Getting "Jiggly" With It!

Looking at myself in the mirror, as you do, or didn't used to till recently I began to think about which are the fat parts of my body which are most problematic to me as a fat woman.  Why was I doing this?  Because I wanted to figure out which parts of the body I was trying to hide when wearing some of my beautiful clothes.  And there are some bbbeeeeaaaauuuuuutiful clothes about this Christmas.  Truly gorgeous.  But every time I got thinking which one I might invest in none of them seemed to fit the bill.  Huh?!  I hear you cry!  But it's in your size?!??  True.  But each clothing item I look at seems to emphasize what I call one of my 'jiggly' bits! 

Lets look at them in turn.  

I have a cleavage problem in that necklines which are too low or too wide can make this a problem for me.  I don't want to have to pin a neckline every time to stop from exposing my melons to the world and if I do pin a neckline sometimes that changes the look of a dress and it's no longer what I thought or wanted in the look.  I wish plus size designers would bear in my mind that wile not all plus size or super size women are large breasted a majority of us are.  Remember us won't you?



Okay here's one of my favourite peeves.  Yes.  I mean to say peeve.  Because it peeves me to think a beautiful dress can be made without sleeves to expose or 'wings'.   Really?  I've seen some brave gals don a dress and pretend they don't care about the 'jiggly' bits on their arms.  Braver girls than me!  Well done ladies.  But I like to cover mine up.  How about offering both a sleeveless and a sleeved option to a dress?  That brings satisfaction to both groups of people.




Here's probably the most famous 'jiggly' bit.   The tum. Why am I having to buy body moulding dresses which show off my barrel of a tum?!    As bad as the bum.  There are different types of tums and bums and tight fitting dresses are a good way to show that off.  I don't want to pretend I don't have a tum but I don't want to look like a pregnant lady who can't afford maternity clothes?  Why can't there be a balance.  I believe even slim women should have a little bit of a tum.  It's not natural to be so flat.  It's the area where we store out babies inside so it's should be a little soft and pudgy.  That's fine but why or why design clothing that extenuates this?  Why create tops and t shirts that go up to half away across the tum and stop.  So that the other half of a tum looks like a 'half moon' in my troussers?!   












The same goes for back fat.  Backless dress?  Really?  Me think not.  For me anyway.



Thiiiighhz!  Oh my thighs!  I have bought slacks, jeans, cords, you name it.  The thighs are always tight.  The waist is loose.  The bottoms are flared and the thighs are so tight I can barely move.  The proportion in slacks and troussers seem a bit off to me.  I'd like a little more give in the thigh in a fabric that moves with my big body bot fights against it!  That's why you see a lot of big people in tracks or tights.  It's all in the fabric and how it moves.  Designers please start to investigate the elasticity of your fabrics when designing for bigger people.  You might be on to a winner!  One more thing to do with thighs is the 'thighgina'.  Heard of it?  It's the 'jiggly' bits at the top of your thighs that look like chicken bits.  Not much you can do to hide that but I like to make my own panty shorts which cover these up.  Sexy pants are all well and good but the 'thighgina' can be weird looking if you never seen one before.



Canckles.  These can happen to anyone fat or slim.  I don't have this problem but I've a friend who it really bothers.  Shoes seem to make them look worse and she is desperate for some to design shoes that make compliment canckles.  



So you see Christmas shopping isn't as easy as it should be even though there is a plethora of plus gorgeous dresses and outfits to choose from and when you've got 'jiggly' bits to consider.  Size isn't everything!

Stay  beYoutiful    bigYoutifuls!

RayRay xx