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The clothing industry is utterly enormous and is certainly one of the largest industries in the world employing millions of people, especially in Asia. Think of the number of factory workers and sales people and all the hauliers in between who are involved in the textile industry. Perhaps only the food industry is bigger.

Despite all those people and all that money, there is not really a lot of money to be made from selling ordinary, everyday clothing. Just look at how cheap a T-shirt can be and it has most likely been made and brought from somewhere like Thailand – half a world away. A retailer has to sell a great deal of this stuff to make a living.

The big money in the clothing industry comes from unusual clothing. That is specialized garments and by ’specialized garments’, here I am including high fashion, haute couture and designer clothing. People, particularly women, like to keep up with the latest styles and in the realm of fashion a small fold here or a slight tuck there is all it takes to demonstrate that one skirt is this year’s fashion and that that one is last year’s.

Plus size clothing is an unusual case. Plus size clothing is expensive, but it was not fashionable for a long, long time. Manufacturers seemed to think for decades that plus size women were content to wear black or garish colours. They assumed that plus sizers were not interested in fashion. Often the plus size department would be dumped next to the maternity department and not in the fashion section.

Even though the state of affairs is getting better for the plus size woman, the fabrics and the colours used in plus size clothing still tend to be different from those used for the sizes ten and twelve.

The colours are often flashier and the styling tends to make plus size women look older especially when they are dressed in formal evening wear.

The alternative is to go to specialist plus size clothing shops, but this is where they get you again. Specialized fashion translates into more expensive, so very few large women can afford to obtain their clothing from these stores.

A good question to ponder upon is this: if there is a crisis of obesity in the western world in general, why does the fashion industry focus on smaller, often younger, women? Older, often heavier, women have more money that their younger counterparts too.

It is true that the situation is improving on the fashion front for plus sizers and people are also attempting to lose weight, so maybe the two sides will gradually approach one another.

In the meanwhile, larger ladies have to discover a way of making the world’s manufacturers of ladies clothing comprehend that they want fashionable plus size clothing made in exactly the same style, from exactly the same material and in exactly the same colours as the clothing that they make for smaller women.

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All right, no more hesitations, this is the time you have been dreaming of and it’s up to you to turn it into reality. But, how can you have that fantasy date? You have to start from the beginning and that means to invite the person you are interested in out. Well, how ought you to invite a person out? Do you have to be assertive? Do you have to be coy? Perhaps you could do with a few tips to ask someone out?

The following are simple but essential tips you can use when you find it difficult asking a person for a date. These tips are good when you want to invite out the person you fancy. Firstly, know the right reason or reasons for asking a person out. When you know your reason(s), the right words will surely come to you.

What if the person says no? Don’t take it to heart and certainly don’t expect it. Take it gracefully and maybe have a light-hearted, self-effacing joke at the ready. However, for some people, it might be worth practising the words you want to say. To this end, try to keep the reasons for the date foremost in your mind.

However, the person might say “yes” and then you should know where to go, otherwise it seems as if you have not put much thought into it. As far as you can, be ready with ideas. See to it that you know how to answer whenever the person asks you why you are asking her out. You do not have to flatter, but you have to make sure that you make the person feel good. In this way you can show how thoughtful you are. Never pressure someone to go out with you.

If you did, the result would almost certainly be unpleasant. And don’t pressure anyone to tell you why the answer is no. Furthermore, never stand someone up. This means that when you ask a person out, you should mean it and you do not leave her waiting for nothing. If the person says no, do not get angry about it. You just have to move on and not treat that person badly. Having some beer to boost your confidence is definitely not a good idea.

It may just land you in an even worse position. You have to be confident naturally. The more, the better, but not on the first date. If you want to invite a person out for a date, don’t do it when she is with a circle of friends.

These are really useful tips and you really ought to take note of them. They will definitely help you out if you want to go out with your special person.

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When you go on a date with someone there are specific things you should or should not do and certain ways you should conduct yourself. Of course you want the person to get to know you, so, first off, you oughtn’t attempt to be someone that you are not.

When you go out on a date you ought to look clean and dress nicely. This will show the other person, not only that you think about about your appearance, but that you also care about what they think about you. After all, If you don’t care about what the other person thinks, then you probably shouldn’t be going out on a date with them in the first place, should you?

This suggestion really depends on the person you are taking out. It applies more to a man dating a woman, obviously, but some women don’t like having doors opened for them either. You will have to play it by ear. I think that the best guidance I can offer, is that you should remember to open the car doors and all doors for that matter (except the washroom door) for your date, unless you are told or you sense otherwise.

