Style Tips For Plus Size Clothes
These ten style tips are just what the plus size lady needs to consider when considering purchasing her next plus size clothes wardrobe additions.
Avoid Shapeless Plus Size Clothing Styles
You don't have to settle for shapeless oversize clothes ever again. Clothing that does not provide any structure hides all of the attributes of your body, both the good and bad. Instead of selecting another t-shirt, choose clothing styles that accentuate your favorite fuller figure features and hide the ones you don't like. Plus size clothes without the proper tailoring will always make your body appear larger than it really is.
Black Is Not The Most Flattering or Slimming Color
Black colored pants, dresses, skirts and other plus size clothing is not necessarily the most slimming or figure flattering on a curvey woman's body. The perfect outfit for you is as much about proportion, tailoring and overall style as it is about color. Any monochromatic colored outfit can be just as flattering, if not more, than basic black. To accentuate your face, skin tone, and eyes you should consider wearing a solid, lighter or brighter color blouse with darker pants or skirt. Black tends to draw the color out of most skin tones.
Shop Online For Plus Sizes and Fashionable Styles
Even if your local department store doesn't carry a large enough variety of plus size clothes in the fashions, styles and sizes that you like you can find more selection and usually better pricing by shopping online for plus size clothes. Try shopping online at one of the various women's clothing websites exclusively tailored to the needs to fuller figured women. A specialty site or online boutique, like www.TheOfficialWebsiteForPlusSizes.com, will provide you with near unlimited selection of high quality, value priced plus size clothes.
Avoid Tapered Pants and Jeans
Even though jean designers continue to carry pencil leg pant styles for women does mean they had you in mind when they were designing these styles. A plus size figure, or any figure for that matter, is not helped by a pencil, or tapered leg pant. Go for straight pant leg from you hip down to the floor. You should apply this style tip for women's jeans too. If your hips or butt happens to be a problem area for you, try finding a plus size jean that slightly flares out at the bottom to draw attention away from the volume of your hip. When you wear a straighter or slightly flared leg pant, it will elongate the appearance of your legs making them look longer than they actually are. To continue this long leg illusion, you can wear a pointed toe high healed shoe.
Don't Buy Oversized Patterns
One major mistake committed by many curvey women is to wear plus size dresses and other clothing with large patterns and designs. First, you shouldn't wear an outfit designed with all one pattern and no solid color to break it up. Second, make sure the size and design of the pattern you do choose doesn't overwhelm your height. The size of the print should match your size -- shorter women need to wear smaller prints, while the taller lady can get away with a larger print size. If you want to include patterned fabrics into your wardrobe, my best advice would be to pick one clothing item per outfit to have a pattern. For example, a skirt, top, OR jacket, but not all three.
Plus Size Petite Style Tips
Plus size ladies who are petite in stature should avoid tops, jackets, and sweaters that drape below the hipline. A shorter body frame can look even shorter with an overly long plus size top, jacket, or sweater. Tops that go below the hip on a petite figure will shorten the look of your legs and emphasize the her petite stature. A top or jacket that stops just at the hip bone will elongate your shorter legs and give them the illusion of being taller.
Wear A Proper Fitting Bra
A properly fitting full figured bra is mandatory in every plus size woman's wardrobe. I know we all already heard it on Oprah, but I can't stress this point enough. With 75% of all women are wearing the wrong size bra, having a fuller figured bosom brings along its own set of unique issues. Unique ill fitting bra problems include bra straps digging into your shoulders and back, saggy appearance to the breasts, and cup spillage which gives you a double breast look. All of these issues can be solved by purchasing the correct size plus size bra. There are many bra stores online that cater specifically to plus size women. You can visit a department store or specialty bra shop to get properly sized for a bra. Once you know your correct size, you can buy your new plus size bras from online bra stores that have your size more readily available and at better prices.
Love Your Plus Size Figure
No matter whether you like or dislike your plus sized, plump, voluptuous, full figured, curvey body type you have to cloth it for it current shape and size. Whether you plan on loosing weight in the future or want to stay the way you are, have the confidence to feel sexy and beautiful in your current skin and clothes. Find clothing items that make you feel comfortable and beautiful inside and out. Anybody can be beautiful in any body.
Buy The Correct Size
The worst style offense you can commit is to buy plus size clothes that are too tight or too loose. All women tend to have an idea of what clothing size they are, or more accurately, what size they'd like to be. The reality of the clothing world is that every designer and manufacturer of clothing has its own unique sizing chart. What may be a size 14 in one designer could be a size 16 or 18 in another. Concern yourself about how the clothes fit and accentuate the great parts of your figure, and don't be concerned with the number the designer puts on the tag. Clothes that bunch and pull in areas that are too small will draw unflattering attention to that area. Online plus size clothing stores have sizing charts with inch measurements to help you choose the right size at their store and these stores generally fantastic return policies in case the clothes aren't quite right.
Accessorize Everything
A plus size woman's accessories can make or break the entire outfit. Simple outfits can be jazzed up with a bold women's accessory, but you need to be careful about not overdoing it. Each outfit should have one bold accessory focus. The saying that if one is good, then two is better is not meant for accessory styling. Keep it simple and classy by picking that one special accessory that will show the world you are a woman of exquisite taste.
Written By The Plus Size Lady
The Plus Size Lady carefully tends to The Official Website for Plus Sizes and sends an occasional Plus Sizes Newsletter to beautiful plus size ladies around the world.
