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.

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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