Plus Sized Clothes for Parks

[Princesca]

Alright, my Reubenesque lovelies, my Pooh sized princesses, what are you wearing to the parks that's comfy, breathable, and doesn't have you looking scrubby in photos? I want to look a bit more put together this trip, for photos, but not at the price of comfort.

 

[fla4fun]

Alright, my Reubenesque lovelies, my Pooh sized princesses, what are you wearing to the parks that's comfy, breathable, and doesn't have you looking scrubby in photos? I want to look a bit more put together this trip, for photos, but not at the price of comfort.

I rarely wear a standard tee shirt because I am heavier on the bottom than at the top. If I get one that fits in the hips, it’s too baggy at the top. So I wear a-line and flare style shirts that skim and don’t cling. It really depends on where you carry your weight. For bottoms, I usually wear either capris or full length pants instead of shorts. I get a lot of casual shirts at onestopplus.com in their clearance section that work great for me in the parks.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Just wandering around Amazon and found this comfortable yet stylish dress style that would complement all figures and most any occasion, IMO. Comes in a myriad of colors and the price is right too.
Only wish it were made in a jersey with a higher cotton content but that’s modern life:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0925S1NWR?smid=A2LA74ZP1121UN&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp&th=1&psc=1

 

[Travel60]

Soft Surroundings seems to have plus sized items.

 

[longboard55]

Hot Topic has a lot of Disney and they always do plus sizes

 

[GSDGlitter]

I'm plus-size and very pale so I almost always pick tops with longer sleeves. I also prefer dresses and skirts over pants/shorts. I tend toward linen, poplin, and super lightweight cotton gauze. I don't find those fabrics to be as hot and heavy as tee-shirts, they provide some sun coverage, and dry quickly. I do have a few spf tech shirts but don't totally love them.

 

[NotUrsula]

As FLforFun mentioned, a lot depends on how you carry your body weight, but I've found kind of a uniform that works for me in hot weather. I can't tell you how it looks in photos because I don't like being photographed, but it's comfortable and I'm not ashamed to wear it in public; I even will wear it to work sometimes on very hot days. (I'm old enough and Southern enough that I have mental holdovers from the days when you never went someplace "special" without dressing up a bit, and that included traveling.)

My go-to bottom is a golf skort with an outer quick-dry fabric that is a woven, made of quick-dry fabric or a cotton blend (all-knit isn't as flattering, because it will stretch out around your tummy and pull in around your thighs, causing big horizontal folds in the skirt.) The undershorts are knit and long enough to help prevent chafing. I have two favorite brands: either this one from JCPenney for days when I won't be getting soaked on water rides https://www.jcpenney.com/p/st-johns-bay-womens-mid-rise-skort-plus/ppr5008418816?pTmplType=regular, or one from Lee (that isn't made anymore) when I anticipate a drenching: the Duluth Trading Dry-on-the-Fly is very similar: https://www.duluthtrading.com/s/DTC/womens-dry-on-the-fly-improved-skort-46712.html?color=BLE

For tops, I like either quick-dry athletic tees, button-front fishing shirts, or a combination of a thin woven cotton camp shirt worn open over an athetic tank top. Regular tees go totally limp and start to look stretched-out when they have been sweated in. I really like the Magellan Laguna Madre fishing shirts from Academy Sports: https://www.academy.com/p/magellan-...re-plus-size-fishing-shirt?sku=beach-glass-1x, and the Eddie Bauer Guide style: https://www.eddiebauer.com/p/238243...irt?sp=1&rrec=true&size=&sizeType=Plus&color=

As you can see, I like classic styling, but a lot of these turn out to be investment pieces that I wear for years, so something that won't go out of style easily is a bonus for me. Fishing clothes, ironically, tend to be styled to look a bit less casual than most athletic wear, but are vented and stay comfortable when wet.

PS: Supportive watersports sandals on my feet, always. I prefer Merrells, but the rest of my family likes Tevas best.

 

[DVC Gma]

Alright, my Reubenesque lovelies, my Pooh sized princesses, what are you wearing to the parks that's comfy, breathable, and doesn't have you looking scrubby in photos? I want to look a bit more put together this trip, for photos, but not at the price of comfort.

Well, for the first time ever I wore my skorts I get at Sam's club or Costco. Normally, I wear lands end khaki-type shorts, which are hot as He**. The shorts did "stick" if I was sitting too long. But so did the shorts. The skort didn't heat up as much, maybe more air flow? They looked cute in photos, too.