I absolutely despise most clothing designed for “larger sized” women. Typically, it’s little more than a skinny woman’s outfit enlarged many times over without respect to proportion, pattern, or even how certain fabrics do not and never will flatter ample curves. Take Jersey knit dresses, for instance.
Being a sort of artsy-fartsy dresser myself, finding clothes [...]

Once upon a time, long before J.Lo.’s derriere made bubble butts fashionable, I hid mine under long sweaters or tunic blouses. Then her hindness entered the picture and Sir Mix-A-Lot’s song “Baby Got Back” got everybody singing the praises of a bodacious behind, and for a very brief point in my life my callipygian [...]

We’re back from our trek up to visit the in-laws in Minnesota. All in all, it was a good visit: the weather was nice, the food was fine, and even my fibromyalgia seemed to cooperate. The only bad part was my failure to anticipate just how warm it would be up North this summer. Usually [...]

My son’s summer day camp is wonderful about planning activities to keep the kiddies entertained. Wednesdays are field trips; Tuesdays and Thursdays they spend in the pool; Fridays always involve some kid-pleasing theme. Next Friday they’re throwing a costume party and, because my son is firmly convinced I must be sitting at home bored out [...]

Today is one of those “false Spring” days when the sun is just a tad brighter, the air just a bit warmer than it’s been in weeks. Not that the temperatures actually qualify as warm, mind you: it’s still just 34°F outside, but that’s a good 20 degrees higher than it was a week ago.
On [...]

This is definitely a great time of year to save big by stocking up on out-of-season clothing. But did you know you can save even more if you piggyback online coupon codes with store sales?
Macy’s, for instance, is offering $25 off of $100 purchases. Combine that with their end-of-summer sale and there’s all sorts of [...]

I did it. I finally broke down and stopped pretending that my Gap and Guess jeans still fit. I went with my husband and son to our favorite mall today and didn’t even pause to leave my drool prints on the window at BCBG. I marched — ok, waddled — past the stores in which [...]

It was only a matter of time before the male bra, coined in an episode of Seinfeld, actually caught on.
To ease discomfort experienced by overweight males whose chests, like those of their female counterparts, bounce, wobble and tug during exercise, creators of the “Male Support Vest” (manufactured by bra company Enell) are marketing [...]

To look at most clothing stores, you’d never know that the average American is considerably overweight. Size-2 and even -0 clothes crowd store racks, draped on hangars almost as thin as the women flipping through them. Until now, the rest of us had to settle for flowing dresses under hip-hiding blazers when we wanted [...]