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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Plus Size Guide to Mixing Prints

We tend to have anxiety about prints. Print dresses are easy enough - just add some neutral accessories and you're good to go. But print separates feel tricky. You know you can wear a print with a neutral color, but not all neutrals are going to work with every print....

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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...

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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....

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Plus Size Problem Solvers

The world isn't designed for plus size bodies. Most of the time, we can meet these problems with a gutsy attitude and a fabulous outfit. Other problems require a different approach - but if you don't know about certain solutions, you're just stuck. And when you do find a solution, you...

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More Style Tips for Plus Size Inverted Triangle Shaped Women

Not all inverted triangle shaped bodies are built the same. If you have an inverted triangle shaped body, you either have broad, warrior princess shoulders, or a big chest. Most style advice focuses on the shoulder gals. But what about those of us whose chests are constantly trying to escape...

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More Style Tips for Plus Size Rectangle Shaped Women

I know you're expecting me to tell you to throw on a belt and move on with your life. Which is a perfectly valid option for you. But that's all about making your rectangle shaped body look like the almighty hourglass. And that's not my fave style tip. We have this idea...

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More Style Tips for Oval Shaped Plus Size Women

It's easy to feel left behind by fashion when you're apple shaped (aka Oval Shaped). And of course it's even worse if you're plus sized. (Yes, it is absolutely possible to be apple shaped and as thin as Angelina Jolie, who is herself apple shaped.) Every plus sized apple shaped women...

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More Style Tips For Plus Size Triangle Shaped Women

A lot of people (stylists and designers included) seem to think that dressing for your body shape means camouflage and optical illusions. These people are kidding themselves. They seem to think that we should all aspire to look like we're hourglass shaped, even though less than 10% of women are...

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Plus Size First Date Outfits

The dating world is not kind to plus size women, women of a certain age, and plus size women of a certain age. And of course, a fabulous plus size first date outfit can be your armor as you go into battle. Thanks to technology, we can go on a...

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What You Need to Know About Plus Size Shapewear

I used to wear shapewear because I thought I had to. Mom suggested a tummy tucker and so I wore one. No wonder I hated the thing. Shapewear can serve a purpose besides keeping us from taking a deep breath. If you wear plus size shapewear strategically (and in the...

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Plus Size Cocktail Party Outfits

We talk a lot about how this or that outfit is appropriate for a cocktail party. But what do we mean by that? Even if you're never in your whole long life been invited to a Cocktail Party, you've probably been to that type of party. When we say cocktail...

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Plus Size Day to Night Outfits

Day to Night outfits are the white whales of the fashion world. It takes obsession to actually find one and no one really believes they exist. In reality, they sort of exist and sort of don't. There is no outfit that looks appropriate at the office and at an evening cocktail...

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