With all this one year anniversary celebration for The Curvy Elle this week, I thought I’d share 10 of my favorite posts of the year. Feel free to give input on your favorites!
(These are listed in no particular order of importance.)
“…I love that in New York, the abnormal is the normal. The boring is what makes you look twice more than the crazy. I love that in California I can stand out and be heard more. There are less voices to over power my own individualism.
What is better– a place where you have to have strong convictions and balls with your appearances or being one of many crazies? I guess they are both just different, not better or worse. You have to have gumption either way…”
2. How to Wear Leggings for Plus Size (or ANY Size)
“…I love fashion, but I also love comfort–and leggings are comfort. For the longest time I would not even THINK about wearing leggings. It has taken me many years and finding the perfect pair/brand/fit to actually feel confident in wearing them. It is very easy to look incredibly terrible in leggings–be it if you are “regular” sized or plus sized. This is my opinion on the best way to wear a legging. This can go for a girl of any size…”
3. Being Plus Size & The Fashion Industry
“…I have lived, gone to school, interned, and worked in the New York Fashion Industry, in the Fashion Design field.
Even though people aren’t supposed to judge on weight, they still do. Even more so in New York City and even more than that in the Fashion Industry…”
4. DIY Plus Size Belt Extension
5. 7 Clues for Plus Size Vintage Shopping
7. Etsy Shop Start-Up — Quick Guide
9. An Open Letter to Target: Plus Size Customer
“Dear Target…I want to start out by saying how much I love you. I visit you multiple times a week, I could stay for hours just browsing, I buy the majority of my ‘things’ from you, but… Yes, there is a ‘but’… What about us curvy girls? You know that most of this country is made up of women over the size of 14? Then how come you leave us wanting more?”
“When someone who looks to be about a size 8 is modeling plus size clothing–how does this make sense? How can someone who is actually plus size envision themselves in the clothing? How does this make us curvy girls feel?
Well, it bothers me. It’s not much better than looking at ‘normal’ sized clothing on super skinny models. It made me a little sick seeing it…”
