As a size 14, naturally, I bought a dress in my size – but it fits like it’s two sizes too small.  It did originally buy its everyday size.  Truthfully, if I was to buy a dress that fit, I’d be going straight for the size 18 options on the rack.  So to get a dress that "fits" off the rack it would need to go up in sizing.  This makes it sound like it already wears 14s, that are vanity sized to hell, and the dress at 14 is cutting off circulation. One it wouldn't need to diet for or alter would be the larger 18. This then begs the question..."If you are fine with your gargantuan, sloppy self why did you not just get the 18 to start?"