The Curvy Goddess

It Pays to Bitch...

Well just check out Evans...

The summer range looks great!  It seems that they have finally caught on that in previous seasons their clothes have been BORING!!!  And kicked themselves mightly up the arse to produce a bloody gorgeous summer set of clothes!  And the Seven range seems to be back for good!!!  I am in no way saying that I like or would wear any current season clothing, nope, I still hate smock tops, leggings and the hideous, hideous vomit tunics.  But I can appreciate that Evans have produced some fashionable and flattering clothes.  In addition they have also vastly improved their website over the last few months.  They are looking shit hot right now, might even have a bit of an edge on Simply Be pricewise (only a smidge though!).

Just check it out, I would provide some links - but they actually have loads of great stuff, you should really see it all, but my personal favourite is this...  What a beautiful dress...

I am so pleasantly surprised I am gonna write to them and let them know!

Fashion Common Sense

Lately I have stated here quite how much I utterly depise this seasons fashion trends (which has even been picked up on by other blogs), indeed it seems life has played a cruel trick on me...  I lose weight for my health and more importantly new clothes, only to discover that I fucking hate the clothes in the fucking shops right now!!!!!  Flower prints, leggings, tunic tops and fucking smock tops are fucking every where and I fucking hate them.  Burn them all. 

This could of course be life also trying to prevent me from buying clothes now because when I reach my all important weightloss target, the clothes will available will be perfect...  I say "life don't bother, haven't you heard of ebay?".

So this morning whilst leisurely reading the guardian online here in sunny Malta (I AM HOlIDAY -YAY) I was thrilled to read this little piece about uber mini skirts and how no one is buying them.  Yes it seems that the public have rejected the current fashion trend of tiny teeny mini skirts and instead are buying en-masse - the MAXI DRESS...

So to celebrate this wonderful rejection of the mini-skirt I hereby present below the best maxi dresses I have found in plus sizes...

Simply Be - as per usual SB has gorgeous clothes and they actually have two lovely maxi dresses for you to choose from!  This one is available in a pink print or black and the second one is in a vibrant orange print.

Sadly Evans only has one maxi dress at the moment, but there is a broken link on their home page called 'dresses' so I suspect there maybe more to come - the pictured dress on the link looks gorgeous - come on Evans - get your shit together!

La Redoute En Plus has this pretty dress - I am not sure that you could call it a maxi dress as it looks a little short, however if you are a very petite lady like me it will probably fall to below your ankles anyway.

American plus size clothing is always, always far superior to what is in England so if you are prepared to pay a bit more in postage and possibly import charges, check out Alight and more importantly their Blue Plate and Mile Gabrielle ranges to see Maxi Dress plus size heaven.  Me personally I would go for the Candy Land dress from Blue Plate and the Pisces Dress from Mile Gabrielle.

For now I am going to try not to buy anymore clothes unless they are absoutely essential, as much as I am excited by my new size-16-dom, I now have the basics - I DO NOT NEED ANYMORE CLOTHES - REALLY RACHEL YOU DO NOT.  Roll on the diet and the next season of clothes...

Spring 2007 Fashion = Yuck

At the weekend I was given a belated Christmas gift from my brother and his girlfriend of £15 to buy myself some new item of clothing.

I tried to spend the £15 over the weekend and came to the horrible realisation that I hate this seasons fashion trends, which in my opinion are not flattering for the plus size woman.  Smock dresses make me look as though I have just regained two stone.  Wearing baggy items with belts just makes my belly look bigger.  And it all looks so casual, I couldn't find anything pretty.

However on the bright side - whilst going from shop to shop I discovered that I can fit into sizes 14-16 which is quite exciting.  A whole new bunch of shops are about to open up to me!

As for the £15 - I have spotted several pretty items of clothing on ebay that I am tempted to get, but it really depends on how the auctions go...

