7 Clothing Brands That You Didn’t Know Offer Extended Sizes
If you wear plus sizes, you probably know the usual suspects at various price points, from Eloquii to Talbots to Lafayette 148 New York — but fortunately, more and more brands are deciding to offer extended sizes. A couple of years ago, we rounded up designer plus-size clothing for professional women, but even since then, several big brands have gotten with the program and moved beyond selling a 10 or 12 as their largest size. To help you keep up with these developments, today we're featuring seven clothing brands that you didn't know offer extended sizes…
{related: our recent plus-size picks}
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Pictured above, some reader favorites now in extended sizes: blazer / green dress / black dress / navy dress
Here are seven workwear brands that now offer plus sizes — most of them only in the last year or two:
J.Crew & J.Crew Factory
J.Crew made news (for better or worse) in 2014 when it introduced sizes 000 and XXXS, but it wasn't until four years later that the company launched a 37-piece collab with Universal Standard that went up to size 5X.
Today, many of its classic styles (including reader favorites) extend to size 3X, including the Cameron Pant ($89.50), Going-Out Blazer ($158), No. 2 Pencil Skirt (on sale for $55.65), and Tippi Sweater ($79.50). J.Crew Factory also has plus sizes available, including for another bestseller, the Sweater Blazer ($82.50). (Sister site Madewell is much more casual, but also offers a ton of options up to 3x!)
Hunting for the best sweater jackets for plus sizes? Some of our favorites of 2024 include J.Crew Factory (up to 3X), J.Crew, Ralph Lauren, Nic & Zoe, and Lands' End. (I don't know this brand, but this boiled wool one looks nice too.)
M.M.LaFleur
M.M.LaFleur started offering extended sizes in 2017 to accommodate women who wear 14W–22W, and the brand has expanded their offerings since then. Now you can find tons of choices in sizes XL, +1, +2, and +3 in tops, jackets, pants, and dresses — including reader favorites The Etsuko Dress, The Annie Dress, and certain colors in the Woolf and Sant Ambroeus jardigan styles. Find out more about the company's plus-size sizing system here.
Diane von Furstenberg
A plus-size version of the classic DVF Julian Two wrap dress is now available at 11 Honoré, the plus-site site that launched a collab in 2019, and at DVF.com. Five designs — animal print, floral, geometric, etc. — are currently available in sizes 14–24 for $568. (We featured the black-and-white print in a workwear report last month.) Note that the company offers plus-size styling services in several U.S. cities as well as virtually.
Hunting for plus-size wrap dresses? As of 2024, some of our favorites include Kiyonna, Eloquii, DvF, and Etsy seller TielDorein — also check out this faux wrap dress from Karen Kane and this “trench wrap” from Universal Standard.
Anthopologie
Last year, Anthropologie started carrying sizes 16W–26W, calling their new collection APlus by Anthropologie. It encompasses both house labels and outside brands, e.g., Cloth & Stone, Citizens of Humanity, and Maeve. The pieces are only available online and in 11 brick-and-mortar locations in the U.S. and Canada — but the site offers free returns for plus sizes. A lot of the collection is more suited to weekend wear, but office-appropriate pieces, such as this dotted herringbone blouse ($98), can be found. (Note that Free People, which is owned by Anthropologie's parent company, currently only offers sizes up to XL.)
Psst: These are some of our Hall of Famer heels that come in wide widths… see our latest roundup of the best black heels for business attire here!
Some of our favorite comfortable wide heels as of 2024 include (below): 1) Sam Edelman 2) Naturalizer 3) Walking Cradles 4) A New Day (under $30!) 5) LifeStride (also, N.B.: the styles at Inez, Margot, Ally Shoes, and Poppy Barley all look great and come in wide widths!…) You can also try this link for a Zappos search narrowed to just the best brands and wide widths.
