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[geekchick]

Good mail week: my copy of the new Dresden Files installment Turn Coat was waiting for me on the doorstep when I got home, as was my copy of Ravens in the Library. The day before, my Big Brick o'Shakespeare showed up (from an Amazon seller, who stuffed the nice, new hardback book into a plain tyvek priority mail envelope with no padding at all and turned it over to the USPS).

Louboutin pumps in today's crazy Gilt sale. *daydreams* I have fantasies of getting rid of most of my clothing and shoes and replacing them with fewer, high-quality pieces, but reality conspires against me. Challenge #1: finding flattering clothes for an apple-shaped fat chick. (Note to designers: no, empire waists do NOT flatter "everybody". They invariably hang, tent-like, from my not-insubstantial rack and get me asked when I'm due.) Clearly some of these clothes do exist; I've seen pictures! I just need to get better at finding them myself.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

You might want to read Manolo for the Big Girl. The contributors are really good at pointing out which clothes fit which shapes, and they have a wide variety of sources. That is assuming you don't already read it :-D

I look pregnant in empire waists, too, and I'm hourglass-to-pear shaped, myself.

[geekchick]

I do skim at least three of the Manolo properties, including that one. ;)

I think it's the breasts that ruin the empire waist thing; the way the top hangs from them, it makes it look like I'm wearing a tent, and let us not speak of the tops cut such that the waist hits me mid-boob.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, the ones that think the waist is at my nipple level or just below. Um, no.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

Hullo, your breasts do not ruin ANYTHING. Thank you.

[geekchick]

Heh. =)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Seconded. ;)

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

I AGREY WITH THIS POAST

[gsh]

Pam has finished Turn Coat, and I'm working on it now. :)

[geekchick]

I fell asleep reading last night, and woke up when Chris stole the book out of my hands. Sheesh! ;)

[gsh]

Banish him to the sofa or something.

[grum]

IMHO empire waists don't look good on anybody. They don't even flatter the few sticks who manage not to look horrible in them, but then I don't do fashion, so whatever.
Good luck?