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Plus Size & Fashion Week: Open Door or Unhealthy Invitation?

This year (this morning, in fact), plus size models will walk the runway at New York Fashion Week for the first time. While some fashion lovers are celebrating – plus size is finally being recognized! – others don’t think that a runway show hosted by OneStopPlus.com (which many say is not the plus-size fashion-savvy hub [...]

Curves Ahead…and Behind

It didn’t take long for me to react to the following photos, originally published in “Curves Ahead,” an editorial from the January issue of V Magazine (also called “the size issue”). My reaction was, in short: Do I see back fat?  Sexy back fat? And does that mean I could have sexy back fat? And [...]

A Dialogue: Celebrity Obsession

Elle came across a post today on NYMag about Australian “Search for a Supermodel” winner, Gemma Ward, retiring from modeling. This is a big deal for a girl who nearly ran New York Fashion Week last year, and held some pretty prestigious campaigns like Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent and Prada. The last the public [...]

Props To: Baby Phat?

I do almost all of my shopping online. Almost. Well, we’ll say 75%. As you learned in the In-Between-y Blues post a little while ago, I’m not quite Plus Sized, and not quite perfect for the Misses section, either. And, as I’m sure many of your in-between-y girls can relate, if you take a look [...]

Reader Question: The In-Between-y Blues

I have them. Do you? The blues that come when you realize that you’re not big enough to fit into plus size, but not small enough to fit/enjoy regular sizes. I received a question from a reader over at Broke & Beautiful that I thought I’d answer over here. Hello, I have been reading your [...]