What You Need To Know About Plus Size Bra Shopping A bra can make or break an outfit. A good bra gives you support, doesn't dig into your skin, and gives fabric something to drape off of. An ill-fitting or worn out bra makes itself known - your clothes show every spot where it's digging into you. The Difference Is... Read more
How To Take A Plus Size Dress From Casual to Formal I'm always blathering on about how versatile dresses can be dressy or casual depending on the accessories. Dress it up! Dress it down! That can sound like vague and useless advice if you don't have a ridiculous amount of accessories like I do. So let's talk details. The Base Clean, unembellished clothes are the... Read more 3 Comments
Style Tips For When You Wear Different Sizes on the Top And Bottom This isn't just a plus size problem, but having to deal with it on top of all the other aggravations involved in plus size clothes shopping is just - ugh. It's the sort of thing that can make you settle for ill-fitting clothes. You know you deserve better, but trying to... Read more
How To Stretch Your Plus Size Clothing Budget No one has an unlimited amount of money to spend on clothing. Regardless of your financial situation or enthusiasm for fashion, there are ways to get the most fabulousness for your buck. Create a Budget - For Realsies It doesn't have to be detailed. But figure out approximately how much you... Read more 1 Comment
Shopping For Plus Size Bathing Suits Bathing suit shopping isn't for the faint of heart. You can work up a sweat just putting one on. Then you look in the mirror and instead of appraising how the bathing suit looks on you, you study your body like a plastic surgeon trying to decide where to start.... Read more 1 Comment
The Secret to Plus Size Summer Clothes It's getting hot out, everyone's shipping their kids off to summer camp, you've been invited to a dozen cookouts and you don't have a thing to wear. This includes all those things that you don't want to wear. Maybe you bought them at a hotel gift shop when your luggage was lost or... Read more
Summer 2019 Plus Size Trends By now you know that I'm not big on trends. I'd rather have clothes that I can still wear in a year than the latest thing. To be fair, I may have developed this opinion because until recently, it was so hard to find trendy clothes in plus sizes, but I... Read more 4 Comments
How To Fill Your Closet With Plus Size Favorites We all have clothes in our closet that are perfectly fine. They make us look good and feel comfortable. But then there are the pieces that make us smile every time we see them. Wouldn't it be great if you felt that way about everything in your closet? Let's figure... Read more
The Plus Size Guide to Shoe Shopping A lousy pair of shoes can bring down an entire outfit. I'll put a lot of thought into my clothes and jewelry, and then start looking around for shoes. I assume that I have a pair of shoes that will work with any outfit and they have to be around... Read more 4 Comments
Selecting Plus Size Accessories Considering how many scarves I own that are comically small on me at my current size, you'd think there would be loads of information out there about plus size accessories. Not so much. I dove into my collection of style books to find some useful info among all the nonsense... Read more 3 Comments
Why Vikki Vi is Worth the Investment If you're new to Vikki Vi Classics, you may be taken aback by the prices. We get it. Certain plus size retailers charge big bucks for clothes that fall apart during their second washing. You can get clothes that last longer than that for a lot less money. Why buy $80 pants... Read more 5 Comments
Why The Personal Touch Matters Last week I talked about personal shoppers and how they can help you find the clothes that are just right for you. They don't just shove a bunch of clothes into your arms and march you off to a dressing room. Personal shoppers are familiar with all the clothes in... Read more 1 Comment
Why Plus Size Women Need a Personal Shopper Even you. Using the services of a personal shopper may sound expensive and only for fancy rich people, but it isn't. And it's not just for Fashionistas. Exactly the opposite. A personal shopper is for every woman who has ever stood in the middle of a department store overwhelmed by... Read more 2 Comments
The Ultimate Plus Size Style Tip It's New Year's Resolution time, and that means self improvement. Which, OK. None of us is perfect. A little fine tuning couldn't hurt. But you're pretty awesome already, so let's just not with the New Year, New Me. Maybe you want to up your style game, exercise more often, try new recipes.... Read more
Plus Size Style on a Budget Clothes are an investment. Not just in how you look, but in how you feel. And thanks to Cost Per Wear, cheap flimsy bargains are rarely worth it. But even the chicest Frenchwoman hits up the twice-a-year sales. Scoring a fabulous piece for a great price is so much better than... Read more
