Brazilian actress Preta Gil

According to a study at University of Buffalo, larger-sized automobile drivers are 21% more likely to die in car crashes. This came out of a study of 155,000 fatal car crashes. Certainly this sounds damning, but I have a very serious question: did they ONLY look at car collisions where someone died, or was there a control group that included crashes without fatalities? It’s hard to say without seeing the data where and how size itself contributed to a person’s death. Did the jaws of life not work? Were the paramedics unable to lift a person from the car? Did the airbag hit an organ wrong on 1000 different fat people? This is stuff I really want to understand – for my own health.
New York City is banning the sale of sugar-based drinks over the size of 16 ounces. The ban would not impact diet soda, dairy, or fruit juice. So what has the foie gras ban done for the gall bladder surgery rate overall?
The OC Register has a public service announcement: you’re wearing the wrong bra.
Now that the Daily Mail has been informed it’s run by a bunch of jerks on par with the US publication National Inquirer, they’re taking a new alarmist take on obesity reporting: Calling Someone Fat could be a Hate Crime!Have they been networking with Fox News or something? I’m pretty sure this blog is not a hate crime, and I talk to myself like I’m a cheerleader for my fat self.
Hope for the future: ~~Amanda Koker~~, 21 year old graduate from Mount Ida College, is a plus-size person who is a fashion designer that likes a little edge.
Sick of Photoshop abuse? Someone took it to the streets with these H&M ads.
On a fun note: Drop Dead Diva had its season premiere on Sunday. While I want to strangle the costume designers for the crap they put Jane Bingham in, I love how in the plotline her fatness is now not even a thing most of the time. That’s how I’ve learned to live!

Caryn Frankin has some well-researched insight into Vogue/Conde Nast’s new policy of healthy weight and legal age only models.
Just because I was NOT in a state of frothing hate for the television industry this week, someone decided to premiere the show My Big Fat Fetish. Ah, hate for the slime that passes for humanity in the entertainment industry restored. By the way, NOT having tattoos is abnormal now – perhaps update that. Someone out there has a fetish for twist-ties – anything can be, and is, a fetish to someone. The above is not special.
An Irish mother talks about raising her obese son.
Lily Mae Harrington may make another plus-size character on the show Glee.
Finally someone is talking about the problem of Fat Bullying- and it does have a place right next to Gay Bullying.
An interview with eccentrically self-branded photographer Perou brings out some interesting statements about plus-size women and fashion.

“Real shaped women don’t fit in stupidly cut clothes. The only way those stupidly cut clothes look good is if you put them on a clothes hanger, i.e. super skinny models. Do I want to sleep with a super skinny model? No. Do I want a curvy beautiful woman to be around? Yes. As a person I prefer shapely women to stick thin women, but shapely women don’t make unshapely, badly cut clothes look good.”

So again, it’s a 50/50 facepalm split. The curvy women are also NOT obligated to look like someone you want to f – Perou. When you understand that only in specific occasions are women dressing for the male gaze, you will become a transcendent human being and maybe an even better photographer.

The Business of Plus

Department store retailer that happens to carry plus-sizes JC Penney got a disturbing quarterly report, with a 20% drop in sales. My experience with them at the end of 2011 was that they had nosedived in the quality of their offerings.
Apparel retailer Talbots is accepting bids –and the board isn’t happy with the bids they’re getting.
Ascena Retail, the company that just acquired Charming Shoppes, reported a Q3 dip in share profits.
Equestrian gear:the next plus-size market niche.

International Plus Size News Roundup

Overweight police officers in Mangistau have been asked to resign by their interior department.
The Brazilian Association of Technical Standards had a lecture on creating wearable and comfortable plus-size clothing.
Brazilian actress Preta Gil is moving forward with a plus size fashion line.
Take a look at this German publication layout of plus-size model Kelly Brook.

Miss Brasil posed for plus-size lingerie brand Dilady.
Times of Malta based fashion magazine Pink just launched its Facebook page. Pink is notable for a policy of using UK size 12 models.