Full-bodied women have been the beauty ideal for centuries, even millennia. The current fashion trend for thinness is actually quite unusual. But regardless of what other people think, how you feel about yourself and how you care for yourself is what makes you beautiful. Here are just two of the ways to do that.
1) Ignore the size tags
This is the easiest problem to fix, and the rule broken most often. Trying to squeeze into a size 16 simply because you refuse to "be" a size 18 will make you look awful. You would look much better if you just ignored the tag and put on the piece of clothing that fits. You'll look much, much better in fact. Ironically you can actually make yourself look ten to fifteen pounds lighter just by moving up a clothing size. Clothing that puckers and is tight in the wrong places makes even relatively thin people look bad. It makes everyone look bad. Do not deny your curves -- give them room and give yourself room to breathe and be comfortable. You will be happier, look better, and be much more confident. Cut off the size tags if they bother you.
There's no need to mope around about being a size 18 or a size 32 or any size. Its all just a number. Besides, you know that different clothing stores sizes have different measurements, right? Typically the higher-quality stores are larger, so if you're a size 20 in Old Navy you'll be an 18 or even a 16 at Bergdorf Goodman. So its all a moving target anyway, this size obsession. Let it go.
2) Go for quality
If you are at risk of not feeling good about how you look, make sure your clothes are first-rate. That does not mean you have to have a lot of clothes, or even that you have to spend thousands of dollars on your wardrobe. It does mean you have to be picky.
Aside from the guilt, there's no good reason to hang on to clothes you don't like or don't look good on you. And here's the real stinger -- even if you keep the clothes, you'll still have the guilt of the wasted purchase. You'll have it longer, in fact. So do an inventory of your closet and toss anything that does not make you look great.
By "toss" I mean eBay, give away or consign any clothes that don't look great on you. This can take some time and some work to do, but it will give you a couple hundred dollars to go shopping with. When you do go shopping, after having done your wardrobe inventory you'll know exactly what pieces you need. So go out and get replacement clothes for those few pieces. And get great replacements. If they're expensive, then just get one or two. You have now moved into the clothes habits of French women. They dress like they eat -- with extreme value on quality and pleasure. Better to buy one or two items on your shopping "spree" that look fantastic than to buy six that are just okay. It is the difference between looking okay and looking like a knockout, regardless of whatever silly number is on the size tag.
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