Plus size clothing sale

So I thought some of you may like to look at a few plus size sites that have a sale on at the moment. Anyway here they are! 

 

(Please click on the site name to go straight to the sale page.)

Site                           Size                    

NewLook                16 - 32

Very                          8 - 28       

Curvissa                   14 - 32

Matalan                     6 - 26

Simplybe                  12 - 34

Evans                       14 - 32

Fashion World          8 - 38

Yours Clothing         14 - 36

Lovedrobe                16 - 32

Pink Clove               12 - 28

BonPrix                    6 - 32

Scarlett & Jo             16 - 32

H & M                      L - 4XL

Dorothy Perkins       6 - 22

M and Co                 6 - 32

Zalando                    8 - 30

Navabi                     14 - 34

Asos                         4 - 34

Ulla Popken             16 - 42

M & S                      6 - 32

Junarose                   12 - 30

Pureplusclothings     14 - 40 

Shein                        16 - 26

Boohoo                    16 - 26

Riverisland               2 - 28

Pretty little things     2 - 28

Quiz                         3 - 26

Missguided              12 - 28

Debenhams              8 - 32

             

Clothes shopping list

I am an avid fan of online shopping, not only do I prefer it to going to a shop where you have to deal with other people, but there is a much wider range of plus size clothing. Here is a list of some of the sites I use.

Retail name                           Sizes                                  

Curvissa                               14 - 32                         

New Look                            18 - 32 

                
Very                                     12 - 32    

 
Matalan                               18 - 28

Simply be                            12 - 36

Evans                                   14 - 32

Fashion World                     12 - 36

Yours Clothing                    14 - 36

Lovedrobe                           14 - 32

Pink Clove                          14 - 24

Marisota                              12 - 34

M & Co                               12 - 32 

Fatphrocks                           14 - 28

BBW Couture                      14 - 28

Bonprix                                14 - 32

Scarlett and Jo                     10 - 32

H&M                                    18 - 30

Dorothy Perkins.                  16 - 28

Navabi                                  16 - 32

Less than 10 pounds             14 - 30

Zalando                                 16 - 28

Asos                                      14 - 34

Ivans clothing                       14 - 36

Love fashion                         12 - 32

Ullapopken                            16 - 42

Wearall                                  16 - 32

Marks and Spencer                18 - 30

Junarose                                 12 - 28

Next                                        12 - 26

Plus Size Lagenlook               16 - 32

Crazy Clearance                     12 - 34

Everything 5 Pounds              14 - 32

Just curvy                               12 - 26

Laredoute                                14 - 32

House of Fraser                       14 - 26

Vidamoda                                14 - 28

BooHoo                                   12 - 28

Apples and Pears                     18 -32

Izabel                                       16 - 28

Elvi                                          12 - 28

River Island                             18 - 28

In The Style                             12 - 28 

Lady V London                        12 - 32

Although there are a lot more online fashion retailers out there that have plus size options, I have tried to only show the ones that go up to a 28 or above.

Fatty nights out

From the age of around 23 I started going to plus size nights out. I was so scared the first time I went to one but I was surprised by the amount of lovely people I met. As I got older the nerves of going never went away. I had met some amazing people through these nights out that I felt so lucky to know people who truly accepted me for me. I was still a shy person, but that didn't matter and people still wanted to talk to me and dance with me. I would meet new people every time I went, but still had nights out with the few real friends I had. I have never been good at making friends, I never felt worthy and always found myself pushing people away, I'd never actually ask people to spend time with me, to hang out because I'm scared they wouldn't want to.
The first club style night out was at a place called Biggies. It was in London and such a great place, everyone talking, dancing and really having fun. Getting chatted up was an odd experience for me, I had never before been to such a place where someone found me attractive. I still to this day do not understand what these men liked about me, but I was just happy and taken aback that I was treated normally.
Nights out when I was younger were completely different, I was friends with pretty thin girls who every boy fawned over, I was the fat comfortable friend that the boys would talk to so they could get to know my friends. I was stared at and made fun of at the places we would go to drink. Even now I still don't know if they knew what others said, if they heard it, but I did. "What the hell is she doing in here?". "Omg you're huge". "HAHA fatty" and so much more. I guess that is what stopped me going out and going to college, I had no one to talk to, no one to understand how I felt. But these people and these places made me feel normal, average.
Over the years I went as often as I could, but as my weight piled on and my health got worse, I found it progressively more difficult. Losing contact with some amazing people hurt, I would talk to them on the internet, but it wasn't the same - I could no longer dance the night away with my friends.
Since having weight loss surgery I have been able to go a few times, but very rarely as nights out now leave me in pain for days afterwards. I do enjoy the nights out when they happen, but now I can no longer dance with people and socialising is even more daunting for me, I remember the days where I would walk into a venue and know 90% of the people there. But these days I hardly know anyone, I am just so lucky and thankful that there are still some of the amazing beautiful faces I have known for many years. But my body will not let me be who I am and who I wish to be. So I am stuck, hoping to be brave enough to make new friends and have the bond others do at these places. I just wish I could go more and have as much fun as I used to!

