DRRRESSES: WANT

whoa

omg I wonder if I could weigh blowy skirts down in the same manner. A+

Just pin them directly to your legs

owww

why would you suggest that? that really hurt!

Wait, pantyhose under slacks?

I was wondering that too! That's too much work for me.

I think I have Stockholm syndrome from eShakti, they ship me dresses late and I have a few I have to get fitted and like sunny(?) upthread said, they manage somehow to use way more fabric than you think they need.. but then they go and give me a $45 gift card to apologize for it taking a month for me to get my dresses.

Also I think they are trolling me:
http://img.eshakti.com/clothImages/CL0024164P.jpg

Want!!

Me too, kinda! But I think they WANT me to want it, then won't send it to me for six months or some BS.

have been wearing my new dresses to work

although I will admit to being TERRIFIED of showing so much skin at work with my strappier dresses and covering up with a zip up top (also I sit under the AC duct and my cubicle is like antarctica)

but still, it's nice to feel pretty :D

for sure, yes!
office AC does wreck the summer-dress look, but taking the sweater off after leaving work is some clark-kent-to-superman business

LOL <3

new favourite
http://cache.theoutnet.com/images/products/325926/325926_ou_l.jpg

I am also one of those who sits under an office a/c duct. Coworkers don't seem to understand how cold it really is when the thing blows directly on you, mine tend to be scornful of people who complain about it (the French woman, who also sits under an a/c and who everyone already thinks is strange, is so bold as to actually turn the a/c off). I just put on a jacket, but then I get made fun of. 'But you're Canadian!' they say. 'That doesn't mean I like being cold,' I grumble.

oh that dress is A+++

I don't like eShakti. It's all so cutesy. I want trampy. I want a Bebe dress. Why the fuck don't they make fat sizes. ;_;

does asos curve make any trampy dresses? or is it just another kind of subpar plus line?

i don't know if this is exactly what you have in mind, mandee, but i bet you'd look amazing in it: http://images.asos.com/inv/media/4/6/4/8/2408464/black/image1xl.jpg

okay this pencil skirt! ://images.asos.com/inv/media/9/3/1/8/2238139/image4xl.jpg

might be veering more into my taste than yours. also the dresses do seem more demure than their straight-size line, which is a super-annoying thing about plus lines in general.

whoops http://images.asos.com/inv/media/9/3/1/8/2238139/image4xl.jpg

I just completed another eShakti survey (that's why they give me those monthly discount codes) and this little number is coming in the fall and I MUST HAVE IT:

http://www.eshakti.com/cpanel/ProductView.aspx?Id=CL0024142

ironically, very similar to the skirt horseshoe just posted ;)

this was another of their new ones which I might also be up for except they want to price it at $90 :P
http://www.eshakti.com/cpanel/ProductView.aspx?Id=CL0024007

I love both of those things!

Yeah, the plus size line is far more demure than the straight sizes. So I guess if I lost 30 pounds and was able to fit into a UK18 it would then be okay/suitable for me to wear skimpy clothes. NOT COOL.

mandee: so so otm; i do not want to look like Maria from the Sound of Music, i want foxy dresses.

Lex FFM: those two are rad. would shop w/u!

i'd be thrilled to wear a dirndl every day to work, but that's a work uniform look
when it's time for foxytime, i wanna look foxy too!

speaking of dresses, i wore a white lace trapeze dress the other day and someone shouted "call me babydoll" OR possibly "call me maybe, dog" at me from a moving car

Sarahell: I haven't been shopping in months because it's so hard to find size 16 anywhere for decent prices. I'm all online. So I guess we can, heh!

it's so hard to find size 16 anywhere for decent prices

my problem as well

Then we are competitors, we can't shop together. ;) Alas!

we can join forces and lobby for more awesome size 16 options

True! Purchasing power! But I'm lazy and get "close enough" cute dresses from eShakti :)

well I went on a search for trampy and bought cutesy instead.

oops!

http://images.asos.com/inv/media/6/6/0/4/2314066/image4xl.jpg

That's cuuuuute, homo! Sorry you couldn't find anything trampy.. but I have faith in you ;D
(Not trying to be an asshole! I love your style!)

eShakti has a buy one get one 50% off sale so I will probably fall victim to them soon. They gave me a $47 gift card because my last order took a month, AND a further $10 off, these people spoil me. I am actually, like a jerk, waiting for the 12.5% code they send every month so I can get two dresses for ~$20 right now.

But now I need to know: WHERE CAN I GET BELTS? Belts in stores never fit me (I'm a large 16) and plus size stores have the worst stuff. Anyone have a good online belt retailer?

I buy the 2XL belts at Target and they fit! Maybe try that?

We have no Target :( Well, not for another year! I should check out our equivalent (Zellers) though.

I'm sorry I can't help with the belt dilemma; I am too busy being completely crushed that the dress I posted upthread is a bit TOO BIG even though the measurements on the site suggested it would fit almost perfectly. the worst part is the colours on the fabric are amaaaaaaazing IRL, it is so so pretty. unfortunately it looks like a bit of a sack on me, I just get a bit engufled in it. SAD :(

(there is no smaller size I can exchange it for anywhere on the internet that I can find)

Awww! Could you get it tailored?

Man, I haven't worn a belt in years. They look weird on me.

maybe! I have a seamstress/dressmaker aunt who is very nice about helping me with these sorts of things but I feel like the side zip + lack of seams along the back + large amount of space between my body and the fabric + lining might be problematic.

either way I think after this I will refrain from buying dresses online, yes.

Arrrrrgh help me I Love Stylers. I have to buy a dress to wear to a wedding and I am rubbish at this.

yay! when is the wedding? season-wise and time-wise? is it formal? what kind of a budget do you have? how would you characterize your style? yay!

It's in a week and a half. If I hadn't left it so late I would have shelled out for a bespoke thing by a designer friend, who I would totally trust to make something awesome. Yes, formal, but not crazily so... Not like tuxes and tails and evening dress only... Budget - about £60? Style - I wear brown corduroy trousers, brown shirts and brown ties, and uh, brown trainers. I like brown, y'know. And I don't dress 'like a girl'. I'm kind of fat but not in the region of 'for larger ladies only', but I don't know what cut would make me look less like an ill-postured overweight scruffy tomboy.

oh man, bespoke dress! definitely do that next time!

do you want to do a fancy menswear-inspired outfit or do you want to wear a dress? i might not be much help with the first option, but it's an option!

(sorry if i'm prying too much; i'm just excited!)

i am going to look on asos and dorothy perkins online because they are the uk retailers i have any familiarity with but i'm sure uk ilxors will be more helpful.

can i ask how you feel about prints? i like a print in a guest-of-wedding dress, but not everybody is into that.

emil.y i think you should wear something really simple, like just a stretchy black dress thing and then wear that marvelous cape you have over it

i guess it's too hot for that though :(

oh that's right you have that amazing cape!

it might be too hot but if you have to go to a winter wedding any time get that dress made for you and wear your cape!

alternately, just wear something super simple and monochrome and dress it up with a decorative scarf

Yeah, I'm going for a dress - I kind of figure that menswear-inspired will just allow me to be my normal scruff self too much, and I want to kind of glam it up for a change. Or, well, 'glam' for me. I had a look on Dorothy Perkins without much success, I have to say. I quite liked this:

http://media.dorothyperkins.com/wcsstore/DorothyPerkins/images/catalog/01000100_large.jpg

...but I'd rather have long sleeves, which seems to make things impossible, argh.

xposts, ahahahaha, yeah, cape would be awesome! Might boil to death in it in August, though.