Eshakti Referral Code

**Updated**

Any of my readers want to try buying dresses, pants, tops, skirts from eshakti.com, but been hesitant?

I have a $50 discount code if you want to give them a try.


Not only do they do custom sizing ($9.95), they have now started to offer their dresses in different fabrics. 

If you like the style of dress A, but you really want it in fabric B, they will do it for a small fee!







The referral code entitles the new customer to get $50 off their first purchase.

What were you thinking???

wow.. I can't... I mean.. ::head desk::

Footwear follies

Since moving to the Tennessee I have discovered the weather here is drastically different!

Body talk

How do you talk about your body?

style flashback: 80's tv edition

Today I was browsing modcloth and I had a clothing flashback

The Bird and the Bee: Part 2 The Reply

Hi friends.
I got a reply to my email from this post.

The Bird and the Bee: GB wrap up

Hello friends!

I am on the cusp of the end of my trial with Gwynnie Bee, as you saw over my last few posts I have been less than thrilled with my trial.
So today I wrote them an email about my experience it reads as follows:

The Bee: part 3

Third dress arrived from Gwynnie Bee, And while it is pretty and more casual, it really wasn't good for me.

The Bee: Package 2

Howdy friends!

Package #2 from Gwynnie Bee showed up on Thursday.  Pretty fast turn around, considering I mailed back the other dress on Monday.

Clothing I love

(this is a personal opinion: I have not been offered anything to give this opinion. This message is not sponsored in any way shape or form. But if these fine brands wants to throw some plus size stuff my way, I wont say no.. just saying!)
Hi friends, Sorry I have been gone so long.

Today I am going to dish about some clothing.

dress?

I was looking around ASOS curve this evening and I noticed something a bit off..
They keep using the word "dress" when clearly they mean "shirt"
I am all for being comfortable, but these take it a bit too far..

All the pretty things

Recently things have been rather dark and gloomy. To fix this, I decided to get a little more color in my life

Complaint Department: seatcover edition

This is the post where I talk about my underpants..
If you do not want to know about my bloomers, I suggest you walk on.

Skirts, boots, dresses.. and Pasta?

The clothes from my previous post The Naughty List arrived.
I have been wearing the blue skirt at least once a week. okay i'll be honest, I wear it to work once a week, but then I wear it at home way more often.
Its blissfully soft, blue and has an odd hem. In short almost perfect. There is an odd bit on the trim that sits funny, but I am willing to ignore it.

After Holiday: Naughty List

Yes, I just blew all my x-mass bonus from work on what I really wanted for the holiday.. socks and clothes.
Oh how times have changed.
I remember when all I wanted was toys, movies and various tasty snacks for gifts.

Crap fat clothes.. For fall

:: a note for the "nice police", I get that some people will like some/part/all of the clothing I have chosen to write in a sarcastic manner about. That's fine you can like the clothes. But I don't. I am in no way criticizing you or your fashion choices. I am simply stating my opinion about these items. Don't agree? peachy. don't like this post? Read something from before, or come back for my next one. I will delve deeper into my dislike for what clothing offerings get given to us fat people. And why I write sarcastically about clothing::


When I typed the title for this blog it auto corrected fall to fail.. Seems my internet is starting to think like me!

So this Is going to be a photo heavy post of just a few of the more sad things I have found for fall clothing for fat people.. I didn't have to go far to find sad examples of shit choices.. This isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

Lets start this with a trip to ASOS:
I do like some/most? of their clothing so don't get me wrong. But some of their style choices confuse the crap out of me.
Lets see how far the pendulum swings shall we?

Don't mind me I just have some serious shoulder studs to keep the pigeons off.

And then you get something cute like this dress:

or you get this..

Cause a "cold shoulder plaid shirt dress" is all the rage
I love looking like I fell out of bed in the morning, after being ravaged by wolves..

Anyone else feel like we are in high school gym class??
Class it up with some heels.. who wants to run the mile??

Wow we hit normal, well made and can work on a variety of bodies.. 

