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This weekend I was told a story which, although I’m kind of ashamed to admit it, because holy shit is it ever obvious, is kind of blowing my mind.

A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.

Her first question for him was this: how do celebrities make a plain white t-shirt and a pair of weekend jeans look chic?  She always assumed it was because so many celebrities have, by nature or by design, very slender frames, and because they can afford very expensive clothing.  But when she watched What Not To Wear, she noticed that women of all sizes ended up in cute clothes that really fit their bodies and looked great.  She had tried to apply some guidelines from the show into her own wardrobe, but with only mixed success.  So - what gives?

His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear.  Jeans, blazers, dresses - everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles.  He pointed out that historically, up until the last few generations, the vast majority of people either made their own clothing or had their clothing made by tailors and seamstresses.  You had your clothing made to accommodate the measurements of your individual body, and then you moved the fuck on.  Nothing on the show or in People magazine is off the rack and unaltered.  He said that what they do is ignore the actual size numbers on the tags, find something that fits an individual’s widest place, and then have it completely altered to fit.  That’s how celebrities have jeans that magically fit them all over, and the rest of us chumps can’t ever find a pair that doesn’t gape here or ride up or slouch down or have about four yards of extra fabric here and there.

I knew that having dresses and blazers altered was probably something they were doing, but to me, having alterations done generally means having my jeans hemmed and then simply living with the fact that I will always be adjusting my clothing while I’m wearing it because I have curves from here to ya-ya, some things don’t fit right, and the world is just unfair that way.  I didn’t think that having everything tailored was something that people did. 

It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t know this.  But no one ever told me.  I was told about bikini season and dieting and targeting your “problem areas” and avoiding horizontal stripes.  No one told me that Jennifer Aniston is out there wearing a bigger size of Ralph Lauren t-shirt and having it altered to fit her.

I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed.  I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to.  No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to.  I guess I just didn’t know.  I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.

I thought about that, and about all the other girls and women out there whose proportions are “wrong,” who can’t find a good pair of work trousers, who can’t fill a sweater, who feel excluded and freakish and sad and frustrated because they have to go up a size, when really the size doesn’t mean anything and it never, ever did, and this is just another bullshit thing thrown in your path to make you feel shitty about yourself.

I thought about all of that, and then I thought that in elementary school, there should be a class for girls where they sit you down and tell you this stuff before you waste years of your life feeling like someone put you together wrong.

So, I have to take that and sit with it for a while.  But in the meantime, I thought perhaps I should post this, because maybe my friend, her friend, and I are the only clueless people who did not realise this, but maybe we’re not.  Maybe some of you have tried to embrace the arbitrary size you are, but still couldn’t find a cute pair of jeans, and didn’t know why.

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Hey i’m a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. I’ve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. I’ll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing

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please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

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Fold a tiny bird that can perch on your finger.

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Well my loves, it appears as though the answer to "Can the Big Pattern Company (Simplicity/Burda/McCalls/ect.) survive the death of JoAnn?" has come.

The answer is no. No it cannot. It has been sold to a liquidator just like JoAnns was.

So if there is ANYTHING you want I suggest you get it now. simplicity.com is currently having a pattern sale and I snatched up some that might be useful for cosplay purposes.

I am very glad these last couple of years I have built up my collection.

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TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 02 ENGLISH - 1.0 English Translation.

The 1.0 translation of Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun and Trigun Maximum was our initial run and goal of our project, so it reflects both an earlier mindset and skill level. The plan is to eventually make our 2.0 translation, with both better scans and an improved translation.

Work done on this version includes: Removing compression, removing text from the found scans, removing errors made in original scans, translating from Japanese into English, and English typesetting.

Please support the original creator however you can!

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Download the entire volume here.

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Read the chapters online here:

Chapter 01: Return of the Blue Wind of Death

Chapter 02: Resume Our Business

Chapter 03: Samurai Showdown

Chapter 04: Wolfwood

Chapter 05: Desperado

Chapter 06: Home Sweet Home

Chapter 07: Darkness

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Previous Volume -- Next Volume

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Donate to the Overhaul Project here!

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I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.

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OP: Don't wear tube top to hot pot

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Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.

Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.

But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”

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thinking about this alternative pain scale recently and wanted to bring it back for those who may have never seen it.

pain is subjective and therefore difficult to communicate, and is especially difficult for neurodivergent people in particular - but this chart is designed to help make that communication easier.

I recommend saving this and pulling it up in any clinical pain-assessment setting - it’s saved my ass more times than I can count regarding accurately conveying my symptoms and getting the correct level of care required for them.

entirely unironically, reblog to save a life - or, at the very least, to save some folks from unnecessary suffering 🙏

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samdean/wincest tropes i literally can't get enough of:

sam being bitchy and bratty and demanding and dean just consistently folding.

dean being a dork and an idiot and sam trying to act like he finds that shit childish but he can't help but smile.

anything that involves the impala - it being their home, comfort, safety, consistency.

dean's consistent self-imposed inability to have nice things - denying this thing between them over and over again. telling himself it's because it's wrong, vile, unnatural - but really the thing that's holding him back is that he doesn't see himself as worthy of actual, real love. he sees himself as a tool, a sword, a soldier - desiring anything, for him, is unnatural.

conversely, sam wanting it but thinking that it's just another part of him that's strange and twisted and not right. that it's a part of him he has to push down, down, down and cover with stanford and art history and eating salads and studying law because if he just fakes being normal, eventually normality will find him, right? he can just will away his past, his family, his unnatural desires - right?

especially when the last two are both happening at once.

anything that relies heavily on pre-stanford weecest, or even just gives a lot of flashbacks. that specific dynamic of two teens just completely unbound from adult supervision. the push-pull of dean taking care of sam with such love but also routinely leaving him to his own devices in search of easy pleasure. sam's combined admiration for his older brother while also hating that he's only rebellious when it gets him girls, but not when it comes to standing up to their dad. loving each other despite it all.

highlighting how well-matched, equal in skill, and in-tune with each other they both are. there is no one who knows dean better than sam, and there is no one that can go toe-to-toe with sam other than dean, and vice versa. the way that despite them making fun of the other, they're both equally competent and they see each other as such.

obviously the biblical parallels. michael and lucifer, cain and abel - how the universe keeps wanting them to fight and hate yet they still love one another. the themes of choice, of free will, of agency.

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This was my second original embroidery design! I did it in july 2020 :) By this point i was really into using cool techniques to show textures and i was very excited to try out stump work (basically crochet LOL) for the nori. I love picking techniques that really reflect the properties of something.

It's also VERY SMALL, see last photo with my glasses next to it.

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It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

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