June 2011
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Bitter and twisted? Moi?
In response to More is More, elaine monkeypaints wrote:-
I live in what my family thinks is a bric-a-brac shop. I have a magpie-eye and if it has a sequin on it - it’s mine. Whilst I know this look isn’t for everyone - I love living in my own moodboard. I don’t care what matches - but I do care about what looks pleasing together. It really does make me feel a bit sad inside when just a nudge of...
Quick Q 'n' A
hauntedplaces asked:
I really love the floral dress on the left. Is it Evans? It’s difficult finding cute floral patterns in plus sizes here in the U.S. Target sometimes offer them, but not too many.
Yes, both the dresses are from Evans! Target did a beautiful one last year in orange and blue, with a kind of integrated apron/overskirt action going on. It wasn’t the first time I’ve...
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Poor Evans. It can’t be easy trying to please every fat woman in the country regardless of age and social strata. One’s got to give them kudos for trying and for somehow surviving on the British high street for all these decades. Like Lane Bryant, for better or quite often worse, they seem to completely reinvent themselves every few years, no doubt down to a change of buyers, designers...
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This ASOS dress, which I enthused about a while back, was recently reduced to twenty-eight quid from forty, and it beguiled me so much I resolved to take the requisite leap of faith.
Lemme tell you I hate buyiing clothes online with the fiery heat of an entire galaxy of white-hot flaming suns, and I seethe with righteous indignation on behalf of those larger fats who don’t have the luxury of...
cambridge-socks:
Historically I have avoided wearing bold patterns or colors on the bottom half of my body, as it is the largest part of me and I never thought I could “pull it off.” Bright red sweater: Target by way of Goodwill Skirt: Target by way of Fat Fancy Tights: Avenue Houndstooth shoes: Payless
Incidentally, I wore this to Target. As I walked toward the door, a woman instructed her...
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I live in a state of controlled chaos – as anyone ill-advised enough to open a cupboard door Chez Buttercup will attest. Even the stuff I enjoy looking at on a daily basis – and, gadzooks, there’s a lot of it – has to be corralled lest it smother me in my sleep. I’m not materialistic in a diamond-studded, solid gold, dolphin-shaped bathtaps sort of a way. In fact very little of my decorative...
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“The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat...”
– Marilyn Wann, “Fat Studies: An Invitation to Revolution” (via onehundreddollars)
curiousfancy asked: I HAD NO IDEA YOU HAD A BLOG SQUEEEEEEEE
You have been such an inspiration over the years for me. I have admired your outfits right from the time I was a little fatling learning to dress on the LJ Fatshionists community. You. Are. Awesome.
You have been such an inspiration over the years for me. I have admired your outfits right from the time I was a little fatling learning to dress on the LJ Fatshionists community. You. Are. Awesome.
Rachel Herrick, artist and fat activist
I was truly surprised at how ashamed and sad I felt wearing the muumuus. It was strange to have made these items of clothing, to have labored on them and then to feel whatever pride in my work I had overshadowed by a strong dislike (even resentment) for the items. They made me look ugly, I thought, or at least feel ugly. They hid every curve of my body and reduced it to a large fabric sack. My...
