Jennifer Johnson, founder of True Fashionistas, Florida's largest clothing reseller, started noticing something unusual about a year ago. Suddenly, once difficult-to-find larger sizes were becoming more common in the batches of clothing arriving for resale. Since then, the trickle has become a torrent.

Johnson said that historically, her store has been overloaded with extra smalls and smalls.

"We always wanted the larger sizes because they were popular — the minute you got them in, they would sell immediately," Johnson said. "Now it has completely flip-flopped. Now our extra small area is smaller than our extra large," she added.

Johnson says that she watches her resale numbers closely, and the store, located in Naples, Florida, is reset according to the inventory that comes in. With mo

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