- Yes!
(playful music)
More this way, more this way.
- [Woman] Drama at sea!
- It's every plus-sized persons' nightmare.
You travel to a fabulous location,
but your suitcase gets lost along the way.
Oh just go and buy new clothes,
your thinner friends might say,
because they don't know that if
you're above a certain size your chances
of finding clothes that fit are small.
Well, I'm about to turn the nightmare
into a dream come true.
I'm going to visit eight cities
with just the clothes I'm wearing.
Then, I'm going to try and find a
day look and a night look to explore the city.
Will I be too nude to leave the hotel? Wooh
It's the Empty Suitcase Show
and we're about to find out.
- I can't believe its finally happening.
- I know we're going to Seattle.
- [Mike] After all this time.
- Devin is actually going to be joining us
for this episode, but she is going to meet us
in Seattle.
Because she had plans.
- Cause she has friends.
- In cities.
[Kristin] Devin and Freddy will be joining me
for two episodes a piece, and then Jen
will be joining me for the last four episodes.
Okay, its cold!
Alright, all right, all right
Let's go, let's go
Let's go to the hotel.
We can meet Devin at the hotel.
(orchestral music)
- I came early to Seattle,
to scope out the place.
I made it to the Ace hotel first.
Kristen and Mike should be arriving
any moment now.
It is cold, in Seattle,
like I packed a fall jacket.
So, I'm wondering what she's going to do.
Oh my god.
Look who's here.
Hi Kelly!
- [Kelly] Hi!
- [Devin] Welcome to Seattle.
Hi Mike, welcome to Seattle.
- [Mike] Thanks Devin, you live here now?
- I live here now, I'm a local.
- Isn't it gorgeous?
- Yeah
- [Kristen] Hi!
- [Devin] Where's your jacket?
- I don't know
(laughter)
- Come on, I got a jacket.
- And your keeping me warm.
- Yeah, get in, get in.
(playful music)
- [Devin] Should we change,
and rest up for lunch?
- Well, you guys will change.
I will stay the same.
- [Devin] Oh that's right, I forgot.
- You will have to learn , Devin.
(lighthearted music)
- Good morning.
- Devin, are you ready to go
shopping with me?
- Yes, I'm so excited!
- This season, on Empty Suitcase,
for the American stores,
we are going to all thrift and resale stores.
- Wow, we love an environment woman!
- We're going to see how many
items we can actually get
at the thrift store before we have to
supplement at other stores.
Obviously, thrifting is very hard
for plus-sized people because
shopping for clothes is very hard
for plus-sized people.
Do you happen to know how difficult it is?
- No, I don't.
- So to give you an idea,
we looked at five popular
shopping centers in Seattle, and we
identified 101 places you can potentially buy
women's clothing.
Guess how many of those places
regularly carry a size 20, which is me,
or over.
- 30 of them, so like a third.
- [Kristen] The number is six.
And three of those shopping centers
do not regularly carry size 20 or above, at all.
- Wow, hold on, wow.
- Something I think that is important
to note here as well, is if I'm above a 24,
we can't make this show, at all.
Because the options for size 24,
clothing items that are sold in stores,
drops precipitously from there.
Obviously this isn't every store in Seattle
and we just wanted to give you an anecdotal idea
of what its like.
- So, what about thrift stores?
- There is a growing number of
plus-sized only resale shops in America,
and today we are going to one of them.
- Excellent!
- We are going to go to Two Big Blondes.
I'm going to be looking for two outfits.
One of them should be warm but for a water environment.
- Got it.
The other one should be for a classy night out.
- Okay.
Lets go shopping!
- Lets do it!
(playful music)
- Welcome to Two Big Blondes!
- Hi!
Thank you so much for having us.
- Of course!
- [Kristen] This store is gigantic.
I walked in, I was like cute and then I kept walking
and I was like more.
And I kept walking and I was like
uh oh we're going to be here for four hours.
Tell me a little bit about your store.
- [Lisa] Well, we've actually been here for 22 years.
We have at least nine to ten thousand items
in the store any given times.
- Oh my god!
- I noticed that nobody who actually
works in the front of the store is a blonde.
- [Lisa] Yeah.
- What's the story behind that?
- Well, the original owners who started it 22 years ago,
were blonde and big, and I am the third owner now.
But it was such a good name and everyone knows it,
so I didn't want to change it.
- You wouldn't want to change your hair color?
- No, I did try blonde once with a wig.
It was terrible.
(laughter)
Not good for me.
- Is it time to go shopping?
- I'm ready to get my hands dirty.
Oh my god, there's something cute over here.
