Fellow fat woman here and I deeply appreciate when fat isn't used as a "slur" or with judgment attached - it's just a description 💜 What a beautiful gift - the dress you are wearing is amazing too You friend is so generous 💗
I love this! My great grandmother, big granny was as the name implies big her whole known as Big Patty. She was 6 ft 4 and just about as big around. She was super strong once even dragging a heifer herself out of pure anger according to my grandfather. She sewed almost all her own garments and although most the old folks told me she was known for being a bit scary and incredibly strong from what I knew of her she was kind of a creative soul. She loved to sing, sew and play hymns on the guitar. She also had a collection of vintage even in her day hats. I love seeing these plus sizes garments because I always see teeny tiny ones that would fit my mom or my dads mother but never my family like Big Granny. I love seeing these beautiful garments that maybe my giantess granny would’ve worn in another time and I’m glad you guys are wearing them and keeping them alive!
I truly thought plus size vintage was not available. I have never seen it at any vintage sale or even display. Thanks for proving me wrong. Also- I'm surprisingly touched by these dresses and foundation garments- these are the clothes of my Great Grandmother's prime era. I never knew her and my clothing connections to her are through quilts she made with cuttings from her and family members' clothes. To see these garments whole makes her more vivid for me.
I seem to remember hearing that one reason for not seeing a lot of plus size vintage was that the garments were expensive and tended to be worn out after many years of use. I'm really not sure if that is true. My above reference to my Great Grandmother using clothing cuttings for quilts might be a kind of explanation. Having said that, Great Grandmother Neal was from a poor rural background and was very much of the re/upcycle mindset as a way to maximize resources. She manufactured and embellished ( embroidery, appliques, etc.) clothes and cloth items for her whole extended family for many years. That had nothing to do with her size.
Another thought- My initial reaction to these clothes is to put them in a "grandma" category. But upon reflection, that is very limiting. The clothes you unboxed- particularly the black dress- are lovely, not necessarily "matronly" and appear to my untrained eye to be upsized versions of the current fashion of the era. I only have noticed a trend for making a whole category of plus-sized tent-like clothes for specific plus size consumption starting in the late 1950s. Is that when it started? I wonder if my/this is an ingrained response to them being "old fashioned" or is it a response to them being "plus size"? As a fat woman who happily seeks out and wears clothes that make me feel cute/attractive/professional, I now wonder how my clothes will be viewed and categorized by future generations.
@@sidsimpson9488 The thing is, smaller sizes are more likely to survive because they're harder to hand down to someone else or remake into something else than bigger clothes. There's a smaller pool of people it fits and less fabric to work with. So plus size clothes had a higher chance of being worn to bits and/or recycled. A lot of people also get bigger with age, so those teeny, tiny vintage clothes that have you wondering how a grown adult fit into them you often see might very well be from some's late teen and early 20s and have had sentimental value
I wish modern repro companies would realise there are women out here who aren't a size 12 and want to wear vintage. I have yet to be able to find even a vintage style bra to wear with my clothes! I am not that odd of a shape!
Amen! I've moved outside of the usual sizing for vintage (my sister is even more so and loves vintage vas much if not more so). I have a few vintage inspired "50s" clothing, but nothing perfectly accurate vintage.
I have found some vintage repro companies like Vixen by Micheline Pitt go up to 4X. Her pants work well for those who have small waist and larger hip ratios for example. Kelly, have you tried What Katie Did for vintage style lingerie?
My bra size isn't available in vintage reproduction sizes, but all the "unflattering granny bras" that do come in my size happen to give a close-enough silhouette.
Oh there is totally plus size vintage! It is like when people tell me women didn’t wear a shoe above size 9.. like my grandmother would disagree. She wore an 11. I did a dive into this as well. There IS PLUS SIZE VINTAGE!! Lovely finds Cheney.
Selection bias is real! Much of the vintage that survives is either dead stock or the things that weren't worn to death. So typically the smaller stuff. I'm on the small end of plus size (14) and have been able to find some dresses over the years. If you call shops ahead they will sometimes be able to tell you if they have things in your waist size. Just be aware some people don't measure correctly. I once tried on a dress that was supposedly my size, but they had measured just over the hips!
What an amazing haul! As a plus size woman (size US 20) who has been dressing in vintage style for almost 30 years, I can feel your excitement for these gorgeous garments! I’ve been really fortunate lately (since the pandemic really) in finding fantastic plus size vintage. I still wear mostly reproduction items daily, but I am finding more true vintage items out there in my size. I did a video a while ago regarding plus size inclusivity in vintage reproduction companies, I’d love to hear your thoughts about that. I also collect vintage Lane Bryant catalogs, they are so inspiring to see the styles that were available to plus size women.
have you thought about having a vintage fashion chat with jessica kellgren fozard? she's an absolutely fabulous disabled english mid century vintage fashion and inclusive vlogger with her wife claudia. each of enjoy fashions from a time that historically weren't great for your respective portions of society such as WWII during the blitz and jim crow. it would just be interesting to have an inclusive deep dive over a broader spectrum of people in how fashion played a role in movements towards equality in marginalized groups during the early/midcentury. it would be an amazing deep dive and i'm sure the looks will be divine! i hope you will consider reaching out to her carer clara for a zoom chat.
I’m trying to pay attention to the items, but damn your dress is amazing. The blue and floral one is hella nice too. Such a haul! (Any other guys out there found that tiptoeing into the vintage/maker community gave you an appreciation for dresses lol)
Miss Dianne is an absolute gem of a friend. She has a really great eye and sent some wonderful items. And I'm so in love with the dress you're wearing, that print and color are amazing.
I grew shopping at the Salvation Army in the 60s and 70s and you could find the most amazing 40s-60s dresses, many in very large sizes, as well as undergarments. Most dresses were $2, the undergarments 50 cents. The detailing in the dresses are amazing. Your friend is an expert.
I hope you'll post another video of you trying on and styling the dresses. They're so pretty! Can I ask where you got your reproduction corselette from? I feel like proper plus size undergarments are definitely the hardest to find.
