Tall Friendly Clothing at Express

If you’ve been hanging around our blog since the inception you know we don’t love to talk about mainline retailers. We prefer to get you news on tall businesses, not necessarily “tall friendly businesses.” However, we’d be lying if we ever said we only shop at tall size only shops. I think we’re all in agreement that although there are more options than ever, it’s still peanuts comparing to what the average size woman has access to. So today we’re sharing one of our favorite places to shop for tall friendly clothing at Express!

Express is probably also familiar to you already. A: they are a national retailer. B: if you’ve been around then you might remember that I used to work for them! This was after I was done playing college basketball before I graduated college! Another fun fact is Caitlin and I distinctly recall spending hours scrolling their clearance section for our first major purchase. We’d both tell you our addiction love for shopping was born of our success there! 

So while we have had strike outs on their clothing for the obvious reasons of being much taller than average; on the whole we’ve continued to shop with them because a lot of their options are still a good fit! I think you’d be surprised if you don’t shop there already, how much tall friendly clothing you’ll find at Express. In particular their blouse section has been pretty unmatched for their variety of styles for our work wardrobes. 

Your work apparel doesn’t have to feel boring! We used to feel unenthused about dressing when we started working in corporate America. Our wardrobes were borrowed from each other and/or our Mom, so not a lot of availability to express our personal styles (pun intended). As I worked at Express and utilized my discount, I got more and more joy out of dressing as I found the pieces I could feel confident and excited to wear.

Although Express does trendy pieces, and does them well; they excel at providing classic yet current work blouses. As a larger retailer that also allows them to provide a wider range of color choices as well. For a while I really went far and wide with snatching up different colors to get a rainbow of choices. As I’ve matured, I realize it’s ok to have color favorites! It makes mixing and matching much easier as well as creating a cohesive wardrobe. 

So if you’ve felt like you can’t shop at a mainline retailer, we’re here to encourage you to still test them out. Our advice would be to maybe start with perusing their site online. We look closely at how the sleeves fit the model if we’re shopping for long sleeve options. Typically we like making a list of items of interest and then hit up the store for a try-on session. Obviously things are a bit differently currently with COVID. We haven’t been doing in store visits. But under normal circumstances we still love getting a chance to check out clothing in person. 

If you’re down for it, you could just fill your cart and place a big try-on order at home. They have an easy return system that you can either bring back to the physical store near you or return/exchange by mail. One of the things we still look forward to is receiving packages in the mail and deciding which items to keep and which to return!

This post was basically inspired by doing a closet inventory and realizing what we wear the most. Hopefully it helps you some today or inspires you to step outside of your shopping box and check out a store you’ve admired but avoided. Good news for us and you is that their entire store is 50% off today! Click here to browse! As always we appreciate it greatly when you use our links. Look back on some of our other Express posts here, here, and here.