Is it just me or does mail ordering clothes totally suck? Stuff can look so good on catalog models but in person it looks like shit. I'm assuming this may is the case for thin people as well as thick. It doesn't really matter what size you are... if the clothes are badly made, then it's not going to look good, period. Well, except on catalog models because someone has clipped and pinned the crap out of the clothing to make it look tailored and crisp when it would otherwise look like an oversized misshapen gunny sack hanging on a "plus size" model's frame.
...which brings me to my next point. Why would a catalog selling plus-size clothing use thin models? Sorry, Silhouettes, but you really are one of the worst offenders here.
I just bought the boot-cut jeans from Silhouettes, actually. I thought, Why not? Couldn't be any worse than Lane Bryant. Oh yes it could be. They were so weirdly loose in the thighs, I looked like I should be a backup dancer for MC Hammer circa 1990. U can't touch this! I sent them back the next day. And lost the $7.95 I paid in shipping originally, plus paid almost the same to have it shipped back. I paid $14.95 to try on the equivalent of old-fashioned riding jodphurs and spend 20 minutes in line at the post office. Sweet.
And for the record, Lane Bryant's jeans really are the best jeans going these days. I'm sorry to have doubted you, oh mighty clothing chain!
For my birthday last week, I thought I'd buy myself a pretty little dress from Alight.com that I've had my eye on for awhile. I even paid for expedited shipping so it'd be here in time for me to wear to my party. Please know that the real deal looked NOTHING like the catalog picture. The waistline was about twice the size as the rest of the dress, and I still don't understand why that is. And the length of the dress is about two feet longer than you'd judge by the photo. So - again, back to the post office to wait in line with 15 other grumpy people and this time my toll for misguided mail order shopping was $28.00.
(By the way, if you took note of the Blue Plate clothing line when you checked out Alight.com - be sure to order 2 sizes bigger than you normally wear. It took two failed orders to learn that lesson for myself. Their stuff is cute as hell, I'll give 'em that... but they need to re-size their clothing line.)
Boy, the sad thing is that I could just keep going on and on. I've ordered stuff from pretty much every store listed on the sidebar at right, and 99% of the time it hasn't worked out. The only thing I've ever ordered that was successful were cork wedge sandals in wide width from Easy Spirit. Shoes are always our savior though, right?
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