Only to fall into the pit of leather sausage casings. 
The elastic back totally sells this look. I love having saggy weird looking butt.

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 Look Ma! You too cam wear your sweats as overalls! 
The no back pocket thing will make your ass look big and lumpy, and the camel toe will be epic but whatever.. Fatshion!

OOO new this season, after the success of the grey sack, we have the floral option. Still no back pockets, but the new pattern helps mask the camel toe.

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Our next stop takes us to:  Old Navy. Where they have almost completely given up proper sizing, construction, fit, style and fabric choices.

I can't tell who is wearing the potato sack of a dress worse; 

the poor girl in the photo or the headless plastic mannequin?? 

 Look potato sack now comes in a print!

Seriously old navy, step up your game just a little! Great that you carry a variety of sizes (whether intentional or not so) But I would love to see better construction, and less sack. Thanks!

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Ahh our last stop on the snark train is: Horrid Torrid.

hideous lace, or eyelet tap shorts anyone?  Come on you know you want to dress like Nana on her cruise!

How about a matching floral jacket and top? 'Cause nothing is better camouflage, than big floral print on a fat girl.  

It looks like this print is going to be big with the teenage middle management set! "Oh my god; I'm like such an adult!" (this would look smashing with the shorts above)

How about the jacket equivalent of a mullet only reversed? 

Business in the back (tailored, nice clean cut).
Fuckin' Party in the front! Badly cut, no semblance of tailoring, studs/sequins, off center zipper.
looking at this makes me feel like I'm  coming off a black out drunk.

Speaking of blackout drunk;
Whose idea was it to do band shirts for teenagers (of bands they don't listen to?)

I'll give you a maybe, to Sublime. like if their older brother/uncle/aunt is 26-45, then maybe they know who Sublime was. And they have listened to: "You know that one cd with the tattoo on it". 

The Grateful Dead: I have serious doubts about. For the sake of argument, I will also give you a maybe. They might listen to the Dead.  

But Rush?!? Really?? Have you ever seen how empty a women's bathroom is at a Rush concert?? Not to mention the average age of a Rush fan. Do not even try to convince me that the market demographic of Torrid listens to Rush. It just isn't likely at all! 

"Geddy Lee? Who Is she?"  

Yeah, no!

If you want a more comprehensive list of shit clothes, please go look at Romans.com. cause who doesn't want fat clothes modeled on standard size women?? That really helps us fat chicks have an idea of what the clothes look like on a bigger body!
You can also look at:
Target
Walmart
Simply Be
forever 21
Wet Seal
Kohl's
Lane Bryant
really anywhere that sells fat people clothes.


<End Snark>
Much love!
Raven

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PPS: Please go read the comments on this! there are more comments and great opinions: my post on LJ group

 Follow up post

alight.com review Q&A 2.5

In my last post, I had a reader ask me to review my experiences with alight.com .
This is just my opinion and experience. Alight.com has not offered me anything to give my opinion. (however if they want to kick down a gift card or something I wouldn't say no)
If someone who reads this has any of these dresses, and they are in good condition, in a 3x or 4x, 24 or 26, please hit me up!

I own a sum total of three dresses from alight they are:

"Modern age dress" by: mlle gabrielle (2006?)

I adore this dress! its a very soft cotton. It has washed well and worn hard. I think I might have lost a button at some point. but that was my fault not the dress. i would really like to see this style come back. At the time I bought this dress there were two others that had a similar cut to them. But since the dress was like $50 I couldn't afford them too. I will include the photos so you can drool too.

old fashion orange dress

hue bet

This is my power dress! It was called "the big time dress" by sele

I can't express how well this dress has lasted. It looks just as good as the day I received it.

And I wear this dress a lot! I wash it and hang it to dry. This dress was purchased in 2008 I believe.

Now I own this Blue plate dress (4x) in a different color, that I then dyed purple-ish. 

but I thrifted it. therefore I did not got it directly from alight

It too seems well made. Also cotton, and very soft. almost gauzy.

