![]() ![]() Straight size women do this too, for particular body parts, the bottom being a common one. And typically the Plus Size woman is the one who least want to add mass, and yet goes about it trying to look less Plus Size by drowning herself in fabric. But the point of the exercise was to get you to acknowledge what you already know - padding yourself with a ton of fabric will only add mass. Now you're saying "But Rachel the coke bottle is just smooth and hard and I'm not". How would you do this? The solution is obvious. The caveat is, you have to try to add the LEAST apparent mass possible. Imagine I gave you a 20 oz bottle of coke, and told you you had to cover it in fabric from midway between the cap and the label to midway between the label and the bottom of the bottle. Only by not buying them and buying something else instead can we teach the garment industry to behave better. ![]() Necklaces and bracelets may potentially scale up a bit, but take care not to exceed the stylistic goals of your IA in doing so.Īs I already hinted at above, the Plus Size retailer loves to produce tent-like moomoo garments, I can only sadly assume because Plus Size woman buy them. Jewelry should be in scale with your facial features, which probably don't shift too much with weight gain or loss. Also, while many plus-size retailers seem to pack the shelves with jumbo jewelry, this may not be right for you. Wearing clothing that is too shapeless and too long is the petite plus-size woman's all too well beaten path to dowdiness. because your height has not changed as compared to your straight size counterpart, the length of the things you wear (jackets, skirts, tops, etc) also should not change. DO NOT I repeat, DO NOT get into the trap of making things longer, especially if you are both plus size and 5'4 and under. While a straight size YinG may need to carry a very tiny bag just to not have it look oversized on her, a plus size woman of this type may find that a more medium bag is appropriate in scale next to her body.Ĭonversely, certain other scale elements of the Plus Size woman's look won't change. Things like handbags may also be a concern. If a print needs to repeat a dizzying number of times to get across you, the repeat may be too small. There are many different repeat structures, but see if you can feel out the element that is the main building block of the print, and see how many times it repeats. In prints, the "repeat" refers to the element which is repeated over and over. On the other hand, some very dainty prints that would feel normal on her straight sized counterpart might feel too dinky. The print should still not feel oversize for her, since overly exaggerated styles don't suit her. That doesn't mean if you are a plus-size YinC, you start wearing basketball sized florals. For the others, you want to be sure to keep things in proportion to you. In the case of the largest scale types, D, YinD, and YangN, not much will change. Below, a link to a plus size catalog of blouses for all IAs, and some thoughts.Įach Image Archetype has a certain scale associated with it, however if the woman is larger as in larger dress size, this may need to shift a bit. However, there are a few specific things that may need to shift that come to mind when I think about dressing a woman who wears a larger size across the different IAs. ![]() Of course, Plus Size is not a body type, and Plus Size women are as diverse in shape as straight size women, so there is no one size fits all recommendation I can offer. While I'm not going to go into excessive detail about why here (since it's been covered elsewhere), I will say that any IA can and does contain Plus Size women, and that weight will not change your IA but it might change (a bit) how you wear your IA. This is the question women ask about Personal Image Analysis more often than any other. "Will my weight change my Image Archetype?" ![]()
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