Even a few years ago plus
size fashion was a narrow prescriptive place. The sheer lack of availability of
clothes in sizes over a size 14 meant that for the average plus size babe channeling the latest fashions was just an unattainable goal.
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| We have come a long way baby |
Fast forward to 2015 and
it’s a totally different landscape lets just take a moment to think about how
far we have come:
# 1 We can shop at more
than one store!
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| Its the fat girl unicorn-a world where we have more than one shop! Picture from Pinterest |
Here in the UK until not
so long ago if you were blessed with a fuller figure you could only shop at
Evans, a few shops aimed at mature ladies or join a nudist colony. Stretchy
pants, ugly tunics and elasticised waistbands were the only gig in town and
trying to make that look stylish was no easy task. With the online revolution
and fashion retailers realising that the plus size pound is just as valuable as
the regular sized one whilst its not quite an embarrassment of riches there is
definitely more choice.
# 2 It’s a riot of
colour
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| I'm styling this out Picture from Pinterest |
Rather like Ford cars plus
size clothes used to come in any colour as long as it was black. The old
fashioned notion that black is “slimming” saw a severe neglect of the colour
spectrum in threads over a size 14 leaving us chubby fashion hounds desperate
for some bright’s. Now if we want to wear all the colours of the rainbow we can
(and often do)
#3 Its catwalk led
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| Sashsay shantay Picture from Pinterest |
As a lover of couture I
would flick through magazines longingly looking at the coverage of London and
New York fashion week, the catwalk shows in Paris knowing that none of the trends
featured would trickle down to plus size ranges. Now not only are our clothes
bang on trend but we have our own shows. Evans led the way with their
breathtaking show at London
#4 Its affordable
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| Don't break me Picture from Pinterest |
Buying really beautiful
larger clothes often felt like being held up by a masked man on a horse.
Daylight robbery dressed up as retail. With so few options you just had to
accept that you would always pay three times more for a pair of jeans than your
smaller sisters. Now there are affordable brands who let us make impulse buys,
luxuriate in fast fashion and mean we aren’t seriously broke because we need a
new frock for Friday night.
#5 There are more natural
Fabrics
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Plus size clothes have
always had a tendency to be made in nasty man made fabrics. Many’s the time I
have been afraid to stand too close to a naked flame for fear of going up like
a Roman candle so flammable has been my skater dress. Whilst we might not
completely be able to escape the tyranny of elastene we are seeing more clothes
in cottons and linens and our skin love its.
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| My skin is happy and so am I |
It’s wonderful to think how
far plus size fashion has come and with it a limitless array of possibilities.
The freedom of expression
this availability of clothes had offered not just me but a world of plus size
women is phenomenal.
Sure there is still
someway to go but overall the landscape for curvy girls is vibrant, eclectic,
and this is encouraging a whole generation of plus size women to throw themselves headfirst into fashion
like children at a ball pool. I’m holding my nose and diving in-come join me
wheeeee!
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Only £15,designed and made in the UK my tee shirts are a celebration of the power of the curvy woman.Available in sizes small-5XL in a range of cuts and styles Shop here
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