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OH, MissC, you speak the truth!!! Now, I don't have the kind of body that can wear that "cutsie" stuff any more... I'm OLD for goodness sakes! You wouldn't want to see a BUDDHA belly sticking out of a short little shirt, would you? (Not in this country..)

I will NOT wear cruise wear... wondering if that's why the lesbian "uniform" is a T shirt and jeans???

Veg. You! know that , that has pretty much always been the uniform except for some who chose to wear those God Awful Binders! Miss C I do wear the stuff! Didn't you all figure I did? Now, I have beautiful suits for things from high tailor to frills and buttons and bows. Hand bags and shoes gloves and hats! I actually wear these things to meetings etc. and start stripping at the door as soon I get home! I have tight legs and my favs the big bells. I have 2 huge closets that are packed full. I left out 5 evening gowns and 3 cocktail dresses, I prefer 2 of the little black dresses I have and I do love my makeup and my hair !!!! Right now I have a torrid Fushia streak running thtough it!! Free spirit! People never know what they are going to get with me!LOL- I got about 2 1/2 ft in 1 closet of my butch clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuschia streak! Yay, proud!

Cruise wear makes me ill as well. So do the clothes in Chico's! I still wear jeans and tank tops--tee shirts are too covered up. I don't own suits--well I had one, and it looked good, but I always felt too grown up in it, lol. It doesn't fit now that I quit smoking and went through menopause and gained fifteen pounds.

But, I like gypsy clothes best! Maybe it's a hangover from the old late 60's when ethnic clothing was big. I like big earrings and silver strappy sandals and jangly bracelets, etc. Feels like home!

LOL! Fuschia streak, eh? Cool! I have never dyed my hair any odd colors... but I do dye it. I like me better blond, like when I was younger.

Cresto, I can see you in those gypsy things. I used to like those puffy sleeved "poet's shirts"... that's what I called 'em, but I don't know if that's a real term or something I made up.

Cruise wear? Never heard the term, but I know what you mean.

When I grub around the house, I wear a tshirt and jeans. For comfort. But out and about, I go snazzy. I take my daughter out with me clothes shopping, and she picks out outfits that make me look good, not like a granny.

Gosh, I remember when the lesbian uniform was 501s and flannel or polo shirts with the matching web belts. Now I loved my 501s but I always teamed them with silk shirts if I was going out. I remember poet shirts with leather vests....

I also remember business suits with shirts and those stupid ties. Lord, how I hated business drag.

Women's fashion has always been a sore spot with me. Tall women's clothes were either of piss poor quality or reminded me of crap my grandmother wouldn't be caught dead in. So I learned to shop in the high end department stores or the men's department.

Amen to you all! I got all kinds of stuff I also have a bumper sticker that says " I BRAKE FOR YARD SALES " the kids couldn't frind a friend for it that says, " THRIFT STORE BOUND " but--- they are looking!!!! I call them piriate shirts and shirts like the guys with swords use to fence in or gysp?/ oh yes it is Blonde and finally again shoulder length, It is up at the moment with a big fountain like thing I came up with comming out of the crown! Looks good I guess ,kids stop me in the stores to tell me how great I am!!If ALL only knew! LOL NO!!!!! ROTFLOL!

TWO, I am 5ft.1 1/2 and have never been able to wear very many womens jeans they come u p too high and don't fit my butt, I always go to the men's dept for them and pocket t-shirts! oh yes, How in the world could I forget the flannel shirts which I have in year round wear!! and don't forget our tennies the only thing I have in ORTHO-WEAR!!!!!!Don't tell a soul! Even though I dress for me and my Best Friend! " THE MIRROR "!!!! You guys think I'm not vain? My Dr. says that my vanity might just have saved my life!!!!!!!

Okay, given the 'nature' of most of the respondents, I am prepared to duck and cover: I think fashion went down the toilet when we started letting gay men design women's clothing.

Last year was GREAT. All those crinkle circle skirts! I bought a ton of them. And poet blouses (don't like ruffles but I adore big sleeves and loose structure. Conversely, I also adore the French tailored look - princess seaming and cap sleeves and opened collars.

Being a major chubbo, I love drawstring trousers. Having a deep seat, a bubble butt and now, at mid-life, a bulging belly, a regular waist band never reaches the waist in the back and rides up in the front. Ugly!

I used to have a lipstick red suit, a black-and-white houndstooth check and my "Christ on Sundays' two piecer of sunny yellow with peekabo lace inserts at hem and cuff. I had an unstructured slouch suit in deep burgundy silk and my suffragette suit with its cropped jacket with shawl collar and the skirt with the buttons on the pockets for kirtling the hem up above the knees on both sides. I wore that one with pleated tuxedo shirts and bow ties and spiked heeled boots.

I costume for the world but for me prefer skin. If I must have clothes on at home, it is denim leggings and t-shirts. Since the chemo ten years ago, I don't do the make-up (it actually made me look OLDER, I think) and my arthritis has put an end to my earrings, necklaces and bracelets (oh, how I loved a coordinated look!) as well as my heels. I miss my heels. The sagging boulders on my chest now require stiffer support but, lucky me! those have gotten better looking in the past few years. Not exactly s-e-x-y, but not structural any more, either.

I have these cute, cheap plastic gelly flip-flops I found last year in pink and in gold. At the end of the season, I bought up what was left in my size. I live in them once the temps hit 60.

I have never been the polyester pants with coordinating tops type. I don't expect I ever will be.

Perm, I'm glad you brought up the subject of plus size. Why in hell do designers think that because we're plus size our clothes have to look like Omar made them, or that we want to look like something out of the 50's for pete's sake?
The designers need to get with the program and realize that even us bigger gals like to be fashionable and wear cute stuff. Now I'm not talking about shirts that barely cover the girls, let alone the bellies, or pants that barely cover our butts, but...we don't want to look like we could sail off in a stiff wind either.