Image Branding For Plus Size People

Article Written: Bridgette Weber

Have you ever noticed how plus size women are presented to would be customers of fashion? Most often, women who have surpassed the thin and wispy stage, that we are used to imagining a model as being, are dressed in over sized, shapeless items. The message that women get is that many designers don’t even know how to dress them. Thus plus sized women gain poor esteem and dont benefit from being able to observe how great they actually can look, when avoiding what it is best not to wear.

Here are some examples of fashion blunders that many plus sized woman settle for when they dont know any better.

The Over sized outfit.

The misconstrued logic here is that by wearing something large enough to cover a great expanse of a woman’s body she will manage to hide any unsightly lumps and bumps. However, the effect is somewhat like the innocent example of a child who puts his own hands in front of his face and shouts, “Ha, you cant see me now!”

The truth is, of course, that we can see a woman isn’t slim when she wears large, lose and floppy clothing, just as we can still see the child when he covers his face. The added problem though, is that by attempting to hide, a woman’s figure ends up looking at least twice its natural size and shape.

To put it in a nutshell, baggy clothing is unflattering on a plus sized woman. Fitted clothes however, which nip in in all the right places, can make any woman look wonderful, curvaceous and sexy. If you are plus sized then hold your head up high and try not to wear that baggy clothing. All is does is give others the impression that you are not fit to be seen, which is a shame as underneath the mounds of material there may be a goddess just waiting to come out.

Horizontal stripes and large patterns.

If you want to know how horizontal stripes make a woman’s figure look then place such a piece of material over your coffee table as a cover and see how it seems to have grown in size. This is what happens to any person who wears a clothing item with a horizontal stripe pattern. In Fact, I would go so far as to recommend women who are very thin and who want to look larger to wear them. Therefore, larger women would do best to avoid them and to instead, try wearing vertical stripes, which have a more slimming effect.

Large, floral and other bold patterns can have a similar effect to that of horizontal stripes. If worn over areas that are large, they add to the expanse. This is fine if you want to make an area seem bigger, but isn’t wonderful.

Tight clothing.

Close fitting clothing is fine for a plus sized woman, but only when worn on the appropriate areas of her body. However really tight clothing is pretty unattractive on most figures and definately on a voluptuous one.
Clothing which may be too tight is for sale and sometimes in fashion. So many women mistakenly believe that if its trendy it must be also be flattering. The only type of figure that some styles of tight clothing may suit, although I have my doubts, is that of the supper skinny. Even then, the tightness will emphasize whats underneath, thus making a thin woman appear thinner. A large woman, will naturally. appear larger than she probably it. Especially if she looks like shes busting out at the seams.

Tapered pants and jeans also come under the heading of tight clothing as they hug the ankles of the wearer. This tends to make all that is above the ankles appear larger than life. This isnt a good contrast to create.

Boot cut trousers are the saving grace of today’s average sized and plus sized woman. As in fact, the average size moves up and up each year, plus is probably the size of a great deal of women and is, almost average rather than as its title suggests, more than average.

Dull, lifeless, boring and drab.

Just because a woman doesn’t resemble a stick insect doesn’t mean that she needs to hide away in clothing which is decidedly unremarkable. We all have days when we want to slouch around in sweat pants and an old tee shirt, but this shouldn’t become an everyday habit.

Color, when added to an outfit, can bring it and its owner to life. Velvet, satin, silk, linen and lace are all materials that can be worn by any woman, of any size. However many plus sized women remain shy of them as they dont understand that they need to make a fuss of themselves and raise their self esteem.

Plus sized women who stick to wearing their husbands old sweatshirt, kaftan’s, baggy housecoats and bland colors can all benefit from straying off of the path of gloom into a sunnier climate.

Lastly, the golden rule of what not to wear for plus sized women is anything that doesn’t put a spring in her step and a smile on her face.

article written by Bridgette Webber