It’s June, which means it’s wedding season, which means that every form of media apparently needs to start featuring All Weddings All The Time. I feel like it’s a little better this year, perhaps because there have been actually newsworthy marriage-related developments. Still, ’tis the season for meaningless wedding-based fluff pieces, and who [...]
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We haven’t talked a whole lot about crafting and fat in the past, but I know we have some crafty Shapelings out there! (Has anyone knit or crocheted an Adipose cell yet?) I’m an obsessive knitter myself (though the level of obsession ratchets up and down depending on my school schedule), and I’ve been delighted [...]
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Yes, folks, it’s even more on hair! Shapeling Heather Bailey recently sent us the story of her latest haircut, and it was too good not to post. –Kate
My hairstylist for the last three years has been a guy who’s a bit of a wunderkind stylist in this town, awesome with the shears. The problem [...]
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So a couple of readers have sent me links to articles about a recent episode of this BBC show, Mary, Queen of Shops, in which host Mary Portas goes to visit struggling shop owners to tell them why their businesses are tanking.
The other night, the subject was a plus-size boutique — like LeeLee’s Valise or [...]
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Let’s talk about trying things on.
Yes, with plus size shopping, it’s kind of a bear. A lot of places only do mail order, or (like Old Navy) they only do mail order for you, you moocow. If every place were like Zappos, it’d be one thing, but they’re not. Shipping things around [...]
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I want to draw everyone’s attention to this post by our advice columnist ally, the spectacular Miss Conduct, at whose dinner parties I would dearly love to be a fly on the wall. (I had an advice-columnist crush on Miss Conduct even before I found out that her husband publishes my beloved Annals of Improbable [...]
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You are all probably familiar with Marina Wolf Ahmad, founder of Big Moves, who comments here as bigmovesbabe. Marina knows all about getting fatties to embrace, show off, and work with their bodies, and to that end, she sent us this delightful parody of women’s magazine “get a bikini body” articles. It’s a [...]
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According to the Telegraph, fashion magazines now not only employ the familiar trick of skinnifying and plasticizing unacceptably fleshy actresses and models, but also use the magic of Photoshop to plump up other women whose images might be unacceptably thin now that concerns about the effect of ultra-thin models is finally maybe starting to be [...]
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Dear Aunt Fattie:
I’m a college senior, about to enter the big wide job market, and I’m looking for some advice on how to handle my Ultra Super Special Body Shape.
You see, I look like I’m about 5-6 months pregnant, despite a complete and total lack of fetuses in my stomach.
I’ve got a fairly small frame, [...]
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I haven’t yet written about Chloe Marshall, the 17-year-old plus-size model who’s in the running for Miss England this year, only because I’ve had a zillion other things on my plate lately. Marshall’s a UK size 16 (i.e., US size 12/14), the biggest contestant they’ve ever had, and she’s already been crowned Miss Surrey. Woo [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