We got to go.
- Its not going to fit you,
so don't go that fast.
(guitar music)
- I found the racks!
Get in Kristen, we're going shopping!
- I'm not going to fit in that.
- Well, okay we'll put your clothes here.
(bass thumping beat)
- I'm executive daddy.
- And I'm your country singer wife.
- Actually, that's gorgeous.
- Its really cute.
- Here's the problem though,
I cannot buy another jean jacket.
If I bring home another jean jacket
I think my partner will literally just leave.
- But this has jewelry on it.
- Here's the thing, I have every type of jean jacket
known to god, man, and santa.
- I'll just put it on the rack,
just to have it.
We're just going to have it on the rack.
This is a very you skirt.
Check out this skirt.
- What!
Look how cute it is.
Aw, its like a little pop art comics.
Put it on the rack.
- What do we think about a letter skirt.
- I love a leather skirt.
- I love a leather skirt for you.
- Devin's already so far ahead.
- I'm focused.
- I think Devin just wants to get to lunch faster.
- No, I love shopping.
- I think a thing you probably are learning
is that when you are bigger,
shopping is actually very stressful,
and very hard,
so its very interesting to be around someone who
doesn't feel that way about the whole experience.
- Shopping is supposed to be fun,
and it makes me sad that it's not that way for you.
So lets do it,
we're going to make it fun.
This is cute.
- (gasps) Where, what?
- Yeah, this is so cute.
- It has the liner. It's still on.
- It's Fashion Nova.
- (gasps)
- This and this will look super cute together.
- That's adorable!
I just found this thing with skulls on it.
I was like, skulls!
But you're actually putting outfits together.
- This is cute too.
- This is not the right size.
- Fine, she's dead to us.
- This would look cute with that jean jacket with pearls.
- I'm kind of mad that you're right ,
and that's fine,
I will deal with that on my own time.
- Alright, cool.
I'll just put it on the rack.
We'll see what happens.
- Okay
- I don't, no nevermind.
Nope, nope, goodbye.
I don't consider my body to be a circus.
I don't need to put a tent over it.
I like my stuff to be
phoop, phoop, phoop, phoop, fitted.
- I do like this because it's 90s.
- This is like old school Torrid.
How did you find this?
- I love to shop.
My mother taught me well.
How do you feel about tube tops?
- I think it's a little bit too formal
for what we're looking for.
I think we need something that's like,
cute, and cool, and I'm in Seattle.
- I know exactly what that means.
Shall we look at the lingerie?
Its on brand for us.
- Let's just go look.
I feel like,
this with a pair of white combat boots.
- Yes.
- And a jacket.
- Yes.
- Would be very cute.
- Yes, I also think this,
because I love you in blue.
- Oh, same concept.
- Same concept.
- Are we going to turn lingerie
into day-gerie.
- Mhmm, mhmm.
- Put the day-gerie (mumbles).
- Oh my god, go put it on the rack.
- Okay.
Shall we get a wedding dress?
We're here.
If it goes on the rack,
we're not committed.
Or we could repurpose this bad boy
with the jean skirt.
- Or the denim jacket with pearls.
- She keeps coming back.
Aren't you glad we put it on the rack?
- Oh my god,
I'm going to own a tenth denim jacket.
- Whatever, Brian is just going to have to deal.
- I'm leaving you,
for my denim jackets
I want to find kind of like a harder,
something that might go with a floral,
that makes it look a little bit rougher around the edges
so we have that idea going.
- What do you think about this one?
- Oooh
- I like it.
Kristen, you don't put it on the rack,
I put it on the rack.
- Sorry.
- Don't do that to me.
That's my job.
- I'm so sorry.
- Yeah, okay.
- Let's do a prom photo apology hug.
- Are you having fun?
- Yes.
- Okay, good.
- Here's the thing,
I don't hate this,
well, no I actually do.
What do you think about this?
You don't like it?
- Change my mind.
I love it when you change my mind.
I saw a skirt that I loved.
Love a drawstring moment for you.
- A-line
- Its A-line.
She's got a slit.
70s are having a moment.
- The dress says business.
The sleeves say,
I'm going to drop these in my drink.
- Okay, but she's going on the rack.
- Devin, I have a moment for you.
- Yeah?
- Close your little eyes.
- Okay, closing.
This better be a jacket
that gives a hartidge vibes.
Oh, daddy. Oh ,daddy.
- I'm daddy if daddy was in the Mickey Mouse club.
- I love it!
- Alright, Devin we got to go try stuff on.
- Yeah, because our rack is full.
- She's full.
A possibility.
Come here, old Kristen.
