Plus-size and size-inclusivity clothing have often come at the expense of dull and mundane styles for plus-size women. Just decades ago, when the plus-size fit was not an option, today, emerging fast-fashion clothing brands and renowned fashion labels are setting things on fire with their take on accessible clothing for all.
Where one size fits all ruled the days, brands are open-heartedly chanting “all sizes for all.” Though the industry has much more to learn and loads of variety, colors, fun, and styles to offer the much-unattended community, we have listed 7 plus-size clothing brands that have heard you and will serve the purpose.
1. Skims – Long Slip Dress
Skims, a leading plus-size clothing store for 2024, lives up to its name—a solutions-oriented brand for the next generation. It offers everything from basics like underwear, loungewear, and shapewear to comfortable pajamas, hoodies, and sweatshirts. Since they take size-inclusivity seriously, they prove their wording by offering sizes ranging from XXS to 4X.
Their internet favorite, the “Long Slip Dress,” is made with modal ribbed fabric. It is a viral sensation, offering a body-hugging fit highlighting picture-perfect silhouette curves. If that is not enough, spaghetti straps and a sleek, straight neck can drown you in endless compliments.
2. Wray – Enid Wrap Dress
Wray Serna, the woman behind Wray, is an inclusive, fine-art-inspired clothing line. Wray is beautifully erasing lines of misfits for plus-size women who are often cornered away with dull and pale outfits. The brand focuses on form and function, building its pieces with bright, funky patterns and colors that once looked impossible for plus-size women.
The Enid Wrap Dress by Wray is crafted from soft, stretchy mesh featuring a night poppy print. With its straight-cut, semi-sheer sleeves, collar, and slim tie-front closure, this dress will make you feel like you’re walking the runway, ready to steal the spotlight with a bold red carpet look.
3. Big Bug Press – Original Overalls
Los Angeles-based, fast-growing label Big Bug Press is a unisex label specializing in casual everyday wear, including tops, tees, bottoms, jumpsuits, trousers, pants, shorts, and so much more. Being a sweatshop-free brand and practicing local manufacturing, the brand focuses on making products in which one can feel confident.
Mono Espresso is a unisex vintage workwear-inspired fit, sizes from P to 6XL. A classic fashion piece of all time is weaved and milled in American 100% cotton denim. This straight-leg dress becomes much more comfortable and softer after every wear, giving the wearer the perfect fit over time.
4. Girlfriend Collective – High-Rise Leggings
Instagram’s famous brand, Girlfriend Collective, is an inclusive, sustainable, ethical women’s activewear brand made from recycled water bottles. Yes, you heard that right. Recycled water bottles. Whether you are looking for comfy tank tops or the ultimate unitards, this sporting athleisure has several colors and sizes up its sleeves.
The label’s #1 seller of ultra-high-rise sustainable leggings is squat-proof and made with 79% recycled water bottles. Designed for high-impact workout routines, the leggings are made with soft and compressive fabric to wick away moisture and lock in comfort all day. If sustainability didn’t impress you alone, compression leggings with small hidden back pockets will surely.
5. Good American – Good Curve Straight Jeans
Finding the perfect denim piece that hugs your curves just right can often feel like a challenge—but not anymore with Good American, co-founded by Khloé Kardashian and Emma Grede. Committed to conversing the difficult dialog and challenging the industry norms, Good American offers every piece with inclusivity and diversity in mind.
Its Good Curve Straight Jeans define curves like no other. These super high-rise straight jeans build the shape and define the silhouette to help you feel sexier, curvier, and more confident. With innovation in mind from day one, the jeans provide tummy-smoothing technology and offer quality and style in every size for every you.
6. Selkie – Head in the Clouds Puff Dress
Selkie, the second chapter after Wildfox, was sprouted to empower women to find themselves and encourage their artistic self-expression through the clothing they enjoy wearing. Dreamy, fanciful, and romantic are a few words that pour first to describe Selkie in three words.
The label offers a range of vintage-inspired styles, including dresses, gowns, and bridal fairy-tale bliss. The Head in the Clouds puff dress inspires imagination and gives an incredible flying experience—a moment in the sky full of baby blue. Their pieces across designs ensure sizes XXS-6X for women of all ages and sizes to live their moments truly and comfortably.
7. Maguire – Olivia Sky Heeled Sandal
Fashion is incomplete without perfect shoes that do not itch and bite. While the plus-size clothing industry has yet to cater to and extend shoe sizing needs, Maguire, a women-led company, is working to make high-quality leather shoes fair and accessible. Designed to create original classics, Maguire has a fresh take on making it luxury-friendly and exciting.
If you have a love-hate relationship with heels, Olivia Sky Heels can be your go-to option because of their low, comfortable block heel. Whether you walk, run, or dance, its buttery, soft leather will give you the comfort you have always sought.
Fashion is not by chance but by choice. When given the choice to cater universally, rationally, and body-positively, the masses will enjoy it and be genuinely themselves. The plus-size clothing market is much bigger and broader than one can imagine. Being cornered for years with uncomfortable fits and tight inches, this growing market is gradually cropping with long-awaited styles for plus-size women.
Since inclusivity is a thing of the present, plus-size fashion is thriving. Fashion houses and emerging labels serve the unserved with creations and pieces that truly define them.
