Larger ladies clothes - where do you buy them?

BarbnBob



Joined: 06/09/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 13:15

so frustrating, can't even get size 14 (even XL) here don't fit aaaaarrrrrggghhhhh

numbers


Joined: 03/02/2009
Posts: 230

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 15:01

Regular trips back to the UK or shop in the South - there is nothing here !

BarbnBob



Joined: 06/09/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 15:22

Thanks for that!

Vidal


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 867

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 15:55

The wednesday market is getting better.

It used to be worse than dire for clothes but they have had some much better stuff lately and in Marilyn Munroe size too (wink wink).



Also the guy in the market next to the big hand bag stall sells combat jeans and shorts for guys, but I have bought some for me and they are great.



Also if you know someone with a post box you could shop on Amazon.



Plus KAR had a sale recently of larger clothes. Dont know if they sold them all. Might be worth giving them a ring.

Or perhaps all us girlies should get together for a clothes swap.

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 16:10

Guess all the larger local girlies must shop in the UK or the South then??? There must be other places to buy clothes than the market as there are a large (no pun) selection of local larger ladies around and they are always wearing clothes!!



Can't really think that they all troop across to Turkey to get them or that they can afford the prices in the South - it has been a mystery for the past three years..............................

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 16:15

waddo



I think that perhaps the 'larger' local ladies (the older ones, probably) make a lot of their own clothes?



I agree, it's always been a mystery to me, too; as you say, they are always wearing clothes

BarbnBob



Joined: 06/09/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 17:23

Thanks for all replies, could someone tell me where the Wednesday market is please, as we are new to the area (Ozankoy)

rowan


Joined: 04/09/2008
Posts: 450

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 17:32

there is a lady who stands on the Wednesday market who only sells larger sizes

Ailletoo


Joined: 24/01/2009
Posts: 1003

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 17:33

Get in touch with KAR. They recently had a donation of 6 bin bags of quality ladies clothes sizes 16 to 22. They held a sale last week but I would imagine that they have some left. The KAR shop is on the small side road opposite the colony Hotel in Girne. Down alongside the Garage on the right hand side, you can't miss it for all the cats outside!



Good luck.

Ailletoo


Joined: 24/01/2009
Posts: 1003

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 17:35

Also, I forgot, Try Chateau Lambousa market on Saturdays from 8.30 till 12.30, lots of clothes there.

NanaJan



Joined: 15/10/2009
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 18:09

Perhaps a business opening then for some enterprising person to start selling larger ladies clothes.



In Saudi we take dresses and trousers to the tailors and ask them to copy them "same same" and they do an excellent job without any patterns. Also very cheap prices and in your own choice of fabric as well. Are there any tailors that could do that in TRNC?

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 19:02

NanaJan,

You've just brought a happy memory back to me...

My mate Fred was a machinist, first with C D Holmes Shipbuilders, and later with Smith and Nephew of Elastoplast fame (he used to make the holes in the waterproof ones - well, he made the 'jig' that did!)

Anyway, his wife took a 'larger size', and had difficulty finding clothes that suited her.

Fred solved the problem by 'Reverse Engineering' anything she liked; he would unpick all the seams, lay it out, and draw a pattern.

He could then cut out a new pattern in any fabric she wanted, and then proceed to sew the thing up.

If anyone expressed surprise that he could operate a sewing machine, he used to say "It's a machine, that's all..."

But back to your question, there are several tailors in Girne itself, and no doubt they would be reasonably proficient at 'copying', but from my own experience, the tailor at 'Exotic Kumaş' in Karaoğlanoğlu has never failed to make anything I've asked of him (NOT my FROCKS:

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 19:05

keith



Who makes your frocks then?

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 19:38

Jeannie,



Vaughan!

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 19:51

Keith - I guessed as much!

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 20:15

I just feel sorry for his poor Wife -

He makes her cook on a stove heated by dried dung, and has her out, collecting dung, most of the day...

Then when she's finished with that, she has to operate a 'Punka Fan' attached to her toe with a string - just to keep him cool, while HE conducts his dubious trade on the sewing machine...



&... They don't even FIT !!!

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 20:15

I just feel sorry for his poor Wife -

He makes her cook on a stove heated by dried dung, and has her out, collecting dung, most of the day...

Then when she's finished with that, she has to operate a 'Punka Fan' attached to her toe with a string - just to keep him cool, while HE conducts his dubious trade on the sewing machine...



&... They don't even FIT !!!

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 20:17

I really didn't mean to say that twice...

I say, I really didn't mean to say that twice...