These are wonderful additions to any wardrobe. The first silk dress is just lovely! The blue with yellow bits is wonderful. The blue with scrolls design is my favorite!! The undergarments are so wonderful! So glad I found you.
I am not plus sized, but I found this extremely interesting. I certainly knew that plus sized women have always existed, but I too sort of thought that vintage plus sized clothing could only be found via reproduction garments. SO cool that Ms Diane found you so many good as new pieces. She sounds like a wonderful lady!
House dresses are so useful, durable and flattering. I also think that black dress is really good because cotton is so breathable, everybody looks good in black! I'm already seen where you compare some of that stuff with your scarves! What is sweet lady for putting together such a great package.
Love this! As a teen when I thought I was fat at size 14 it was really hard to find vintage that fit me properly and now that I am size 28 fat thrifted finds are far and few between much less vintage. I love having found your channel here on youtube and appreciate your content! xo
watching you in this video brought a tear to my eye. It was the moment you pulled out the acid-free paper. My grandmother would have loved everything about costume history. Unfortunately she passed before people were making their own blogs and vlogs about fashion. But she approached it just as seriously and joyfully as you do here. Thank you for this video.
What a kind woman to have sent all of that to you. The dresses and undergarments were beautiful. The house dress really took me back! I'd like to wear them today! Yes, it is hard to find vintage for plus size, but clearly it is worth the effort. Not sure why you said you wouldn't wear the one bra. It looked like it would be very comfortable. I am now searching for a long line bra for plus size or a bra and girdle in one. My grandmother wore them all of the time, everyday. They used to be very common, but not now, so my search is on! I hope you will have a modeling video of the new garments! Thanks for sharing with us.
I had to go back and take a look at the size of that box she sent you... goodness, it's like Mary Poppins' bottomless bag of wonderful things! Everything is so lovely, I can't decide which one I like best... I hope you will do another video and model the items you can for us. Okay, especially the dress with the swirls on it! There, I picked one, lol.
I love this video!! I cannot imagine why there wouldn't be plus-size vintage at all. I know that I have had a lot of relatives who are currently plus size and would have, in all likelihood, been plus size during their teens and young adulthood as well. One of my frustrations with secondhand fashion in general is that there are people who search for "oversized" pieces....only those are actually just pieces that would perfectly fit a fat person. And yet people are buying them and either wearing them as is or, worse, cutting them up and making them over into smaller pieces
FUN!!! Back in the 80's I went to a shop that was still a shoe shop downstairs, but there was vintage, unsold clothing (and everything!) stock upstairs. I got my mother a pair of really cool shoes from the 1950's that she loved as well as some 1960's paisley shirts. There were some dresses like the ones you show, so it's definitely out there! :-)
This was so much fun to watch! I a 69 years old and every single garment you pulled from that box was familiar - all those times as a child I lounged on my Grandma's bed chatting with her while she got dressed! A woman of substantial size, she was so beautiful with kind eyes, gray hair pulled tight in a bun on the back of her neck, and she always wore dresses like those you pulled from the box and stout, black oxford heels with thick heels. Those women were the backbone of civilization and so beautiful!
Ok I am a huge sucker for pretty clothes, and I am positively DYING over these pieces!!! The scarves and hankies too are incredible I’m drooling over them for real
Yep, I found cute vintage things in a shop recently & they fit, except my chest. Hell I can’t find modern stuff without buying a size up & altering, usually. I’m a 40I right now because I recently lost weight & don’t lose from my chest 😓
Why is it that when you’ve got big boobs, they’re the last to go? I’m a 42 (I think? I don’t buy in US sizes usually, I’m an AU 18-20 in bras) G- H. I think in American styles I tend to size up a cup. So an H in US styles, a G in Aus/UK styles. And finding vi rage style bras is damn near impossible for me. I do fit into the largest What Katie Did Bra, but only just, and only with two bra extenders. But I just found a Fantasie bra that is an older style lift and separate, though not bullet, and I’m getting it this weekend. But it’s from a “normal” specialty big boob bra shop, not a vintage shop. It would be so much easier with smaller boobs. And if I think I have it hard, my poor daughter.... she’s going to be bigger than me. How do I know? Because she’s the same cup size that I am (though smaller band size) and she’s not yet 13. All her friends are still wearing pretty little bralettes, and she’s been in underwire for two and a half years. I just hope that she sees a larger range available to her than what was around 20 years ago.
@@katherinemorelle7115 having small boobs would of course be easier on your back and all..bc I know that is a real problem! But not necessarily easier for clothing...I have small boobs and I'm plus sized, the problem is that companies think that all plus sized ladies have large boobs...so finding things that fit me around and also don't make me look like my chest spontaneously deflated is hard to do...but I feel your frustration in the way that sometimes we just wanna feel pretty and if you're not "normal/standard" sized then it gets upsetting
I'm new to this but I can't get over the corselette and bra are box fresh! From the 40s. It amazes me how amazing people like Miss Diane can source things like this. I love everything but I think the black dress was my favourite. ❤️😍
Love this video! It's nearly impossible to convince people that fat people existed in the past despite a crazy amount of evidence. Sometimes I feel like I have to doubly justify my existence at events as a fat woman.
My Née-Née was a fat woman from Sequin, TX, born 1922, and when I was a child in 60’d-70’s, all her dresses and undergarments looked like those in your haul, the bras and slips were like that but she wore a girdle with suspenders and nylon stockings with Keds sneakers. Her heavy thighs would make the stocking tops rub together and you knew she was coming by the heavy tread and the scritchy sound of the rubbing nylon. She had soft fluffy white hair, a hankie in her ample, sagging bosom and smelled of Cashmere Bouguet, her favorite soap and talcum which we took her until she passed. She had a creamy complexion that was the envy of Northern women, my mama said the only good to come of life in a humid climate was it preserved the skin. She was a hell of cook, and as a single mother worked as a hospital cook and housekeeper/companion. She was still working into her 60’s when we were young. She had a white Chrysler w/ red interior, smoked menthol cigarettes and her nails were always done. Her hotcakes were legendary, soft fluffy biscuit-sized and fried in 1/2” of grease, they rose to almost an inch high in the pan. Crisp on both sides and tender in the middle. I loved the taste but have to admit I got a bellyache after over endulging. Thanks for a trip down memory lane! I wore vintage since middle school and her dresses were so cool I wore them tucked and pleated under the self-belts around my size 6 waist.