A lot of younger women might say they wouldn’t judge a man by his door-opening manners, but I think it does form a beneficial part of the overall picture she will be building up of you. However, if the woman you are going out with is an obvious feminist, then you had better let her open the doors for herself – just let her get on with it or it might bother her. She might also want to pay for her own meal, but that’s not a bad thing is it?

Ensure that you on time. Be there when you say you will be there to pick her up and be prepared to pay for the whole date. It may not come to that, she may buy a drink or two, but you can’t rely on it, so slip a credit card in your wallet too. Better safe than sorry and you don’t want to have walk home., would you?

So, that brings us neatly to the next point, which is, don’t take your date somewhere you cannot afford because you never want to find yourself asking your date for a loan to pay the bill, unless you don’t want to see her again.

Another part of dating etiquette also relates to not making the other person feel as if they are at an interview. It is all too common for people on a date to ask too many questions because they want to get to know the other person quickly. However, how would you feel, if you were asked twenty questions between every course or drink? It is well-intentioned, but irritating. It is far better to have, say, five or six interesting, non-personal questions that you can discuss at more length.

If you push them too far, if you get too personal too quickly, you could scare them off. Just try to create a comfortable atmosphere by being considerate and yourself.

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This piece of writing is about my experiences of international and inter-racial dating. It is simply an account of what I have seen and experienced myself over the course of my life so far, although at 55 years old, I am nearer the end of it than the beginning. It is my guidance on handling an international or inter-racial relationship.

It all began at an early age when I was in infant school at seven. There was a Filipina girl in our class and I could not take my eyes off her, although I almost certainly did not know much about it then. We parted at eight when they moved closer to another school and I never saw her again.

My next meeting with a foreign girl, was the mademoiselle junior teacher at school and I was convinced that I would marry a French country girl when I grew up. That passed when the German assistant arrived.

When I was fourteen, I went on a school cruise to Leningrad and there was a group of exchange students going home to Sweden on the same ship. I went out with one of them for about a week and first noticed the problems that can come from international dating. There was a slight language barrier, but it was fun getting over that. The real difficulty came, because I had predetermined ideas of what Swedish girls were like, most likely instilled in me after years of silly ‘Carry On’ films.

At sixteen, I went to Germany to work for the summer and I found it very easy to get on with the German girls, although they were shyer that I was expecting too. Also an attitude I owed to silly Health and Efficiency ’sex films’.

After concluding university, I moved to The Netherlands to live. It was the seventies and Dutch girls were great. However, I made friends with male British colleagues initially and soon saw some of the issues that can come from an international relationship. Most of the men I knew were typical Brits and made totally no attempt to learn Dutch at all. Surprisingly, many Dutch people could not speak English either, particularly the parents.

This lead to a surprising number of stressful moments in a week and that put a lot of strain on my friends’ relationships. It is so easy to start name-calling when you are angry and it is the worst thing you can do. The Dutch girlfriend or her parents or friends would be called ‘a stupid cheese eater’ or something equally foolish and the relationship was over or in trouble for days. I do not remember what the Dutch called us.

I vowed to myself there and then never to get serious about a foreign girl because the arguments were just too much. Food was never a problem. Culture was not much of a problem, although where I was in southern Netherlands, most people were Catholic and I am not. This did perplex some parents but not me. Travelling was always going to be the drawback. Do you live by her parents or yours? Especially when children start arriving. Most countries have stronger family ties than Britain.

Then, at 50, having never been married, I went to Thailand, where I met my wife-to-be. Asian culture is very different from British or even European society and it is a real shock to both parties. Anyway, five years into our relationship and we are still fine. I recollect the reasons I gave myself for not marrying abroad when in The Netherlands and I was incorrect, but not much.

If you are going to enter into an international or even inter-racial relationship, you had better learn how to control your anger. It is the most important advice you will ever get. Being understanding of other points of view is important too, but not getting angry is more important. Furthermore, you must try to learn something about your partner’s land, background and language, otherwise you cannot join in any discussion your partner may have with someone who does know a bit about it.

I have never seen religion be a problem ever, except in an argument. My wife is Buddhist and I am not. We chat about it, but there is never any tension. Food, again I have never seen a problem in this area. Clothing, again no problem in my life. If you get into an international or inter-racial relationship, keep your temper, do not shout, do not get angry and talk things out calmly.

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