- I feel like my name is Bugsy.
- It looks a little floppy in real life.
- It wasn't inclusive and therefore,
we will not put in on.
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- [All] Hello!
- This week, we're trying out...
- [All] Suits!
- Not the Meghan Markle TV show.
- How do you feel about suits?
- I (beep) love suits!
- Oh you do!
- This is the one thing in plus size fashion
that we can consistently find.
Plus size retailers out there have some good (beep) suits.
They're all expensive,
but they're all worth it.
- What do you usually wear under a suit?
- A lingerie or something that's totally the opposite
of what I'm wearing.
They're fashionable but presentable.
Like you can wear them to events, to panels,
and still look fashionable
and not look all stuffy.
- I think suits have really gone a long way.
Growing up I always was like,
"Oh, suits are just for work."
We had little pencil skirts,
and just like shoulder pads as well.
- I own zero suits.
I have some blazers,
but I think I've struggled with finding a suit for me
that's flattering on top as well as on the bottom.
I really want a bold, printed one
that makes a statement.
'Cause if I'm gonna buy suit,
I don't want a boring, black, like office suit.
You wear a turtle neck under it and it's like classy,
or you wear nothing and just button it and it's--
- Exactly. - A hot night out.
- Yeah, I don't have any suits either.
I've never thought I was cool enough to pull off
a fashionable suit.
But I would like to change that.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause I tried one on on this show,
and I really liked it.
- [Nina] Oh yeah, your green suit.
- And that was honestly the first time
I've really worn a suit.
- That was such a good suit.
- Yeah.
I kinda wanna try a shorts suits.
- Ooh, I love that.
- You in a shorts suit,
would be very cute.
- What kind are you gonna get,
since you have a million?
- It's easy to put a plus size person
in a regular (beep) suit.
So I am looking for, similar to Nina,
bold, something trendy, something fashionable.
If it's a little bit oversized, that would be cute.
- We're gonna try to find the cheap versions
of our suit ideas online.
(laughs)
And some of us are more excited than others.
- I'm sorry.
(laughs)
Like just to find cheap suits--
- It's like an oxymoron.
- Yeah, those things don't go together.
- Like, you spend money on them for a reason.
- I feel like it's gonna have to be a lot of things
that are in the sale,
rather than already being cheap.
- Yeah.
- I also think like you know,
our expectations of cheap have to be adjusted.
- A little more broad. - Exactly.
- I don't think we're gonna find nine dollar suits.
- No, no, no, no.
- I'm actually gonna try and find a second hand suit
that's from a thrifted place.
Since I'm straight size two,
I can pretty much shop anywhere.
I might as well use it to my advantage
and show what other options out there.
Environmentally, I would like to try and reduce
my footprint a little bit,
so this is the way I can do it.
- So after we find our cheap option online,
we're gonna bring in a stylist,
and she is gonna show us
the immaculate expensive suits we want.
- Let's go online.
- Let's go shop!
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- All right, I'm gonna start on Poshmark
because it's my favorite.
So Poshmark really seems to be the best option
for cool, contemporary clothes.
- [Jazz] These are all the suits that I own.
I have 10 suits.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was
at least one to two more elsewhere.
- [Nina] These prices are really not looking
what I'm tryna pay.
Oh this one might not be horrible.
I really like the pattern.
Although, if I'm being honest,
I don't love this part of it.
I just want it to be a normal suit, I think.
- [Chloe] First up, this.
Not bad.
This is really cheap, it's cute,
it looks like it might be a little bad quality.
It's a drawstring,
which I'm not obsessed with.
- [Jazz] This is a suit on ASOS right?
$72 for the blazer.
Anyways, I came to ASOS to hopefully look
in the outlet section.
- I'm gonna check out Fashion Nova right now
because I feel like they have a lot of suit type things.
There's suits for sure.
A little pricier than the last one I saw.
But they're not really what I'm looking for.
I want something with a print.
- [Chloe] This is pretty cute and unique.
It is a size four, and I'm a six.
I don't know if that would fit me.
It is a good price though.
- [Jazz] I already have a suit like this,
I can't get that.
Oh no.
I already have this suit too.
- [Nina] Show me your prints.
Okay.
So, look at that one.
Yeah, what the.
Listen, she looks lovely.
That is not for me though.
- [Chloe] This is super cute,
but it's $45.
There's only one picture.
- [Jazz] Some good news and some bad news.
I found a cute suit jacket.
$20, which is unheard of.
But they're out of my size.