I got a semi vintage plus size dress about two years ago in a garage sale! I fell in love with the fabric (white background with roses) and even though I was plus size at the time I had to make some changes to me because it was REALLY big. Now It's big on me again and I've tried to find someone who would wear it but to no avail. I'm thinking about refashioning it again, but I'm scared I'll be ruining something made back in the seventies.
This video puts a big smile on my face. Lovely vintage clothes, hearing you describe your friend, seeing your delight, makes me happy and also happy for you.
holy crap, Miss Diane needs to start a plus-size vintage store! what great pieces! I know its possible to find vintage in plus sizes, but its so challenging... this fat girl has hope again!
Ms Shiffer (sp?) sounds like a wonderful lady and friend! This is so fun and the goodies are all so pretty!! I’d love to see your scarf collection sometime if you’re willing to do a video on it 😊
@NotYourMommasHistory l am watching this in tears, thinking about how my mom learned to sew as a teen in the mid to late 1960s because "all that was available off the rack was "old lady" or a tent". Great video!
As a vintage seller, plus size is very hard to find. We always sell larger sizes very quickly and search for items like these. These are treasures. Love your channel as it is highly researched and informative.
Likewise, though I wind up needing to alter the patterns quite often as they don't come close to my hip measurement, which is about 10 inches bigger than my bust.
Excellent video! I too use the word "fat" as a factual descriptive. Actually, depending on who I'm talking to, I may use the descriptive word "voluptuous". The items are really nice. Happy wearing 💕🌱
Yes!! I love vintage and these dresses are fantastic! I know it can be difficult sometimes to find pieces that aren't size small/medium. A lot of online and local vintage stores tend not to be very size inclusive. When I was looking for a vintage prom dress at 17, I couldn't find anything locally that wasn't at least two sizes too small, so I ended up having to add a lace up back to the somewhat raggedy, yellow tulle dress that I ended up finding. It turned out great, but it did bust my confidence a bit, especially at that age, when I couldn't find anything appealing in my size. Seeing this makes me very happy!!
These dresses are stunning. Especially the blue one, you just cannot buy these sorts of patterns anymore. So intricate and detailed. I've just found your channel and I'm loving it 😊
All of it's so beautiful!! Wish I could buy some plus size vintage clothes but unfortunately they are out of my price range. I'm going to start making myself some from my vintage patterns
This is so inspiring! As a far girl, I resigned myself to the idea of just having to sew my own clothes and not ever being able to find actual vintage items. I’ll be checking out miss Diane for sure! Also, I would LOVE to hear your opinion on vintage-style foundation garments from a fat person’s perspective. I’ve watched a lot of videos on them, but they’re all from relatively thin girls. Part of why I got into vintage style was because I felt that I could enhance my figure without having to wear shapewear, but the other part of me wants to be able to wear pencil skirts without feeling self conscious about my tummy. The consent push and pull between wanting to embrace my body for what it is, and wanting to wear certain clothes without feeling like I have to do the work of constant self-love is hard! Do you find vintage style shapewear like girdles to be more or less comfortable than modern stuff like spanx?
So many are “curvy” but not even midsize! I fluctuate between plus and straight sizes and it always feels like these “curvy” girls are 5’2 and a size 4. I’m 6’1 and currently a size 16 (generally).
What beautiful dresses goodness I'm UK size12 and at vintage clothing places I'm constantly told they didn't ever have plus side clothes I'm not plus side at all so I cannot imagine how wonderful it must be to find such beautiful pieces to fit you and to feel fabulous in! Plus the dress you were wearing in this video is so beautiful xx
I am a large woman(22-24) and I have a sizable wardrobe. My dresses alone number 500+ that doesn’t include suits, etc. So there are a lot of beautiful clothes for the larger woman
First of all, I LOVE the dress you’re wearing in the video!!!! Fantastic colors! Next, I had a lot of fun watching you unbox all the wonderful vintage dresses and items your friend sent! About 3/4 of the way through, I thought the items were coming out of a magician’s box - as if a never ending chain of scarves was going to come out! Ha! 😉😆 Such beautiful items! Such great fabrics! I know you will enjoy wearing the ones you plan to! Have fun!
Fellow fat woman, here! Loved this video!! I love vintage clothing, and getting to see new-old stock in fat-girl sizes was awesome. Thank you for sharing. Love, light, and blessings to you and yours.
Wow, those are some amazing finds! It's so hard to find vintage in plus sizes -- I have a 1920s corset, and a 1960s dress and coat, but that's all I've found so far.
That is so nice of her to add all those extras! The corsellette is so pretty! And I LOVE the black dress. 😻 I have a few vintage peices that I have from my grandmother and some things made by her sister way back when. I haven't searched for any plus size vintage for myself yet. Maybe one day... 😁 I hope you have a good day!
No wonder Abby gushes about you. I’m so happy to have found your channel. If you’re ever in NH, I would love if I could take you out for a coffee or tea! Post-plague, of course! 💗💗💗
Not finished the vid yet, but had to comment. Yes! Finding a truly large corsellette (sp?) is near to impossible. You can't even find off the rack corsets, or garter belts over a large today. A "large" as in maaybe a 40 inch bust. This was wonderful to see!
This is amazing to see, I never thought that plus size -truly plus, for fat girls! - was available. I'm about a US 20/22 so seeing these is really inspiring to know it's out there. 😄
Sooooooo much fun watching you go through those neat things!!!! Such beautiful outfits and they are in great shape. I LOVED this video thank you for sharing!! 😊👍💕🎁🎉👗🧣💝
I just want to say, I love your dress. It's absolutely gorgeous. I think my favorite dresses were the black one and the swirl print one with the white buttons.
