Gosh how awful, I'm so sorry that you've been made to feel this way. I don't understand what makes people act in such feral ways but you can guarantee that people who verbaly abuse others have some issue wihin themselves.
I was in New Look earlier and felt so out of place, and in my local store you have to walk through the 'normal' sizes to get to the 'Inspire' range. Walking through there with lots of size 10 woman checking you out makes you feel subordinate to the max and I wanted the ground to swallow me up there and then so I didn't have to take my size 24 trousers to the changing room. What better incentive to lose the excess weight than to see the look on those smug nasty bi*ches faces when you're picking up a size 10 and they're still munted!
Just makes me so cross that society is allowed to make others feel inferior. It sucks to be a round peg trying to fit into a sqaure hole.
Roll on the day we're round pegs!