Day 2: Voluptuous Boutique

If like me you're a big fan of Amanda Allison's blog Fashion, Love and Martinis you may have heard of Voluptuous. If not, it's this amazing plus-size boutique that opened July 2010 in Las Vegas. After reading Amanda's post about the store I was desperate to check it out, so when I heard we'd be paying it a visit as a part of the Viva Fat Vegas conference I got super excited!


Sarah, Allison and I en route to the boutique
I had a huge smile on my face the second we walked in. The walls are the brightest shade of pink and all of the clothes are organized by colour. It's all 80s inspired and there are records on the wall and cassette tapes around the mirror. Too cute!


Dannika, Jasmine and Stiletto hanging out on the cute yellow chairs


Monique chatting with owner Patty Barba (love her black romper)
What might come as a surprise is that the owner of the boutique, Patty Barba, is not a plus-sized woman. We had the chance to chat Patty and her husband, Juan, about the boutique and it was really refreshing to hear from two people who really seemed to care about catering to us big girls. They seemed genuinely interested in our feedback, and enthusiastic to improve the shopping experience in any way they could. It was so refreshing to meet some thin people who really seem to care about fat people!


Sarah looking fierce in her animal-print one-shoulder dress
The prices are not at all what you'd expect for a boutique, everything is incredibly reasonable. I was given the cutest black and blue dress that I'll be reviewing soon, and I also bought myself a cute striped top with bows on it, and a gorgeous flower ring with a stretchy band to fit my sausage-fingers. The jewelery section was probably my favourite part of the store: chunky bangles and stretchy rings galore!


Sarah and Stiletto hanging out in the jewelery section.
The funnest part of our visit was their "Wall of Fame" which we all got to write on. We each took a polaroid picture with Patty and got to write a little message around it with a marker pen.


My wall message


The wall after we'd finished with it
If you're in the Las Vegas area, or you ever get the chance to go then you really need to check out Voluptuous, it's absolutely worth the cab fare! Be sure to check out their website or add them on facebook. Hopefully I'll get to go back someday too.

We were also lucky enough to get to hang out with the gorgeous Ms. Rosie Mercado while we were in the boutique, but I'll tell you all about that lovely lady in another post. I'm trying to round up the conference as quickly as possible so I can get back to some OOTDs and clothing reviews, so normal Beth service will resume soon.