I'm working on trying to reclaim fat for myself, but I'm still struggling with it and body positivity or body neutrality bc it can be pretty tough to not have negative feelings about my body as a chronically ill person dealing with debilitating chronic pain, but I'm working on it! Videos like yours and other costubers who have highlighted extant antique and vintage plus sized garments help me feel like I can actually make and wear my own historical and vintage reproductions, so thank you! also the dress you're wearing in this video looks absolutely stunning on you!
hello , i love , love , love vintage day dresses aka house dresses . ms diane gave you some beauties , belts are easy to come by or in a pinch , you can use ribbon . what beautiful foundation garments and all in pristine condition too . when i find NOS ( new old stock ) / dead stock , i feel like i've hit the lottery , the longline bra is sweet . what a wonderful gift , thank you , for sharing 😊😊😊😊😊.......
As a fat person that loves vintage style and struggles to find clothing . I love seeing this . I truly hope one day I will find some authetic 40s vintage 8n my size
From what I’ve read from medieval times, people were “fat” because they had the money to eat well, so whenever my fiancé is having self conscious days about her weight I tell her about what I said at the beginning of which I can’t figure out how to phrase differently 😅
You know what's funny? Kids in high school are now self-conscious for NOT being curvy. I so vividly remember being embarrassed in highschool for my hips, butt, and thighs. The only thing I had going for me were big boobs. But now kids are embarrassed to have "hip dips". Better late than never!
BarleeCarlee kids are still self conscious about their curves though. Especially if those curves are very obvious, and much larger than their peers. My daughter lives in baggy shirts and hoodies because of it- she’s almost 13, in high school (Aussie high schools run yr 7 to yr 12) and she HATES her curves. To be bluntly honest, she’s likely got the biggest boobs in her school, adult staff included. So it’s not easy when you’re all the way over the other side of the spectrum. I think she’d be happy to be somewhere in the middle, but that’s just not an option for her. It’s not fair to her. Especially given the fact she started getting street harassment from adult men when she was 10. Because if you don’t look at her face, even though she’s short (not quite 5’), she looks like an adult, with very big boobs, and hips and bum that match. That being said, most of the time, she’s in a school uniform, so the pricks know full well that she’s not an adult, but that doesn’t stop them. And the first time, she was in a primary school uniform, so the arse knew she wasn’t even a teenager yet. Didn’t stop him. So that sucks. She just doesn’t like that she stands out. It’s not easy to have a KimK type body (but with a bigger chest) when you’re only 12. It was worse when she was still in primary school though. At least in high school there are other students around with big boobs, even if they are five years older. In primary school, it was just her. And while I can empathise to a degree, because I had similar experiences, I wasn’t anywhere near as big as she is. I was about a D at 12. Which is big for that age. But she’s a G-H, which is big for an adult woman. There’s not really a comparison. As she says, she’s just sick of standing out, sick of being stared at, sick of being catcalled. And I’m worried that the additional negative attention might mean that there’s a higher chance of her being targeted by a predator. So while kids might say they want to be really curvy, they really, really don’t. Also, it’s impossible to find clothes that fit off the rack. My daughter is lucky that I’m able to tailor her clothes for her (mostly uniforms and jeans atm).
How beautiful! You truly have a fairy godmother there. I am really getting Queen Latifah period movie vibes from everything in that box! Hope you model them soon! (Layered appropriately, of course.) xoxo
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Fellow fat woman here and I deeply appreciate when fat isn't used as a "slur" or with judgment attached - it's just a description 💜
What a beautiful gift - the dress you are wearing is amazing too
You friend is so generous 💗
SAME. Fat doesn't mean bad, dirty, lazy, la la la, it just means fat. I'm fat and it's all good!
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Same!
Exactly! and I’m skinny not anorexic, malnourished, Bones, flimsy, weak just skinny all good!
I love this! My great grandmother, big granny was as the name implies big her whole known as Big Patty. She was 6 ft 4 and just about as big around. She was super strong once even dragging a heifer herself out of pure anger according to my grandfather. She sewed almost all her own garments and although most the old folks told me she was known for being a bit scary and incredibly strong from what I knew of her she was kind of a creative soul. She loved to sing, sew and play hymns on the guitar. She also had a collection of vintage even in her day hats. I love seeing these plus sizes garments because I always see teeny tiny ones that would fit my mom or my dads mother but never my family like Big Granny. I love seeing these beautiful garments that maybe my giantess granny would’ve worn in another time and I’m glad you guys are wearing them and keeping them alive!
Intergenerational friendship and vintage clothes 😭 what not to love about this video!?
I truly thought plus size vintage was not available. I have never seen it at any vintage sale or even display. Thanks for proving me wrong. Also- I'm surprisingly touched by these dresses and foundation garments- these are the clothes of my Great Grandmother's prime era. I never knew her and my clothing connections to her are through quilts she made with cuttings from her and family members' clothes. To see these garments whole makes her more vivid for me.
I seem to remember hearing that one reason for not seeing a lot of plus size vintage was that the garments were expensive and tended to be worn out after many years of use. I'm really not sure if that is true. My above reference to my Great Grandmother using clothing cuttings for quilts might be a kind of explanation. Having said that, Great Grandmother Neal was from a poor rural background and was very much of the re/upcycle mindset as a way to maximize resources. She manufactured and embellished ( embroidery, appliques, etc.) clothes and cloth items for her whole extended family for many years. That had nothing to do with her size.
Another thought- My initial reaction to these clothes is to put them in a "grandma" category. But upon reflection, that is very limiting. The clothes you unboxed- particularly the black dress- are lovely, not necessarily "matronly" and appear to my untrained eye to be upsized versions of the current fashion of the era. I only have noticed a trend for making a whole category of plus-sized tent-like clothes for specific plus size consumption starting in the late 1950s. Is that when it started? I wonder if my/this is an ingrained response to them being "old fashioned" or is it a response to them being "plus size"? As a fat woman who happily seeks out and wears clothes that make me feel cute/attractive/professional, I now wonder how my clothes will be viewed and categorized by future generations.
