Are You looking for some Plus size evening wear, something that will dazzle, and make you feel great?

Well gone are the tents in large prints, or black so that you fade into the background with a shapeless dress, and in come the latest in designer fashions. No more wall flower for you!

Plus size women can attend many evening functions in style, with lots of evening wear to choose from. Since research shows that more than 65% of North American women are size 14 and up, which is considered “plus size” designers have finally got around to designing sleek, chic and well fitting plus size evening wear.

Throw out the so called rules, when wearing evening wear. Enhance the parts of your body that you feel confident about. If you have great shoulders, then why not wear a “off one shoulder evening gown?. If you have great legs, go with a knee length cocktail dress. Wear what makes you feel confident and comfortable and most important, happy.

When plus size evening wear is designed to fit your size, you will actually look slimmer. As with any fashion and at any size, you have to decide which areas you would like to enhance. This is the best way to hide the areas you don’t feel as comfortable with. Rather than stuffing those areas into something that is too tight, spend the time enhancing the areas that you do like. Make the eye go for your best parts, when dressing in evening wear.

If you really don’t like your larger hips, then don’t wear frills around your hips. Stay away from accessories that will add to the areas you don’t want to enhance. Your “not so nice” area will seem to disappear. This is based on everything from your shape to your height in deciding what style you should wear. These tips apply to any size.

But the most important tip, for wearing plus size evening wear, or actually any slinkier fabric, is that you need to make sure to have good fitting lingerie. Sometimes you have to spend more on your underwear than the garment, but this is worth the expense. A good well fitting bra and panties, fitted by a bra professional (most lingerie shops have one, and it doesn’t have to be a plus size store, I found mine in a regular lingerie store) will make you feel better. No more tugging, and pulling, and bunching up, your bra should move with you, and let you breathe.

If you have well fitting lingerie, you will get rid of extra bulges, that will always show through evening wear, or any clothing for that matter. Some of the one piece undergarments feel just like your second skin. If you can create a smooth line, under your clothing, you will feel like a million bucks, and you will present yourself in such a way, that you will actually look confident and slim, and have a good time.

By: Diane Palmer