Fatties like fashion
Posted by Administrator on Jun 29, 2009
Yesterday saw the culmination of the Fuller-Figured Fashion Weekend in New York.
Its aim? To demonstrate there is a strong market for fashionable plus-size clothes and that big can be beautiful.
But while New York might be ready for the self proclaimed ‘fat-shionistas’, what about the rest of us?
Diane Dennis, a 33-year-old British blogger on website fatgirlslikeniceclothestoo thinks curves ‘are making a comeback’.
The average British dress size is still a 16, so there must be plenty of young, fashionable women over that size, but the High Street still doesn’t cater for them.
Initiatives like Fuller-Figured Fashion Week and singer Beth Ditto’s Eightiesstyled, 22-piece collection for Evans (launching next month, stocking sizes 14-32) should start to change things.
Ditto, a size 28, is proof that the fuller figure can be fashionable. Curvy pioneers include size 14 model Whitney Thompson who last year beat off whippet-thin competition to win America’s Next Top Model, and 21-year-old British singer Adele (size 16) who came out trumps after being photographed earlier this year for Anna Wintour at American Vogue – the same Anna Wintour who once famously told Oprah to lose weight before she would shoot her for the magazine.
Larger ladies, it transpires, really can now cut it.
