Plus Size Loose Women
by John Powell
The Independent Television company (ITV) in the UK recently caused a stir when one of the panellists on its chat show 'Loose Women' said that high street dress shops should cater for the 'normal range' and there should be separate special shops for overweight women. The three other panellists expressed similar views, saying that being overweight should not be encouraged, and the chairwoman stated categorically 'Do not normalise overweight.' They went on to accuse the popular comedy actress, Dawn French, of popularising and promoting overweight.
Plus Size Mother Goddesses
by John Powell
In modern times, archeologists have uncovered a number of small sculptures and ceramic images of women that were made before 25,000 BCE in the Upper Paleolithic Era. These artifacts were produced long before the invention of writing so their purpose cannot be known for sure, but as they bear a resemblance to sculptures and images found in almost all later cultures, they are widely believed to be representations of a Mother Goddess or Earth Mother. One thing is certain: these earliest representations of the iconic female form would be classified as plus size by the modern fashion industry.
Silk, Satin and Sensuality
by John Powell
No fabrics have a more sensual association than silks and satins. These luxurious materials are widely appreciated stimulators of male hormones and linked to a myriad of fetishes and fantasies, especially when manifested in women's brassieres and panties. Yet, this erotic combination is a relatively recent phenomenon. Although silk was discovered 5,000 years ago, and satin has been produced for about a thousand years, women have been wearing panties for less than two hundred years and the brassiere was invented only just over a century ago.
Silk Dresses: Do We Need a Super Plus Size?
by John Powell
When the category of plus size model was first introduced around 1980, to bring style to the clothes of bigger women, no doubt the models were bigger than average, but in the twenty first century, with women having grown steadily bigger over the intervening years, plus size is now no more than average. The fashion industry has been reluctant to increase the size of plus size models, so is it time to consider introducing a super plus size to bring elegance and style to a new generation of big beautiful women?
Silk: Desirable and Decadent?
by John Powell
In its long history of perhaps more than five thousand years silk has been prized for its beauty, preserved as a state secret, reserved for royalty and condemned as decadent. Above all, it has been associated with women and feminine allure. Said to have been introduced by the Chinese Silk Goddess, Lady Hsi-Ling-Shih, wife of the mythical Yellow Emperor in about 3000 BCE, silkworm farming was for long ages restricted to women. Silk clothes became so popular among high society that this 'useless luxury product' was reserved by law for use only by the imperial family. Later, when silk exports reached Europe, the Roman Senate, anxious to stem the flow of gold to the East, declared the wearing of silk clothes to be decadent and immoral. Few material substances, have exhibited greater power to excite human passions than this product of a humble worm.
Fashion Trends: A Waist of Time
by John Powell
The popular science magazine Nature published the results of a study led by Michel Hopkins to find what part of the female body looks most attractive to men. The group of American scientists discovered that the most appealing feature of the female body was the waist, and the smaller the better. Yet a recent study in the UK has shown that the waist of the average woman is in serious decline. Over the past 60 years, the difference between the average bust/hips and waist measurements has shrunk from 10 inches (25 cm) to 4 inches (10 cm). Such a significant change should present a serious challenge both to male susceptibilities and to the fashion industry.
Silk Dresses: Are The Models Really Plus-Size?
by John Powell
Since the founding of the Big Beautiful Women (BBW) magazine by Carole Shaw in 1979, increasing attention has been paid to the fashion needs of women of more generous proportions. Plus size models have achieved fame playing a part in this commendable cause and some notable sentiments have been expressed. For example, Natalie Laughlin, rated a top-ten plus size model, has been quoted as saying that her mission 'is to impact the world of fashion by furthering the notion that every woman's dream body is, in fact, the one that is perfect for her,' but does this UK size 16 model really represent even the average woman, let alone the plus size woman, in current populations?
Silk Dresses: Big and Beautiful?
by John Powell
It is a long time since most women have been happy with the regular parades of skinny girls that present the latest creations of the top fashion designers. If the average woman was ever like these anorexic wraiths it was long before the stretch of living memory, and as Body Mass Indices continue to mount there are increasing demands for new fashions to be presented on figures that are more representative of the general population.
Silk Dresses: Glamourous and Green?
by John Powell
No clothing material provides a greater aura of luxury and glamour than silk. For long ages, this product of a humble insect has provided the adornment of queens, courtesans and all who sought a highly visible means of displaying not only beauty but also wealth and elevated status. In modern times, vastly increased production has made this adornment of affluence available to a much wider community while providing employment and wellbeing for thousands of deprived rural dwellers in some of the world's poorest countries.