Curvety

How rude of me!  I have for quite some time now had Curvety missing from my Best of British Links, they actually had to email and ask for a mention - I am so sorry!  Curvety I discovered a little while ago and did give them a wee mention here.  But just to say they that offer some lovely plus size clothing and lot of imported American lovelies too!  So if you want IGIGI, B&Lu or Kiyonna clothing but don't want to worry about the import charges etc, Curvety is the place to shop.  Myself I quite fancy this, looks lovely and only £12!  And they have fab site - very user friendly and pretty!  And they keep ahead of the issues that might interest a plus size woman...

Christmas List to Santa

Dear Santa

As I have been a good girl this year and been dieting well for the last four months - is there any chance you would get me the following items of clothing?  You'd save me a fortune in shipping fees and import charges...  Of course on Christmas Eve I'd happily leave you some tasty low GI goodies, I could even sneak you some bad stuff too because I am visiting my parents in Malta at the moment, they have lots of food that I am not allowed to eat at the mo.

Anyway my list, well thanks to Full Figure Plus (thanks Glen!), I recently discoverd Fashion Overdose, they have some of the coolest plus size clothing I have ever seen!  Their current range seems to be influenced by retro/kitsch prints and harajuku/lolita japanese style and refrshingly aimed at a younger market!  To be honest Santa I want all of their clothes!  But that would be greedy so, please, please could you get me:-

The lovely Fay Top with a girly pink band!  As its made of velvet and satin everyone will want to touch it, but it will be mine!

And...

...The Bambi skirt?  All of their skirts are very cool, but this seems to be the most unique - I love all the lace and layers.

As you'll be popping to the States to visit Fashion Overdose, perhaps you could also drop by IGIGI?  You see they have this dress that could help me become a curvy goddess a little sooner?  I don't really feel that I need to justify why I want this dress Santa - I JUST WANT IT!  It would make anyone wearing it feel fab.

I don't mean to be cheeky Santa but is there also any chance that you could also get me some items from Torrid and Hot Topic (same company anyway!).  I have wanted a pair of these babies for ages!  Every girl in Brighton needs a pair of wide leg uber flared trousers and besides when they get too big for me I'll be able to sell them on ebay and make a small fortune.  And this top from Torrid - it is just lush - we just can't get lovely stuff like this in the UK!

Speaking of the UK, there are actually a couple of items from the UK that I would like if it is possible?

I am much happier with Evans as they recently brought back their Seven Collection and I would love this top.  I did actually try to buy it before coming to Malta but they only had it in size 16, which I tried on...  It was so tight and the lacing spread out a great deal, it made look as if I was about to star in a porn film.  So if you could get this for me in a size 18 I'd obviously look much more decent.

Although I often slate the lack of good plus size retailers in the UK, Simply Be is wonderful, just a little too expensive.  I would love this dress - spotty clothing rules!  And its cut in such a flattering style - I've wanted this dress for ages!

And Santa this isn't really good behaviour but is there any chance you could the send the researchers in the NHS who proposed this, a giant shit in a bag?  I am sure that being a large man yourself that you must understand that buying clothes in larger sizes is already a drag - but finding that clothes labels are also saying that you are fat bastard and need to lose weight is very cruel.  I'll soon be sending these evil nasties a piece of my mind, but in a much more eloquent fashion (I will post here too).

Anyway darling Santa - I'd really love it if you could buy all of the above (the american stuff in size 1XL/1 and the english lovelies in size 18) for me!

Luv you lots Santa xxx

From the Curvy Goddess xxx xxx xxx

Clothes Limbo

At the moment I would just love to go clothes shopping.

But I seem to be between sizes.  22, 20 is too big and 18 too small.

I live in fear of my trousers falling down ;-)

And if I continue my trend of just loosing a pound a week, this could carry on for a while.

Getting dressed in the morning can be both frustrating and liberating, as some trousers just fall off or I discover a top that previously fitted badly, which now fits me well.

My plan is to only by clothes when I can fit into size 18 clothes at Primark, but I am not sure when that will be.

So for now I will just have to wait...

Although I am tempted to buy this.  Obviously buying a pretty dress which I could only wear clubbing etc is more important than buying trousers that fit which I can wear everyday.