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– New York magazine rounds up some pearls “even pearl loathers will love.”
– Lifehacker ponders how to rebuild your attention span and focus.
– Learnvest wonders how much of your net income you should budget for work clothing.
– Kevin Kelly has rounded up some of the best magazine articles of all time. Great, great list.
windupbird
Re: the magazine article list, how many women were listed on there? three? absolutely ridiculous. then again, look at who compiled the list — mostly men. Guess women can’t write good magazine articles?
Fresh
lucielu.com You have to hunt a little, but this site has some reasonable work dresses for larger sizes.
AIMS
I am surprised this didn’t make the news round-up.
There is a very interesting article in the Sunday Times Mag (available online now) about the plus size market for fashionable clothes, how it is changing, and the many various problems that still very much exist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01plussize-t.html?ref=magazine
Shayna
I saw that — I found the history interesting, but the general conclusions that it’s just inevitable for plus size clothing to be unavailable/unattractive depression (save the Torrid CEO’s interview which was rather good)
Erin
Jezebel posted a rebuttal of the points in that article.
http://jezebel.com/5599897/designer-is-it-harder-to-make-plus+size-clothing-period-no
Anon
I saw that. Not sure I would call it a rebuttal. It raises an interesting thought but one that the article addresses in its discussion of Marina Rinaldi, amongst other places.
The point is it is possible to pull off, but it is much harder and requires a bigger investment. The patterns used for so called regular sizes have had the benefit of centuries of development. The article is not saying that it’s impossible to do this just that because its a new phenomenon, relatively speaking, and it requires more investment because it is different and poses new challenges, requires different fabrics and techniques, and manufacturers are reluctant to take on the task. I am sure this will change as women are changing and it is inevitable. That’s sort of the point I took anyway.
I think Jezebel sometimes misses subtlety in these things, giving in to its petulant knee-jerk reactions, whether warranted or not. I think the article was actually fairly well-balanced without any agenda. . . Though I agree with Shayna that some of it was depressing, it did end on a good note!
MelD
I think women’s sizing is changing across the board. The reality is that women today are not the same size as they were 100 or even 50 years ago. I’ve read numerous articles about how the current population tends to sway more toward being pear-shaped than it has in years past, but I don’t see any of that reflected in clothing designs.
v
Not to mention that women are purely BIGGER than they were, regardless of body fat percentage, due to better childhood nutrition. That’s going to skew clothing design too in both straight and plus sizes and might be part of why so many women of all sizes have a hard time finding clothes that fit.
KH
Manufacturing is changing to accommodate larger sizes – and doing it very quickly. I recently lost 40 lbs (off of a 5’0 frame) after being heavy for about 10 years. After I gained the weight, I kept a couple of very classic belts from different manufacturers. I am now a size 6 (which I have never been before in my adult life) and buy XS and S belts, but the older belts are still a bit too small. One is a size L and the other XL.
Anony
I know budgeting books and tools were talked about a few posts ago, but I just remembered about this great personal finance blog http://www.budgetsaresexy.com
He’s a bit off kilter, but he is coming at PF from a late-20’s ‘I thought everything was in order until I went to buy my first house’ perspective.
Frivolous Threadjack
Oh just want to report I wore my one & only Hermes scarf tied in an Ascot with black shirt & jeans on casual Fri. It did add a lovely “pop” of colour (red and royal blue pattern) and I am going to experiment once a month.
Thanks Kat – last year’s post inspired me (you aired it 2 days ago)