The Quality and Craftsmanship of a Large Size Women's Shoe
by Andrea Berger
The Quality and Craftsmanship of a Large Size Women's Shoe. Whether you're choosing a pair of pumps, boots, loafers or strappy sandals, knowing the details of high-quality footwear construction and design can help you make the best purchasing decision.
Women,s Interests Plus Size
Heavy is the Heart That Bears the Taunts
A quedyion and answer schedule on the pitfalls of judging people based on thier size.Ridicule and misguided chants hava a crippling effect on plus size women eager to change their image.
What You Should Know About Women's Plus Size Swimwear
by Cindy Wydan
Women's plus size swimwear online shopping is getting more popular nowadays than in brick and mortar shops. But what you should know when you shop for a flattering swimsuit over the internet? Read further to find out.
Shopping Tips for Plus-Size Woman
by Triveni Sharma
Selecting a right outfit for a bulky woman is a matter of great concern. However, if you follow certain tips, you can easily cover your extra fat and look slimmer.
Tips In Improving Plus Size Boudoir Poses
by Marnelle Winston
Taking plus size boudoir poses can be hard. Luckily, there are ways that can help you take photos easily and perfectly.
The Advent of Waist Training Cinchers
by Gian Capannesi
The waist training cincher is a new product that derives from a historical one. Waist training is something that has happened over the last few centuries and originated in France. Now cinchers or training corsets are being used to lose weight and give women the body shape they like.
Plus Size: An Unintended Romance
by John Powell
A long-term romance for a voluptuous plus-size woman evolved almost unconsciously. Kwame Mainu's life became inextricably interwoven with that of his first love, Comfort Opokua, whose strong material ambition at first compounded Kwame's dilemma of whether to seek his fortune overseas or stay to serve his homeland, Ghana. Through the course of two decades, Kwame wooed and married Comfort, was abandoned because of his lack of material progress, and slowly regained her respect and companionship through years of dedication to his work.
Plus Size: Where Fat Is Fine
by John Powell
In Western countries the general view is that all women want to be thin and everyone who is overweight is interested in dieting and taking up the latest popular weight reducing system. Fortunes are spent on special foods and exercise regimes in an attempt to lose a few kilograms and conform to the dimensions of the latest top model. Much effort goes into designing clothes to flatter the form that does not yet fit that slender silhouette. However, over large parts of the world, fat is viewed in a much more positive light. In parts of Asia and most of Africa, fat is welcomed as a sign of growing affluence.
Perfect Body Sculpting: A Glance At Different Types of Shapewears!
by Richard Bran
Admit it or not, but almost every girl secretly wishes to look like their favorite celebrities. Their sleek and streamlined bodies is what makes them the role model of every woman. But, have you ever tried to figure out the reason behind their such a perfection?
Plus Size: Feeling Good in Brazil
by John Powell
In Brazil, we are told, vanity, as an excessive pride in one's appearance, is not viewed as a negative attribute. All the people, men as well as women, are expected to go to great lengths to look good. As a result of the tremendous pressure to look slim, beautiful and young, Brazilian women were reported in 2014 to spend eleven times as much on beauty products as British women. Yet even in this society which worships the youthful figure, there are women who want their sisters who are no longer young and slim, to feel beautiful and sexually attractive without the need to have a tantalisingly elusive body form, or undergoing surgery.
Plus Size Hard to Find in Vietnam
by John Powell
Over recent decades Vietnam has become a leading clothes manufacturer and its numerous garment enterprises, large and small, produce a wide range of fashionable outfits in all fabrics, styles and price ranges. The country is also becoming a popular tourist destination, so one might expect that local stores would be eager to sell garments to visitors, and visitors would be interested in taking home quality products from their country of origin. However, the small stature of Vietnamese men and women, and the low proportion that is overweight, is reflected in the stock of most clothes stores, with a standard size range in which even the average westerner searches for the proverbial needle in a haystack, and the plus size visitor searches in vain.
Plus Size Loose Women
by John Powell
The Independent Television company (ITV) in the UK recently caused a stir when one of the panellists on its chat show 'Loose Women' said that high street dress shops should cater for the 'normal range' and there should be separate special shops for overweight women. The three other panellists expressed similar views, saying that being overweight should not be encouraged, and the chairwoman stated categorically 'Do not normalise overweight.' They went on to accuse the popular comedy actress, Dawn French, of popularising and promoting overweight.