Show me your body.
- She's ready to party.
- Oh my god!
- Thank you.
This is what you would wear is when
Seth Reagan was the hottest person on tv.
- [Mike] Aren't you going to be cold in this?
- No, here's the vision.
You take something like this,
you put a heavy jacket on it.
You put tights on.
You put boots.
And you grunge it up.
- Yeah Mike, duh.
Are you ready for it, Michael?
- [Kristen] Get with my vision.
Like and subscribe.
Devin, I know you were excited about this
boohoo dress, getting a dress,
unfortunately, she's a robe.
Welcome to my threesome.
- By threesome, she means one, two and three.
- Yes.
Its three women getting together.
- Bertini, what were you thinking?
- (gasps)
- I'm Thora Burch, its "Ghost World"
- I love it.
- This is giving me waitress vibes,
you know the musical.
- I thought you meant the job.
- Oh, no.
I love it.
You do not love it.
I, however, found some boots,
that I'm going to be getting.
- I love those.
- Yes.
- Well, okay, so this is still about me.
- Okay right, your right.
- Oop
- Oh my god.
- She's a top and a skirt,
it's actually worked out.
Because the bridal top is a little hefty,
and the skirt was a little loose.
So I tucked it underneath,
and now,
- Yes!
- It's one coecient piece.
- Yes it is.
It looks gorgeous on you.
- (laughs) That's my french person impression.
Have you come to see the fall colors?
I'm a foliage, baby!
- [Devin] I love it.
I love this color on you.
- It does feel very summer-y,
but we are doing an outfit that does involve water.
I like that this is a kind of bathing suit
type situation.
So I can just be like.
That's my dream.
Just to get naked in public.
Crossing my fingers.
Alright Devin, you ready to eat your words?
- Oh no.
- Well feast on this.
- Wow.
- You didn't like this skirt.
- I did not like that skirt.
- Here. She. Is.
- I eat my words, I change my mind.
It looks great on you.
- Hello.
- Wait, it looks so good.
Wow, we have found so many great things here.
- And I really wish that every city had a store like this.
Oh my gosh, Lisa.
We had a time!
- [Devin] It was so fun!
I have a hat.
- I know Devin went shopping for Devin too.
- I did!
- Great we have a little something for everyone here.
- Thank you so much for having us.
- Your welcome, it was so great to have you here.
Have a great time in Seattle.
- Thank you, we will.
I just got back from doing some supplemental shopping
for the things I needed.
Mainly some shoes, some bags,
a couple of accessories.
It's dark outside.
That's how long I've been shopping.
That's why I look like I'm being lit
in an interrogation cell.
Ready to put these outfits together!
- [Mike] Hello Kristen!
- Oh, hi there.
- [Mike] Oh no!
- It's time for me to get ready for my day activity.
Are you ready to watch me get naked?
- [Mike] It's my favorite part of the show.
(bass thumping beat)
- I haven't seen Kristen yet.
I'm so excited, get out here girl.
- Here I am!
- Wow
- Posing, posing, posing, posing, posing.
Hope I don't hip check you into the water.
- You won't, I'm grabbing onto wood.
- [Kristen] I got this jacket, this bathing suit,
and this skirt from Two Big Blondes.
As well as this beautiful bag.
I used the skirt and the jacket as a cover up.
Then I got these little shoes from Nordstrom Rack.
- Bless Nordstrom Rack.
So, what are we doing today?
- Today we are going to be going on
hot tub boats!
- [Devin] A hot tub, in a boat, on water.
So cool.
- And that's why I asked you to wear a little bathing suit.
- I did.
- And why I'm wearing a little bathing suit
under this jacket.
- I am so excited. Lets get in that tub.
Tub me up.
- Yes!
(playful music)
- This is so fun!
- [Mike] Is she the king of the world?
- [Devin] She is!
- [Kristen] No, I'm just the king of five people on a boat.
Kelly is getting worried about the boat.
- Why would you say that?
- But don't worry, I've had lifeguard training.
(playful music)
- [Devin] Look at that wind in your hair.
- Wow.
- [Devin] Oh my gosh.
(camera clicks)
- I feel like we're having a lot of fun
just taking photos of ourselves.
- How can you not?
You're in a hot tub boat,
in the middle of this gorgeous lake.
- [Kristen] I know look how beautiful it is.
(dramatic music)
- We have to make a rescue mission for Kelly's hat.
We're turning the boat around.
- [Kristin] Oh no. Its going that way.
- [Devin] Where is it?
- [Kristin] It's right there.
- [Devin] Look at her go.
