Aussie Curves- Maxi Dress

As I prepared for the maxi dress challenge, I realised that I had three maxi dresses, and that all of them had been featured on the blog already. I didn't want to spend any money, so I decided to show you the same dress but styled differently. I'd worn my stripey dress before styled in red, so I'm showing you it styled in green.

The dress and the cardigan is from Big W. I wish Big W would bring more cardies in bright colours out, it's so hard to find them in my size. There were some bright pink ones in stock the other day, but only in size 18. 

I love my Mario bag. I bought it off ebay ages ago, and its held up well. Strongly made and bright, what's not to love! My Volleys are from Big W too, from the men's department since the women's don't go up to size 11. They were cheap, about $10 if I remember correctly.

My necklace was a gift from a friend, its a brooch or a necklace. I wanted to wear it as a necklace so I cobbled together a ribbon using the loops cut off from my green cardigan. One of these days I'll get a long ribbon and do it properly.

Outfit Details

Dress: Big W (26)

Cardigan: Big W (26)

Shoes: Big W (11)

Necklace and Bracelet: Gift from friends

Hair flower: Target

Belt: Asos Curve

Blue and Green Striped Maxi

I love me some stripes (almost as much as polka dots) so when I found this cheap maxi at Kmart I was excited. It also has one of my favourite colours in it- blue. I wore it with my blue hair flowers, a green sparkly necklace I'd picked up from one of those little pop-up shops in shopping centres and blue and green bead earrings. I added the black elastic belt for a bit more visual interest (it was an op shop find).

The dress fabric is a nice breathy cotton, not as stretchy as my other stripey maxi (seen here). I went for a size 24 initially but it was too loose in the top. The 22 fitted better, and now that I'm cool with dresses hugging my curves the bottom part of the dress was no problem!

Once again I'm pairing a blue dress with my new op shop boots. I think my boots are going to feature often at least until the excitement of the find has worn off!

Stay tuned for another outfit for "blue week" coming out later in the week!

Outfit Details
Dress: Kmart (22)
Bike pants (underneath): Big W (22)
Boots: Thrifted
Necklace: market/pop-up shop
Bracelet: from a friend
Hair flowers: Target
Belt: Thrifted
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Aussie Curves: Stripes

I was looking forward to this week's Aussie Curves challenge. Stripes is an easy one for me- the problem was deciding on which outfit to put together. I finally decided on a maxi dress I had picked up from Big W.

It's super comfy, the straps are wide enough to hide bra straps, and it's just the right length. I still think Big W need to work on their sizing, this dress was snug at a size 26.

I decided on red accessories, including this fab red handbag I picked up from the op shop for $3.

I'm wearing my pretty wedge shoes I purchased from Big W. Still practising wearing them around the house.

Jewelry was picked up from markets and gifted from friends.

Outfit Details

Dress: Big W (26)

Shoes: Big W (11)

Handbag: Op shop (Vinnies)

Bracelets: Yours Clothing

Necklace: Olive Tree Markets

Earrings: Markets at my son's school

Hair Clips: Gifted

Stripes of Body Acceptance

This outfit inspired a post for Kiki and Tea, whom I write regularly for.
Here's a quick excerpt, but I encourage you to go read it in its entirety here.

"I looked at where the material hugged my tummy. A year ago this would have been a deal breaker. Anything that showed the shape of my stomach was not to be considered. As I studied myself in the mirror, I thought “well who cares. This is my tummy. It’s round and part of me, and I don’t need to hide the shape of it.” I suddenly became aware that I was having a moment. Never did I imagine that I would be able to think of my body in this way."

This dress is from the straight size section at Target, size 18. The stretchy fabric and oversized style make it possible to fit my 22-26 body. The plus-size section at Target is woeful, I wrote on their facebook page about it. 

Nope, not ashamed of my belly! The earrings are from Target too, I love their shape and colour.

And a "screw the fashion police" side pose. Yep, my butt does stick out that far. ;-) I loooove stripes!

Outfit Details

Dress: Target (18)

Shoes: Big W (11)

Earrings: Target

Leggings (under dress): Autograph (M)