How To Wear A Plus Size Dress

Hi, I'm Zoe Lem, stylist and owner of My Sugarland, and today I'm going to give you some insider's tips on how to do fashion. I'm now going to show you how to wear a plus size dress. So, we can do two options.

If you buy a plus size dress, but it came in vintage, they generally come out either really tiny or big, so if you want to make this dress work for you, and it's too big, then I'm going to show you what to do. There are a few different options. This is a great shape and beautiful fabric, and a lot of the detail that comes in vintage dresses makes them worth buying, but try to make them work.

Options: You can actually have them taken in, obviously, but you need to make sure you do it from the right place. So rather than pulling out the back, that's going to change the shape and distort the dress, you need to do it evenly off each side so you need to take it off through the side seam. An easy job to do, most dry cleaners will do it for you, but you need to make sure you are getting it done through the right place.

So, you need to pull it in through the side seams and then this whole shape will stay the same, it won't affect the style but it will fit you. It will also then take it in from the arm hole which will then make that work. Alternatively, if it's a little bit big but not massive, you can use a belt to pull it in.

These wrappy belts are great because they really pull it in without having to buckle up, and it keeps a simple line, you can do a satin sash one, this one's actually leather. So, that, you could do. If you are looking for a plus size dress and you are slightly fuller figured and slightly bigger, it's about getting a really great shape for you, balance, balance is really the most important thing, so this is very flattering through the bust.

Here, this cuts through the bust, anything again, anything that draws a line though the bust cuts into it and makes it look smaller, like with anything, anywhere you draw a line. So, this cuts through the bust, and draws lines through the bust, and makes it look smaller. The balance then with the hip, the pencil shape balances out the shoulders.

So, this is a great shape and it's about what to put with it. If you want to cover your arms, if that's an area that you're not overly keen on, then it's about adding something on top. A lot of dresses, and especially vintage, are sleeveless, it doesn't mean don't go for them, because you can make them work.

So just by adding a shoulder, you balance out the hips. This is just sheer and very simple, you've got detail going on here. But if you add something to the shoulders, it's going to cover up the arms a little bit, but it's also going to balance out.

You can even go for a slight A-lined shaped skirt and again you are getting that balance. And then, what to put with it. So, it's about pulling out the tones you've already got in there, the delicate beading work you've got here, going for something that is beaded bag-wise, or going for a more blocky simple shape and going a bit of a contrast.

It's very important, if you're fuller figured, to think about the accessories as well because they need to be in proportion. If you go for very tiny accessories, it's going to make you look bigger. So, accessories and prints need to in proportion.

If you're fuller figured and taller, you also need to go for bolder prints, smaller petite prints will make you look bigger. Likewise if you're more petite. So, the right size accessories, the right accent on the dress and the right balance with the shoulders and then that's a great look.

And that's how to wear a plus size dress. .