aislinn

Hi Everyone
I have been looking at clothes today. I am still not into "normal" sizes yet but WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON? Is it a conspiracy? - the clothes around at the moment JUST MAKE ME LOOK BIGGER THAN I AM. New Look have the Inspire range but that seems to have shrunk to a couple of rails and some stores don't stock it at all! Evans has gone from Disney flower prints last summer to downright frumpy this year. I just wish I did'nt still have to rely on FAT STORES to buy new clothes. What do other people think?
Gem x
I am now able to shop in ‘normal’ shops (if I wanted to) but when I needed more generously sized clothing I used to use catalogues all the time.

I now shop on line because I cannot bear those tiny changing rooms and the look of those size 8 girls as I pile in the changing rooms with my selection of clothes. You know the look “fat cow she’ll never get into those!!”

Most shops offer an online home delivery service for a small charge. Even bra companies like Bravissimo (for the fuller busted woman). At home you can try things on with other things…….find out which top will hide the old muffin top the best……does my bum look huge in this test etc.

Many offer payment plans so even on a tight budget you can maybe afford a couple of new items a month/couple of months. And provided you go easy with your spending you won’t get into serious debt. Some companies will cap your limit so you only owe what you could pay back in a few week if you to.

Trying on at home allows you to experiment with sizes too because the actual size of garment varies from manufacture to manufacture.

Plus its ace getting parcels – I often order loads try in, on prance about, bag it up and send it back. It’s like retail therapy without leaving the armchair or spending a penny!!

One of my favourite sites is SimplyBe

Good luck x

totty

Have you ever tried shoppin online, you have naturally close.com to name just 1, and have you thought of ebay, there are so many shops on there that stock our sizes its un believeable....the only thing i would say is make sure they have a returns policy

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totty

i just read your post aislinn...

do agree though x

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Gemstone

Yes thanks, I have had some success with online but it's so hard to check out fabrics, cut, etc - and then there's the leg length.........
Perhaps I'm expecting too much - after all we're the ones society loves to hate at the moment
Gem x

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Hey ladyees - get yourself over to our SW forum, we're swapping clothes on there at the minute - take a look, we've got the thread as a sticky xxx

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Samantha_Carolyn

Trying on clothes in a shop is hit and miss, so to be ordering on-line, get excited about deliveries only to find it's too tight, too loose, too clingy etc is just a huge disappointment so I don't by clothes on-line any more.

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Gemstone

I think I'm with you Sam. Just that I'm finding clothes a bit depressing at the moment. Not depressed really - things going ok and I hope I'll soon be able to buy in the same places as my skinny friends - well maybe next summer anyway
Gem x

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Samantha_Carolyn

I'll be happy if I can get in the summer clothes I was wearing last summer. We go away in three weeks time, so I'm really hoping something will fit by then.

It really makes me wish I had started dieting sooner!

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Start Date 6th June 08 (16st 13lbs) - doing my own thing

Target 1 = 1 stone lost - achieved 4th July
Target 2 = 21lbs lost - achieved 8th August
Target 3 = 2 stone lost -
Target 4 = 35lbs lost -
Target 5 = 3 stone lost -

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elle2585

Size 7?! I wear a size 10 shoe!! Lol... try finding shoes in a size 10. When I need shoes I need to go on a weeklong search of websites.. ebay, barratts tall and small, brantanos, evans and a few specialist ones but the shoes are mega expensive. My cousin is a size seven and she never really has a problem. Most places, cheap and expensive, seem to go up to an 8. Evans used to do nice fashionable shoes and now most of them resemble shoes my nan would wear. Massive shame.

In terms of clothes, when i've been in Evans for my shoes, their range of clothes look quite nice. Although i can understand what you're all going on about. My least favourite experience is going into shops like Miss Selfridge or Jane Norman with my skinny friends and I can just see the sales assistants looking at me wondering why the hell im there. Yes thanks, i KNOW you wont have anything to fit me.

Oh and lastly, concerning bra fittings, i've never had to take my bra off lol, theyve always fitted me with mine on! unless i've got the wrong side of the stick with what all you lovely people had said, hehe.

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abz

me too, although last time the only one that fit was see through. i found it really odd how she managed to check the fit without acknowledging the fact that she could see my nipples through it, ha. and then she went to get me one that wasn't see through as she'd broguht me a range in that size... so i went hope very happy with my nipples firmly hidden good ol' bravissimo

abz xx

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elle2585

gotta love bravissimo, even if we do need to get a loan so we can go and buy a bra!

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Start weight: 14st 9lbs
Between 20/06 and 25/07 10lbs lost...

12/09/08 : 13st 10lbs (hols...)
25/09/08 : 13st 6lbs
03/10/08 : 13st 5lbs
10/10/08 : 13st 4lbs
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31/10/08 : 13st 0lbs
07/11/08 : 12st 12lbs


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Gemstone

I bought the M&S one in the end - Hell! after all that hassle and the woman with the pert little boobs weighed down with hammocks of every colour - how could I go empty handed. Besides I didn't like to ask her to undo all those hooks and eyes a second time round Then again the hammock DID make me look better once I was dressed
Gem x

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