| This appears to be a universal rule of shopping, at least where women are concerned. I noticed that whenever I went shopping, especially at sales, I could never find my size. Considering that I'm 5'9" and well-endowed, I nearly always wear a large, especially in tops, and whenever I went shopping the only tops I would see were "x-small" and "small." The racks were filled with size 0 and size 2 pants, sizes that I could only fit into if I broke my bones, removed several pieces and reset them. Naturally, I just assumed that since more people wore larger sizes, they disappeared faster.
Then I talked to my roommates, one of which is 5'2 and wears a size six and another who is 5'0 and wears a size 1/2. (Yeah, I'm always the one reaching for the top shelf in our apartment.) They insist that when they shop, they can only find large tops and size 12 and 14 pants.
I didn't quite believe this until I went shopping with a friend of mine who wears small...the only sizes we could find were mediums, just a tad too large on her and slightly too tight in the chest for me. The same thing happened when I went shopping with a size medium friend...we could only find smalls and extra-smalls.
So what the hell is going on here? I personally blame it on evil gnomes who haunt the mall. They see us coming and hide all of the cute stuff in our sizes before we get there. It's a vast conspiracy.
Though I haven't yet tested this, I have a feeling that if I went into a store with two other people and we spanned the range of available sizes, there would be no clothing in the stores. | 
