Anne Taylor retouching
Even with super skinny model clothing companies are still trying to sell an unrealistic body imagine.

Sexy RocknRoll Pearl Slide show

I don't like posting accessories in this blog because that is an easy fall back for plus size girls. You don't have to worry about size with Jewelry unless your talking diamonds (and were not on that kind of budget.) However I braking that rule because these are JUST FAB. I figure for the crafty ladies out there these will be inspiration pictures. >:)

The Cut Discusses the NY Times Article

Maybe All Those Plus-size Models Pose Nude Because They Have Nothing Great to Wear

• 7/30/10 at 5:45 PM

Lizzie Miller in Glamour last year.Photo: glamour.com

A number of things feel off about the fashion industry's supposed movement to embrace and glorify women who are bigger than a size 2. Something we've bemoaned repeatedly on this blog is how plus-size models are routinely shot nude, as if for shock value. Perhaps magazines were trying to re-create the sensation Lizzie Miller made when Glamour shot her nude a year ago. Out rolled Glamour's expanded coverage of plus-size naked models, then came V's size issue with shot after shot of plus-size model in states of undress — seemingly more scantily clad than the straight-size models in any typical issue of the magazine. However, The New York Times Magazine offers one possible answer to why these women are always shot naked, aside from shock value and bragging rights: There simply aren't very many great clothes made to fit them.

Read More Here

Jezebel.com reactionary article to the NY Times piece.

Designer: "Is it harder to make plus-size clothing, period? No."

An NYT Magazine piece on "The Plus-Size Wars" makes a point we've heard before: fat women are really different from other people. So is it true?

Ginia Bellafante's article examines the discrepancy between the number of plus-size women in America and the availability of attractive plus-size clothes. Her analysis (including a discussion of the Lane Bryant ad ABC wouldn't show) is wide-ranging and at times pretty interesting. But it leaves unexamined this particular point: according to designers, making clothes for fat women is hard. Bellafante writes,

Read more: http://jezebel.com/5599897/designer-is-it-harder-to-make-plus+size-clothing-period-no#ixzz0vDsq0klJ

NY Times Article "Plus Size Wars"

Earlier this year, the editors of V, a magazine so recherché it can make Vogue seem like Redbook, published an issue featuring large models in expensive body-baring clothes. In one photograph, a woman in a strapless bathing suit, cut to reveal three rolls of flesh, grabs at her platform stilettos. In another, Tara Lynn, a size 16 model, is clad in nothing but a pair of Dior sandals.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01plussize-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp

Dance Your Ass OFF

I am normal not a big fan of weight loss shows, they tend to emphasize losing as much weight, as fast as possible versus simple healthy living. However I fell in love with DYAO partly because its original host was a curvy gal Marissa Jaret Winokur. Now into season two they have replaced her with Mel B of the Spice Girls,supposedly because of Marissa's weight. I am sorely disappointed, but I still enjoy the show because it shows plus size people dancing and being sensual. After watching one or two episodes of the second season I am not sure if I like it as much as the original. It is too polished and is missing that genuine feeling. Check it out and let me know what you think?

Marissa Jaret Winokur replace with thinner host.

A review of the original show.

DYAO on Hulu of you haven't seen it

Walmart get us thru Hot Summer Daze

SPF 70 because beautiful skin in the best summer fashion accessory.
SunBlock $9.92

This, cross the body bag comes in 4 colors my favorites being black and purple, is great for keeping your hands free. So you can carry your beach towel or farmer's market bags.
Bag $33

Cap sleeve dress $16
This dress could super cool or not at all depending on the martial. The website doesn't list it but the dress does look like stretch cotton jersey. Stretch cotton can be really clingy which can GOOD or Very Bad. You can return to the store so at $16 I would say it is worth the risk. If it is unflattering return it to the store near you no shipping back.

Gladiator Sandals $6