Life After Lane Bryant's

Love this. I have posted before that I once went in to Lane Bryant weighing 120 lbs after wls (looking for a baggy flannel nightgown). I was totally snubbed by the sales staff as though I was invisible! And at Nordroms (where I used to get snubbed) they were all over me!!!! ds

My favorite store post-op has become J.Jill. There clothes are incredibly comfortable and lots of mix and match.

My biggest surprise post-op is that clothes last forever. Because my size doesn't really change, I simply buy new clothes because I get bored with the old clothes.

Also, every spring and fall when I take out/put away my seasonal clothes, I'm still amazed when everything still fits :)

I remember going to Victoria Secret as soon as I could. Shopped there for several years - now bras and such come from Rigby & Peller (formerly Intimacy).

I didn't really have a particular store in mind however I just wanted to be able to find things that fit. I love that now I can find things anywhere I go and not have to go to Avenue or Layne Bryant any longer. It was a great day when I got to close my Avenue credit card account and told them I no longer could shop there because their smallest size was several sizes too big for me now. Shopping at Ross and even some things at Walmart is an amazing thing! :)

I love shopping at J Crew and Banana Republic. I find it easy to find clothes that fit me there. And I love the sales!

Anthropologie has great sales sometimes on beautiful clothing. Have you checked them out? Or maybe not your style(jcrew more preppy I think?). I am all over the spectrum with stores, if I look enough I can find things I like everywhere... was not the case when overweight! Macys was my favorite and main store before WLS. Was not much of a lane Bryant or avenue shopper.

It sounds funny but I wanted to buy the cute jeans at Costco or the jackets that were such a great deal but always too small. I know have every color of JV Jeans Costco sells and I love the way they fit me. I also own three different Costco jackets as well. I can't believe how many clothes I have now! My husband walks by my closet and nickers.

Liz

That must have been fantastic when you were able to do that!!

Sometimes it's the small things that give us the biggest hug!

I am a clothes hoarder and have always been that way...and I really think that besides just being healthy and able to move normally, the biggest thing I look forward to is buying all the new clothes!!

I am a bargain shopper so I love going to outlet stores like Burlington and Marshalls/TJmaxx and Ross and rarely do they have much in plus sizes...I have always sighed walking by the clothes I could "never wear"...I am just now getting close to straight sizes (14/16) and can't stop buying clothes I know I won't be able to wear next year...but it's just SO FUN! I want to buy everything but my bank account is not forgiving LOL.

I went to Victoria's secret a last week to buy perfume (because Love Spell is my absolute favorite--and, which is the only thing I've ever been able to get there really) and realized that I could probably wear their underwear and bra's now!
I am definitely going there once I am at my goal...but for now I'll buy cheap ones from the department stores since they only seem to last about 2 months LOL.

I actually just discovered I had half a wardrobe in my basement already since I kept so many clothes from 12 years ago WISHING myself to be that size again...now that I am the weight I was back then, I went through them yesterday and many of them are now too BIG! and a lot of the ones that do fit, are completely out of style or made for a young 20-something which I am not anymore LOL.

There you go, the perfect gift no matter what size we wear, perfume