Plus Size Fashion Trends: How to Dress Sexy When You are Size 14 and Up!

Posted by Women's Designer Clothing Editor in Plus Size Women Fashion Tips

5 tips to dress sexy with this season's fashion trends!

You don’t have to be a petite sexpot wearing a size 2, Herve Leger bandage dress à la Kim Kardashian to ooze super-sex appeal.
In fact, a fashion-savvy plus-sized diva looking to unleash her inner Marilyn Monroe or Jill Scott, dressing sexy is definitely in the details.

From  learning how to conceal your lady lumps properly to finding figure-flattering clothes that skim over your curves, the plus-sized women can dress sexy, if she follows a these 5 fashion rules.

Plus Size Fashion Trends and Tip #1 – Conceal the bad and reveal the good.

A sexy plus-sized woman uses the art of illusion to her advantage. How?
If you have a flabby tummy,  cover it with empire waisted tops and dresses. If your shoulders and neck are your best features, wear U-neck and V-neck shirts to give the appearance of a long and lean frame.

Plus Size Fashion Trends and Tip #2 - Eliminate any baggy clothing.

Newsflash: big clothes  like oversize sweaters and sweatpants, are the enemy of sexy. Why? Baggy clothing makes curvy, plus-size figures seem larger. Give all your oversize sweatshirts and baggy jeans to charity.
Buy yourself new dresses and tops that are snug, but don’t cling over your body.

Plus Size Fashion Trends and Tip #3 - Follow these basic style secrets for a curvy and sexy body.

Want to be the best dressed woman in the room?  Draw the eye towards your beautiful face by wearing bold and light-colored blouses and tops mixed with dark boot-cut jeans and pencil skirt .
Cinch everything you wear—from blouses to dresses—with a large and brightly colored belt.
For women who wear a size 14 dress and up, the scoop neck top is forever a sexy style staple. In fact, a scoop neck style displays your decolletage  and face beautifully!

Plus Size Fashion Trends and Tip #4 - Embrace the infamous wrap dress.

Wrap Diane von Furstenberg’s iconic dress around your lovely body to minimizing curves and whittle your waist. When paired with a light-colored camisole, this plus size fashion staple is perfect outfit for a casual dinner date or a night on the town with your girlfriends.

Plus Size Fashion Trends and Tip #5 - Create smooth and clean lines with your foundation garments.

Grab your spanx girls! Undergarments made from nylon spandex and Lycra will shape and smooth your body without going on a crash diet.  Before you grab the latest  slim pencil skirts or wrap dresses, buy the best girdles, sharpers and body slimmers you can afford.
Unleashing your inner sex kitten is all about amplifying your assets. Pump up your curves with plus size fashion trends that are showstopping and seriously sexy!

About Dressing Well

The simple thought of women preparing their wardrobes to present their best self to the world–to be liked, popular, successful and accomplished–is rarely discussed aloud, but is a simple truth.

Dressing well is more important than you think.

• London-bred fashion designer Mary Quant opined, “ Fashion is a tool…to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.”

And my favorite French Fashion Doyenne Coco Chanel said...

• “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

Yes, gentle reader to be well dressed is an art.

It is a subtle pursuit, born out of necessity and wrapped in the desire to be unforgettable.  Unlike natural beauty, the pleasure of viewing a well-dressed woman can never fade or lose its luster.
It does not matter whether you won the genetic lottery for beauty, or possess facial features so perfectly balanced that men and women alike swoon as you enter a room.  Being well dressed is an attribute that all women can achieve, but few know how to master.
Women around the world–whether they are naturally beautiful, or use fashion to convey the perfect image of  being gorgeous– know that being well dressed is the great equalizer. And it can be achieved by all.

Readers of On Dressing Well will learn the fashion secrets and art of head-to-toe gorgeous.

I have dedicated my life to helping people become more elegant, more beautiful and more desirable. As a former horrendously-dressed style victim who transformed herself from dowdy to well-dressed, I will teach you how to develop your own personal style.
Consider me your personal style secretary helping you create a knockout wardrobe that is flattering, timeless and extraordinary.
You will learn how to dress yourself with the care, discipline and precision of a style goddess who can adapt her appearance for every hour and situation.
Feel free to comment on each post, spark a lively debate on current topics and join me on my journey to transforming women from clueless style victims to exquisitely chic and trendsetting style stars.
With my help you can develop a personal style( that is uniquely your own) and helps you say to yourself,
“I am special.
I am beautiful.
I am glamorous.”

And most of all, “I am well dressed.”

Flatter Your Figure: How to Dress for Your Shap

Posted by Women's Designer Clothing Editor in Style Tips for Women 

Let’s be honest. If you hate your thighs or wish your 5-foot frame were 6 feet tall, you need a few magical fashion tricks to enhance the good and minimize the bad.

Rather than torture yourself with the latest fad diet or opt for expensive plastic surgery, you can accentuate your amazing body parts while discretely concealing your flaws.
Whether you want to reduce your hips, minimize your tummy or add a few Beyonce-inspired curves to your slim figure, here’s how to dress for your shape and keep the crowd cheering for more of your fashion fabulosity.
If you are short, do not wear: dark knee high boots, pleated trousers, baggy clothes, drawstring waists, puffy jackets, cuffed or cropped pants. Instead, choose pants whose hems fall to the ground.
If you don’t want to draw attention to your height-challenged body, wear monochromatic colors and heels over 2 inches to give the illusion of long legs.
Petite women can wear any silhouette as long as it is tailored and proportioned to their height.
If you are long waisted, avoid anything too tight. Steer clear of low-rider jeans, pants with cuffs or cropped pants. Wear pants with heels to elongate your legs.  If you have an elongated torso, select cropped, high-wasted and off-the shoulder tops. Wear structured blouses with horizontal lines, square necklines or a wide collar to balance your body.
Choose jackets and dresses that taper in above your natural waist to create a long vertical line.
If you have big hips, do not wear: cropped tops, mom jeans, clingy fabrics or blouses that end at the fullest part of your hips.
Pencil skirts, wide-leg pants and tailored jackets accentuate your hips, while pleated or boxy skirts, heavy floral prints and stiff fabrics are not flattering.
If you have a small bust, push-up bras and turtlenecks are your best friend. Anything that will add more fullness to the breasts: fitted turtlenecks, halter-tops, jackets and dresses with pocket detailing, will create the illusion of an ample bosom.
If you have small breasts, refrain from wearing plunging necklines, stiff fabrics and loose tops.

