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Now, I ask you, Duarto, who’s supposed to wear that? Some anorexic teenager? Some fetus? It’s a conspiracy, I know it is! I’ve had enough. I’m leading a protest. I’m not buying another article of clothing until these designers come to their senses!

— Brenda · The First Wives Club

A miniature charcoal suit jacket hangs from a wooden hanger with a loose thread and a small gavel nearby.
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The speaker complains that designers make clothes for impossibly slight bodies, exaggerating the point through increasingly extreme examples. Declaring a conspiracy, they announce a boycott until designers change. The passage turns frustration over fit into a dramatic protest against the assumptions behind fashionable clothing.

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