A Mumbai Designer Store Asked A Woman To ‘Go To Gym’ When She Asked For Her Size Clothes

Mumbai is the fashion hub of the country. You can get anything and everything for everybody here.

 

This is what Mumbai resident Mona Joshi thought when she walked into a designer store, Kalki, in Santa Cruz Mumbai only to come out disappointed and dejected like never before. And not because she couldn’t find clothes her size, but because she was body-shamed by a sales assistant.

 

She asked the assistant who for a ghagra in her size which the shop assistant said they did not have, and when she asked him what were women her size supposed to do, the assistant replied, “Go to the gym”.

After her encounter she left the store dejected and embarrassed.

 

A friend of her’s soon enough wrote a mail to the owner of Kalki Fashion regarding the entire incident:

 

The director at Kalki Fashion was quick to reply with this:

The mail was loud and clear for the owner of Kalki Fashion to notice who immediately terminated the contract of the salesperson. Their action was quick, but the harm was done.

No, it is not okay to be obese, but because of reasons pertaining to health and a person’s well-being and nobody should have the right or balls to shame other people based on what size clothes they wear.

And as Shresht Poddar says: “Let us NOT take an aggressive stance to the challenge of obesity and ‪#‎FatShaming‬. After all, as my friend Tasneem puts it, ‘Compassion brings about more change than anything else’.”

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