I love ASOS Curve, it is one of the most fashion forward plus size brands out there, I often want everything on the website and have money to spend however there is one small niggle spoiling this otherwise perfect relationship, but it is a niggle, that if not fixed could turn this relationship sour....Your fit!
The sizing and fit of ASOS Curve clothes are just mad and make my mid boggle. There is no consistency, sometimes an 18 is right, other times I need to size up to a 24 or 26, which is quite a difference, to put this in context it would be like a size 8 person having to size up and wear a 16, when in reality this would never happen. In the last month I paced close to £400s worth of orders with ASOS and have kept maybe 4 items, over the last year countless orders were returned and I was left feeling depressed and like my body was the problem, did I have crazy proportions? In some of the dresses the neck gaped so much I could fit a teddy bear in there, the arms and shoulders are so tight I feel like I am in a straight jacket and the waist, I would love to know what they are modelling their clothes on, the waists are often so low it loses all shape.
This isn't a scathing attack on ASOS, I want to shop there, I am more than happy to give them my money, and quite a proportion of, it just seems they are unable to keep it. This is more a plea to ASOS of pease sort it out, I want to look amazing and you are one of the few brand who offer that.
Amen to this, I feel exactly the same. I love ASOS's style so much and would happily spend my money there if they would just fix the sizing/fit issues. My main problem is with the ridiculously low waists and the huge, shapeless bodices, it's like they fit their dresses on a 7ft male.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that ASOS often let their Curve models wear the straight sized versions of the garments in the pics/vids doesn't exactly help. I mean we don't even get to see the actual Curve item we're buying, not even lying flat or on a non-human mannequin, which is pretty offensive to me really.
i think the models is one of the big problems, we can't see what they look like on a real plus size body and then are disappointed when it doesn't look the same as it did on the model.
DeleteThanks for the comment.x
I agree! You want to see the top I bought from Curve in a 26! I can get two people my size in it, honestly! I'm going to get hubby to photograph me holding it up. You would not believe the size of it! xx
ReplyDeleteI have seen your review hehe, great if you want to go shop lifting (not that i advocate that) x
DeleteI agree with you on this. Most clothes I've bought from them have been very generous in size and really long. I think one of the problems is that their models are all so tall and not plus size at all, so what we see on them isn't what we get. The lengths are longer on us average height girls, and we obviously don't pin them back to give a better fit. They need to make their clothes to fit real plus size bodies and more average heights, perhaps like Very does with petite, regular, and tall versions? I do sometimes wonder what they base their sizings on... it seems like they grab the nearest 6ft tall size 12 model, make a garment to her measurements and keep to the same ratio to make larger sizes.
ReplyDeleteI find the 20s are often too big, but they rarely carry size 18s in the Curve range, which is a shame as Curve has such great clothes. I do find I size up with fitted-waisted clothes so they fit me, but I often have to do that with other brands like Dorothy Perkins. I don't know if that's just me? I'm happy to make adjustments to great clothes, but I really do wish they'd sort their sizings and lengths out because they're probably the most fashionable, leading plus size range right now!
I think having a petite, regular and tall fit would solve some of the problems but they still need to get to grips with actual plus size bodies and what they are like.x
Deletei've only had 4 things from curve but i am incline to agree with you the models and Simply Be use at least one one the same one the dark hair girl with the kaite holmes smile mehhh!
ReplyDeletethe items i've got should be knee length or shorter but they have calf length, i don't mind this but it's totally not what i was expecting.
i didn't know the models wore the items from the "normal" size range what a swizz!
there is so much potential they are missing out on!
I agree!x
DeleteI have a lovely dress from them that fitted lovely, so I asumed that there clothing would fit. I orded a dress in the sales it was beautiful, went to try it on, well lets say I cried, it didn't even fit with the zip compleatly open giving at least 6 inches extra it was rediculus, both where maid from material that dosnt stretch so I amused that it would be okay nope. ( the dress that didnt fit was more stretchy) I find the same problems with evans though i have a size 26 jeans that fit nice, and a 32 that are too small. Yet i have a 26 from newlook thats too big. Its like they dont care and just seem to do what they want with big sizing. :(
ReplyDeleteIt is the fact there is no conformity, i can know what size i will need so need to order 3 sizes to get one that will hopefully fit. You need to know it's not you that is the problem, it is them.x
DeleteUgh, these comments (Nothing against the OP, but the comments are so irritating). "Everything's too long and too big!" As a girl who is both plus sized and tall I can never find clothing ANYWHERE that fits me appropriately, except at ASOS. You'd think if every other plus sized retailer caters to short 16-20 sized women with high waists they'd have enough and stop complaining. If Asos changes their proportions due to people whining, literally nothing will fit me anywhere :(
ReplyDeleteI think Louise has hit the nail on the head, in main size clothing, you get petite, regular and tall lines, this should be the same in Plus Size, we have such a variety of body shapes and sizes that Plus Size by itself doesn't work.
DeleteI'm anywhere between a 12 and 16 depending on what shop I'm in, I find it depends on the cut and where it's tightest, I can never order things online because either they won't do up or sit any where near where they need to sit, I just give up with online shopping!
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