So my review is this:

The clothing I have, are all very well constructed! 

They wash and wear just fine. So durable, yes!

Sizing: it depends on the brand (like all clothing). But I would say the sizing is fairly consistent. I can wear anywhere from a 3x up to a size 28. 

Alight provides the measurements for a 1x in most items, rule of thumb is to increase each size by about two inches (example: 1x has a 42 bust, a 2x would have a 44 bust.. and so on.)

They also have brand specific size information. This is very helpful!

Only down side: is the price of the clothing. 

I however feel that the quality of the clothing is fair to the price they charge. It's a toss up.

I hope this was helpful! 

Raven

PS: if my readers have any more questions, things they want me to review, or topics they would like me to cover; Please leave a comment. Or you can email me directly.

Q&A part one

I asked you my readers for content ideas or things to here my opinion about, This is the first of (hopefully) a rotating discussion.

Todays thought comes from: 

Mama PantsSeptember 5, 2013 at 3:09 PM

Could you blog about your experiences with Alight clothing as far as size, durability, shrinking? I have always been tempted but never took the plunge, and I am curious.

Also completely off topic....

You seem very unconcerned about what people think about you, or maybe better to say, you seem very comfortable in your own skin, any tips how to get there? I find myself apologizing for everything all the time...hate that.

I am enjoying your blog by the way....

 and here is my response:

**video contains me swearing.. a lot.. sorry if that offends you.**

Keep the ideas coming. And let me know if you like the video post?

Raven
PS second video in the series

clothes, sweet new clothes

I was lucky enough to be asked to join my friend at cupcakes and muffin tops.

It's an oakland clothing swap type thing. 

for the last two years it had been heal the same day i was leaving for burning man, so I couldn't go (Super Sad Face!)

This year they changed weekends and I was beyond thrilled.

I got some really great stuff! And a triple line score.. While standing in line to leave I got a dress (photos below), a pretty peacock greenish teal skirt and leather skirt. 

(all clothed are on my plus size dress form. the fabric on it is weird so there is a cream slip on it)

The icing on the cake, is the dress I got I have wanted FOREVER! like 8 years, no shit. It was a dress at that place where I won't shop anymore torrid.

This dears is the dress 

And in my almost size to boot!

I am still so happy to finally own this stupid dress. Every time it has ever come up on ebay I have always gotten out bid.. but not any more bitches! it's mine now!!! *cough cough* 

Sorry about that ..  any who

Also got this fun brown leather skirt. And it happens to look great with my old green top. (happens to look fantastic with my tool belt)

I scored this fun baby doll dress. It has pockets, that is an automatic win for me.

Non cupcakes and muffin tips stuff that I love, and will be with me at the burn:

 This vintage sheer robe. with an almost kimono print. (etsy $20, plus size with like 60 inch hips)

Owned this black and cream babydoll for ages. again from that place I won't shop anymore 

(at least until prices drop and quality increases).

My amazing black and green halter. This baby got worn on my 21st birthday 

(yes that was awhile ago now). 

Love it to pieces. if anyone has one similar, I'll gladly buy it off you if its a size 24 or 26 4x

Pretty red thrifted skirt

Don't pay any attention to my mess of a fabric stash behind the dress form..
You see nothing!


Love Raven

We Have Winner! (dixie belle lingerie slip giveaway pt. 2)

Yes ladies we have a winner!

I would like to thank everyone who entered.
All of the comments and likes were amazing. Nice to know that someone other than my mom reads this little snark filled blog.

I will cut to the chase out fabulous winner is:Gail 
(I redrew the winner, due to other person no contacting me.. and yes I emailed them)
::trumpets sound::

You will be rocking the ever popular and sexy #04514 (you lucky thing you)

A very big thank you to our sponsor Dixie Belle Lingerie, Without whom I wouldn't have had something so great to give away.

Please do check out their slips and undies. 
(they have a pretty new web site! go check it out.. I'll wait)
I have been amazed by their fit, and value. I can only hope you will be too.


much love

Raven