So I think I'm just gonna have to get a different size
and deal with it.
And I think it's worth it
because this exactly follows what I want.
- [Nina] Got this little,
looks like a houndstooth,
blazer and pants set.
It's like fine.
- [Chloe] I really like this.
I can't tell what fabric it is.
Could be like linen.
But it's oversized and classy
and I really like the buttons.
It's 35, and it's Free People,
so it's worth a lot more.
Okay, I'm gonna make an offer,
'cause that's something you can do on this site,
which is an awesome thing.
Let's just do 29.
Really try it out.
I might not get a response,
but let's see.
- [Jazz] So the good thing is,
they have my pants size,
which I think is probably the hardest to find.
So I think I can probably deal with the jacket
being a little bit smaller, hopefully.
- [Nina] Oh, I kinda like this one a lot.
There's no written reviews.
It's got a five star, a three star,
and a one star pretty evenly.
- They accepted my offer for the suit.
29 bucks.
I think that's pretty good for a two-piece suit.
Even though they're shorts,
and they're shorter so there's less fabric.
I'm pretty excited.
- [Jazz] The pants are 13.50.
So altogether, this suit is about 34 bucks.
That's really really good for as suit.
- [Nina] Mhm, I wonder if this is stretchy.
Actually, this might be an option.
I think I've made my decision,
so I'm excited to order it and then try it on.
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- [All] Woohoo!
- I really love how bright and bold we all went.
- We all went with a color.
- This is by Free People, so I knew it was good quality.
- Mhm, ah, I get it now.
I get the linen of it.
- On the model, it looked really cool,
and flowy, and breezy,
and she was standing by a subway in New York.
It looks a little floppy in real life.
- No, but it's like a relaxed fit.
- Yours is amazingly bold, I love it.
- Yeah!
I was like, how the hell am I gonna find
a cheap suit in my size.
But here we are,
it was $33 and--
- That's really good.
- That's amazing!
For a suit.
- There's two pieces of clothing.
- Yeah!
- And they're like nice quality too.
- So I hope it fits (laughs).
- How 'bout yours?
- I love it.
- Listen.
- [Chloe] Yeah, yours is so cute.
- I have always wanted a floral suit.
- Yes.
- I know they became super in a couple years ago,
but I never hopped on it.
I really love the color.
It's a very light kinda stretchy material.
So, it's nice in that I know that it'll fit.
I don't know, I just don't really thick materials.
I feel constricted.
Maybe a little worried, like you,
that maybe it doesn't have enough structure.
But the print is so cool,
I'm willing to give it a try.
- Shall I try it?
- Yes. - Okay.
- Go try it on, go be a little mustard.
(laughs)
- [Both] Chloe!
- Yes.
- [Both] Oh!
- Okay, this is cute.
- [Nina] I love this color for you.
- [Chloe] Thank you.
- You really work this color,
and I love how (beep) relaxed this looks.
- I really like the jacket a lot.
Unfortunately, the shorts are a little big.
I wish that they were tighter and higher up.
- If it was taken in,
I think this is a really good suit for you.
I think if your style is more fun,
like you wear color,
and that really fits with that,
and so when I picture you in a suit,
it is a suit like this.
- I'm also excited for you to just have this jacket.
'Cause you can wear this with your own shorts,
you can wear this with high waisted jeans,
you can wear this in so many ways.
- Yeah, I literally don't have any blazers.
I think I find it hard to know how to wear them.
But now I have one,
I will figure it out.
- Yeah!
It's also so nice that this is your first blazer,
'cause blazers usually are so boxy.
And this, you could completely put this outfit on with jeans
and it'll still kinda be relaxed.
- I also really did like the shorts
until I realized they're too big.
It's a longer process to find what I want second hand.
'Cause like one day can be completely different
from another day.
It's not like stores that sell the same things all the time.
Every single day, people are putting up new stuff.
So, I think going forward, I would have to spend
multiple days looking,
rather than just one day and hoping I nail it.
- Who is next? - Ninz!
- Me.
- Love that.
Goodbye.
- Nina! - Nina, come out!
- [Both] Oh!
- She's feeling it, she's feeling it.
- Oh my god, I love it.
- [Jazz] I (beep) love this.
- [Nina] I really like this suit.
I'm happy with it.
- You can tell, you can tell.
- You're like.
- It's light.
I love a light material so it really works for me.
I think the print's amazing.
I think it fits pretty well.
- It fits you so good.
- Yeah.
The pants are, you know,
the elasticized waist and everything.
