OK, I have been thinking about this for a while, because this is how I have to shop. My rant is that over half of the clothes that they offer in plus size wouldn't look good on ANYONE - not a size 2, and certainly not a 22+.
Seriously - do they get the ugliest prints they can to make into tops? These prints wouldn't look good in a small, let along an extra-large. They are just plain UGLY!!!
I have always known the fashion rule is that big girls (and boys) should not wear horizontal stripes because it makes you look wider. OK, then why is it half of the tops available in plus size have horizontal stripes?
And the shapes of the tops and dresses...putting anyone in a burlap sack is going to make them look huge. Adding color, or god-forbid those hideous prints, doesn't make the sack any better looking. Give a little definition to our clothes! Either that, or they make them tight along the hip region. HELLO?!?! That is usually the area we want the least attention!
And WHY would it be a good idea to make plus-size jeans a size to small and STRETCH? When I had a good body I wanted tight jeans. Now I don't, and I don't want skin tight pants (with flared pant-legs, as if to add insult to injury by making the cuffs as large as the hips, which are skin tight because they are stretch!).
I firmly believe that anyone can look great if they dress to accentuate the positives in their body, and hiding (for lack of a better word) the parts that are less positive (even if it's only in their mind). But these clothes that are too often offered to us big girls won't accentuate anything positive!
Seriously - do they get the ugliest prints they can to make into tops? These prints wouldn't look good in a small, let along an extra-large. They are just plain UGLY!!!
I have always known the fashion rule is that big girls (and boys) should not wear horizontal stripes because it makes you look wider. OK, then why is it half of the tops available in plus size have horizontal stripes?
And the shapes of the tops and dresses...putting anyone in a burlap sack is going to make them look huge. Adding color, or god-forbid those hideous prints, doesn't make the sack any better looking. Give a little definition to our clothes! Either that, or they make them tight along the hip region. HELLO?!?! That is usually the area we want the least attention!
And WHY would it be a good idea to make plus-size jeans a size to small and STRETCH? When I had a good body I wanted tight jeans. Now I don't, and I don't want skin tight pants (with flared pant-legs, as if to add insult to injury by making the cuffs as large as the hips, which are skin tight because they are stretch!).
I firmly believe that anyone can look great if they dress to accentuate the positives in their body, and hiding (for lack of a better word) the parts that are less positive (even if it's only in their mind). But these clothes that are too often offered to us big girls won't accentuate anything positive!