Boden
A couple of years ago, we did a post on how to build a work wardrobe at Boden, and some of our picks — as well as reader faves — go beyond straight sizes, including the Bronte Ottoman Dress ($98), Martha Dress ($150), Carey Top ($85), and Smythe Blazer ($150). All are available in sizes 16/18 and 20/22, both of which Boden classifies as XL on its size chart. Bonus: Much of the brand's clothing is machine washable.
Loft
While some of the styles on Loft's sister site, Ann Taylor, go up to XXL, Loft's website seems more welcoming to customers looking for larger sizes, placing “plus” in its top menu and offering more than 350 items in the plus category. Loft started selling extended sizes up to 26 in 2018, but if you do a search right now for “plus” at Ann Taylor, the message that pops up is “HMMM… We stylishly searched for ‘plus' and no luck.” Loft's utility blouse (on sale for $29.50) has been a reader favorite, and the site offers a couple of versions of it.
Veronica Beard
We've featured Veronica Beard in the past from time to time, and after the brand added extended sizes in 2019, we highlighted a suit in a scuba material. That suit is still available at Nordstrom, and it goes up to size 24 (noted as being similar to a size 20W) — the pants are $295, and the blazer is $600. The company has said it's committed to keeping extended sizes in its stores, not only online — and that it plans on adding more sizes in the future. Veronica Beard is available at Nordstrom and 11 Honoré.
Hunting for the best plus-size pants for work? As of 2024, favorites include Eloquii, Nic & Zoe, NYDJ, Universal Standard, Liverpool, J.Crew, and Lafayette 148 New York.
Did we surprise you with some of these clothing brands that you didn't know offered extended sizes? What are your favorite brands that offer extended sizes? What brands do you WISH offered extended clothing sizes?
Katie Sturino does a great job highlighting brands that include plus sizes on insta (as well as pressuring brands that don’t!) The “Make My Size” campaign is great.
At this point I don’t think we can say M.M.LaFleur is expanding their plus offerings, when they sent an email out about the fact that they are focusing their plus collection going forward on only a core set of items and not really incorporating plus sizes in their new collections.
What’s interesting to me amongst these brands and other brands is how much the company is doing to advertise they carry plus. Anthro and Loft both have really updated their social media to include a wide array of shapes and sizes. MM LaFleur continues to not ever show anyone in an extended range on their social media, emails, etc (and their website isn’t much better). It’s nice to have additional options, but as a size 16/18, it continues to be frustrating to try and maintain a professional wardrobe when companies don’t choose to market effectively and most of them will not bring any degree of plus product in-store.
I agree – I think not marketing the fact that you have extended sizes is a big problem (using larger models, etc.). It keeps consumers from being aware of your offerings, and it doesn’t encourage other brands to do the same – it keeps plus sizes from being normalized. I’m and ‘inbetweener,’ meaning that I’m a 12/14, depending on the garment and brand. Often this means I need the largest size in many brands to fit or I’m s*%$ out of luck. Which can be so frustrating! Because I love clothes.
Also, while not always my style, I LOVE buying from Universal Standard because they’ve made the effort to have all their clothing available in all sizes…from 00 to 40. And you can view all garments on a model that’s your size!
I echo the point about MMLafleur. Very disappointed by their announcement as an “in betweener” size 14/16. It’s just harder to have something offered and taken away as opposed to not offered at all.
I also found it a bit distasteful that they continue to highlight plus women who they will not fully dress in marketing materials (a/k/a the amazing L. Joy Williams)
Lands’ End has more casual workwear, but they have a great selection in extended sizes – plus, tall, petite, and I think plus petite and plus tall. And I love that in many cases, you can get the same garment in the full size range — it’s not a separate selection for plus/tall/etc.
Boden’s largest top size (20/22) is only a 47″ bust circumference. That’s the very LOW end of plus size.
Wardrobe Oxygen recently had an entire post on this topic. I believe it was in the past week or two.
I was hoping the “extended sizes” in this article would include tall, petite, etc. rather than just plus sizes. Health is one thing I’m not willing to sacrifice for my career.