I’m a plus-size fashionista – my easy way to find the best vintage pieces for my body type
A FASHIONISTA has revealed her easy way to find the best vintage pieces for plus-size women.
“If I'd resigned myself to a life of first-hand clothes, rather than setting my heart on vintage, I could’ve lived a far simpler life,”
“I could’ve started a small business, maybe, or picked up a hobby but I didn’t.”
“Instead, I’ve lost hours feeling love – followed by an almost immediate sense of loss.”
"I’m now intimately familiar with the mixed feelings that come from vintage shopping as a plus-size woman.”
“I’ve come to know all too well the excitement of grabbing something off a rail only to feel deflated as I see the size and find that it’s something that not even prepubescent me – hell, not even infant me– would be able to zip up, Who knew XXXS was a size?”
To combat her fashion woes, Perks uses the app, Vinted, which launched in 2008.
“Whilst other apps have dedicated vintage sellers with a more curated selection of pieces (and a price that reflects that), I’ve found that Vinted is the home for older women who do not realise that the plaid two-piece set they’ve just listed for £12 [$14] is a spitting image of a print just released by Heaven from Marc Jacobs” she wrote.
Perks also goes to vintage store Berriez, a curated vintage store, which specializes in used plus-size clothes.
She said she always filters options from online stores into her own size.
“It’s not nice to watch the 500+ available items shrink to an underwhelming 72, but it’s even worse to deal with the mental gymnastics of working out how I can squeeze my organs into a vintage corset, only to have it arrive a few days later and not even be able to fit it round my arm,” she wrote.
She said cowl necks work well for her and that she also loves early 2000s Workwear Blazers and slouchy trousers.
She added that she can get a lot of these on the Vinted app.
She ended her blog post by explaining there is nothing better in the world than finding a great fit.
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“When I see it: a satin midi skirt that a lady from Scunthorpe is selling for £8 [$9] in my size. Suddenly the world feels a little less cruel.
“The journey to vintage plus-size nirvana is underway.”