Marks & Spencer defends 'tax on bigger bras'

Marks & Spencer has defended a policy of charging extra on some of its bras that are bigger than a size DD.

The High Street retailer said that the added cost - typically £2 - was "standard industry practice".

M&S added it found most customers "were happy to pay a small premium for the specialist work" needed to make larger sizes of their bras.



M&S said it offered "the most comprehensive DD+ collection and one of the most competitively priced on the High Street" and offered the same choice of colour, styles and shapes for all customers "no matter what size they take".

Beckie Williams of Busts 4 Justice said that £2 was not a huge sum to pay but that it was still "an unfair tax". "This is not something that we have chosen," she said.

"And I have been a size 8 all my adult life, but have never benefited from smaller priced pants. If you don't charge a size 20 woman more for a pair of trousers, then why should you pay more for an E cup bra?"

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