So that makes it easier to fit obviously.
I think they also sit nicely.
'Cause I think I was a little worried
that it would either be way too skin tight,
'cause it's stretchy material,
or I sized up too much and it would be just loose.
This is a really great option I think,
especially if you don't have any suits.
I feel like it's a good low-cost way to test the waters.
- I do love, also, where the pants are hitting you
because you're wearing it with heels.
I know it's not your vibe,
but you could wear it with tennis shoes.
- I could.
I'm gonna hold my leg up.
This is so precarious.
They hit me in a decent place which is amazing
as a short person.
- Yeah.
- This almost never happens.
Usually I'm like stepping on 'em.
This is a good suit.
- Now, I do want to see something else.
- Ugh.
- I gotta see my pink lady suit.
- Okay.
(laughs)
- [Both] Jazzmyne!
- Here I am.
- [Both] Ooh!
- Yes you are.
- I love this color on you.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- I was a little worried about all this mixed print,
just not knowing how it would look
on pants and a blazer.
It looks good.
- It does. - I agree.
- The only thing I do not like
is I feel like these pants hit a little too high.
That's an obviously me and my body thing.
- And I love the way you've styled it with the bralette.
- Oh my god, it looks so good.
- That's like how it's meant to be worn (laughs).
- Yeah.
- ASOS has amazing sales it seems.
- They really do.
- 'Cause you seem to always to get really good bargains.
- I know as a plus size person,
ASOS fits me like this.
So that's the place where I go first and foremost,
just because I shop there so much.
- Can I see the back?
- Yeah.
- Oh yeah.
- It fits you so well.
- The fit of blazer is so great.
- Yeah it does.
I also don't feel like this is for something specific.
I feel like this is very open to a lot of things.
- It's a year round suit.
We aced the suit game.
- We did. - Yeah!
- This is gonna be hard for Taylor.
- Yeah, I'm a little nervous for her.
But I guess let's meet her and see what she can do.
- Let's see. - Okay.
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- Hi! - Hello!
- Hi guys.
- Welcome back.
- Thanks for having me.
I got you guys some cool suits we're gonna try on.
- [All] Yay!
- How did your ones go from before?
- Listen, they were pretty good.
- I feel like this is the first time
where I've been like,
we did really good.
- Yay, that's exciting,
because it's nice to be able to find something affordable
and be able to wear that and feel good in it.
- Totally.
- So, I brought some, obviously, expensive options.
So let's start with yours Chloe.
- Yes please.
- It is a suit with a short.
- Ah yes, this is so cute.
- I love this.
- I love the contrast pocket.
- It's really cute.
- This fabric is amazing.
I don't know what this is, but I really like it.
- It's a satin.
- It's a satin. - It's a satin.
- Actually money.
- The contrast and color is super fun.
I think it's an easy suit to wear out.
You can wear the blazer by itself
if you don't wanna wear the shorts.
Okay, should we try it?
- We shall. - Go go!
- Okay, bye.
- Chloe are you ready?
- Let's see you.
- [Chloe] I'm ready.
- Come out, come out.
- Ooh, okay.
- I can't move very much
'cause my boobs will fall out.
- What do you think?
- I like it.
- It's so soft.
- Yeah, the fabric is amazing.
It feels so nice,
even though it's fitted,
it feels really loose and comfy.
The one thing I'm not in love with
is it makes me feel a little bit like a ringmaster.
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But I do really really like it.
And I love the shorts.
The shorts are so cute.
And they're like high waisted.
- I love that they're the accent color.
- Yeah.
- I love it.
- I love the two tones so much.
- And it's also unique enough
that you could pull off the blazer
and wear the shorts.
It think if it were in a different color,
you'd probably like over the moon with it.
But it fits you really nicely.
We're gonna move on to Nina.
- Ninz!
- Yes. - Oh my, okay.
- You have as suit from Proenza Schouler.
- Wow.
- Fancy and rich.
- Yes.
And it is $2,980 for the two.
- What?
- What!
- I was not expecting that.
- Neither was I (laughs).
- It's like business fashion.
- I'm very intrigued to see
what this will look like on me.
- You're gonna be a power woman.
- I am gonna be a power woman.
- Go try your power suit on.
- All right. - Yay.
- Do it. - Taking my power with me.
- Ninz!
- Come out Ninz!
- Oh. - Oh.
Okay.
- Um. - Uh.
(laughs)
- I feel like my name is Bugsy and I--
- (laughs) Bugsy Malone!
