FAT Fashion in Time Out NY!!
Check out this article about fat fashion in NYC, Fatshionista.com and fatshionista. The article is really positive and has photos of fabulous fatties!
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Rummaging with Deb Malkin of Re/Dress
This store owner digs up fashionable wares-and dispenses style advice- for plus-size ladies.
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“Shopping should be like falling in love over and over again.” A Red Hook resident and lifelong plus-size shopper, she is a pioneer for women traumatized by the teeny dressing rooms of Old Navy and the frumpy-dumpy frocks at Avenue. In her early “fatshionista” days, Malkin helped start the Fat Girl Flea Market (fatgirlfleamarket.com)-returning this April for its eighth year-a smorgasbord of large-size clothes.
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REQUIRED READING: FASHIONISTA
Despite a surge in shops catering to larger ladies, stylish duds for plus-size folks are still viewed as a nonpriority by mainstream clothiers and media. Enter Fatshionista (fatshionista.com), an online hub that includes a collaborative blog and both Flickr and LiveJournal communities devoted to the topics of fashion, fat-acceptance and body positivity. The blog often skews toward the political-recent posts have discussed the place of “diet talk” in fat acceptance circles, and ways to subvert expectations of fat folks-while the LiveJournal community is the Internet equivalent of an awesome flea market that caters only to plus-size style hounds. Members compare reviews of brands and stores, sell gently-used clothing and post photos of their outfits, which serve as fashion inspiration in their creativity and resourcefulness (many members make their own clothes, or play with vintage and thrifted finds). The best part is that since the community is all about body positivity, negative self-talk is banned.
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Rummaging with Deb Malkin of Re/Dress
This store owner digs up fashionable wares-and dispenses style advice- for plus-size ladies.
...
“Shopping should be like falling in love over and over again.” A Red Hook resident and lifelong plus-size shopper, she is a pioneer for women traumatized by the teeny dressing rooms of Old Navy and the frumpy-dumpy frocks at Avenue. In her early “fatshionista” days, Malkin helped start the Fat Girl Flea Market (fatgirlfleamarket.com)-returning this April for its eighth year-a smorgasbord of large-size clothes.
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REQUIRED READING: FASHIONISTA
Despite a surge in shops catering to larger ladies, stylish duds for plus-size folks are still viewed as a nonpriority by mainstream clothiers and media. Enter Fatshionista (fatshionista.com), an online hub that includes a collaborative blog and both Flickr and LiveJournal communities devoted to the topics of fashion, fat-acceptance and body positivity. The blog often skews toward the political-recent posts have discussed the place of “diet talk” in fat acceptance circles, and ways to subvert expectations of fat folks-while the LiveJournal community is the Internet equivalent of an awesome flea market that caters only to plus-size style hounds. Members compare reviews of brands and stores, sell gently-used clothing and post photos of their outfits, which serve as fashion inspiration in their creativity and resourcefulness (many members make their own clothes, or play with vintage and thrifted finds). The best part is that since the community is all about body positivity, negative self-talk is banned.