@@sidsimpson9488 The thing is, smaller sizes are more likely to survive because they're harder to hand down to someone else or remake into something else than bigger clothes. There's a smaller pool of people it fits and less fabric to work with. So plus size clothes had a higher chance of being worn to bits and/or recycled. A lot of people also get bigger with age, so those teeny, tiny vintage clothes that have you wondering how a grown adult fit into them you often see might very well be from some's late teen and early 20s and have had sentimental value
@@duceagle6625 I second this.
The way she closed the fan in the beginning was SO satisfying
I wish modern repro companies would realise there are women out here who aren't a size 12 and want to wear vintage. I have yet to be able to find even a vintage style bra to wear with my clothes! I am not that odd of a shape!
Amen! I've moved outside of the usual sizing for vintage (my sister is even more so and loves vintage vas much if not more so). I have a few vintage inspired "50s" clothing, but nothing perfectly accurate vintage.
And include height diversity! I am plus sized, and tall, so most stuff doesn't work for me.
I have found some vintage repro companies like Vixen by Micheline Pitt go up to 4X. Her pants work well for those who have small waist and larger hip ratios for example. Kelly, have you tried What Katie Did for vintage style lingerie?
I am tiny enough to even have my knees covered by less faithful reproductions and thank you for reminding me of that privilege.
My bra size isn't available in vintage reproduction sizes, but all the "unflattering granny bras" that do come in my size happen to give a close-enough silhouette.
Oh there is totally plus size vintage! It is like when people tell me women didn’t wear a shoe above size 9.. like my grandmother would disagree. She wore an 11. I did a dive into this as well. There IS PLUS SIZE VINTAGE!! Lovely finds Cheney.
I've found shoes from the 40's that were 10's. Amazing.
Selection bias is real! Much of the vintage that survives is either dead stock or the things that weren't worn to death. So typically the smaller stuff. I'm on the small end of plus size (14) and have been able to find some dresses over the years. If you call shops ahead they will sometimes be able to tell you if they have things in your waist size. Just be aware some people don't measure correctly. I once tried on a dress that was supposedly my size, but they had measured just over the hips!
What an amazing haul! As a plus size woman (size US 20) who has been dressing in vintage style for almost 30 years, I can feel your excitement for these gorgeous garments! I’ve been really fortunate lately (since the pandemic really) in finding fantastic plus size vintage. I still wear mostly reproduction items daily, but I am finding more true vintage items out there in my size. I did a video a while ago regarding plus size inclusivity in vintage reproduction companies, I’d love to hear your thoughts about that. I also collect vintage Lane Bryant catalogs, they are so inspiring to see the styles that were available to plus size women.
have you thought about having a vintage fashion chat with jessica kellgren fozard? she's an absolutely fabulous disabled english mid century vintage fashion and inclusive vlogger with her wife claudia. each of enjoy fashions from a time that historically weren't great for your respective portions of society such as WWII during the blitz and jim crow. it would just be interesting to have an inclusive deep dive over a broader spectrum of people in how fashion played a role in movements towards equality in marginalized groups during the early/midcentury. it would be an amazing deep dive and i'm sure the looks will be divine!
i hope you will consider reaching out to her carer clara for a zoom chat.
I’m trying to pay attention to the items, but damn your dress is amazing. The blue and floral one is hella nice too. Such a haul!
(Any other guys out there found that tiptoeing into the vintage/maker community gave you an appreciation for dresses lol)
Yeah definitely - the level of design and intricacy of construction is so impressive considering modern clothing and the way its made.
The corselet is sooo beautiful! Also, I adore all the matching belts. Oh how the little details make the biggest differences.
YOUR FACE when you opened the corselet!! You made my whole dark bedroom light up with the joy in your face! 💗💗💗💗
Next video should be a modeling session to see the dresses on you! They are all as beautiful as you!!
Miss Dianne is an absolute gem of a friend. She has a really great eye and sent some wonderful items. And I'm so in love with the dress you're wearing, that print and color are amazing.
I grew shopping at the Salvation Army in the 60s and 70s and you could find the most amazing 40s-60s dresses, many in very large sizes, as well as undergarments. Most dresses were $2, the undergarments 50 cents. The detailing in the dresses are amazing. Your friend is an expert.
I hope you'll post another video of you trying on and styling the dresses. They're so pretty! Can I ask where you got your reproduction corselette from? I feel like proper plus size undergarments are definitely the hardest to find.
Yes! I want to see them on. I bet you look gorgeous.
I thought that would be in this one
Id love to know where you got it from too.
In her Williamsburg vdeos on costuming and cooking she names and posts her contemporary sources for authentically made corsets.
Yes, I want to see you in the dresses.
I’m from Puerto Rico and I squealed when you pulled out that scarf. For some reason, it made me incredibly happy. In 2020 it’s the little things.
Same here!!! 🇵🇷😃👏👏👏
¡Reaccioné igual que tú!
These are wonderful additions to any wardrobe. The first silk dress is just lovely! The blue with yellow bits is wonderful. The blue with scrolls design is my favorite!! The undergarments are so wonderful! So glad I found you.
I am not plus sized, but I found this extremely interesting. I certainly knew that plus sized women have always existed, but I too sort of thought that vintage plus sized clothing could only be found via reproduction garments. SO cool that Ms Diane found you so many good as new pieces. She sounds like a wonderful lady!
House dresses are so useful, durable and flattering. I also think that black dress is really good because cotton is so breathable, everybody looks good in black! I'm already seen where you compare some of that stuff with your scarves! What is sweet lady for putting together such a great package.
Love this! As a teen when I thought I was fat at size 14 it was really hard to find vintage that fit me properly and now that I am size 28 fat thrifted finds are far and few between much less vintage. I love having found your channel here on youtube and appreciate your content! xo
Everything is stunning, what a dear friend!
watching you in this video brought a tear to my eye. It was the moment you pulled out the acid-free paper. My grandmother would have loved everything about costume history. Unfortunately she passed before people were making their own blogs and vlogs about fashion. But she approached it just as seriously and joyfully as you do here. Thank you for this video.
Your reaction to the corselette was my absolute favorite thing of the day. We love joy and excitement!
