Fat people need designer wear too.

People choose their careers in the strangest manner and for the strangest reasons. If you think that students make career choices after carefully weighing all the options you could not be more wrong. Take Tina Vincent for instance. She chose to major in History while in college because she felt that was the best way to cock a snook at her parents. If you wonder what is the logic behind that, she explains it this way. “My mother wanted me to take up a science so I chose History.” That’s how children irritate the hell out of parents.

To her surprise she fell in love with History and the rest as they say is history. She quickly realized that History was no good for careers so she started looking around. She soon went into dress designing because she could not find clothes that fitted her (she is generously proportioned). She does not like being called ‘fat’. So she felt she ought to do something to help other plump sisters who have been traumatized looking for clothes that will look good on large people. She moved from being a person making large sized outfits to making designer wear for fatties. She is now a designer owning her own couture label in Chennai.  

It led to the establishment of her store called Tina Vincent, which is located in a fashionable part of Chennai.  She says she would love to do more ramp shows featuring her clothes but since she only caters to large sizes she says that it is difficult to find suitable models in India. Apparently it is not enough to just find big built women but they need to be able to carry off the clothes they wear. So it is mostly models from abroad that can do that but they charge a bomb to walk the ramp in India. She says she has had a good run thus far, but admits that she still has a long way to go.