‘Comment’ Archives
Plus Size News Roundup 4/16/12
Unknown, left Victoria Grycan, right. In a not-exactly searing article, Northampton Chronicle asks “Are women hated if they are beautiful?” No. Beautiful women, like anyone, are hated if they are jerks. Beauty only has something to do with it when someone ignores a person being a jerk because of their looks – which really says more about [...]
Plus Size News Roundup 4/8/2012
From the Clements Ribiero Line. There’s some interesting responses to Samantha Brick’s “Don’t Hate Me for Being Beautiful,” post. She does it wrong – DEAD WRONG – but the original point raises some interesting points about female social violence. Bragging about her good looks and what it gets her (and that’s what it was) was [...]
The Hunger Games: Why Fashion Bloggers should Abstain
The Hunger Games, when explained to many of the younger science fiction set, is immediately labeled and sometimes dismissed as “Oh, that’s just a ripoff of Battle Royale.” Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) in the Hunger Games. Photo by Murray Close. It is no ripoff. Let’s leave room to express my usual feelings of irritation [...]
Plus Size News Roundup 3/26/12
Vancouver fashion week had exactly one collection that featured a plus-size piece, from Nikki Babie. That still puts Vancouver far ahead of London, Paris, New York. This is mainly because it wasn’t done as a stunt, ala Mark Fast or Jean Paul Gaultier. The UK show the Voice holds auditions where the judges literally have only the [...]
Fat girl problems: my water aerobics injury
In Fatshionista on livejournal and in a few other places. discussions of the dreaded “chub rub” erupt from time to time. For the unaware, it’s that situation where a)parts of your body rub against themselves causing a rash or other discomfort or b)when parts of your body rub against your clothing, also creating chafing and discomfort. Since [...]
Plus Size News Roundup 1/16/2012
The Economist has a fabulous article about photographer Eve Arnold. Why is she fascinating to us? She shot Marilyn Monroe, dared photograph Havana and she did it all without Photoshop. What she saw is what we got. PLUS Model Magazine got some massive buzz for their plus and straight model nude layout and article Plus Size Bodies: What [...]
Review: Lulu West Lingerie
Notice: Products for review were provided courtesy of Lulu West. Reviewing lingerie can be tough. It’s especially tough when I know so many of you readers check this blog from work. So I can’t give you a detailed review, and my partner would freak out if I posted pictures of myself in the gorgeous goodies that Ms. West so kindly [...]
Pantyhose, wherefore art thou universally made badly?
Back before WWII forced us to switch to nylon because all that leftover silk went to parachute making, women got used to living life only ever owning one or two pairs of what we now call pantyhose. (Stockings.) They could expect, with gentle care after an arduous night, to rely on their stockings to remain in their lives for years at a time. I [...]
Plus Size News and Fashion Roundup 12/19/11
I encourage you to speak for yourselves on this one. “WHAT have rapper P Diddy and Italian snapper – Raphael Muzzocco got in common? No? Well I’ll tell you. They both worship womens’ bums like fat kids crave cake.” I personally am looking at this as an example of an Internet troll with media presence. Also, perhaps individual fat [...]
Plus Size News Roundup 12/6/2011
The Gloss picked up on Melissa McCarthy’s appearance on Anderson Cooper. The site also boasts about 10,000 videos of her being awesome, and in public. Sue Thomason looks closely at the recent change from “plus and proud” to “thin and ashamed” British celebrities Dawn French and Nigella Lawson. “Plus size and proud women [...]