Creating a Quality Plus Size Clothing Marketplace I don't need to tell you how much of a hassle it can be to find plus size clothing at all, let alone well-made plus size clothing. You have to wade through cheap, disposable fast fashion and expensive overpriced stuff that lasts only a little longer than the cheap stuff.... Read more
The Plus Side Guide To Being Ready For Anything There's this silly cliche about women standing in front of overflowing closets and saying that they have nothing to wear. And sure, sometimes a woman's closet is stuffed full of stained, out of style pieces that don't even fit anymore. But usually what we're really saying is "I don't have... Read more
Dressing When You're In Between Plus Sizes When you're in between sizes, it can feel like you're never going to find something that fits. But your Auntie Jen can help you there. Every time I write about sizing, I'm tempted to go into a long, tedious rant about the history of the subject. As someone who's not... Read more
The Plus Size Guide to Looking Professional Without Melting Dressing for work in Summer is challenging to say the least. If you dress for overzealous air conditioning, you'll be too hot outside the office. And sweaty is not the look you're going for as you arrive to work - especially when you're plus size. If you spend the day... Read more
The Vikki Vi Magic Formula For Plus Size Fabulousness It's actually pretty easy to put together a fabulous outfit - when you know the formula. You don't even need to spend much time or effort learning it. Here it is: Base Layer + Top Layer = Fabulous Outfit Your Base Layer can be a Maxi Tank Dress. Or a... Read more
The Secret to Dressing For Your Body Shape I get asked about this a lot. Like, A LOT. There's so much delightful variation in how our bodies are shaped - a lot more variation than in how our clothes are shaped. Which is where it gets confusing. How great would it be if our clothes came with little... Read more
Buying Vikki Vi On A Limited Budget We know that Vikki Vi clothes are investments. I don't use that word lightly. If you buy a garment that you can wear weekly for several years (or a couple of decades), that's an investment. You may call it an investment in your wardrobe, but you can also look at it... Read more
Why Plus Size Investment Clothing is More Important than Ever When the economy is bad, we tend to think that we need to buy the cheapest clothes we can find. We decide we'll upgrade our wardrobes when we're flush with cash again. But that thinking costs more in the end. You can stretch your money farther by investing in well... Read more
How To Build A Plus Size Wardrobe From Scratch Usually we add a few pieces to our wardrobe each season. But there are some instances where you really do have nothing to work with. Maybe... your weight has changed, you're changing careers, you're moving to a company with a different dress code than you're used to, you've retired, you've... Read more
Can I Be More Than One Body Shape? Your body can absolutely have some attributes of more than one of the five main body shapes. It's so common that some style experts have come up with their own taxonomy. Trinny &Susannah discuss 12 body shapes in The Body Shape Bible, while Bradley Bayou has defined 48 body shapes... Read more
How to Dress When Your Plus Size Arms Are Extra Plus We (as a society) don't talk about upper arms as much as we should. I can talk all day long about how to dress when your hips, boobs, or tummy are disproportionately abundant. And I will talk your ear off about it because the more we talk about it, the more... Read more 20 Comments
Love Yourself Now There's a song by Jill Sobule called "Lucy at the Gym," that really hits hard. It's about an exercise-obsessed woman who dies and goes to heaven which is a gym, "where everyone's beautiful and thin, AND YOUR LIFE CAN BEGIN." (Emphasis mine.) I've seen her perform live several times, but... Read more 5 Comments
Unsung Plus Size Wardrobe Heroes We often talk about hero pieces - those garments that make an outfit fabulous. I'm thinking of eye catching pieces like print jackets and sheer cardigans, as well as artwear like sheer toppers from Sterling, and silk kimonos from Citron. When you wear a hero piece, you get a smile on... Read more 1 Comment
Why Don't Plus Size Women's Clothes Have Pockets? Well, the patriarchy of course, but that's not the only reason. The short answer is that knit fabric and pockets are not a good combination. Yes, some Vikki Vi Classics have pockets, but there is an actual reason why all Vikki Vi Classics don't have them. Speaking of Pockets... We've recently introduced... Read more
Plus Size Prints That Don't Look Like Tablecloths We plus size women can be absolutely terrified of prints. We recently got a product review that sums it up perfectly: Should I Wear a Black Dress with Flower Print?I loved this dress when I first saw it on-line, but I waited 2 months before buying . Mainly because I thought... Read more 2 Comments
