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Plus Size Stores

Plus Size Shoes and a Depressing Shopping Experience

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I was in search of some shoes today. Let me start off by telling you why…I generally use my Crocs (flip-flops) in the summer for darn near everything. I love them because no matter how much my feet swell, I’m comfortable. Last night, we went out for the night, and I needed some dressier shoes, because I wasn’t familiar with the venue we were going to. I didn’t want to just try to squeeze by with flip-flops of course, and my black shoes I used to rely on weren’t fitting so well anymore.

I went into a panic last night, about to walk out the door and not a clue what shoes to wear. I finally dug out an old pair of sandals that were open toe and had white leather. They were fine and passed for the evening.

I realized, I no longer had a pair of dress shoes that I could comfortably wear….

WELL….8 shoe stores later, I finally came upon a pair of shoes. 5 out of the 8 stores were pretty well useless and maybe had 1 or 2 wide sizes total in the store…and it was finally Payless that came through for me.

I hit 2 separate Kohls, I hit Rockport, I hit Target, I hit a couple shoe stores in the mall, and I even tried a Walmart. While some hide wide sizes – they weren’t a good fit for me. I swell more on the top of my feet that at the sides, so if it’s too snug on top, it doesn’t work.

Talk about a depressing experience. When I go through this, I just want to curl up in a ball on the floor and cry — the entire time I’m going from store to store, it’s forcing me to focus on the things I don’t like about myself….and that’s hard.

It’s easy enough to go about my day to day life and ignore some of those things, but in this time and experience, the entire day forces me to look at my situation and see how absolutely disgusted and frustrated I am that I’ve let myself be at the point that it’s such a struggle to find comfortable shoes.

I want to say I wear my weight with pride. Some days — I’m totally okay – other days, not so much. Today was one of those days.

I don’t only need WIDE shoes, I need PLUS SIZE SHOES!

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Plus Size Clothing Stores

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Not many plus size clothing stores in this vacation spot. I’m on vacation this week, and on the entire island, there are only 2 small places that cater to plus size women. One doesn’t exactly cater to us, there’s a small section politely tucked in the back of the store, but at least they have sizes up to 3x, which is more than most the stores here have.

There is a plus size clothing store down the block though, and I was able to shop for not only cute clothing, but it was on sale, 50% off, which is a good thing, seeing as I was still able to do a bit of damage! I spent $200 but I ended up with 8 pieces, so I’m not upset about that. I picked up 3 pair of capris, 3 cute shirts, a sweatshirt and a sundress.

Retailers, take note….we have money, and we like to shop too. You’re missing a big segment of the population- women looking for clothing that not only fits a plus size woman, but women who have money to spend and are often overlooked.

Interesting note on the plus size clothing stores I visited this week– small dressing rooms, and racks too close together. It’s hard to squeeze between clothing racks spaced way too close apart…and the dressing room, if it’s all ready small, while I appreciate that you put a small chair in the room, it took up half of the dressing room, which made it way too tight of a fit for this shopper!

Anyway, just wanted to send a shout out and say….there are plus size clothing stores in malls, but in vacation spots, they can often be very hard to find. It’s a great market for those looking for a niche– retailers take note..cha-ching…underserved market, women desperate to find nice clothing at affordable prices…

ta-ta…off to enjoy the scenery of the area

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Plus Size Stores

Looking for some plus size stores? Check out this list. When it comes to online shopping, there’s a large assortment of stores for plus size women. The only problem for me is that I prefer to try on a lot of clothing before buying it. I vary in size based on the cut sometimes. The [...]

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Plus Size Shoes and Wide Calf Boots

Plus size shoes sounds funny doesn’t it? Wide shoes is what most people say, but let me spell it out for you. My feet swell on top, as well as the side, and I need shoes that were made for me! One of the beefs I have is finding boots that fit over my calves [...]

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