If you want expensive staples, you can get that at Liz Claiborne. Still, even though I expect classic basics from Liz, I’m not finding much to recommend in the plus size spring line. It’s all kind of… dowdy. Like stuff you wear to a PTA meetings in the era when perms were a form of social competition.

I did pull a few things that might go nicely in somebody’s closet, and they’d last through a few hundred washings, ’cause it’s, y’know, Liz.

This can be recommended as an example of “prints for plus done right.” It’s a good cut and pattern type that sticks to the body shape, rather than intimating additional geometrics leading off the body.  It’s also a nice, higher-cut scoopneck - so for those with modesty concerns, this is a nice fit.

This is a lovely cut and shape for a plus size - and the smocking is done subtly and attractively here. I consider this actually quite the fine, and standout from all prior disappointment.

This is labeled a “babydoll tee.” While I’m not wild about the look, it’s an interesting take. Since babydolls normally flare out and this comes right back to the form, it seems to take the essential flaw of the babydoll - which happens to be the feature that makes it a babydoll - and eliminate it.  I wouldn’t call it a babydoll; I’d call it an abbreviated Henley.