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Lesley’s Late-Season and Therefore Possibly-Not-That-Useful Guide to Tights
By Lesley | February 10, 2009
There are three things I hear really, really often: 1. “Whoa, how many dresses do you own?” 2. “Do you EVER wear pants?” 3. “Where do you get your tights?” The answers are: 1. A whole lot. I haven’t counted, but I would guess it’s more than a couple dozen. 2. Yes, but generally only […]
A few days ago I got an email on a subject I’ve actually gotten several emails and comments about recently, and which (for my own stupid reasons which are delineated at the end of this post) I have avoided discussing: As a wheelchair user the biggest insult people seem to throw my way is that […]
Two links today: Link the first is this delicious post from Fillyjonk on the perpetual Exception: One thing that claims of this nature have in common is, of course, a particularly navel-gazing kind of hasty generalization — “because something is true for me, it must be true for everyone.†Of all the common informal fallacies, […]
Click through to Flickr version for outfit info.* Today, this blog came up in conversation with my coworkers.** I’m pretty lucky to work in an environment where I can mention my blog where I (alongside my fellow bloggers) post potentially-narcissistic fatshion photos, profanity-riddled rants about challenging expectations (AKA the “fuck you” factor), and notices about […]
IMPORTANT: None of the links in this post are worksafe. None of them, not even a little bit. Click them at your discretion/peril. April Flores, professional naked lady, has given the world something magical: a fully penetratable cyberskin cast of her snatch. Given that April Flores is unabashedly plus sized, and the flesh surrounding said […]
Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. I’m smelling a sea change in the air, lately. I find that these shifts happen, from time to time, every couple of years. I’m talking about the coming Dress Plague. Witness: Lane Bryant’s current selection is astonishingly overpriced and even if it weren’t… well, I’ll stop […]
Yesterday, Salon published an interview with Carol Lay, author of the so-called “diet-book graphic memoir” The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude. Self-consciously clever wordplay aside, it is evidently less an illustrated personal story and more like a weight loss book with drawings. But I’m less interested in talking about the book, which I […]
Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. I’ve told and retold this story several times now, but here it goes again: The morning I wore this above, I shut my dress in the back of my dress in the car door. And drove that way for several miles, until a nice gentleman in […]
This is one of those things you don’t know you need until you find it: Ragtrader – an Etsy seller from whom I’ve purchased many lovely items, and who is also just fabulous about lengthening necklaces as needed for no additional charge – is currently offering necklaces made with vintage Miss Piggy cameos. Also, there […]
Anyone who knows me well knows that Nina Simone ranks among my top three favorite musical artists ever in the history of human existence. Thus, in the spirit of both Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, and the intersectional politics part of this blog, I submit for your consideration Simone’s beautiful tribute,: “Why? (The King of […]
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