Plus Size Mother Goddesses
by John Powell
In modern times, archeologists have uncovered a number of small sculptures and ceramic images of women that were made before 25,000 BCE in the Upper Paleolithic Era. These artifacts were produced long before the invention of writing so their purpose cannot be known for sure, but as they bear a resemblance to sculptures and images found in almost all later cultures, they are widely believed to be representations of a Mother Goddess or Earth Mother. One thing is certain: these earliest representations of the iconic female form would be classified as plus size by the modern fashion industry.
Silk, Satin and Sensuality
by John Powell
No fabrics have a more sensual association than silks and satins. These luxurious materials are widely appreciated stimulators of male hormones and linked to a myriad of fetishes and fantasies, especially when manifested in women's brassieres and panties. Yet, this erotic combination is a relatively recent phenomenon. Although silk was discovered 5,000 years ago, and satin has been produced for about a thousand years, women have been wearing panties for less than two hundred years and the brassiere was invented only just over a century ago.
Silk Dresses: Do We Need a Super Plus Size?
by John Powell
When the category of plus size model was first introduced around 1980, to bring style to the clothes of bigger women, no doubt the models were bigger than average, but in the twenty first century, with women having grown steadily bigger over the intervening years, plus size is now no more than average. The fashion industry has been reluctant to increase the size of plus size models, so is it time to consider introducing a super plus size to bring elegance and style to a new generation of big beautiful women?
Silk: Desirable and Decadent?
by John Powell
In its long history of perhaps more than five thousand years silk has been prized for its beauty, preserved as a state secret, reserved for royalty and condemned as decadent. Above all, it has been associated with women and feminine allure. Said to have been introduced by the Chinese Silk Goddess, Lady Hsi-Ling-Shih, wife of the mythical Yellow Emperor in about 3000 BCE, silkworm farming was for long ages restricted to women. Silk clothes became so popular among high society that this 'useless luxury product' was reserved by law for use only by the imperial family. Later, when silk exports reached Europe, the Roman Senate, anxious to stem the flow of gold to the East, declared the wearing of silk clothes to be decadent and immoral. Few material substances, have exhibited greater power to excite human passions than this product of a humble worm.
Fashion Trends: A Waist of Time
by John Powell
The popular science magazine Nature published the results of a study led by Michel Hopkins to find what part of the female body looks most attractive to men. The group of American scientists discovered that the most appealing feature of the female body was the waist, and the smaller the better. Yet a recent study in the UK has shown that the waist of the average woman is in serious decline. Over the past 60 years, the difference between the average bust/hips and waist measurements has shrunk from 10 inches (25 cm) to 4 inches (10 cm). Such a significant change should present a serious challenge both to male susceptibilities and to the fashion industry.
Silk Dresses: Are The Models Really Plus-Size?
by John Powell
Since the founding of the Big Beautiful Women (BBW) magazine by Carole Shaw in 1979, increasing attention has been paid to the fashion needs of women of more generous proportions. Plus size models have achieved fame playing a part in this commendable cause and some notable sentiments have been expressed. For example, Natalie Laughlin, rated a top-ten plus size model, has been quoted as saying that her mission 'is to impact the world of fashion by furthering the notion that every woman's dream body is, in fact, the one that is perfect for her,' but does this UK size 16 model really represent even the average woman, let alone the plus size woman, in current populations?
Silk Dresses: Big and Beautiful?
by John Powell
It is a long time since most women have been happy with the regular parades of skinny girls that present the latest creations of the top fashion designers. If the average woman was ever like these anorexic wraiths it was long before the stretch of living memory, and as Body Mass Indices continue to mount there are increasing demands for new fashions to be presented on figures that are more representative of the general population.
Silk Dresses: Glamourous and Green?
by John Powell
No clothing material provides a greater aura of luxury and glamour than silk. For long ages, this product of a humble insect has provided the adornment of queens, courtesans and all who sought a highly visible means of displaying not only beauty but also wealth and elevated status. In modern times, vastly increased production has made this adornment of affluence available to a much wider community while providing employment and wellbeing for thousands of deprived rural dwellers in some of the world's poorest countries.
The Quality and Craftsmanship of a Large Size Women's Shoe
by Andrea Berger
The Quality and Craftsmanship of a Large Size Women's Shoe. Whether you're choosing a pair of pumps, boots, loafers or strappy sandals, knowing the details of high-quality footwear construction and design can help you make the best purchasing decision.
Plus Size Loose Women
by John Powell
The Independent Television company (ITV) in the UK recently caused a stir when one of the panellists on its chat show 'Loose Women' said that high street dress shops should cater for the 'normal range' and there should be separate special shops for overweight women. The three other panellists expressed similar views, saying that being overweight should not be encouraged, and the chairwoman stated categorically 'Do not normalise overweight.' They went on to accuse the popular comedy actress, Dawn French, of popularising and promoting overweight.