- [Kristin] The hat is faster than we are.
- [Devin] Point, point, point.
- [Kristin] It's like right there.
- [Devin] More this way, more this way.
- [Mike] We're getting there, we're getting there.
- [Kristen] We're going to get it.
- [Devin] She is within arms reach, you guys.
- [Mike] Yeah, a little more to the left.
- [Kristen] A little more to the left, oh so close.
Oh my god, please don't sink.
- Yes!
- Drama at sea!
Wow, somehow something exciting happened.
- So dramatic, no one lose anything else.
- [Kristin] We should take more pictures.
We look so good right now.
(camera clicks)
(playful music)
- I'm sad to be going back in,
but it's about to rain.
- It is about to rain,
we're hungry but this has been a really fun group cuddle.
- Yes! We made a group soup.
- We're getting ready for out night activity
look to the big show stopper.
If I can get my eye to stop watering,
we'd be getting there faster.
So you could say that my one eye
is holding up this whole evening.
I'm trying to get dressed right now,
and I had to go to a store to just get some tights.
So I just grabbed extra large, and the extra large
do not fit.
I now have a sundeck on my ass.
- I can't wait to see Kristin!
- Here I am!
- Oh my god. You look amazing!
- I got this top that was your idea,
and then actually I need your help right now.
I explained already about the tights.
They just aren't staying up.
- Which is awful.
By the way, I'm down here.
(laughs)
- So I've just been shuffling around,
so I was like you know what, we're done.
We're taking them off, they're dead.
- They're dead to us.
- I'm not living my life like this.
- There's the trash. Goodbye tights.
- You missed the trash.
(laughs)
- That's why your here, put them in the trash.
- This is every plus-sized womans' nightmare,
is to get the size that doesn't fit,
and you just hope to god that it stays on you,
even though it doesn't.
- Well, we might as well get comfortable.
- This is what it's like.
We're actually really doing it.
So this jacket and this top and this skirt
came from Two Big Blondes.
I got these little boots,
and this big beautiful statement bag from Target.
As well as these little clips.
We are at Ben Paris.
- (in french accent) Ben Paris
- We are going to have an awesome dinner,
as well as some great cocktails from the
bar top program.
- I love a good cocktail.
Are you ready to carry me home?
- Are you ready to carry me home?
- All right, we're gonna carry each other home.
- We'll carry each other home.
(voices overlap)
(playful music)
- [Devin] What is this?
- This is our bar cart for our little table side
gin and tonic service.
- Our taxi is here.
- Yes!
This is our gin ripely jiniper,
named for King Ripley junior,
I'm a huge baseball fan.
Well, what we do is we essentially make
a spanish style gin and tonic.
I've got a kings infused with butterfly pea flower.
When it reacts with tonic or citrus it turns pink.
- Magic, it's Harry potter!
- It's magic!
(playful music)
Just a little mist of absinthe around there.
So we've got some crab louise around there,
we've got quarts, I'm going to let you get started
with eating, and guess what, I made more cocktails for
you two.
- [Kristin And Devin] Yay!
- We have so much homework.
Mom, I need an extension!
- [Mike] You want to get that A?
- I want to get an A.
(lighthearted music)
No! We're sleepy.
Thank you so much. We had such a good time
we need to go to bed.
- It was a pleasure having you guys, sweet sweet dreams.
- Thank you, have a good one.
- We did it!
So glad you're sitting so close to me because
this jump suit smells very bad.
- Eh its fine.
It's got another day and a half in it.
- No it doesn't.
We had a really good time in Seattle.
We put together some unexpected outfits with some
unexpected elements.
We had some mishaps.
- [Devin] But to be fair we had some unexpected activities.
- We did, we did.
- Seattle has been so fun I don't want to leave.
- Well we have to.
- Fine.
- I'm sorry. Sorry, my love.
We have so many people to thank.
Thank you so much to the Ace hotel,
to Ben Paris, and to Hot Tub boat
for having us.
- Let us not forget about Two Big Blondes.
Beautiful store, thank you for having us,
and providing such an incredible selection
of fashion.
- Yes, we had a really good time.
- Thank you to Seattle,
and all the citizens for giving me coffee
and food.
- Thank you, I love you every seagull who almost
pooped in my mouth.
- Thank you.
So I got to go home now?
- We're going somewhere else now.
- Where we going? Where we going?
- You're going to find out soon.
- Put me on a plane. Shoot me in the sky.
The world is my oyster.
- No, I want you to live.
- I won't talk to you if your not my husband.
Don't even look at me.
Don't even get a second thought mister.
- Gee lady, do you like the news in 1920?