Being a Feedee

So after seeing a lady in the news this week wishes to become the heaviest woman ever, I thought I would put out there how I feel about it.
I was 48 stone 2lbs at my heaviest and at 6ft tall - I was lucky I could still walk, but the damage I did to my body via pain was and still is an ongoing issue. Before I got to 40 stone I could still walk around a supermarket, I was rather healthy compared to how people think I looked. But then when I put on that extra 8 plus stone everything changed.
I have no idea what it is to be thin, I was - literally - born overweight at 10lbs 9oz, I was always the chubby child who got fatter and fatter as time went on, primarily due to comfort eating as a response to all of the negative actions and verbal abuse I received. But I have never ever wished to become fatter, since the age of 8 I always wanted to be thinner, to be like the other children. But no matter how hard I tried it never happened.
Yes when I was in my early 20's I learnt to like myself, probably because of the BBW scene of which I became a part, but I never really loved who I was. I still don't really.
Until I was around other fat people and saw how much they loved themselves, I didn't think it was even possible to actually like myself. But I never thought about being a feedee, I was always asked how I put on weight, how I managed to get to such an apparently glorious size by feeders, but all I could ever say was that it just came about naturally really. I have always found food as a comfort, but I never found it as something sexual, or even something I would use to gain weight. But I can still understand why they love food so much. The control it can have over you can make you weaker still.
As for this lady and others who desire to be fatter, what they do with their own body is their choice and theirs alone. Just like if anyone wishes to get a tattoo, a piercing or even lose weight. But before you do any of those things, the one thing you should always remember is health. Yes this lady may wish to be waited on hand and food, she may wish to get so big she cannot leave the house, but is that really living? To her it might be! We have no right to tell someone else how to live or what to do with their own body. I know many people will disagree, but, as one person's right to disagree with me (or anyone else) is their choice, so it is the choice of others to live as they see fit.
We are fortunate to have freedom of speech, But with that freedom should also come responsibility and the understanding that sometimes we will not agree with others.

Asos Dresses

I have been ordering too many clothes of late, Trawling through most of the well known sites, finding so many dresses and tops I would love to wear, but know I won't. Why you must think? Well because I am not only a size 28, but I am also 6 feet tall. Along with that I have huge upper arms, around 30 inches at the widest part, so I hide them all the time. They never see the fresh air unless I'm having a shower. But in clothes they are at all times to be well hidden.
You may think these things are easily done with the huge range of Plus Size clothes. Thankfully I no longer have just two options like I did in the 90's, which were a very old fashioned Evans and fat man clothing shops, which were few and far between. Also the only things I could ever manage to fit into were jeans and some kind of top. Evans of course had dresses and skirts but they were never long enough. They were also usually a lovely pattern that even my Nan would have thought twice about!
Thankfully here in 2016 there are a lot more plus size stores especially online. So I had a trawl through them and found a number of super 'fat arm friendly' dresses in various materials. I have found my style has gone towards leggings with a dress. You possibly might wonder why I would I would use a dress as a long top or tunic, but a long top or tunic on me is much too short. I would easily wear one of those as a top with a long skirt (that is if I could find a skirt long enough) damn my long torso!
So I came across a couple of dresses on asos.com - the first being a lovely long black stretch dress with small flowers:

This dress was so comfy and easy to wear, I loved the length. The one downfall for both items is that I had to sew the wrap the top together to prevent my bra being on show to all and sundry. I can imagine if you used tit tape or had less boobage than me (pretty much nothing) then you might get away with it. The other issue with this comfy dress is the rolled hem, which is pretty but see the white line at the bottom of the dress - that's the underside of the fabric showing. 

My second dress, in navy blue, was shorter and came with a very long band tie. It was lovely to wear although I was (as always) worried about my arms. It's not that they don't fit, but that the sleeves are not quite long enough for me. I could not really see the point of the long tie belt either, I'm sure it looked fine from the back, but I don't think it added much to the overall look of the dress. 

 I shall definitely be looking out for more asos.com items - not only are they very stretchy and comfy, but the price is really great! I do though wish they would use bigger models for their Curve Plus size range - it would make it much easier to realise what those items would look like on me! Please check them out and maybe take the plunge like I did and no doubt shall be again!