Large Plus Size Clothing

hjd

terra_ferma wrote: »

Do people find the new AH the same quality as before? They are getting a real bashing on Facebook. Complaints about too much polyester and dark colours.
I have to say that although I used to buy 80% of my clothes from them I've now moved on and the name Bonmarche doesn't inspire confidence in the brand I have to say.

I always thought the old Ann Harvey clothes had too much polyester and the tops were too short. Although I am tall it is more in my legs than body. I've looked at the website and found nothing I would want to buy.

terra_ferma

hjd wrote: »

I always thought the old Ann Harvey clothes had too much polyester and the tops were too short. Although I am tall it is more in my legs than body. I've looked at the website and found nothing I would want to buy.

I never buy polyester, all my AH tops were viscose, my favourite material for tops. Most were long enough to cover my bum, I don't like short tops either.
I've not looked at the new AH's tops in detail, as there wasn't anything that inspired me, but maybe that's what they were referring to.

Lifeforms

Primarks current Leggings are pretty decent. I think they were £6 each, in various colours, so bottle green (yummy!) black, white (perhaps), red, burgundy comes to mind. However their sizes are weird. I'm 24-26 and their top size was 20.

I hadn't even bothered to check, till my mother grabbed a pair of 20's and stretched them out, as mothers tend to do, along with the crotch test to see if they're see through. Anyhow.

Upon seeing them stretched, I grabbed a pair as I knew they'd fit like leggings should (aka not baggy). Problem was, 20 was actually a bit big and could've got away with an 18 i think. So. I dunno if this one was random pair, as it really was the only 20 on the shelf, and we're talking about boxing day so the trauma of shopping in there was enough for me to grab, run, checkout asap.

Shame they're not online, don't have a primark near me else I'd have gone back for different colours. Should also say they're tall leggings, not for shorter people, unless you rehem them.

penguinlegs

Lifeforms wrote: »

Primarks current Leggings are pretty decent. I think they were £6 each, in various colours, so bottle green (yummy!) black, white (perhaps), red, burgundy comes to mind. However their sizes are weird. I'm 24-26 and their top size was 20.

I hadn't even bothered to check, till my mother grabbed a pair of 20's and stretched them out, as mothers tend to do, along with the crotch test to see if they're see through. Anyhow.

Upon seeing them stretched, I grabbed a pair as I knew they'd fit like leggings should (aka not baggy). Problem was, 20 was actually a bit big and could've got away with an 18 i think. So. I dunno if this one was random pair, as it really was the only 20 on the shelf, and we're talking about boxing day so the trauma of shopping in there was enough for me to grab, run, checkout asap.

Shame they're not online, don't have a primark near me else I'd have gone back for different colours. Should also say they're tall leggings, not for shorter people, unless you rehem them.

I'll agree the leggings are big! Daughter, normally a size 18 picked up a pair to use in the gym, didn't try them on before going to the gym and spent the entire time she was on the treadmill hitching them up again. She is tall and they were long on her so no good for her short a**ed mother!!

terra_ferma

they sound better than the latest leggings I bought, from Yours Clothing, have bought lots in the past and they were good, the latest one were so thin that not only were see through but one got a whole after a few hours wearing them, on a thigh not even where it rubs like a knee or your bum.
They had to go back, pity they were really lovely colours/patterns and at a good discount.

Ruth_honey

terra_ferma wrote: »

they sound better than the latest leggings I bought, from Yours Clothing, have bought lots in the past and they were good, the latest one were so thin that not only were see through but one got a whole after a few hours wearing them, on a thigh not even where it rubs like a knee or your bum.
They had to go back, pity they were really lovely colours/patterns and at a good discount.

Agree that Yours Clothing leggings have really gone downhill in quality. Will use mine as footless tights, unless they wear through like yours did! They used to be so good-thick, hard wearing and a great price. Shame...

terra_ferma

I've had problem with Evans as well, it's their tops and jeggings this time (leggings were still fine the last time I bought them).
Even their coats are quite thin, it seems that it's rather hard to find good heavy winter clothes (and their jumpers are all acrylic so that's no good either)
Taking shape still make good quality cotton and viscose clothes, sizing is the main problem, because there is no way of telling which size will fit me, out of three (and nothing like what their charts say), but normally at the second attempt I get what I need.

Lifeforms

Given up on Yours clothing leggings, gone really thin, summer type and can be see through, which under a dress you can get away with, but not their dresses as they tend to be too short.

Struggled for warm things this winter. In the end bought a fur lined hoodie from asda mens range, which bought two weeks for xmas and already come un-stitched in the arms (going to moan to them about it) and picked up an eye lash cardie from Tescos female range at a size 20. Frankly it's baggy on me. How someone at a size 20 could bear to wear what would be a tent on them I have no idea, fashion. eh.

Warmest was an eyelash typed shrug from Simply Be which i sewed on a clasp at the front, so it closes now, and it's deliciously warm for a shrug. Worked excellent on the freezing nights with party wear without dressing on top like a snowman

terra_ferma

Regarding coats I used to buy from Lands End, when they had really good sales, but they don't seem to do that anymore and they are very expensive (and the last one I bought two years ago wasn't good quality as the previous ones, I still have a super-warm one, to use when it snows etc).
I bought one from Evans, because with sales plus a discount code it was very cheap, but the quality is not very good, and it's not particularly warm. I had ordered another one but it was so thin, more like a raincoat than the parka it was supposed to be.
I tried taking shape (only sales items, full prices are a bit silly), a couple of coats but they were not very warm either, although usually the quality is great.
It seems that shipping winter/warm clothes is expensive, so they just make them thinner and thinner, and we are left with nowhere to buy warm clothes that are not acrylic jumpers.

I don't buy clothes in supermarkets, they normally don't do my size ins store, but I find full prices not very good value for money, as the quality is not great.

newleaf

Lands End had a sale just before Christmas - I bought a coat for my mother and got 40% off with free delivery. I think many retailers discounted heavily pre Christmas, rather than waiting for the traditional January sales. All to keep us on our toes, I suppose.