Do I Look Big In This?

Well, what do you suppose Elizabethan and Victorian women asked each other or themselves?  I actually think they asked, "Do I look big enough in this?"  becuase if you look back at what they wore it appeared they thought the bigger the better?

I've been looking quite closely at fashion over the years, the decades, the centuries and I found you can actually read some of the psychology and thinking behind the eras when you look at whaty they wore.  I am determined to design clothing that will make me feel the beautiful I know I myself  to be inside and out!  Plus size clothing has improved a great deal but some of it actually makes you feel depressed.  You wear it becuase there's nothing else.  You know what I'm saying.  I've been plus size a long time so why am I still struggling?  I feel like I've won the lottery if I find soemthing nice, that looks nice and makes me feel like a million dollars. Clothes that by the fabrics you use say to you and others, "wow, she's worth it!". 

   
That's how they dressed centuries back.  There must have been an appreciation back then for the woman who had curves so that when they didn't they created them in the style of colthing.  Check out those victorian outfits with the exaggereated back areas above.  So what was that about?!  If not to give them impression there was something in thier own physical anatomy which might have created that becneath it.  How about the Elizabethan times?  They were dressed from head to toe in dresses designed to make them look several sizes bigger than they were!  And those collars! Some of the arms on the dresses even had a Michelin Man feel and look to them.  This was considered gorgeous. People's perceptions on big or small have always been varied. 

Maybe the question we should ask ourselves as plus size people when buying clothes isn't how slim do I look but rather, "Do I look Beautiful in This?"

As always bigYoutifuls, beYOUtiful!

Ray Ray xx