Woman in the Middle

I have mentioned before that Target just doesn’t do it for me any more as a store, something that became particularly obvious when they stopped carrying Suave deodorant. Now Kohl’s and I are having a falling out. I shopped there recently and ended up with $10 in Kohl’s cash to spend on anything I would like. Then, for reasons that are always baffling to me, Kohl’s sent me a coupon for $10 off anything in the store, as long as it cost at least $10. So with my two coupons in hand off I went.

The Kohl’s I shop at most frequently has a huge section that is devoted to just woman’s exercise clothes. I have actually been exercising lately. In a good week I go to two exercise classes and one Zumba class. I only have two tops and two bottoms in my exercise wardrobe so I thought I would spend my $20 on a new top or two. But the clothes in the huge exercise section only go up to extra-large. Sigh. I am larger than that so I headed back to the Women’s section. But there wasn’t a stitch of exercise clothing  there. I finally asked someone who worked there and she said they carry exercise clothes in women’s sizes online but not in the store. What????

I left in a huff and went over to the shoe section. I happened to pass by the men’s exercise clothes. I think you know where this is going…there, on the racks, were exercise shirts in XXL.  Oh I get it.  Large men exercise but large women don’t? Kohl’s, you fail all the women out there like me who just want to move and sweat. I didn’t expect anything more than one rack of the stuff, but no, only women of a certain size get to buy exercise clothes at Kohl’s. The rest of use need to heft our large bodies back into our cars and order exercise clothing in the privacy of our own home, where we can pay shipping, too.

Gee, thanks, Kohl’s.