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Dear Lane Bryant:

I cannot but help to think there must have been a better picture in this photo shoot to use, instead of one that made this beautiful model look awkward and dumpy. If she looks awkward and dumpy in that dress, what on earth would I look like wearing it?

She's much better-looking in this one, so I know it's not her!

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No, it's not the photo. That thing with the ruffle oozing off the shoulder is a crap dress, is the problem.

MOAR RUFFLES, YOU SAY?!

But ruffles are so slimming!

#3 is only appropriate if you're about to break out into flamenco at any moment! We shall speak no more of the others. ಠ_ಠ

The color & the shape combine to make it look like a fancy paper bag. And the color is not a good one for her.

Yeah...I think that might just actually be a frumpy dress!

Dear GOD. It makes her look exactly like a potato. With a frill.

BUT SHE'S DOING THAT TILTED FOOT THING OF TILTED MODEL FEET

"Am I poised in mid-step like a graceful deer in flight, am I pulling my leg inward to disguise my grotesquely obese (size 12) legs behind each other, or has a rusty nail through my sole left me hobbling in agonized pain? *You* decide!"

I think it's a mix of direction crossed with an ugly dress in a colour and cut that is incredibly unflattering for the model - she's so washed out in it, it looks frumpy as hell.

I think that catalog shoots are rapid fire get-dress-on, take-shots, get-next-dress-on, but you'd think they'd have managed to get a better pose or something, at least!

Well, they're trying to show the dress off, not the model, but GAH.

As a gal with an excessive bust and unfortunately rectangular figure, not to mention one who can't stand ruffles, that photo does a great job of putting me off completely, I have to say X)

MOAR RUFFLES, YOU SAY?! (http://i.imgur.com/TzriK.jpg)

Y HALO THERE, CUZ.

Those are my major figure issues as well, and wow, do I hate ruffles! I especially hate them on sweaters and other bulky/heavy garments.

Y HALO HOW R U

I have, fortunately, found a good place to get bras in my size, but heaven help me find a nice top for going out that doesn't gape between the button holes or has enough torso length to accomodate. :(

A dress that doesn't make you look dumpy is a godsend. That dress up there: totally failtastic.

This is part of the reason I rarely wear dresses. My daughter, who is heavier but more curvaceous, looks much better in them than I do.

I also try to avoid tops that button down the front, although for summer, I've found some relatively boxy styles that work OK.

My bra issues are more complex (warning: link may be TMI) than size alone would imply. I can no longer wear underwires because they are so uncomfortable for me, and even most soft cup styles are not tolerable for more than a couple of hours.

Wow, that's an unfortunate photo! They should have put it on a darker skinned/haired gal... and um...made the dress completely different. Yeah, that. That dress is not a winner.

The problem is obviously not enough ruffles!

Er, yeah.

Or little waving tentacles? I could appreciate a fashion aesthetic in which we all dressed up as impressionistic sea creatures.

Oh well, yes, definitely that's the problem. ;)

(I still think they should have just switched models.)

I think it's the line of the dress, honestly. It resembles more a brown paper bag or a burlap sack that is unraveling, I think. Seriously, it looks like they took some excess material and pretended it was ruffles before putting it over some plain cloth that they stitched together and said, voila, a dress. Terrible looking thing.

That's partly it. The hemline also hits her just a hair too high so her legs look dumpy, and there's something weird going on with her right upper arm. Not to mention that her hair falling over her shoulders like that is making her look like she's got extra-high shoulders and no neck.

It's really, really ugly.

Kind of sad to think someone out there someone would pay money to wear something that awful.

Whatever designer thought that it would be a great idea to have limp, fleshtone ruffly whatsit run right down the center front of a dress should be smacked a bit.

Gah, there's just so much wrong with that dress, it's incredible. And when *I* can spot the flaws, you know they're bad!

Without the ruffle it would have been a boring, conservative sheath dress that sort of vanished into the skin tone of many lighter members of the population. With the ruffle, it's a masterpiece of hideousness.

Hideousness..and fabric genitals.

(okay, maybe it's only me that sees the labia and/or flaccid penis. But not I can't unsee them, so I'm sharing them like a mental flu virus.)

I was seeing them, but trying to keep my mental images quiet. Obviously it's not working, as they've spread to you.

More like the frills sported by the more exuberant nudibranches.

Frilly penis. Yeah, that'd work....

Some dresses, there's just no way to save. A different color, a little more tuck in at the waist, it might have been passable. Flesh-tone and rectangular makes her look like a candidate for What Not To Wear.

That is a really unfortunate dress. Bad color, bad cut, and oh lordy, why would anyone want a giant ruffle trailing from one shoulder to the middle of the dress?! I swear, I don't know what fashion designers are thinking sometimes. I don't think that dress would look good on anybody. Bleh.

Dress #2 is cute, though!

Sometimes, some fashion trends just cannot be applied well to larger women. Granted, some people say that about capris and large women, but ~~NO ONE IS TAKING THE CAPRIS THEY ARE HOW I SURVIVE IN THE SUMMER DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE MY COTTAGE CHEESE STRETCH-MARKED UPPER THIGHS~~

While we're at it, Lane Byrant, there's a lot of shirts I love of yours, but you keep designing the bust as if I'm sporting double Ds, making some shirts sag on me in places I can't fix by going one size down. It makes it so that anything with a slightly lower neckline plunges waaaaay too much on me.

Thank god for CJ Banks- that store seems to be designed for 'looks like it's for your mom, but you can shop there too and find things that won't fall apart in two years for the same price'.

In the last year I've taken to buying most of my clothing from Kiyonna and Igigi online. More expensive, but I've finally come to realize that I should be spending more money on fewer items of clothing. :) (And I hop on the sales whenever I can!)

Both places seem to cater for the hourglass figure more than the apple, and I occasionally need to get the top taken in on a dress, but it's so nice to be able to look at something and know it'll look nice on me! And that some of us plus-size women have defined waists! And that some of us are short! (I hat Lane Bryant's assumption that women are all 5'6"-5'9" because most of their waists fall at my hips. :P)

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