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Clothes Solutions

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  • laur357
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
    If you need more professional clothes for work, I suggest getting dresses. Many styles of dresses seem to be much more forgiving than career pants, and I can wear them longer. I'm wearing my pants as long as I can with a belt, but the sagging butt, thighs, and hips don't look great and they obviously don't fit the way they should any more.
  • Adphillips9
    Adphillips9 Posts: 30 Member
    If you live in a decent sized city, you hopefully have some consignment shops - I have one I really like in my city where I've gotten nice suits for $35.00 or so. Also, I made friends with the woman who runs the store - she was happy to have all my nice plus size clothes! We made some trades, until I hit my current size.

    She has a nicely curated little collection and I always find a couple of dresses, a blouse and a suit if I come over on a Saturday morning. She also called me once when she had some things come in, in my size.

    I've now got 5 or 6 shops I look at DC to Baltimore, plus thrift stores. I hate buying new clothes
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    I am lucky that my hips are much bigger than my waist so even though all of my pants are way too big I can still wear them with a belt. I don't work so I don't have to worry about looking professional. I will likely buy some new clothes soon because my shorts are Way Way too big!
  • SarahJeanine1
    SarahJeanine1 Posts: 78 Member
    Even though it isn't ideal, I've also made dress pants (the kind with no belt-loops, so no belt option) that are just a size or two too big work with the maternity band that can be placed over pants when pregnant (I still had a few bands lying around from when I was expecting, but you can buy them pretty cheaply at Target/Walmart). It works for a bit until you are ready to buy new things.
  • DKG28
    DKG28 Posts: 299 Member
    i actually found Ralph Lauren wool-blend dress pants at Goodwill, and they were like-new, and judging by the perfect pressed creases in the legs, freshly dry-cleaned. this is not an area with a lot of folks who have to dress-up for work, and yet Goodwill had many good options. It's a worth a look first if price is an issue.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    gradchica27 wrote: »
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    I've shrunk about three sizes so far. I didn't buy much at all until the smallest size and just shopped the sales. Because I wear vintage or good repro I'm lucky that it mostly retains its value so I sold my big clothes to pay for the new clothes and will do the same again when I hop down another couple of sizes (which will hopefully be goal).

    Just curious, where do you buy your clothes? I love vintage dresses but have no idea where to buy them! I'm looking to splurge when I reach goal :)

    @gradchica27 All sorts of places. Etsy is a good starting point and there's a ton of good Facebook groups for true vintage. Depends on era as to where to go with Facebook, I'm strictly pre-60s. Repro there's a ton of brands out there, Pin up Girl clothing being one of the biggest and most well known but there's a lot of indie brands too. Just ask google really! I'm in the UK so I bought a ton of stuff in the Collectif sale in January which they do at least once a year, maybe more, where everything goes half off so that was my biggest splurge to date since losing weight.
  • gradchica27
    gradchica27 Posts: 777 Member
    @VintageFeline , thanks! I'm new to this and live in southern suburbia in the US, so don't exactly have brick and mortar stores in my town...and can't drag 4 little boys along anyway, so thanks for the online leads :smile:
  • overw8gosk8
    overw8gosk8 Posts: 457 Member
    edited March 2016
    ktekc wrote: »
    I live out of goodwill..I've gone down 4-5 sizes and I would say 90% of my wardrobe is from there.

    I love me some thrift stores and oh course ebay. I also bought a couple of sewing books and learned how to tailor my clothes. There are some things I just would not get rid of, so I recut it to fit me in between my goal sizes and my current sizes.
  • JenHuedy
    JenHuedy Posts: 611 Member
    Do you have an outlet mall nearby? It might be worthwhile to subscribe to e-mail lists for your favorite stores to get coupons and sale alerts. I just used a 40% off e-coupon on top of clearance prices to get 3 sweaters, 2 tops, 2 dresses and a pair of pants at Banana Republic Factory Store for $60.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    edited March 2016
    cross2bear wrote: »
    Find a good tailor! It can be even more economical than buying new. I have had waists taken in, sleeves taken up, darts put in to follow curves - a good tailor is worth their weight in gold!

    Another vote for getting existing favorites/expensive pieces altered.

    You could also ask on Freecycle.org. I give away clothes I outgrow on there.
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