There's a difference between trendy & tacky. Most plus size shit looks like it's made from former waterbed sheets, all full of painted brushstrokes or rhinestone peacocks or whatever. I *do* want trendy; I don't want to look like I've given up on life.
I buy a lot from ASOS, ON for jeans because I need short people jeans!! But at ON my tshirts have to be L or XL in the regular size, but the smallest plus size is all wrong and big and not right. Whenever I can find petite plus stuff it makes such a difference in how more pulled together and polished I look because the fit is so much better.
Also, I'm fat and curvy. I mean there's a belly, but, there's ass and big boobs and the belly is still smaller than those things. Boxy loose stuff is hideous on me. I need structured clothing. I'm better off wearing a body con dress with a blazer and shaper OR a dress I can belt. All the plus size blazers are cut like fat people can't still have waists.
You need these skirts!! Several of my friends have gotten them, and they're flattering on all of us.
Even when they use plus size models, the clothes don't look more accurate. I bought this Calvin Klein dress a few months ago. When I got home & found it online (because I google everything), I was kind of horrified by how fug it looked in the stock photo.
My problem is sometimes the plus size version of fashion is literally just a larger size/cut of the non-plus size. That doesn't fit me -- I have a STOMACH and TINY legs. I need clothes designed for plus size - curves and all -- not just larger cuts of thin girl clothes. Also I am poor and cannot afford $40 for one tee shirt. .
This is definitely a problem. I am a size 18 & have an hourglass shape. Everything either looks like a shapeless sack, or is empire waist & flattering, but looks kind of maternity. I'm also 6'2". Tall plus size clothing is almost an oxymoron. It's incredibly frustrating. The problem was significantly worse when I was a 20-22. I can kind of eke by with "regular" sizing sometimes now, which opens some options. But my choices were very limited once I crossed out of the teens sizes.
I know there are a variety of shapes of women in smaller sizes, but they also have infinite more choices to seek out flattering cuts. We have to take it or leave it with a comparably tiny selection. When I find something that fits, I buy multiples & end up practically wearing a uniform.
I have another, insominac. Even when she'd post about doing slightly flameworthy things, I'd just laugh and think, oh, that insom! She is too much. I don't know why I'd think this way about her. Maybe because she is so smart, funny and charming? I know that I'm not the only one! She would tell the best stories.
insominac has always been mine, too. Same for volenti. @songforyou is my more recent (past few years) addition. Though mine are all MM vs ML. Whatever! They can do no wrong.
Oh, Jesus. Come on! There's only like 5 of us. If I did it, I want to know because it was clearly a mistake.
It must be either booby or Kore because the other three are you, me, and bon.
I nevvvverrr even looked at ML in 2009, let alone responded to posts. Also, my dad died very suddenly in 2009. If I did it, it was very much a fucked up mistake in a wrong post.
The only BEC grudge I truly hold is against the poster who responded with "Lol!" in the thread where I told the board my father's cancer had metastasized and was terminal. That was in 2009 and I don't see letting it go any time soon.
::whispers:: Because they are all lurking here and on ML.
LOL that they want to be all "we're above this" and only care to discuss important matters. I don't care that they aren't discussing it, but to try to turn that into being all smug and superior is weird.
I don't think any of them are being smug or superior. The board lines are so undefined since we moved to proboards. I think there are enough posts on which we can participate that it seems redundant to post there, too.
After the post re: how DARE lied to us, I've been curious about coke. I've always been convinced my heart would explode if I tried it even once.
This is what was scared into me about seriously all drugs. I thought I would literally die on the spot the very first time if I ever tried pot or took more than two ibuprofens. lol
Yes!! I didn't even DRINK til like a week before my 21st birthday. DARE worked too well for me. My H gave me the biggest "wtf" side eye when I told him that acid works by making your brain bleed. He was like, "Let's think about what you just said for a minute..."