Our Story

As Told by

President & Founder Phyllis Brasch Librach

In the beginning, I was just a mother anxious to wipe away her teen-age daughter's tears.

My daughter Mickey cried when she failed to find a plus-size prom dress. It broke my heart and made me very mad! In a world where thin is too in, I found it unfair that millions of teens and women like my daughter were fashion-starved for dressy plus-size dresses to wear to life's most important celebrations.

The reality is that one in every four high school girls in the U.S. wears a size 12 or larger. And when it comes time for once-in-a-lifetime nights like Prom and Homecoming, she doesn't want to hide her curvy figure under shapeless muumuus or evening gowns that grandma would wear. She wants a frock that rocks! (And she deserves one!)

Six out of 10 American women wear a size 12 or larger. And she should be able to find a dress for a special occasion that makes her look - and feel - as glamorous as a movie star for her red-carpet moment!

A former journalist, I traded deadlines for hemlines to take the tears out of shopping for my daughter and all our daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts and friends with real curves.

I still cry. Only now it's when I read the emails and letters we get from our Happy Customers like Jennifer from Michigan who writes:

Dear Sydney: I would also like to thank you for all of your time and help. I almost didn't go to prom because I didn't think I could find a dress. So I just wanted to "thank you" and say that it means a lot to me that your company provides a service like this. Having been a plus size teen all my life it has never been easy for me to find clothes that would fit. So thank you! - Jennifer

Sydney's Closet has dressed up of tens of thousands plus-size teens and women across the U.S. and around the world. Our designs have been seen on the dance floor at high school gyms, on the red-carpet in Hollywood and going down the aisle of churches and beaches.

Now it's your turn to join our our growing family of happy customers.

Happy Shopping,

Phyllis Brasch Librach