Plus Size Special Event Outfits You'll Wear Again Here we go again, ladies. Fall weddings. Reunions. Holiday parties. Often with the same group of friends and family. And thanks to social media, everyone you know will see what you wore. There was a time when I bought a new dress for every special occasion. All that got me... Read more 3 Comments
The Joy Of Clothes Shaped Like You Are Last weekend, I watched an old movie and the main character went to visit his tailor. He'd gained a little weight after quitting smoking and the tailor told him there were only 2 options - go on a diet or take up smoking again. I yelled at the TV screen,... Read more 1 Comment
No More Plus Size Apology Clothes Some plus size women make style choices that revolve around making ourselves look smaller. We wear black because it's allegedly slimming. (It isn't.) We don't want to risk showing off a single lump or bump, so we wear clothes that hide our bodies. We avoid bright colors and prints that would... Read more 3 Comments
Make Your Plus Size Wardrobe Exciting It sounds unthinkable, right? For so long, plus size clothes were...not great. We had to settle with what we were given. Developing our own sense of style was out of the question. Now that we have options and we're able to get dressed without the crushing weight of existential despair,... 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
You Deserve Well Made Clothes Maya Angelou once said “At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” I was lucky enough to see her speak once and I came away with an impression that I’d been in the presence of great... Read more
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
