#this dark red sleevless dress that buttons down the front yes i have ONE dress i like now

[electrificata]

i mention all the time how in the early 2010s when i started seeing womens plus size clothes that were even remotely tolerable, it was all this 50s pinup kind of shit. and i can tolerate a small amount of that in my personal style, but i wanted some other options too, and that was hard to find. and i thought to myself "well things are just gonna keep opening up and eventually there will be more and more options" and of course that was wrong, because i think really what just happened is theres one Dominant Fat People Aesthetic and it just keeps changing.

in the mid 2010s the brands with extended sizes were like asos and fashionnova and boohoo, like ig baddie stuff. and same deal with that as with the pinup shit, i like a little of that, i def wore one of the more conservative fashionnova dresses to my cousin's bar mitzvah, but its not a whole wardrobe for me.

now what im seeing in the world of fat people style is like...big bud press/selkie kinda shit. like, "what if grown ups could wear toddler clothes too" big floofy dresses and skirts or baggy basic workwear in crayola colors (to be fair this is what gay people of many sizes are wearing), or maybe "goth but its very specifically goth cartoon characters" and again! that is fine, i have some big bud press pants and they're very comfortable but PLEASE can we have more than one aesthetic in the plus size fashion world at a time!! capitalism your free market wants me to wear overalls so so so bad and its just not for me.