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No Fat People in the Past? Not So Much
People talk a lot about how there weren’t any fat people once upon a time. That’s why our bodies are wrong and bad and must be changed. Just go on Jennie Craig! Try Weight Watchers! After all, that’s...
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What Miss Plumcake is…
Hello my turtle doves, how’s every little thing? It’s Tuesday, the sky is blue, the Scotch is plentiful and all is right in the world so it’s time to find out What Miss Plumcake is… Reading – Nabokov’s...
View ArticleThoughts on Capital F Fashion
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the exclusivity of fashion and I’ve decided I just don’t buy it. That being said, we ought to differentiate between Fashion and the Fashion Industry. The...
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Your Weekly-ish Humpletter: Now Almost Never on Wednesdays!
Happy Friday everybahdy! I have been remiss in letting the weekly sales slip through my elegantly sausage-like fingers. Well no more! At Lane Bryant you’ve got 30% your entire order until March 25th...
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What Miss Plumcake is…
Hello my chubby compadres, how’s every little thing? Me, I’m great. Just getting used to being back in Texas –by which I mean the face of the sun– after a glorious month of actual springlike weather in...
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Flat Month: Degas
Dancers Rest by Icon I don’t usually go for a theme-y shoe, heck, I don’t even really like Degas all that much, but there’s something about these skimmers that speak to me. They’re whimsical but not...
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Big Girls in Art: Fat…like me?
Let me tell you everything I knew about Ensenada before yesterday: The Road to Ensenada is plenty wide and fast. I knew that because it’s in the lyrics of The Road to Ensenada by Lyle Lovett from the...
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Shawls: What Would Frida Wrap?
I have a confession: the fine art and subtle science of wearing a shawl has always eluded me. I can carry off a scarf eight million ways to Sunday, I can wear white mother of pearl sunglasses without...
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Big Girls in Art: You Still Can’t Make Me Like Renoir
Nope. It’s not going to happen. Appreciate, admire, regard…all that good stuff, but I just don’t like Pierre-August Renoir’s paintings and you can’t make me. It’s like Jane Austen. I’m not saying they...
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You Asked For It: “It doesn’t work but I don’t know why”
Superfantastic reader Ginny wrote in with a work wear quandary. Seems our heroine, who is in the process of entering a more professional work environment, happened upon a pair of wide-legged navy...
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