Curvy Resources: Body Image, Fashion, Shopping
- Author: curvy angela
- Filed under: Body Image, Fashion
Feb 6,2008
A friend of The Curvy Life sent me this fantastic list of resources. I’m going to add these to the Blogroll and Resources list, but she gives a great breakdown on each, so here’s the list:
Body Image: Feministing, Margaret Cho (used to be plus size), Nikki Blonsky (plus size actress, now has her own TV show), About.com (Plus size fashion resources)
Clothes: Kiyonna.com, SizeAppeal, Alectra.com, Benina & Lu.com, Igigi.com, Ulla Popken, JJill.com, Alight.com, Newport News, Eileen Fisher, Calvin Klein, INC, MaxStudio size XL fits size 14-16. Evans (a UK plus store that has an online site, and is much hipper than Lane Bryant.)
Custom Clothing: TC2.com (developed 3D body scanning technology), Mytwindressforms (custom dress forms)–If there’s a way to commercialize it, TC2’s technology could be used to create affordable custom clothing. I think they use it in London to reduce the price of custom men’s suits ($900 instead of $2000.)
FIDM.com, the LA fashion school, has a ton of fashion related links
Largely Positive–an example of a body image website that might be similar to yours
Blogroll
Resources
Shopping
- About Curves:Plus Size Lingerie
- Alectra - Intimate Apparel
- b&lu
- Carmen Marc Valvo
- Curvation by Queen Latifah
- Hips & Curves: Plus Size Lingerie
- IGIGI
- Just For Curves
- Kiyonna:Sophisticated Style, Size 12+
- Pleasurable Desires
- QueenLathifah.com
- Size Appeal
- SVOBODA by Jessica Svoboda
- Too Fat For Fashion
- Torrid
- Voluptuart: Art & Gifts for Celebrating Your Body
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8 Responses for "Curvy Resources: Body Image, Fashion, Shopping"
Cho is a drug addict whose worst nightmare is to look fat. She should not be looked upon as a role model for positive body image.
I remember Margaret Cho from her early days–I haven’t stayed up with her recently.
I knew that she had gotten thin, but I remember a time when she was very body positive.
If she is no longer a role model for positive body image, then that says a lot as to the pressures on women, particularly those in the public eye, to be thin.
Agreed. I think she is yet another casualty of society’s obsession with thin women.
And it breaks my heart.
Me too
I want to do a feature post on role models for positive body image.
Do you have any favorites?
Well, the usual, I guess, America Ferrara, Gosh, is that it? Let’s see… it’s not their fault, you know, there’s just no work for them. Beth Ditto is great. She’s managed to forage her own path. Mo’Nique is great, as is Whoopi.
Thanks. These women are all awesome.
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