It can be a bit delicate to ask a furniture shopper: "Oh, sir, um, maybe, ah, you'd like to see something a bit, hmm, sturdier?" We are, as a people, as a sitting-in-chairs public, big. Bigger than we ...

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In 1986, when the Home Shopping Network first sold shares to the public, the television channel also began offering apparel for larger women. The idea was to appeal to a group that was too embarrassed ...