What a kind woman to have sent all of that to you. The dresses and undergarments were beautiful. The house dress really took me back! I'd like to wear them today! Yes, it is hard to find vintage for plus size, but clearly it is worth the effort. Not sure why you said you wouldn't wear the one bra. It looked like it would be very comfortable. I am now searching for a long line bra for plus size or a bra and girdle in one. My grandmother wore them all of the time, everyday. They used to be very common, but not now, so my search is on! I hope you will have a modeling video of the new garments! Thanks for sharing with us.
I had to go back and take a look at the size of that box she sent you... goodness, it's like Mary Poppins' bottomless bag of wonderful things!
Everything is so lovely, I can't decide which one I like best... I hope you will do another video and model the items you can for us. Okay, especially the dress with the swirls on it! There, I picked one, lol.
My heart is so happy that you and Diane know each other.
This was SO MUCH FUN!
Sending love to you both!
💗💗☺️
So amazing that dead stock survived that long! Also I had no idea that a slip and shift were different things so that's another thing I learned!
I love this video!! I cannot imagine why there wouldn't be plus-size vintage at all. I know that I have had a lot of relatives who are currently plus size and would have, in all likelihood, been plus size during their teens and young adulthood as well.
One of my frustrations with secondhand fashion in general is that there are people who search for "oversized" pieces....only those are actually just pieces that would perfectly fit a fat person. And yet people are buying them and either wearing them as is or, worse, cutting them up and making them over into smaller pieces
FUN!!! Back in the 80's I went to a shop that was still a shoe shop downstairs, but there was vintage, unsold clothing (and everything!) stock upstairs. I got my mother a pair of really cool shoes from the 1950's that she loved as well as some 1960's paisley shirts. There were some dresses like the ones you show, so it's definitely out there! :-)
The corselette got me shook! What an amazing find!!!!
The fabric of that was just breathtaking!
I feel like each undergarment needs a full video history rundown. So cool and different to today’s undergarments! Thanks so much for sharing.
This was so much fun to watch! I a 69 years old and every single garment you pulled from that box was familiar - all those times as a child I lounged on my Grandma's bed chatting with her while she got dressed! A woman of substantial size, she was so beautiful with kind eyes, gray hair pulled tight in a bun on the back of her neck, and she always wore dresses like those you pulled from the box and stout, black oxford heels with thick heels. Those women were the backbone of civilization and so beautiful!
You are a refreshingly honest and realistic human
Ok I am a huge sucker for pretty clothes, and I am positively DYING over these pieces!!! The scarves and hankies too are incredible I’m drooling over them for real
🤩 I wear a size 38H so I’m always struggling with older vintage especially!
Yep, I found cute vintage things in a shop recently & they fit, except my chest. Hell I can’t find modern stuff without buying a size up & altering, usually. I’m a 40I right now because I recently lost weight & don’t lose from my chest 😓
BlueRoseFaery i don’t lose from my chest either.
Why is it that when you’ve got big boobs, they’re the last to go? I’m a 42 (I think? I don’t buy in US sizes usually, I’m an AU 18-20 in bras) G- H. I think in American styles I tend to size up a cup. So an H in US styles, a G in Aus/UK styles.
And finding vi rage style bras is damn near impossible for me. I do fit into the largest What Katie Did Bra, but only just, and only with two bra extenders. But I just found a Fantasie bra that is an older style lift and separate, though not bullet, and I’m getting it this weekend. But it’s from a “normal” specialty big boob bra shop, not a vintage shop.
It would be so much easier with smaller boobs. And if I think I have it hard, my poor daughter.... she’s going to be bigger than me. How do I know? Because she’s the same cup size that I am (though smaller band size) and she’s not yet 13. All her friends are still wearing pretty little bralettes, and she’s been in underwire for two and a half years. I just hope that she sees a larger range available to her than what was around 20 years ago.
@@katherinemorelle7115 having small boobs would of course be easier on your back and all..bc I know that is a real problem! But not necessarily easier for clothing...I have small boobs and I'm plus sized, the problem is that companies think that all plus sized ladies have large boobs...so finding things that fit me around and also don't make me look like my chest spontaneously deflated is hard to do...but I feel your frustration in the way that sometimes we just wanna feel pretty and if you're not "normal/standard" sized then it gets upsetting
It was so much fun watching you open packages! The new clothes are lovely, and in mint condition. Have fun struttin' around in these pretty things!
I'm new to this but I can't get over the corselette and bra are box fresh! From the 40s. It amazes me how amazing people like Miss Diane can source things like this. I love everything but I think the black dress was my favourite. ❤️😍
Love this video! It's nearly impossible to convince people that fat people existed in the past despite a crazy amount of evidence. Sometimes I feel like I have to doubly justify my existence at events as a fat woman.
My Née-Née was a fat woman from Sequin, TX, born 1922, and when I was a child in 60’d-70’s, all her dresses and undergarments looked like those in your haul, the bras and slips were like that but she wore a girdle with suspenders and nylon stockings with Keds sneakers. Her heavy thighs would make the stocking tops rub together and you knew she was coming by the heavy tread and the scritchy sound of the rubbing nylon. She had soft fluffy white hair, a hankie in her ample, sagging bosom and smelled of Cashmere Bouguet, her favorite soap and talcum which we took her until she passed. She had a creamy complexion that was the envy of Northern women, my mama said the only good to come of life in a humid climate was it preserved the skin. She was a hell of cook, and as a single mother worked as a hospital cook and housekeeper/companion. She was still working into her 60’s when we were young. She had a white Chrysler w/ red interior, smoked menthol cigarettes and her nails were always done. Her hotcakes were legendary, soft fluffy biscuit-sized and fried in 1/2” of grease, they rose to almost an inch high in the pan. Crisp on both sides and tender in the middle. I loved the taste but have to admit I got a bellyache after over endulging. Thanks for a trip down memory lane! I wore vintage since middle school and her dresses were so cool I wore them tucked and pleated under the self-belts around my size 6 waist.
