Big Girls have style too!

My fashion sense comes from my grandmother. She would dress my siblings and I up everyday. We had to have on the best. When we did not have much money she spent her last on us to make sure we looked decent. She would tell me "people are not going to talk about you, they are going to say where is that girls parents"? So I knew that when I left my house I had to look good. My grandmother would tell me to wear bright colors when I was sad. I LOVE looking at photos of my grandmother when she was my age because she was so fly! To this day looking good is something she takes seriously. That is something she passed down to my mother and down to me.

I remember always having a LOVE for fashion. In Junior High I wore glasses just for style LOL. I also wore the ripped shorts and my overalls inside out because of my obsession with Bell Biv Devoe. My weight was always an issue with finding what I liked to wear in my size. When I started shopping for my own cloths at 16 I only found old fashioned types of cloths in my size in the stores. I did not want to wear cloths my grandmother even thought looked bad, ha! So as you can imagine my then size 8 twin sis who everyone asked did I eat all her food, could shop any where for trendy cloths. As for me at a size 14 at the bottom and 18/20 at the top shopping was limited. That made me even more self conscious.

My freshmen year in college I began to shop out of catalogs. Everyone wanted to know where I found my shoes or where I get my shirt. I was thrilled to finally discover catalogs that had trendy cloths and that had sizes that were plus size. It was a wrap from there! I started shopping online before anyone thought it was safe to. I saw not only cloths that were in my size, but styles that were new as well. I finally became the women I would envision. I was a trendy girl who just happened to be plus size:) To this day people are amazed how I know how to shop for my body type.

Plus Size fashion in the last few years has blown up. From Rip the Run Way on BET to plus size lines added to many different stores. According to research the plus size market is in demand. Although there is still a ways to go, there has been a lot of changes. Recently I became inspired by some plus size fashion blogs. My LOVE for fashion increased seeing many ways to wear a blazer or a simple skirt. And to top it all off the cloths are in my size!! No more, it looks nice but I am sure I won't be able to fit it. I am top heavy so it is difficult to find items that fit well. Although after 32 years I have learned how to do it. Like these fatshionista's I have to look outside the box for inspiration. I have to see what works and what does not. Treating my body like a work of art and painting pictures of how something would look in my head. They have inspired me in ways bigger than fashion, no pun intended :) Here are a few plus-size blogs I LOVE.

fatshionable.com


www.youngfatandfabulous.com


saksinthecity.blogspot.com

You can see how to work your outfit. The latest in fashion from hats, shoes, and cloths. There are links on there blogs where to go to get the items they wear in the picture. That is my favorite part!!!! Also there are links where they shop for their cloths. There are sooo many other plus size fashion blogs and cloths lines I will discuss soon! Sorry I am new to blogging so I do not know how to link the blogs. If you look at the links on my blog I have the blogs there:)