Quick Tips: Wide Leg Pants

Wide leg pants are hinting around at coming back into the spotlight. Flares are flirting with the Fall trends and what we knew as goucho pants (now cleverly renamed cullottes as to disguise themselves) have been trying to sneak in behind their more attractive cousin wide leg trousers. Club Elle is not allowing gouchos into the dress code, especially the short ones. They are a general nuisance.

I love the wide leg pant/crop top combo but as a plus size girl that wants the most flattering fit I've given myself some guidelines that I thought I'd share with you. Remember that I subscribe to the rule of "if you like it, wear it" so these are not must-do's, merely what I look for or avoid when putting together a look I love.

#curvy

I'm sure you knew this post was coming so lets get right into it. People are distraught over Instagram banning the #curvy as a search option. They blamed it on "too many people are using this for dirty pics so we are shuttin' it down!" of course I'm paraphrasing. Thank god they left eggplant friday alone, amirite!? /sarcasm ...and dont search that if youre at work- its extra NSFW.

People are everywhere on this thing! I may or may not have gotten into a debate (if you can call it that) on a Buzzfeed story- then accused of not being curvy or plus sized? It took a wrong turn somewhere. Here is what I wrote:

Now you know how I feel about that part- but what I really wanted to address in this post is that last comment. There were several others like it, some from women bashing other women for picking that particular adjective. Who. Cares?! I dont think it is anyones business what you consider or label yourself.

Story time:

Rue 107 Review

 First, lets address the fact that plus size swimwear is still pretty horrendous for the most part. There are a few stores that have it mostly together but overall... yikes. Is there some stone tablet out there that has the bathing suit commandments chiseled in it?
I. Must be the same pattern as movie theater carpet
II. Pick one of three necklines
III. Ensure the creation of new rolls if not exposing the ones provided.

The reason I like Rue 107 so much is because they went way outside the traditional bathing suit box. They have cropped tank cuts, cap sleeves and even full sleeve tops. Why has this not been done before?! Why aren't more companies doing it now?

Okay so on to the actual top. I put my leggings on to give you an idea of how it would look with my high waist bottoms- which are currently packed and in another city at the moment. For perspective, remember I'm only 5'2'' and currently wear a 42D in Lane Bryant bras. This top is a 3x (22/24).