Large Plus Size Clothing

Mrs_Ryan

I'm lucky enough to live quite near an NL flagship store (Nottingham) and their Inspire range is amazing - they have 'designer' pieces as well as the normal range. Many a time I have caused severe damage to my poor debit card in there :rotfl: I've got quite a lot of stuff from there - I have a pink and grey sweatshirt that needs surgically removing from my back and I spent basically the entire winter in a pink and navy with white print Hudson Rose hoodie and matching trackie bottoms It tends to be Yours I dont get on with rather than NL - I find their stuff is expensive and falls to bits quickly.

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I have just realised why I can't find anything to buy on the soon to be erstwhile Ann Harvey site: People have been bulk buying all the goodies and putting them on Ebay. Human nature i guess when times are as hard as they are nowSad thing is with such a glut of indentical items from diff sellers not much is selling and the majority seems sell for a cheaper price than in the Ann Harvey sale itself. such as this which is still on AH for a tenner

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ann-Harvey-Jade-Drape-Front-Top-Size-22-24-UK-EU-50-52-/380635377986?pt=UK_Women_s_Tops_Shirts&hash=item589fa2f142#ht_1716wt_963

and this is also a tenner
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ann-harvey-top-24-bnwt-/251273268146?pt=UK_Women_s_Tops_Shirts&hash=item3a810dcbb2#ht_68wt_1200

I can see some things from the AH sale go for a good price on ebay but still not much more suppose by charging over £5 P&P some sellers might make their money back and something towards the ebay fees. But it just seems a bit greedy. Buying 10 pairs of the same trousers and leaving nothing for anyone else. Am I being naive or just sucking sour grapes? LOL

Blether

Callie22 wrote: »

I really hate the New Look Inspire range. It's like they've read about everything that doesn't suit larger people and then gone ahead and built a range around it (just like Evans lol). And it's expensive for what it is - cheap (usually snagged) chiffon tops and scruffy looking, baggy t-shirts that don't wash well. And practically everything is sleeveless!!!

What also annoys me is that we have a massive New Look where I live, but they've recently halved the size of the Inspire range and moved it right to the back of the store in a really dingy corner - it's like they're hiding the fat girl clothes in shame! I know that plus-size ranges aren't glamorous, but honestly - New Look ain't no Abercrombie

And I hate New Look generally as an assistant once accused me of taking my own felt-tip and adding a sale price to something :mad:

Sorry, rant over ... but it's just so frustrating that the two main places to get plus-size clothing on the high-street (New Look and Evans) are just so god-awful.

So agree. About 7-8yrs ago I used to work near a New Look with a good size Inspire section and I got loads of clothes there. They moved the selection out of most of their stores and the styles seemed become terrible. Have never liked the quality of Evans and not keen on their styles. Think the best high street is Matalan's Rogers and Rogers. Not too dear and lasts fairly well with the exception of some viscose t-shirts. M&Co's Plus range is ok but pricey.

Callie22

Blether wrote: »

So agree. About 7-8yrs ago I used to work near a New Look with a good size Inspire section and I got loads of clothes there. They moved the selection out of most of their stores and the styles seemed become terrible. Have never liked the quality of Evans and not keen on their styles. Think the best high street is Matalan's Rogers and Rogers. Not too dear and lasts fairly well with the exception of some viscose t-shirts. M&Co's Plus range is ok but pricey.

Evans is so overpriced and everything is there is just so boxy, there's no shape to anything. I'm a bigger girl but I do have a shape, but not if I wear stuff from Evans. It's just huge, baggy, long and usually back, navy or brown. They're not clothes, they're body bags And I swear their tights are cut for transvestites because they definitely don't fit women properly!

What I really want is somewhere that sells decent work basics - white shirts (that aren't polyester with huge pockets on the boobs ...) and decent skirts that fit properly at the waist ... and that don't have an underskirt two sizes smaller than the actual size. But that seems such a lot to ask.

yorkie_cook

Callie22 wrote: »

Evans is so overpriced and everything is there is just so boxy, there's no shape to anything. I'm a bigger girl but I do have a shape, but not if I wear stuff from Evans. It's just huge, baggy, long and usually back, navy or brown. They're not clothes, they're body bags And I swear their tights are cut for transvestites because they definitely don't fit women properly!

What I really want is somewhere that sells decent work basics - white shirts (that aren't polyester with huge pockets on the boobs ...) and decent skirts that fit properly at the waist ... and that don't have an underskirt two sizes smaller than the actual size. But that seems such a lot to ask.