- Am a mobster in the Prohibition era,
delivering moonshine to the basement bar.
(laughs)
I do like the stripy print.
I think what's a little bit
tough for me right now is the fit.
It's a little too big
but also a little too small in certain areas.
It feels like the jacket's pretty long,
and it's kind of oversized,
okay fine, that's the look,
but it doesn't close all the way on me.
I love the waist area of the pants.
It's very cool with the belt and the four loops.
I'm pretty small in stature.
I'm getting a little bit overwhelmed by it, I think.
- Yeah, it is just like a lot.
- It either needs to be a shorter jacket or tighter pants.
I feel like it's just a blogh.
- Most of the time,
you're gonna have to tailor something to your body.
It's a thicker fabric,
it doesn't have much stretch to it.
So not to defend it exactly,
but also to give you kind of a reason
as to why it's fitting you the way it is.
- I say all the time, I prefer lighter fabrics.
This one feels thick enough
where it's structured and feels expensive
but is not constricting or too heavy.
Why is this suit $2,000?
- It's made in Italy.
The fabric's from Italy.
So it's gonna be a little bit more pricey
because of that as well.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Exactly.
- That's all the Italian I know.
- All right, I think it's Jazzmyne's time.
- Yay! - Yes Jazzy.
- Okay, so before we get to your option,
we did have a little bit of a wardrobe, gear shifting
time together. - Yeah, okay.
Here's the deal,
here's the sitch,
here's what happened.
Yesterday, Taylor came,
showed me the suit option,
I was like, "Wow, this is cute."
But she showed it to me
and I was like,
"That's not gonna fit me."
- You're like, this has no stretch, it has nothing.
- Nothing.
It was my size.
The pants wouldn't even go over my (beep).
We had to get a different last minute suit.
Kinda sucks because that suit was like $1,000.
It wasn't inclusive,
and therefore we will not put it on.
- So Tanya Taylor now has an extended size range,
which is awesome.
But we couldn't get a size bigger than that.
It only went to a 22.
And so unfortunately,
we couldn't even size up if we wanted.
Obviously, it's not fitting true to size.
- So what do you have?
- Yes, let's see what we have.
- I know, I have a backup.
It's not the price point that I wanted for you,
but it's really cute still.
- [Jazz] Okay.
- Okay, so it's Lauren By Ralph Lauren.
- Ooh, it's cute.
- I can handle this.
- It's not pink, I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
It looks like it's gonna fit me
way more than the other suit did.
- Yeah, this one does have some stretch.
It's $330 for the full suit.
- Still expensive.
- Still expensive, absolutely.
That's definitely a mid-range price.
But it's not the thousand dollar price point
we were hoping to try on for the fun of it, so.
- (sighs) Okay.
- You got it.
- Thanks.
- [Both] Jazz!
- Here I am.
- Oh, I like this on you.
The mix print.
- I feel so ritzy.
- You do look ritzy.
And it looks really good on you.
It fits you so well.
- It honestly is very comfortable.
I feel like I can move a lot.
I like the cropped pants.
I do feel like this is slightly more mature than my style.
It fits with my style.
But I feel like maybe this is like in 15 years
where I would be.
I would just need to be like
looking down at my watch and being like.
(laughs)
Or like, representing someone--
(laughs)
- Jazz the agent.
- Can we see the back?
I wanna see how the back looks like.
Ooh yeah.
- It's cute. - It's nice.
- I didn't expect these pants to be so form fitting
but I like that a lot.
- I know.
- I just wished it had color.
- [Jazz] I know.
- I think that would be really,
like if it was a purple.
- What's hard about this print is
I feel like for people who don't step out a lot,
this might be a print.
For me, I wear (beep) every print there is.
- Right, and that's why we mix the prints
to make it more fun,
a little bit more edgy.
- All right, well I think we've said all we need to say.
- Yes.
- The only thing left is, which do we like better?
Cheap, or expensive?
- This is a very lovely suit,
and it definitely does feel expensive.
But I have to go with my cheap suit.
- I love this suit.
One of the best fits I've ever had.
My other suit was really really good,
so I think I'm gonna have to go with the cheap version.
- This one, I like it,
but I don't know where I would wear it.
I'm going to have to go with my cheaper one.
There was more versatile, I think.
- It's a cheap sweep today.
- It is! - It really is.
- Well, thank you so much for joining us.
- Yeah, thank you. - Thank you guys.
- We appreciate it, as always.
See you all soon.
Bye!
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