Lane Bryant

The staff is always nice and the sales rack is always full. I generally only come a few times a year, like when they have their amaze-​balls buy one get one free sale. It’s a little pricey, but the clothes last a long time and are totally worth it!

I love Lane Bryant. Their clothing is incredibly well-​made and if you shop the sales correctly you can get some really great deals. For Thanksgiving weekend they were running a 50% off storewide sale, and for every $ 50 you spent you got $ 25 Real Woman Dollars, which basically work like 50% off coupons. So in other words I scored $ 400 worth of clothes for $ 200 and I got coupons to get an additional $ 100 off a $ 200 purchase at a later date. The great thing about the Real Women Dollars is that you can combine them with other coupons. I currently have a $ 40 rewards check, so when I combine that with my RWD I’ll be able to get $ 200 worth of clothes for $ 60.
That being said, I wait to shop here until they are running a good sale, which seems to happen two or three times a year. The clothing can be expensive, and while it’s worth it IMO, I simply don’t have room in my budget to pay full price.
This particular store is located in Greenwood Park Mall. I find it easiest to park near Dick’s and Sears and enter the mall through one of those stores. They typically have a good selection in the clearance area and I’ve gotten some really great deals on blazers. The accessories section isn’t huge but they have cute, trendy jewelry and scarves. They’ve added a shoe section as well, which makes me INCREDIBLY happy. It’s hard to find knee high boots that fit my shapely calves and every pair I tried on here fit and I wanted them ALL. It was hard to control myself.
The staff here are incredibly helpful and know the clothing lines very well. They let me know which items tend to shrink or stretch. The bras and jeans here fit me so well. I think it’s genius that a plus-​size clothing store had the brains to realize that not all curvy girls are curvy in the same way. So there are three different fits to their line of Right Fit jeans, and they are color coded: red, blue, or yellow. I love mine, I don’t get that awful gap in the back of my pants anymore.
I’d say about 75% of my clothing is from LB and I doubt I’ve paid full-​price for any of it. The selection is ever changing and varied enough that both I (in my early 30’s) and my mother-​in-​law (in her late 50’s) can find things here we like.