occasionally fashionable clothes. Here are just a handful of our favorite tweets that came at Beitler:
#AskLaneBryant have you tried making tops that look normal and don’t have the same sequinned tribal pattern on them
— JIGGLE SWELL RACK (@wooper) December 8, 2015
Why don’t you have sizes above 26 in your stores? #AskLaneBryant
— L J Laubenheimer (@ljl_geek) December 8, 2015
If #plusisequal why are the smaller bras more likely to be on sale & better stocked in-store + online than the F/G/H bras? #AskLaneBryant
— zaynab shahar (@atypewritersing) December 8, 2015
But Alysse Dalessandro of the indie label Ready to Stare got extra real when she tweeted this:
@readytostare Great question! Two part answer! 1) Our primary goal is to shine a much needed light on the question around body diversity.
— Lane Bryant (@lanebryant) December 8, 2015
2) We are learning just how broad we need to be in our own inclusion in body diversity from our customers and our fans.
— Lane Bryant (@lanebryant) December 8, 2015
Alyssa fired back, “so are we gonna see some size 22+ models in the future or nah?” She’s gotten no response (yet), but a retweet from babe Tess Holliday, so something tells us Lane Bryant might change their tune soon. As we all know, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. So congrats, LB.
