Clothes for not-exactly-thin girls

Any other creatures of comfort here? I'm constantly whipping off my clothes the second I enter my apartment and change into my pajamas, and I think it's because I'm truly uncomfortable in any form of pants. I have Hashimoto's disease which causes me to bloat like blow fish, but I don't mind being a little bigger than I'm used to being. I don't like it when people say, "Oh Pam, you're crazy, you haven't put on weight," when objectively I have, AND I think I look way better having filled out in the face. I hate it when 'big' is automatically a pejorative. I decided a lot time ago I wasn't going to coerce my body into a foreign shape, and after years of I've embraced my body totally. I believe that the strict standard of beauty will change once people see examples of graceful, stylish real women. Once they see this, demand increases and the industry will start designing for that body shape. Unfortately, there are so few bigger women who have the confidence to forget impossible standards of beauty and work with what they've got. Also, if you're born naturally thin and waifish, good for you. Rock it.

Unfortunately the winter time makes it impossible for me to wear my usual muu muu without winter leggings. I was horrified when Imitation of Christ closed because they made the BEST JEANS FOR HIPPY WOMEN. Judi Rosen does a good job of this, but I feel like her jeans are for women with butts, and I'm just not that endowed in that department. I'll stick with deconstructed, drapey dresses like this trasteverine one from oaknyc.com.


For me, my best assets are my back and my hips. Bare backs on ultra-thin girls (sorry! but true) look like jagged topography. That's why I looooove this dress by bonadrag.

For inspiration I like to look at old erotica from the 1930's. Women with curves always have inspired desire. I can't help to this that if this woman (below) had lived now, she would zero in on and hate all her best assets: