Fashion Show Friday!

Deb at Deb's Country Kisses is hosting a fashion show! How fun!
I decided to show off some of my dressy outfits. I feel a little silly posting so many pictures of myself, but I thought that being in a fashion show, even just online, would be fun! My hair wasn't doing what it was supposed to tonight, and you can witness the decline.

This first item is a red brocade jacket that I bought at CJ Banks last spring for only $20 on sale! I love it! I'm wearing a silky black shell in black that I also bought at the same store for about $12.
What I really like about this jacket is that it's reversible! I have a corner of the inside turned out so you can see.
I got this jacket on eBay. It's not a very good picture, so it's hard to see the little rhinestone pattern in the lapel. I think this would be fun for a dressy occasion or out on a date. Jakey, aka Sir Poops-a-Lot had to get into the picture!
Oh boy, here is where my hair really starts to go south. I really really need a perm and a cut. Without one, my hair is stick straight. It's flat on the top and curly on the sides, and I am sporting a Bozo styled do. About the outfit, this is an outfit that I bought on eBay to wear on an actual date. I wore the same jeans, which hug my butt, and these black high heeled sandals. Did my date like my outfit? Oh yes, oh yes! I'm such a little hussy.
Here is a better picture (with better hair) of the same outfit, but with the wrong jeans. The baby-doll top with sequins is from The Avenue, and the jacket is from Dress Barn. I think I paid a total of about $25 for the clothes, not counting shipping and handling.

Still channeling Bozo with the hair here, and I'm sporting an outfit I wore to my best friend's wedding. The black dress is from Jody Myles at Myles Ahead, a designer for plus size women. The jacket is from Spencer Alexis. I found it on eBay too. They have the most beautiful clothes!
Here is a Spencer Alexis dress, also found on eBay. I always thought it would be a great dress to get married in...as if that would ever happen again. Ha! Oops, forgot to change out of the black bra.
Did I ever tell you that I have actually participated in a real fashion show? I have attended an annual event called Big As Texas, a get-together for plus size women, as often as I can in the last few years. Here I am modeling for Jody Myles in her beautiful clothes.
And this is another of Jody's outfits in snakeskin. I soooo badly wanted this outfit, but the clothes are pricey. She gave me an awesome discount on the black dress though.
Modeling in real life was so much fun! I had a blast. The dressing room accomodations were severely lacking, but that's a whole other blog post.

Just wanted to add a little something here. I am obviously a big woman, and I am very okay with that. I have never let my size keep me from buying anything that I didn't love, and I have never waited to get something pretty until I lost some weight. I'm a firm believer that if you don't love yourself exactly as you are, that you won't love yourself if you become slender either. So my advice is to go out and live life fully, be seen and be gorgeous no matter what your size...

...even if you're channeling funny looking Bozo hair.