Archive For The “Fatshion” Category

Outfitblogging: When there are only three possible answers to the question, “Hey, where did you get that?”

By | July 22, 2009

Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. I’ve talked pretty extensively in the past about the fatshion scarcity one discovers once one has to shop over a particular size. There’s just not much out there. A corollary to this is that there’s always the real possibility of running into someone wearing the same […]

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Outfitblogging: Prim Safari

By | July 7, 2009

Click through to Flickr version for outfit info. In spite of having a few posts in the works on a few different subjects, I’m just having a dickens of a time finishing anything lately. It could be the long-in-coming summer weather finally taking shape here in Boston, but the last thing I’ve felt like doing […]

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Outfitblogging: The Shortest Distance Between Two Points

By | June 30, 2009

Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. Even in childhood, the most expeditious way to get me to accomplish something was to tell me it’s impossible. Earlier this month I twittered about my new obsession with procuring a pair of desert boots to wear with summer dresses, and a buncha people (both on […]

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Outfitblogging: Speaking to or spoken for.

By | June 25, 2009

Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of communicating with a delightfully thoughtful and well-intentioned columnist over at the Daily Beast (Hi, Daily Beast readers! Comments here are moderated!) for a piece she was writing about plus-size fashion. The finished product – which I call unequivocally […]

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Outfit Blogging: What lies beneath?

By | June 5, 2009

I love dresses and skirts, but I do not love the painful chub rub that can happen when I wear them. “Chub rub” is such a polite way of putting it. Basically, when two thighs rub each other many things can happen. Among them are skin irritation, chafing, pain, and agony. Painful ingrown hairs, infected […]

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I got love for B & Lu; But it’s tough love.

By | March 26, 2009

Several weeks ago, before I vanished on vacation, the good people at B & Lu contacted me about reviewing some of their fine wares. Sure, I said, always happy to test drive a new dress in the interest of making sure y’all are well informed about fatshion. I chose a couple of items and, working […]

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Featured Shop Review: Three dresses from SWAKdesigns

By | January 16, 2009

Awhile back, SWAKdesigns popped up as a subject of conversation on the Fatshionista community over on LiveJournal, as a relatively new and heretofore unknown option for plus-size clothing. Lots of folks seemed happy with it, and honestly, I looked at the site once or twice and then stopped, because it seemed like the offerings in […]

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Dress Report: Sweaterdresses & Belts For The Sweaterdress-&-Belt-Phobic

By | 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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Taking Odds on Global Shopping: Musings on Lily0808168 and eShakti.com

By | October 24, 2008

I first learned of eShakti via conversations in the Fatshionista LiveJournal community, where the site received mixed reviews. Clearly, given my frequent gambles with Lily0808168 – the China-located seller on the eBay who makes the infamous ruffle dress, among other things – I have become a lot more willing to take a risk on an […]

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Thrift Tips with stitchtowhere: Tip the Third

By | July 11, 2008

Well, I’m finally back from a really fantastic vacation on the west coast of soviet kanuckistan (which, of course, included some pretty stellar thrifting) fighting nazis on the moon, with yet another thrift tip. I’m sorry to have left y’all hanging (no doubt you–all two of you- spent the past few fridays frantically hitting the […]

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