Archive For The “Lesley” Category

Outfitblogging: Sundress Survivalism

By | December 9, 2008

Click through to the Flickr versions for outfit info. This may come as a total surprise (sarcasm!) but: I wear dresses. All dresses, all the time. Even on the rare occasions I’m wearing jeans out of necessity (like this weekend, in which I wore jeans and hiking boots to take pictures in the great dead […]

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FREE MONEYS: eShakti Gift Certificate Giveaway

By | December 9, 2008

Hey kids! You may remember my post about eShakti.com. You may have thought to yourself, “wow, self, I’d totally like to order from them but it seems like it might be a crapshoot, therefore I sure wish Lesley from Fatshionista would come up with a way to enable a probably-unnecessary personal purchase during the season […]

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Ass-essment: Canadian Airlines and Nonfunctional Fatness

By | December 5, 2008

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 […]

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Outfitblogging: The Spice of Life

By | December 4, 2008

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 […]

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Musical Interlude: Amanda Palmer is not fat.

By | December 1, 2008

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 […]

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CNN’s next headline: New study reveals fatness is NOT dumbbell-shaped and carried in one’s hands.

By | 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 […]

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Outfitblogging: The Fuck-You Factor

By | November 19, 2008

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 […]

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Tutorial: Defrumpifying a Cardigan

By | November 12, 2008

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 […]

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Embracing the morbid.

By | November 6, 2008

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 […]

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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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