Tuesday, January 02, 2007

New Year, New Clothes

Happy New Year, all!

I was reading the very relevant publication US Weekly and I nearly fell over when I saw their clothing spread on plus-size items. They featured the size 12 Sara Ramirez, and of course the Queen (Latifah).

They featured a few of the usual suspects: Avenue, Old Navy, Kiyonna. They featured a gorgeous dress from A.B.S. by Allen Schwartz, but of course, I can't find it on the site (US is notorious for this). However, some of their dresses do go up to a 14 or 16, and are well worth a look.

The other surprise was Spiegel - I forgot that they made women's sizes. I guess now that they don't send the big catalogue to my mom anymore, it slipped my mind. Norma Kavali has a line for Spiegel and some of her items go up to a size XXL/20. Other Spiegel women's wear worth a mention is this shaper pencil skirt - which I am totally wishing that I had to wear with my new purchases from today.

I stopped into Lane Bryant today to see if there were any sale items worth picking up. The answer was no, but I did find these two shirts and actually bought them full price. The 'under' shirts are a nice silky/charmeuse material and very, very flattering. The black and grey one has my favorite sweater helper - a tie just under the bust. The polka dotted shirt with cropped sweater was a pleasant surprise - I didn't think I could pull off cropped. I also didn't flip up the cuffs though, and I don't plan to.

Since I'm into this whole I'm-30-and-fabulous thing, I wanted to look especially sharp the next couple of days at work (the actual birthday is Thursday).

Oh, and I heart Babsie D! I got the Kooba Ginger bag in black. I fell in love with it after she mentioned it in the comments - then I was at Starbucks the next day and saw a girl (who was probably born in the late 80s!) with the bag in suede. I took that as a sign. I never thought I'd splurge on a Kooba, but at that price, it wasn't too hard of a decision. Thanks, Babs! :-)