Plus Size 100% combed cotton 
classic style knickers for bariatrics

These knickers have been made with obese, bariatric sized ladies in mind and will be comfortable up to a weight of approximately 35 stones  (222 kilo)
Specification
Size 9XL = Dress size UK 40/42
Size 10XL = Dress size UK 44/46
Size 11XL = Dress size UK 48/50
wide leg holes to accommodate thick thighs
good depth so that they come up above the waist and then 'settle down' on the waist
Colours:  White; Black; Cerise pink 
sold as a single item @ £19.95
Buy 6 and we automatically include a 7th pair free of charge


The 9xl, 10xl and 11xl classic style knickers are made by The Big Bloomers Company and they have been produced after a great deal of feedback from very overweight women.  We have learned about the tummy flap and how to accommodate it.  There is sufficient fabric in these knickers to make sure that they stay up and don't ride down. We have learned the requirement for a pad and the gusset has been made wide enough to make the wearing of a pad comfortable and secure.  The knickers are made here in the UK in a 180gram 100% combed cotton interlock fabric which has a fair amount of natural stretch in it.

The knickers have a good depth to them so that they can be pulled up over a large tummy and they will stay in place at the waist and not work down.  Because of popular demand we have redesigned these knickers with an integrated tunnelled elastic waistband which means that however many washes, the waistband can't come adrift from the main garment, hence the knickers have a very long life.

The picture of the knickers being held by Andrea (our warehouse manager) is purely to give you an idea of the size.  They are not stupidly big and ill-made, they have been properly designed taking into account the height, weight and general size of the women who will be wearing them. 

Feedback from our customers lead us to understand that the knickers would be more durable without the original style lace elastic waistband, and so, as you can see from the photographs, they are now manufactured with a plain fold-over waistband which will withstand a carer having to help pull them on.   

Available in white or black or cerise pink
Size chart in both inches and centimeters 
waist inches
hips inches
our sizes
UK dress
size
waist cms
hips cms
66 - 70
79 - 85
11xl
48/50
167 - 177
195 - 205
62 - 66
74 - 79
10xl
44/46
157 - 167
185 - 195
58 - 62
69 - 74
9xl
40/42
147 - 157
175 - 185
 

If you like our Plus Size knickers, then you may like our Plus Size Knee Hi's made for people with swollen feet and thick legs.


Extra Plus Size Knee Hi's - sample pack

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The items offered in our shop are always in stock and are sent out within 24 hours of receiving your order (except at weekends) and remember - whatever you buy from us and however much you buy, you'll still only pay £2.95 for postage and packing

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Hi there, to all of our faithful customers, you may be interested in this rather unkind email that someone searching our website wrote.  I’ve written a reply to her which you can read below.

She wrote :- Why do you list all of your underwear so negatively? "Chub Rub",   "Gigantic" and so on, It really sounds like you are laughing at your  customers size.  I was going to order for an elderly relative, but not from you now, it  really feels like you are ridiculing the people you are trying to sell to.

Here's my reply, I hope you all agree with me and approve:-

Hello

I'm afraid I can't agree less with your comments.  As far as the term 'chub rub' is concerned it is a well known and media accepted term mostly used by teenagers and young women/mothers. They use the term chub-rub for what would otherwise be termed chafing thighs because their chubbiness causes their thighs to rub together making them red and sore and very uncomfortable. Chub rub is a much friendlier term than 'chafing thighs' and not an unkind one either, in fact, chub comes from chubby and describes someone who is just a little bit plump.

Gigantic, huge, fat, - yes, not nice words to use.  However, we are in the business of attracting bariatric women and also their carers, daughters, sons, husbands, sisters, other relatives, neighbours and indeed, whoever else is  trying to find knickers, panties, undies, tights, knee-highs, nighties, underskirts, bras for them to wear.  Sometimes, the person requiring the garments is elderly and not computer literate and/or not very mobile and so other people are doing the searching for them and quite often these searchers find themselves wasting huge amounts of time and getting stressed and resentful with the task.  Usually, they (the searchers) are not aware of the term 'bariatric' to describe a very overweight person ..... instead, quite often, angst ridden or temper driven with frustration, they will key in 'knickers for woman with huge bum' or 'tights for gigantic thighs' and they do that because, if they put in a polite, sedate search term such as 'knickers/tights for plus size lady'  all of the major stores such as M&S fill their screen, promising exactly the items that the searcher is looking for.  Then the searcher spends hours crawling these websites, only to find that M&S and other such large organisations DO NOT manufacture or supply knickers and tights for bariatic/huge/gigantic/massive people.  So, then the searcher gets understandable annoyed and out of sheer desperation they type in such search terms as gigantic and huge and fat...... and THEN they find The Big Bloomers Company...... they are not laughing  any more than we are laughing.... they are just victims of the fact that superstores have a huge marketing budget and can outbid the The Big Bloomers Company on sedate and seemly ‘search terms’ such as ‘plus size panties’ or ‘large tights’ and so we never appear on the first page for such ‘under-stated, diffident’ search terms, although in truth, we are the only company who have what the searcher is looking for.  So, you see, through no fault of ours or theirs, the searcher can’t find us with polite searches because we can't possibly afford to place our adverts at the top of the first page along  with M&S and other superstores - we are just as much a victim of this system as the searcher. 

I'm really glad that you wrote though, because I'll post this on the blogs and on our websites and on eBay because it is quite obvious that if you have thought us to be  rude and lacking in respect and laughing at our customers, then other people may also have harboured such untrue and unkind thoughts about us. 

Sorry the elderly relative that you are trying to help is going to be denied the benefit of our nice, big, comfortable products.

Dianne Mannering, co founder with Laura Murray of The Big Bloomers Company