Marisa Christina

You know immediately when you walk into a store, hop on a Web site, feel a fabric or try on a slinky little number whether it has that elusive "it" factor. Maybe you can't quite put your finger on what exactly "it" is supposed to be, but you know it when you come across it.

Marisa Christina has definitely got "it." This company has been producing plus size clothing for women for upwards of 30 years. We like to think the team over there has got this fashion thing down pat, and so do our happy customers. And yet, the clothes are never staid or stale. That's why this designer's apparel - tops, skirts, sweaters and other career wear - is featured so prominently on Cherished Woman. It doesn't kowtow to convention and it's not predictable. It just never disappoints.

Marisa Christina, Gayle Bentley, Jessica Svoboda and other well known and respected designers of plus size clothing for women are making people around the world sit up and take notice, and rethink their notions of what women's clothes are supposed to be.

Perhaps you were told to never, ever wear horizontal stripes. Maybe well-meaning friends said you should stick to one, solid color or a magazine article you read advised you to bury your bodaciousness in bulky knits. For the sake of your sanity, toss those notions aside; you don't need that negativity. You need movement. You want color. You deserve freedom.

You deserve to be a Cherished Woman.