Plus Size Mother Goddesses
by John Powell
In modern times, archeologists have uncovered a number of small sculptures and ceramic images of women that were made before 25,000 BCE in the Upper Paleolithic Era. These artifacts were produced long before the invention of writing so their purpose cannot be known for sure, but as they bear a resemblance to sculptures and images found in almost all later cultures, they are widely believed to be representations of a Mother Goddess or Earth Mother. One thing is certain: these earliest representations of the iconic female form would be classified as plus size by the modern fashion industry.
Silk, Satin and Sensuality
by John Powell
No fabrics have a more sensual association than silks and satins. These luxurious materials are widely appreciated stimulators of male hormones and linked to a myriad of fetishes and fantasies, especially when manifested in women's brassieres and panties. Yet, this erotic combination is a relatively recent phenomenon. Although silk was discovered 5,000 years ago, and satin has been produced for about a thousand years, women have been wearing panties for less than two hundred years and the brassiere was invented only just over a century ago.
Silk Dresses: Do We Need a Super Plus Size?
by John Powell
When the category of plus size model was first introduced around 1980, to bring style to the clothes of bigger women, no doubt the models were bigger than average, but in the twenty first century, with women having grown steadily bigger over the intervening years, plus size is now no more than average. The fashion industry has been reluctant to increase the size of plus size models, so is it time to consider introducing a super plus size to bring elegance and style to a new generation of big beautiful women?
Silk: Desirable and Decadent?
by John Powell
In its long history of perhaps more than five thousand years silk has been prized for its beauty, preserved as a state secret, reserved for royalty and condemned as decadent. Above all, it has been associated with women and feminine allure. Said to have been introduced by the Chinese Silk Goddess, Lady Hsi-Ling-Shih, wife of the mythical Yellow Emperor in about 3000 BCE, silkworm farming was for long ages restricted to women. Silk clothes became so popular among high society that this 'useless luxury product' was reserved by law for use only by the imperial family. Later, when silk exports reached Europe, the Roman Senate, anxious to stem the flow of gold to the East, declared the wearing of silk clothes to be decadent and immoral. Few material substances, have exhibited greater power to excite human passions than this product of a humble worm.
Fashion Trends: A Waist of Time
by John Powell
The popular science magazine Nature published the results of a study led by Michel Hopkins to find what part of the female body looks most attractive to men. The group of American scientists discovered that the most appealing feature of the female body was the waist, and the smaller the better. Yet a recent study in the UK has shown that the waist of the average woman is in serious decline. Over the past 60 years, the difference between the average bust/hips and waist measurements has shrunk from 10 inches (25 cm) to 4 inches (10 cm). Such a significant change should present a serious challenge both to male susceptibilities and to the fashion industry.
Silk Dresses: Are The Models Really Plus-Size?
by John Powell
Since the founding of the Big Beautiful Women (BBW) magazine by Carole Shaw in 1979, increasing attention has been paid to the fashion needs of women of more generous proportions. Plus size models have achieved fame playing a part in this commendable cause and some notable sentiments have been expressed. For example, Natalie Laughlin, rated a top-ten plus size model, has been quoted as saying that her mission 'is to impact the world of fashion by furthering the notion that every woman's dream body is, in fact, the one that is perfect for her,' but does this UK size 16 model really represent even the average woman, let alone the plus size woman, in current populations?
Silk Dresses: Big and Beautiful?
by John Powell
It is a long time since most women have been happy with the regular parades of skinny girls that present the latest creations of the top fashion designers. If the average woman was ever like these anorexic wraiths it was long before the stretch of living memory, and as Body Mass Indices continue to mount there are increasing demands for new fashions to be presented on figures that are more representative of the general population.
Silk Dresses: Glamourous and Green?
by John Powell
No clothing material provides a greater aura of luxury and glamour than silk. For long ages, this product of a humble insect has provided the adornment of queens, courtesans and all who sought a highly visible means of displaying not only beauty but also wealth and elevated status. In modern times, vastly increased production has made this adornment of affluence available to a much wider community while providing employment and wellbeing for thousands of deprived rural dwellers in some of the world's poorest countries.
The Quality and Craftsmanship of a Large Size Women's Shoe
by Andrea Berger
The Quality and Craftsmanship of a Large Size Women's Shoe. Whether you're choosing a pair of pumps, boots, loafers or strappy sandals, knowing the details of high-quality footwear construction and design can help you make the best purchasing decision.
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