I agree about work shirts, I managed to get 2 really nice ones off ebay recently, they are simon jersey & are cotton, they wash & wear really well & were only about £10 when I got them they had sizes 8 -28 and the 28 was a reslistic size

Mrs_Ryan

Evans is very hit and miss I think. I used to like their jeans until I bought a pair of supposedly skinny ones that were supposedly a size 24 - they're massive on me! The only jeans I've found that fit me the way I like are 'Molly' skinny jeans from Very/Isme etc that are truly skinny (although I'm big everywhere else I have normal sized legs so look ok in skinnies)
I have a black cardigan from Evans that I would sleep in if I could It's long line, hooded and I wear it with everything However that is the only thing I've seen I remotely like in there of late.
I really like Bon Marche. I know its supposed to be an older person's shop but they sell some really nice gear and it goes up to I think a 32 online. I used to work there years ago and its got a lot better, theres still a load of old woman type stuff but I spent about 90 quid a few weeks ago (dont judge me ) and for that I got two pairs of cropped trousers, a lovely heavy cotton shirt, two t-shirts, a vest top, a gorgeous white crocheted shrug and a lovely long cotton gypsy skirt. It seems to be one of the few places on the high street with plus sizes that arent ankle length sludge coloured tents or huge tent like black trousers (worst offenders here are Rogers and Rogers at Matalan - awful, simply awful - only remotely nice things I have ever had from there are a pink and blue tracksuit and a black control vest which I think must be due to fall to bits - its my lucky rugby vest, worn to every game since the 10-11 season and washed immediately afterwards Also bad offenders BiB at H&M - dreary coloured tents ahoy although now and again they come up trumps - I bought the maxi dress I wore to OH's stepbro's wedding there, and I've got a gorgeous top from there I'm wearing loads at the minute, it's a black suntop thing with beads on the straps and it was only 4 quid - not bad)
It's a nightmare being bigger, especially when trying to buy clothes for special occasions. I love the Simply Be shop in the Highcross but the prices make my eyes water for stuff that really isnt all that special!

Lifeforms

For dressy I am still sticking to Chicstar ad my Spotty swing dress. It doesn't fit me perfectly, and modesty dictates I wear a chiffon top or body underneath it, but I wore it yesterday to a cocktail party (non-alco) yesterday, and with the new hairstyle, blue stripe and spotty dress I got loads of compliments! Last disco/music event I went to I even got told I Was best dressed there, and whilst it was probably a feel good compliment, I took it and ran

Talking of Bodies, where can I buy a replacement? My ~10 year old Evans one has to fall apart soon, I've re-dyed it black again so it's looking like new, but it's thicker cotton which gives some support and it's life, and has a good fit (no baggy crotch with press-studs. Like plain, no patterned, black if possible, although would like a white too, and not £30+! 26-28 sized.

Hopelessly_Hopeful

Callie22 wrote: »

Evans is so overpriced and everything is there is just so boxy, there's no shape to anything. I'm a bigger girl but I do have a shape, but not if I wear stuff from Evans. It's just huge, baggy, long and usually back, navy or brown. They're not clothes, they're body bags And I swear their tights are cut for transvestites because they definitely don't fit women properly!

What I really want is somewhere that sells decent work basics - white shirts (that aren't polyester with huge pockets on the boobs ...) and decent skirts that fit properly at the waist ... and that don't have an underskirt two sizes smaller than the actual size. But that seems such a lot to ask.

You summed Evans up perfectly in my view. They have so changed. I used to love them in mid to late 90s but gone well done hill in terms of shape.

HHx

The_Dragon

Meh - no wonder plus size is in quotes! A BBC news report today

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The_Dragon wrote: »

Meh - no wonder plus size is in quotes! A BBC news report today

Oh for Goodness sake!

"At a US size 14 (or a UK size 16), she is considered "plus-size" for fashion work"
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Over half of UK women are over Sz 16. If there was any common sense we curvier women should be regarded as the norm on the basis of population numbers. There is a diff between obesity and being bigger than another woman. This model looks on the thin side of normal to me. When I see someone who is over 5ft 8 ish tall and under a size 14 I my instinct is to think she is disproportionally (sp?) thin. I'm a size 22-24 and I'm not interested in being thinner I would look odd, but I do want to be healthy. Does that mean I have double standards?

*munches on a choccky bickkie*:p

Funny enough I am the same shape as my mother was at my age, and all the women in our family. Do you think genes are more important in determining our weight and body shape than diet? Are you simmilar to your siblings etc?