Wannabe Princess

Plus Size Fashion and Lifestyle in South Yorkshire

plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire.

Debz Louise is a plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire. Behind many nationwide campaigns such as #WeaAreTheThey & winner of Best Blogger at the UK Plus Size Awards, she talkas about life as a plus-size 40-something woman in South Yorkshire.

ASOS Main Range – Here’s What I Would Have Spent

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Every so often a group of bloggers and I get together to put some Here’s What I Would Have Spent posts. The idea is to let retailers know that we would happily spend our hard earned cash on their clothing, if only they stocked our size!

I love the ASOS Curve range and it is probably one of my most popular ‘go to’ places when it comes to clothes shopping. However, I also lust after many items in their straight size ranges they don’t extend to plus sizes – and so, the idea for this round of Here’s What I Would Have Spent was born!

Skirts

Dresses
To be honest, there are so many other choices I could make from the ASOS website. They have such variety and I would love to see many more items in plus sizes too!
What do you love from ASOS?
Debz

These Boots Are Made For Walking – A Jilsen Review

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A few weeks ago a lovely company called Jilsen contacted me about their boots. They offer a range of wide calf boots, to give another option to those with larger legs. I know that lots of women struggle to find boots that fit because of their large calves, so this sounded ideal to me!. 

The company kindly sent me a pair of boots to try for myself. I’ll talk about the good points first. They shipped quickly and I had the boots within just a couple of days. They come well packaged in a long, heavy duty box so they weren’t damaged while being sent. The colour and feel of the boots was magnificent and you can tell that the boots have been made with quality and comfort in mind.

The bad news was – they didn’t fit! Hence, a lack of photos of me wearing the boots because I couldn’t get them on. I choose the lovely Anna boots with a 52cm calf. This was the biggest calf size they did and I assumed they would fit, but they didn’t 🙁 I was really sad, because I loved the look of the boots and I’d loved to have been able to wear them! So make sure you check your measurements before you order – they offer boots in a variety of calf width fittings.


However, Jilsen do get my recommendationn simply because it is so fantastic to have another option when it comes to plus size footwear. The quality of the boots is fantastic and if they fitted me I know they would have been something remained in my wardrobe for a number of years. Boots like this are a real high-quality investment and Jilsen offer great options for this!

What boots do you like to wear?

Debz x

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I was lucky enough to be gifted some items in this post and I am very grateful, but I am always open and honest in my reviews!

PS Blogger Love – Sullen Hearts

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A few weeks ago I decided that we needed a bit of blog loving and so I set up the #PSBloggerLove Challenge. Hopefully you’ll see on Twitter and Instagram today a few posts relating to the #PSBloggerLove tag. Firstly you’ll see blog posts like this where bloggers write about another blog and what they love about them – I teamed people up randomly to help share the love even more.
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The Bellatrix – I Finally Got My Hands on a Lady Voluptuous Dress!

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I have made no secret of my love for Lady V London and in particular the new Lady Voluptuous dresses they released in collaboration with Georgina of Fuller Figure, Fuller Bust fame.

When Georgina whispered in my ear(well at least that’s how I imagined it!) and asked me if I would like to try a dress from the range I knew immediately that I couldn’t possibly choose anything other than the Bellatrix. All that colour, all that figure-hugging material, the fishtail frill at the end – perfection!

I received my dress on Friday and immediately tried it on. Now, you know me – I am a sucker for a pretty dress and when it comes to pretty dresses I have an abundance. However, I can see this as being a dress I would keep and wear forever.

Yes, it’s not a dress I would wear to do the weekly food shop but I have hundreds (almost literally) of those. Instead, it’s a well made, high quality, occasion dress in my size – and we all know how rare those are in plus sizes.

The dress appears very long on me, but then I am very short. But to be honest with you, I quite like the almost ankle length on me so it’s a definite positive. You can tell that the dress has been given a lot of thought – the arms are roomy and have been designed in a way that they are not restrictive when you move around. I also really like the fact that it is lined inside. This gives a bit more support and means that the outer, thick material is not as clingy to my body as it could be. Now, I don’t mind a bit of cling but I know that many people don’t so I like the thought that has gone into the dress in smaller details like this.

The material itself is nice and thick, with a tiny bit of stretch and give to it. This makes it fit my body nicely and look flattering, as much as that is a word that I dislike. The colour and pattern are beautiful, but there are also plain colour styles in the Lady Voluptuous l collection if this is something that you would prefer!

When I checked last night, only 6 of the 16 dresses available were left in a 30/32 which shows that these dresses are being snapped up. This literally fills me with joy because it shows that if you give fat women the RIGHT fashion options they will snap them up – other plus-size retailers and their ‘stop at size 26 collections’ take note!

Never one to play by the rules when it comes to dresses I also had a little play around with the style. I can really some short style dresses feeling right at home within the Lady Voluptuous range!

 

I am told that there is more to come from the Lady Voluptuous collection and I for one can’t wait to see what it brings. What would you like to see?

Debz xx

I was lucky enough to be gifted some items in this post and I am very grateful, but I am always open and honest in my reviews!