Right cause everyone just got fat in the last 20 years 🙄😂. So annoying
@@allthatsheiz yes pretty much that .... fat is not a natural state of the body
I got a semi vintage plus size dress about two years ago in a garage sale! I fell in love with the fabric (white background with roses) and even though I was plus size at the time I had to make some changes to me because it was REALLY big. Now It's big on me again and I've tried to find someone who would wear it but to no avail. I'm thinking about refashioning it again, but I'm scared I'll be ruining something made back in the seventies.
This video puts a big smile on my face. Lovely vintage clothes, hearing you describe your friend, seeing your delight, makes me happy and also happy for you.
The clothes are astonishingly beautiful! But your joy in discovering each one made the video great.
holy crap, Miss Diane needs to start a plus-size vintage store! what great pieces! I know its possible to find vintage in plus sizes, but its so challenging... this fat girl has hope again!
Ms Shiffer (sp?) sounds like a wonderful lady and friend! This is so fun and the goodies are all so pretty!! I’d love to see your scarf collection sometime if you’re willing to do a video on it 😊
I also love scarves and hankies and would love to see them.
@NotYourMommasHistory l am watching this in tears, thinking about how my mom learned to sew as a teen in the mid to late 1960s because "all that was available off the rack was "old lady" or a tent". Great video!
As a vintage seller, plus size is very hard to find. We always sell larger sizes very quickly and search for items like these. These are treasures. Love your channel as it is highly researched and informative.
I'm currently learning to sew so I CAN have vintage clothes in MY size..40" waist...44" girls!
Likewise, though I wind up needing to alter the patterns quite often as they don't come close to my hip measurement, which is about 10 inches bigger than my bust.
Excellent video! I too use the word "fat" as a factual descriptive. Actually, depending on who I'm talking to, I may use the descriptive word "voluptuous". The items are really nice. Happy wearing 💕🌱
Yes!! I love vintage and these dresses are fantastic! I know it can be difficult sometimes to find pieces that aren't size small/medium. A lot of online and local vintage stores tend not to be very size inclusive. When I was looking for a vintage prom dress at 17, I couldn't find anything locally that wasn't at least two sizes too small, so I ended up having to add a lace up back to the somewhat raggedy, yellow tulle dress that I ended up finding. It turned out great, but it did bust my confidence a bit, especially at that age, when I couldn't find anything appealing in my size. Seeing this makes me very happy!!
These dresses are stunning. Especially the blue one, you just cannot buy these sorts of patterns anymore. So intricate and detailed. I've just found your channel and I'm loving it 😊
All of it's so beautiful!! Wish I could buy some plus size vintage clothes but unfortunately they are out of my price range. I'm going to start making myself some from my vintage patterns
I’ve never seen anyone so delighted, when you opened the corsalette, what a joy to see! Thanks for sharing your delight.
Plus sized Puerto Rican here. I loved seeing the plus sized clothing, and of course, the scarf enthralled me.
These dresses are all so pretty! What a treasure box.
This is so inspiring! As a far girl, I resigned myself to the idea of just having to sew my own clothes and not ever being able to find actual vintage items. I’ll be checking out miss Diane for sure!
Also, I would LOVE to hear your opinion on vintage-style foundation garments from a fat person’s perspective. I’ve watched a lot of videos on them, but they’re all from relatively thin girls. Part of why I got into vintage style was because I felt that I could enhance my figure without having to wear shapewear, but the other part of me wants to be able to wear pencil skirts without feeling self conscious about my tummy. The consent push and pull between wanting to embrace my body for what it is, and wanting to wear certain clothes without feeling like I have to do the work of constant self-love is hard! Do you find vintage style shapewear like girdles to be more or less comfortable than modern stuff like spanx?
So many are “curvy” but not even midsize! I fluctuate between plus and straight sizes and it always feels like these “curvy” girls are 5’2 and a size 4. I’m 6’1 and currently a size 16 (generally).
What beautiful dresses goodness I'm UK size12 and at vintage clothing places I'm constantly told they didn't ever have plus side clothes I'm not plus side at all so I cannot imagine how wonderful it must be to find such beautiful pieces to fit you and to feel fabulous in! Plus the dress you were wearing in this video is so beautiful xx
That black dress is EVERYTHING😍
My great grandmother was plus size and she always had beautiful clothes. These are all so special. I hope you model them for us.
I am a large woman(22-24) and I have a sizable wardrobe. My dresses alone number 500+ that doesn’t include suits, etc. So there are a lot of beautiful clothes for the larger woman
First of all, I LOVE the dress you’re wearing in the video!!!! Fantastic colors! Next, I had a lot of fun watching you unbox all the wonderful vintage dresses and items your friend sent! About 3/4 of the way through, I thought the items were coming out of a magician’s box - as if a never ending chain of scarves was going to come out! Ha! 😉😆
Such beautiful items! Such great fabrics!
I know you will enjoy wearing the ones you plan to! Have fun!
100% jealous of the blue and white swirlies frock, AND the one you have on, both gorgeous!
Wow she did a great job shopping for you! My favorite dress is the cotton piece with swirls and the three different buttons.
Your joy and excitement brought me so much joy!
Your joy at all the clothing, especially the corselette (spelling?), just made me happy too. Your smile is contagious!
Fellow fat woman, here! Loved this video!! I love vintage clothing, and getting to see new-old stock in fat-girl sizes was awesome. Thank you for sharing. Love, light, and blessings to you and yours.
Wow, those are some amazing finds! It's so hard to find vintage in plus sizes -- I have a 1920s corset, and a 1960s dress and coat, but that's all I've found so far.
I have a (men's) wool coat, not certain of the era, that I bought at a vintage store because it closed over my 38J bust.
That is so nice of her to add all those extras! The corsellette is so pretty! And I LOVE the black dress. 😻 I have a few vintage peices that I have from my grandmother and some things made by her sister way back when. I haven't searched for any plus size vintage for myself yet. Maybe one day... 😁 I hope you have a good day!
Those pieces are all so beautifull! That corselet is just amazing O__O=
Your excitement is so contagious!
No wonder Abby gushes about you. I’m so happy to have found your channel. If you’re ever in NH, I would love if I could take you out for a coffee or tea! Post-plague, of course! 💗💗💗
My favorite is the black dress with the embroidered trim. So pretty.
