Plus Size Fashion
I was a skinny kid, until suddenly I wasn’t. I hit puberty hard, with C cup breasts, a period by sixth grade, and a hulking 5’6″ frame that never grew another inch vertically, but seemed to constantly grow horizontally. Taller than all the…
There are so many “don’ts” when it comes to dressing while fat. Don’t wear bright colors. Don’t wear stripes. Don’t wear loud prints. And definitely, definitely, don’t ever wear white. Fuck that antiquated nonsense. There’s only one fashion…
For a very long time, I believed I didn’t have a bikini body. I believed I didn’t have a swimsuit body. I believed I didn’t have a summer body. Clearly I don’t believe any of that anymore. Now when summer rolls around and it’s finally hot out…
If I ever write a memoir, I think I’ll call it “Just Put It On: How I Came To Love My Body Through Fashion”… When I was younger, I’d go shopping with my mom. As a size 24/26, she could barely find places to clothe her whatsoever, so she lived…
It’s officially summer. That means layer-free dressing, flowy diaphanous fabrics, crop tops, and short shorts…well, at least for some people. So much of this sweltering season seems to be in favor of the skinny set. Add a bit more thickness…
Growing up in New Jersey, it was basically expected that you would spend your summer “down the shore.” Whether every weekend, or even just one, you’d pull on your swimsuit, pack up the car, and sit in a few hours of traffic on your way to one…
Ugh, not this again…I genuinely thought we had moved past this bullshit. Telling me that I can’t wear something because of my size, or shape, or age, or gender, or whatever, is only going to make me want to wear it more. So when Harper’s…
Just because I’m fat, doesn’t mean I don’t work out. That may be a shock to some of you. You might think that I got to my size because I sat on my ass and ate cheeseburgers and cake all day. As good as that sounds, that’s not how things work…
Repeat after me. Every body is a summer body. Every body is a swimsuit body. Every body is a bikini body. Still don’t believe me? Bodies are not seasonal. Your fall, winter, spring, summer body…is the same damn body. You don’t swap them out…
I got my first bra at age 10. After gym class, a few girls cornered me in the locker room, laughing at my breasts, taunting me for having “big ol’ titties” and no bra. I spent the rest of the day on the verge of tears, arms crossed over my…