Another step closer

About 6 months I was desperate for a smart black well fitting jacket. Just a nice plain, possibly slimming, black coat. Easy job right? Think again.

Unless you have the cash to flash and can afford visit the ageing opera singer hell also known as Evans, then you are probably out of luck. For those of us on a budget and of portly proportions the choices of shopping outlet are greatly reduced. Both New Look and Mark One are a bit rubbish, preferring to suggest the average fat bird should dress in poncho sized t shirts so large you can fit a 20 word slogan on them. They might as well say My other T Shirt is a four-man tent. Since Etam appears to have gone belly up my only choice was bargain basement fatty shopping.

Yes, I went to Primark, but since not a thing in the shop would fit me Peacocks was my final and only choice. Peacocks is a great shop filled with wonderful and cheap clothes going right up to about size 24, but apparently the largest size jacket they make is a size 20. I was overjoyed since I am a size 20, but the jacket would go nowhere me and I left the shop dejected and consoled myself with McDonalds.

Fast forward to today, 6 months later and 14lbs lighter. Now surely I can fit in my beloved peacocks size 20 jacket. Check this out.



It's a size 18.

posted at 11:41 AM