Serving Savvy Web Shoppers
Since 2002

Elegant Plus

Your Internet Shopping Guide to Stylish Plus-Size Clothing: Sizes 12-34w

Elegant Plus, Founded in 2002:
Sharing Our Experience Serving Up
Plus-size Clothing and Fashion Trends on the World Wide Web

DID YOU KNOW?  The average U.S. woman wears a size 14, and an estimated 56 percent of American women wear plus-sizes.

Founded in 2002, Elegant Plus is one of the longest running plus-size fashion websites on the internet. The service philosophy is consumer focused with a particular interest in offering style options that meet every lifestyle, fit, and quality demands at every price point. Elegant Plus is interested in the entire consumer experience from first web contact through the ordering process to garments meeting customer expectations upon reception.

The plus-size fashion marketplace is growing and becoming more and more competitive every day as it matures. It is no longer enough to simply carry plus-size options or extended size ranges. Customer expectations are increasingly in line with her smaller sized counterparts. Elegant Plus partners with retailers that offer appealing website presentation, ease of ordering, prompt shipping, and a good depth of plus-size clothing inventory with average to better than average rates of merchandise returns. Fit, quality and style are an important part of the mix when we review a potential retail partner and accept them into our plus-size clothing shopping directories.

Content curatation of hand-selected fashion and articles is based on an in depth knowledge of market trends, product supply and demand, styling, and a retailer's overall consumer experience. Unlike many other shopping websites, the simple blind redistribution of partner inventory catalogs is not a part of the Elegant Plus process. Trend analysis, market research and fashion forecasting are important components in how Elegant Plus selects, shapes and distributes content to consumers to help them find exactly what they need and want. There is also a conscious recognition that plus-size women are diverse in tastes, body types, and lifestyles and not a monolithic consumer entity.  Elegant Plus is always seeking new ways to serve more full-figured women and support their apparel needs for self-expression and social engagement.

Elegant Plus actively engages in and encourages conversation among designers, small business owners, consumers, size activists, and retailers through several channels and seeks to propel the industry forward in a positive, women and body friendly way while supporting business and the plus-size apparel marketplace's success within the larger fashion world. Part of this approach involves the Health at Every Size philosophy which the Founder and Managing Editor, Thea Politis, has long believed in and is gaining momentum in the mainstream dialogue.  As a healthy, plus-size woman herself she strongly believes self-esteem, respect, and positive reinforcement are the cornerstones to helping women of all shapes and sizes look and feel their very best.
 

Elegant Plus knows you are unique, so let us help you express yourself.