Beautiful outfit you are wearing. Your videos are so informative.
I am surprised how much plus size vintage was in the box! Love the dress you are wearing in the video.
The corset is STUNNING.
Love your dress :)
And I'm sure I'm not the first person to get the Crocodile Dundee quote in my head about your excellent utility knife ;-)
yeah for real, I paused the video to get a good look
Not finished the vid yet, but had to comment. Yes! Finding a truly large corsellette (sp?) is near to impossible. You can't even find off the rack corsets, or garter belts over a large today. A "large" as in maaybe a 40 inch bust. This was wonderful to see!
This is amazing to see, I never thought that plus size -truly plus, for fat girls! - was available. I'm about a US 20/22 so seeing these is really inspiring to know it's out there. 😄
I know what you mean I wear size 22-24 and there are so many gorgeous pieces out there
Not gonna lie, I want to steal those scarves! I live and was raised in Ohio and am Puerto Rican!!
Sooooooo much fun watching you go through those neat things!!!! Such beautiful outfits and they are in great shape. I LOVED this video thank you for sharing!! 😊👍💕🎁🎉👗🧣💝
SUCH a good haul! Rrrreally good, uncommon vintage pieces! More please! 💘💘💘
Wow! It’s a treasure trove!!! What a wonderful friend!❤️
This is fascinating. And yes I love vintage clothes despite being bigger.
Love your stuff as always!
I remember my grandmother wearing alot of these items when I was a child. She was not a petite woman but neither am I. Loved watching your haul.
I'm a former plus girl and I just love that you are letting people know and you just rock
I just want to say, I love your dress. It's absolutely gorgeous. I think my favorite dresses were the black one and the swirl print one with the white buttons.
I love the dress with the light blue collar! I really made the dress "pop!" So pretty!
I'm working on trying to reclaim fat for myself, but I'm still struggling with it and body positivity or body neutrality bc it can be pretty tough to not have negative feelings about my body as a chronically ill person dealing with debilitating chronic pain, but I'm working on it! Videos like yours and other costubers who have highlighted extant antique and vintage plus sized garments help me feel like I can actually make and wear my own historical and vintage reproductions, so thank you!
also the dress you're wearing in this video looks absolutely stunning on you!
The dresses are fabulous and so are you! I love the vintage prints of the dresses....Have a beautiful day!
Ooooooo. I like the blue with the white squiggles most. Love that pattern
Your excitement is infectious!
You are such a lovely human! I can't stop smiling, and I have been depressed as hell lately. Thank you for the video.
Dead stock lingerie - what a find!
Gorgeous dresses! I love the one with the mint collar so pretty!!
Everything is so beautiful...especially that corselet!!!! What a treasure.
the white swirls pattern one is gorgeous
The look to the camera after looking at the corselette.💕
hello , i love , love , love vintage day dresses aka house dresses . ms diane gave you some beauties , belts are easy to come by or in a pinch , you can use ribbon . what beautiful foundation garments and all in pristine condition too . when i find NOS ( new old stock ) / dead stock , i feel like i've hit the lottery , the longline bra is sweet . what a wonderful gift , thank you , for sharing 😊😊😊😊😊.......
What fantastic vintage treasures. That corselet is superb. I'm so glad I found your chanel.
I love what your wearing...
As a fat person that loves vintage style and struggles to find clothing . I love seeing this . I truly hope one day I will find some authetic 40s vintage 8n my size
These garments are beautiful and I wish now we had saved some of my mom’s clothes from earlier decades. My mom lived from 1929-2009.
From what I’ve read from medieval times, people were “fat” because they had the money to eat well, so whenever my fiancé is having self conscious days about her weight I tell her about what I said at the beginning of which I can’t figure out how to phrase differently 😅
You know what's funny? Kids in high school are now self-conscious for NOT being curvy. I so vividly remember being embarrassed in highschool for my hips, butt, and thighs. The only thing I had going for me were big boobs. But now kids are embarrassed to have "hip dips". Better late than never!
BarleeCarlee kids are still self conscious about their curves though. Especially if those curves are very obvious, and much larger than their peers.
My daughter lives in baggy shirts and hoodies because of it- she’s almost 13, in high school (Aussie high schools run yr 7 to yr 12) and she HATES her curves. To be bluntly honest, she’s likely got the biggest boobs in her school, adult staff included. So it’s not easy when you’re all the way over the other side of the spectrum. I think she’d be happy to be somewhere in the middle, but that’s just not an option for her.
It’s not fair to her. Especially given the fact she started getting street harassment from adult men when she was 10. Because if you don’t look at her face, even though she’s short (not quite 5’), she looks like an adult, with very big boobs, and hips and bum that match. That being said, most of the time, she’s in a school uniform, so the pricks know full well that she’s not an adult, but that doesn’t stop them. And the first time, she was in a primary school uniform, so the arse knew she wasn’t even a teenager yet. Didn’t stop him. So that sucks.
She just doesn’t like that she stands out. It’s not easy to have a KimK type body (but with a bigger chest) when you’re only 12. It was worse when she was still in primary school though. At least in high school there are other students around with big boobs, even if they are five years older. In primary school, it was just her.
And while I can empathise to a degree, because I had similar experiences, I wasn’t anywhere near as big as she is. I was about a D at 12. Which is big for that age. But she’s a G-H, which is big for an adult woman. There’s not really a comparison. As she says, she’s just sick of standing out, sick of being stared at, sick of being catcalled. And I’m worried that the additional negative attention might mean that there’s a higher chance of her being targeted by a predator.
So while kids might say they want to be really curvy, they really, really don’t. Also, it’s impossible to find clothes that fit off the rack. My daughter is lucky that I’m able to tailor her clothes for her (mostly uniforms and jeans atm).
The dress with the white swirls and collar is so darling, probably my fave piece 💗 And the corselette’s tiny embroidered roses 😭
How beautiful! You truly have a fairy godmother there. I am really getting Queen Latifah period movie vibes from everything in that box! Hope you model them soon! (Layered appropriately, of course.) xoxo