Paying Homage To Some Voluptuous Ladies

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As you will have noticed, I am a big fan of the new Lady V London/Fuller Figure Fuller Bust partnership Lady Voluptuous. I haven’t yet blogged an outfit post of me in the range – but it’s coming! I did blog about my love of the range here!


Over the past few years there have been different retailers telling us that we don’t need a varied plus size range and that the type of clothing we’re all keen to wear, just doesn’t have a market!


So… I wanted to put together a post of lots of women wearing different items from the range. To show that all shapes and sizes want all sorts of fashion and that retailers are wrong when they tell us it is not needed. I put out some shout outs on social media and these lovely ladies sent their photos – don’t they look AMAZING!?


U Can’t Wear That and Arched Eyebrow bloggers in their Cosette dresses!

Jen from Other Side of the Wardrobe and Hayley from Curves and Curls /  Facebook styling their Teal Lyra dress

Cheeky mirror shot from Danielle Vanier in her Leopard print Medusa

Lolly Likes Fatshion shows off two prints of the Cosette dress


The lovely Jodie!


The Beautiful Linn Annett from Instagram in her Medusa dress!
Jody Empson(Photo by her boyfriend) showing off her Lyra dress all the way over in Prague!



And of course, the creator Georgina looking great in some of her own designs! She’s also on every photo on the website but I wanted to include these ones to show how the dresses can be styled differently to suit you!

The range has only been out a week so not everyone has taken photos etc yet – but doesn’t this show that these ranges are needed and that women are crying out for different styles to wear no matter their size?

Perhaps I’ll do another of these in the future when I can grab even more photos from even more amazing ladies!


Have you got a Lady Voluptuous dress yet? Which is your fave?


Debz xx


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Fuller Figure Choices for a Fuller Wardrobe

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If you follow any plus size bloggers on social media then the chances are that you have heard of the new Lady V London collection launched today.


In case you haven’t heard blogger Georgina from Fuller Figure Fuller Bust has teamed up once again with Lady V London to bring us vintage dresses. When the Estella came out in sizes up to a 32 I could have cried with happiness and I have raved many, many times about how much I liked them. When I saw that Lady Voluptuous was a COLLECTION of plus size dresses up to a size 32 I thought my heart would burst.

You can see all of the dresses all over social media and I will post some pics here, but I wanted to talk about what this collection means to me and perhaps others in my shoes.

When you are at the larger end of the plus size market you get used to being told that things aren’t meant for you. You hear of celebrity plus size collections ending at size 26, because, you know anything above that is just TOO plus size for many minds to cope with. And then you get the 16-32 collections that have 25 items, where perhaps 3-4 of them actually go up to a 32. You get used to missing out and lusting over items that other plus size bodies have access to, but you miss out because you are “too fat.



When I went on the Lady V London website this afternoon the first thing I did was tick the ’30/32′ box to see how many of the 12 dresses were available to ME (selfish I know!)… Without sounding dramatic I was BESIDE MYSELF with joy when I realised that every single one of those dresses I COULD BUY! 

No one had decided that pink was too bright for a body of my size or that I couldn’t possibly need a body con clinging to my body. They made THEM ALL accessible to me… Every single last one of the beautifully made, patterned dresses I could get out my debit card and BUY! I can’t tell you the feeling that gives me… I really can’t put it into words!


I know, I am talking a lot about me and my needs but it really does go beyond that. As plus size women we are constantly told that our bodies shouldn’t be dressed in a certain way. We’re told by retailers that they haven’t made clothes in our size because they are just NOT NEEDED! That only bloggers are brave enough to wear items like this and that if the demand was there they would make them.

Well…. Let me put this to you right now.

8 hours ago Lady V London released 12 dresses. Now only 10 of them are available in a size 30/32 because two of the patterns are sold out! There are NO OTHER sizes of ANY dress that are sold out… Just the largest size! Surely that speaks for itself? Out of the 10 dresses that are left in my size, 3 of them are already ‘low stock’…. PEOPLE ARE BUYING THESE DRESSES!

I know, you could argue that they made less of them because the demand isn’t there or any other of the many reasons why this has happened. But the fact of the matter is, however many of them they made they have sold them or are selling them fast. The demand is bigger than anyone thought and that is because plus size women do want these options, we just don’t have them!

I know, this is quite a lengthy, ranty post for a set of 12 dresses but honestly, it feels like so much more to me. I love that Lady V London are a major brand in the world of vintage clothing and they have taken a risk, a leap of faith in us and our larger bodies. They have created dresses that no one else has, in sizes that other people haven’t bothered to make yet. 

Yes, the collection might not be for everyone and yes, there are probably styles, patterns, colours that you wouldn’t want to wear but honestly this is a massive step forward when it comes plus size fashion. I, for one am SO excited to see what happens with this.


Which of the dresses is your favourite?

Debz xx

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Making Dresses Work For You – The Gemma Collins Collection

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A few weeks ago the lovely ladies behind The Gemma Collins Collection got it touch to see if I would like to try a dress. The Gemma Collins Collection is great for giving glitzy, glam clothing options to plus size ladies and for that it has to be applauded! [Read more…]

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