Archive For The “Fatshionista.com Archived Posts” Category
By now, I expect it’s fairly well-traveled news that Canadian airlines are being forced to comply with a decision by the Canadian Supreme Court, that all air passengers have a right to a one-person, one-fare rule. This is topical because of the obvious controversy in how this is being applied to fat people. Essentially, the […]
Click through to the Flickr versions for outfit info. I don’t wear the exact same outfit twice. Ever. It’s true that I probably put a disproportionate amount of thought into what I wear every day – and this goes back to the days in which I discovered Style, during my heavily subcultural youth – but […]
I’ll repeat the title, just to be clear: Amanda Palmer, of both solo career and as half the duo known as the Dresden Dolls, is not fat. I say this mostly from having seen pictures of her, since my only real-life experience was bumping into her in the audience at a Death in June show […]
CNN’s next headline: New study reveals fatness is NOT dumbbell-shaped and carried in one’s hands.
By Lesley | November 21, 2008
I often deride CNN.com as the home of the random weight-loss success story recast as News Event. So the story this time is the standard triumph-over-adversity tale of weight loss through Diet and Exercise TM. Woman is Death Fat, her knees hurt, she gets out of breath taking a book off a table. Woman Changes […]
I like to knit. I learned when I was a kid, and I got into it again because of work (which is a long story for another post). I like it because I like the idea of being able to take measurements, do some math, and make a hat or shirt or socks that fits […]
Thin is In and White is Alright The Fantasy of Being Thin is not just about becoming small enough to be perceived as more acceptable. It is about becoming an entirely different person – one with far more courage, confidence, and luck than the fat you has. It’s not just, “When I’m thin, I’ll look […]
Click through to the Flickr versions for outfit info. On this blog, I tend to shy away from offering anything approaching concrete advice. I’m just not good at giving advice related to style (other kinds of advice I can be positively obnoxious about, but I digress). Style, in my opinion, is extraordinarily subjective; so long […]
Full disclosure: I am resistant to writing tutorials. This is partly because I have an unfortunate (and very female) tendency to devalue my own work and capabilities. I avoid telling folks how to do things because I don’t like being authoritative, and I occasionally think whatever I’m sharing is dumb or obvious. As is the […]
I originally wrote the following to post on the Fatshionista community on LiveJournal, but figured it was worth crossposting here as well. According to the dubious measurements of the BMI scale, I am morbidly obese. As in Death Fat. I am super duper really for real maaaaad fat. I am the kind of fat where […]
Dress Report: Sweaterdresses & Belts For The Sweaterdress-&-Belt-Phobic
By Lesley | October 30, 2008
Every year I go through this. When temperatures start to fall here in Boston, I immediately start longing for a selection of delicious, well-fitting sweaterdresses to wear. Finding said sweaterdresses is rarely a problem. Wearing them, on the other hand, frequently poses a challenge. The sweaterdress most naturally benefits a body that is curvy in […]
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