If you have a large bust, first outfit yourself with a good bra, preferably a minimizer.. Your goal is to find clothes that separate your neck from your bust, creates the illusion of a small waist and celebrates your fabulous curves.
A woman with large breasts should wear: v-neck, scoop neck or wrap tops.  She should avoid: wide belts, ruffles, skimpy tank tops, clingy fabrics, baggy tops, short-capped sleeves, boxy jackets, collars with large lapels and turtlenecks.
If you have no curves and a boyish figure, you should purchase any clothing that will add bulk to your thin areas and hug your barely-there curves.
A woman with a thin frame can wear: double-breasted coats and dresses, jeans with embellishments and large pockets, hip huggers, pleating, ruching, ruffles, shiny and light-colored fabrics.
If you have a large stomach, you want to focus the attention on your beautiful face or great legs and away from your tummy.
To hide a bulging waist a woman should wear: empire tops sheath dresses, single-breasted coats, and monochromatic clothing. Avoid fabrics that grip the stomach like low-rise jeans, tube dresses, cropped tops and any dress cut on the bias.
Learning how to dress for your shape is not difficult—if you know the fashion rules. Use these chic techniques to flatter your figure and embrace and dress your body, flaws and all.
Whatever, your size or shape, you’ve uncovered a fashion prescription to heal yourself from a negative body image, dress for your shape, and add a few more style secrets into your feminine bag of tricks.

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KIYONNA Winter 2012

She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Body

Ragen Chastain 5'4 284 pounts, photo by Richard Sabel

I grew up the daughter of a Marine and a multi-sport athlete. If I fell and ran to my father, I could expect to hear “Are you hurt or are you injured?” Hurt meant that it was time to suck it up; injured meant you were going to the doctor. In practice, coaches told me to “walk it off”, “play through the pain” and that “pain is fear leaving the body.”
I was told over and over again that my body was just a limitation to be overcome through mental toughness  – blocking out or working through the pain. It didn’t come naturally at first – I seemed to have an innate sense that my body deserved better than that, but at some point I turned a corner and got really good at ignoring my body.
I worked through stress fractures, anIT band so tight it felt like it was going to rip in half, pulled muscles, sprains, strains, jammed fingers, knee injuries and a host of other issues. I ignored my body when it asked for food and hydration, and I scoffed at it when it asked for rest.
I became a compulsive exerciser and I started to look down on my body even more. I didn’t give it what it needed and pushed it beyond reasonable, and then unreasonable, limits.  When my body would finally bend or break under the strain, I treated it with utter contempt. I believed that my body was just a “meat sack,”  a collection of muscles and bones that were trying to limit what I could do. I believed that my mind had to be stronger than my body and I felt triumphant when I ignored my body’s signals and “pushed through.”
If I ever had an acquaintance who treated me the way that I treated my body for all those years, I would never speak to them again. In fact, I would never have let it go on that long. But through all of this my body stuck with me (even though I wasn’t giving it the food, hydration, or rest it needed), my body continued to support me. It never gave up on me. If my body could talk, all it would have said for years would have probably sound like the Tazmanian Devil: “&$*#(*@ *$*&*#(*$  and for the love of all that’s holy, can we please take a nap?!” but I wouldn’t have listened.
We live in a culture that preaches that our bodies are limitations. I believe that my body is a cherished friends.  Think of everything your body does for you without you even asking: breathing, blinking, heart beating… every cell in your body is getting blood right now and you’re not even thinking about it.
I don’t know about you, but there are days when I am too distracted to focus on a game of solitaire. I’m pretty sure that  if I was consciously in charge of breathing and blinking and heart beat I would have been dead in 6th grade when I got my first Walkman and regularly walked into stuff because I was so into the INXS tape that was playing.
I’m not saying that pushing your body is always wrong, you have to decide what works for you. I know I’ve danced through plenty of injuries. What I’m suggesting is that you treat your body like you would treat a friend.  I can’t even count the things that my best friend has done for me, even though he didn’t want to, because he’s my best friend and he loves me and I asked nicely. It’s the same with my body. We have conversations:
Me: “Hey body, those are some awesome 4 inch heels that would go great with our blue and white dress. We could totally rock those.”
Body: “Are you freaking kidding me? Do you know how hard our workout regimen is on our knees? Give me a break and go for the flats please!”
Me: “Fair point, flats it is.”
Or this one:
Me: “Hey body, I know I sprained our ankle yesterday being stupid, but I have a performance tonight and I’d really like to do it. Will you push through it with me if I promise to give you lots of ice see the massage therapist.”
Body: “Yup, I’ll help you out, but can we please take a couple of days off after the performance?”
Me:  “Absolutely, thanks a bunch!”
Like any relationship, my body and I have to keep up the communication and we have breakdowns, but we’ve come a long way since our days of giving each other the silent treatment, and it’s getting better all the time.

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