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You may already know that Etsy is a middle-class fat girl’s dream when it comes to stores like Jane BonBon, MissBrache, and SelenaEon (reviewed by stitchtowhere on Fatshionista), all of whom specialize in or at least explicitly advertise plus sizes. If you’ve got the money to buy new clothes but don’t think you have the [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Fillyjonk, Plus Size Fashion, Shopping, Sweet Machine | 86 Comments »
As most of you know, one of the reasons I’ve been largely absent from the blog recently is that I was planning my wedding reception — for 6 months after the actual wedding. In another state. WHILE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING BOOK TOUR. Boy, am I ever not going to repeat that mistake [...]
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Plus Size Fashion | 69 Comments »
You might have noticed that there hasn’t been a lot of content lately, because things happen — most notably, Kate and I have to go be professional writers sometimes, not to mention the fact that we’re both pretty strenuously ADD, and SM and A Sarah have the equally if not more time-consuming demands of academia. [...]
Filed under: Fillyjonk, Other Stuff We Read, Plus Size Fashion | 124 Comments »
So yeah, adding another co-blogger was theoretically supposed to increase frequency of posting, but then A Sarah and Fillyjonk both had the nerve to go out of town and have lives or something, and Sweet Machine and I have both been dealing with shit that keeps us away from the blog, and I got really [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Plus Size Fashion, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 213 Comments »
The magazines have started. We are now in the pre-season — the ”unless you’re already quite thin, it’s time to start losing weight if you want to show your body in public this summer!” phase. (If you are quite thin, please wait for our May issue, when we’ll tell you you’re too pale*, hairy, blemished, [...]
Filed under: Media, Plus Size Fashion, Self-Image | 185 Comments »
Did y’all see this? Forever 21 is launching a plus-size line, called Faith 21, starting in May. That’s the good news.
The bad news? “Junior plus sizes include XL, 1X and 2X.” Dude, they didn’t even have XL before? Junior XL? Sigh. And of course they stop at 2X. And of course it’s a junior 2X, [...]
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Ms. Aretha Franklin sings “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” while wearing the best hat in the history of millinery.
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As we’re facing a bit of a blogging slow-down here at Shapely Prose, we thought we’d occasionally repost some pieces that you might have missed the first time around or that might warrant a second look. If you’ve got suggestions for posts you’d like to see again, email me!
This post was originally written by Sweet [...]
Filed under: Fat, Fat Blogs, Greatest Hits, Plus Size Fashion, Politics, Self-Image | 37 Comments »
One of the best things you can do for your sense of self-worth is stop reading “women’s” magazines. They have to sell you figuratively on your own “imperfections” in order to literally sell you the beauty products that are their raison d’etre. Throwing those magazines away — or canceling your subscription, or reading Newsweek instead [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Friday Fluff, Plus Size Fashion, Sweet Machine | 61 Comments »
I just got an e-mail from Christine, owner of B & Lu, telling me she’s responded to the thread over at The Rotund about their lack of larger sizes. I don’t see the comment yet — it’s probably still in moderation — but it sounds like pretty much what we expected: the economy sucks, [...]
Filed under: Fat, Plus Size Fashion | 80 Comments »
Kate will be on a panel about body image at this year's BlogHer conference on Friday, July 24, at 1:15 p.m.
Stay tuned for a college tour in the fall and maybe some stuff in between.
Notes from the Fatosphere
