Just Want a Maxi Dress *whining* (What I Wear)

Pimps aren’t the only people having a rough time. It’s hard out here for a short plus size diva like me. It’s a lot you don’t see in pictures. I’m just 5’2”. I have short legs, torso and arms. I also have a Medium B Width foot.  Shopping can get sometimes frustrating to me.

For the 5 years in a row, I have fail to find many affordable sleeveless Maxi dress (sleeved ones look like muumuus IMO) in petite plus size. I did find one this year. Sounds like one somebody heard my cry.

I’ve yet to find a cap sleeve shirt that does not fit me like a short sleeve. See this dress with my attempt to shorten the sleeve. (This dress gets a lot of wear)

Still Not as short as it looked in the ad. I gave up trying to wear short skirts in high school. Since I have a big bust I use to pull my tight knit skirt under my bust to shorten them. Now I’m too old to wear my skirts that short.

Let me also talk to shoe industry. Can a lady with a B width foot but a wide leg get a well-crafted fashionable comfortable heel or boot? Any shoe (mostly boots) that I own that is made for plus size women are stuffed at the toe. They are too wide. I know I could go to all the other stores and get any shoe I want and I do. But I like getting my shoes from Plus Size retailers because the shoes is better crafted for a larger frame. This is one of the few B width shoe bought from a Plus Size retailer I own and was from the internet not an in-person store.

I just want to dress like everyone else and be able to pay for it also. It‘s bad enough that plus size clothes cost a little more than average. (I saw a Petite Plus Size Maxie Dress for $98) It’s already bad enough the fashion industry is very slow to understand that the “Big Girls” don’t want to dress in geriatric wear.  I just want someone to understand the “squatted” ladies are here and we want to look nice too. Don’t tell me to just get it tailored. Sometimes that cost almost as much as the item. Oh well back to whining. “I just want more than one sleeveless. Maxi dress”. LMBO

As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms

Heels for Girls

Okay today on the ABC News actually I think it was GMA this morning; there was a story about the rise in availability of heeled shoes for young girls. Some shoes are even made for three year olds. The brand they mostly focused on was Steve Madden. They are critics out there that say the heels sexualize the little girls. My eye instantly rolled. Those critics tick me off.

If you have read any of my previous blogs dealing with children, you already know I am not a parent. I have a niece who is 17 and nephew who is 7. I have a Godson who is 8. I have several God nieces ranging from 4 to 12 and God nephews 6 to 10. So, I am around kids. I have seen the heels for girls. Actually they are not new. I think in the 80's a pair of my dress (church) shoes were low wedges. I just remember at age 8 being slightly off the ground when I was dressed up on Sundays. I don't see anything sexy about those shoes. People kill me saying those shoes sexualize girls. The shoes don't make them walk sexy. The shoes don't give definition to their calves or elongate the leg. They look like kids shoes with heels on them. I think people who think that are vulgar. The reporter showed a little putting on a pair of wedge sneakers. She said she felt taller and then commences to run around in them like any other pair of sneakers kids wear. Typical childhood behavior. So, what is so sexy about that?

I don't want to hear anything about pedophile look at young girls sexually because of the shoes. Pedophiles are sick. Some can look at a baby bundled up on a blanket and have thought. Pedophilia is about control. Girls & boys without heels on are getting molested and raped. So let's debunk that excuse.

I'm not saying that girls should wear them all time. I actually think the dress shoes should be worn for Pageant and Special or Formal Occasions only. A girl should not wear them to school everyday. The wedge sneakers can go to school but also she should wear regular sneakers also. Little girls’ knees and legs need a rest. And as for a three year in some heels, that is a bit much. Three years old children can barely walk straight in bare feet. I know they are falling down in heels. I think they should be at least school age when they wear the low heels.

Oh well, again I'm not a parent. But I know many agree with me that the shoes are not sexy. If they made those shoes in Adult sizes and sexy will not be the word that comes to mind. I get tired of every little innocent thing supposedly sexualizing children. If the girl is not dress as a prostitute, stripper, or porn star with a face full of makeup then I don't think she being sexualized. Pair those shoes with a cute cupcake dress with her hair in ponytail and hair ribbons and she'll look like Easter morning or the cutest flower girl ever been seen.

Put Your Shoes Back On!!!

Let me make this quick. It's heavy "Going Out" season for the Diva. Yeah, I socially hibernate or slack off during the cooler times of the year and hit is hard (well hard as I want it to be) in the Spring & Summer. I have a couple of events to go to in a few days so I am looking through the wardrobe and shoes. I start thinking about shoes for cute (I call them Sitting Shoes) and shoes for comfort for these events. 98% of the time shoes for comfort win. The rare time shoes for cute win trust me I have a comfort shoe waiting in the wings of the car or my clutch. Then I thought about the ladies who walk around social events without shoes on because their shoes are hurting their feet. I took a deep sigh. Walking around barefoot in public is not cute. It needs to stop. I just don't understand it. Once as a bridesmaid, I slipped off my shoes and I was standing there grossed out. (Not one of my cuter moments). Public floors carry dirt & diseases from other people's shoes. If it's a dance floor, it has dirt, diseases, sweat and maybe a wasted drink on it. Oh yeah that's what I want on the soles of my feet.  Either wear shoes that are comfortable and cute (They make them. I own them) or get some roll up flats. There are so many versions of roll up flats out on the market for you to slip on for you not to walk around barefoot. Invest in them! I have seen so many women cut their feet, get their feet stepped on and even have their shoes stolen. I just want the public bare feet to stop. If I'm not talking to you share this with an offender of the gross phenomena

As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms

MY SITTING SHOES

Next summer I'm wearing these puppies
Come on sitting event for the sitting shoes

Reputting them away *tear*
I know I got issues

Everyone who knows me knows when it comes to my feet I do not believe fashion is pain. I'll wear girdles, shaping cami, body slips, panyhose d lift my bust as high as I can stand it that day or night but my feet have to feel good. I only wear High heels (over 2 1/2 inches) to sitting events (75 - 100 % sitting). Like jazz bars or funerals of my relatives (because I know I'll have a seat).

I used to wear them to church but I changed churches The church I attend now we stand for praise and worship for at least 15 to 30 minutes and I don't like taking my shoes of in public. So the 2 1/2 go into the Lord's house.

Those pair I had a chance to wear them for my birthday in June. But after grocery shopping, going to the bank, and walking all over two shoes store with my teenage niece looking for her some comfy shoes, my ankle was a tad swollen so I settled for some cute wedges that evening.

I have friends that subscribe to the pain is beauty rule when it comes to shoes. One can't line dance without sitting & the other's foot swells in stilettos. Yet they forge ahead in their trendy footwear.  Such brave souls.

I've even noticed in many pictures I quite shorter than my friends. LoL I'm already 5'2" and standing in ankle wraped thong sandals (though very cute) next to someone in 4 inch gladitors looks hilarious. But hey I could hit the dance floor all night. They could not.

And you would think somebody would make cuter comfortable Mid- high to flat shoes or Comfortable High heel shoes. But nooooo not so. Oh well. On to next year. To wear my patent leather (yes I follow the labor day rule) high heeled platformed pumps LoL Let me get out the peep toe wedges