#fashion fatphobia

[coolerdracula]

saying “visual style" because, for example, if you would swap your current wardrobe for an identical, ethically made counterpart, there would be no visible change

[drafty-castle]

Trying to buy clothes while fat is an exercise in frustration. Modern, middle/low income fashion is trash. I was going through some plus size magazines that came in today, and was entirely unimpressed with the “styles” to choose from.

Rather than shopping for clothes, I feel like I’m going camping and buying a tent!

These photos are from three different magazines for three different companies. And yet they all sell exactly the same things.

Casual wear, professional wear, special occasions… they’re all shapeless TENTS!!!

(Expensive tents. Why are some of these things over $50? Unless they’re paying their workers proper wages ((doubtful)) then the same item in “straight” sizes is often half that!)

Does anyone have any options (not torrid, LB, woman within) that don’t look like you’re wearing a colorful sack? Nothing in my local donation places ever fit. I guess nobody my size throws out perfectly good clothing and instead wears it to death.

Tagging some fat positive blogs I follow to see if they have any ideas. @fatphobiabusters , @fatliberation , @fatsexybitch

Because at this rate I’m going to have to bite the bullet and sew up everything myself…. And that’s gonna be a hassle and a half.

Edit: autocorrect fail

[fatphobiabusters]

Product reviews on websites for plus size clothing brands are their own circle of hell. I feel like making a bingo card so I can create a depressing game of how many times these fat people who look like me write "Flattering!" "This hid my tummy and covered my arms perfectly!" "The best dress for hiding your imperfections!" "This didn't make me look pregnant, so that's always a plus." "Very stretchy fabric, which means you can continue to wear this even as you lose weight!" "I bought this because I've been sizing down and couldn't ignore such a great sale." "The color of this sweater is amazingly slimming!" "This super long dress with long sleeves wasn't modest enough [for fat bodies like ours], do not recommend." "This highlights the bits you want highlighted while concealing the worst parts of you. Five stars!" "A miracle! This skirt made me feel feminine for once!"

This is one of five million reasons why I wait to finally force myself to buy new clothes until all of my current clothes have become raggedy, ruined with holes, and faded to the point of only having half the original design on the t-shirt anymore. Not even buying clothes in size fat online lets me escape the immense fatphobia fat people are forced to experience whenever we dare to buy something that isn't a necklace.

-Mod Worthy

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

P.S Kaguya

It took six years of struggle in an industry that favors thin and Eurocentric for Kaguya to make it to New York Fashion Week. As a second-generation Korean American, she encountered constant resistance to her weight and stigmas about her identity. She quickly discovered, she says, that the same stereotypes associated with Asian women were reinforced for Asian models: to be petite and obedient.

[tomboyyyaoi]

catboy?

[thebaffledcaptain]

Been thinking about historical beauty standards lately and the fact that being rounder and heavier was, in fact, considered fashionable for a very long time, and then the fact that people will always interject with the “it’s because weight meant you were wealthy and able to afford food and leisure,” which, sure, is true to some extent, but it’s not like… the only reason that was desirable? Like, is it that hard to believe that people genuinely found that beautiful? That both men and women would rogue their cheeks to make them look more lively and full? That men would tailor their waistcoats to give the illusion of a potbelly because it was the fashionable silhouette? That to be soft and plump was considered lovely and attractive? Honestly, I feel people’s insistence on the whole “weight meant you were wealthy” thing can quickly become a kind of backhanded fatphobia, this assertion that being fat meant something else desirable, and thus became the Desirable Thing. People have had fat and been fat all throughout history and been found beautiful for it, period.

[v-as-in-victor]

To cut a long and boring story short, I'm tired of this intense period of body dysmorphia brought on by medical trauma making it hard for me to want to leave the house; I know I look stunning in a FROCK, so until this sorts itself out I will be in drag for any public appearances where I want to feel cute and desirable.

R he/hims me to everyone while I have my gandalf big naturals out, which helps a lot.

[cookinguptales]

man, there really is something kind of healing about seeing fat people being dressed with love and joy and skill and looking incredible.

you grow up your whole life hearing that people like you will look like trash in anything you wear so why bother designing for you, and that you should just try to wear something that hides your curves as much as possible. and then you see someone wearing something that takes every curve into account and looks great and you're like!

wait, I'm not ugly, fashion designers are just lazy and never learned to dress people like me!

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Grabs you by the shoulders. Listen to me. All image is a form of advertisement in an age where, subconsciously or not, we are constantly building "brands" around ourselves which tell the world how we should be marketed towards even if its just a genuine expression of our interests. The goal of the image is to advertise two separate things; one being the place or thing or article of clothing displayed and the second being the values that have shaped it into being desirable. You cannot trust the image without investigation you should not trust the image without investigation!!!!! Investigate the images!!!!!

[fictionalred]

My 'just hire a fat model' collection

[wordswithkittywitch]

Perhaps this isn't for me to say as someone on the smaller end of average (and I'm not fooling myself about being smaller than I am, I'm being realistic about what the average actually is) but speaking as a seamstress I feel fashion designers are really doing larger women a disservice by constantly putting them in drapey, carefully-cut shapes to make them look smaller. I think we need more designs like Selkie that put big women in big dresses. I mean big petticoats, big full sleeves, unapologetically taking up as much room as possible. I feel like all women, but especially full-figured women, are conditioned to be as small and unobtrusive as possible and so wearing a dress with a skirt that's in proportion with the rest of your body feels like you're just enormous. But I don't actually see how being enormous in this context would necessarily be a bad thing. And yes, wearing a dress with a big skirt and big sleeves would make the waist look smaller, but the point isn't having a small waist, the point is having the dress look like it was made to be worn by a large person. As I said, we're starting to see this a little, but I feel this would go beyond one brand, even if the brand is making some very nice dresses.

Of course, this isn't to say that people shouldn't be wearing whatever they want and if someone who's larger wants to wear a slim-fitting dress more power to them. I just see so many plus-sized clothing that looks like an apology for existing and it makes me sad.

[high-quality-tiktoks]

jay fatsby here for part 5.

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

Kim Gee-Yang, Korea’s first “plus size” model?

In addition to LA, Kim has done runway shows in Miami and the Caribbean. She’s also been a finalist in photo contests for Benetton and American Apparel, but she says no Korean fashion shows or magazines will hire her.

So, she started her own magazine that features plus size models.

It’s called 66100 (66 and 100 are the maximum sizes in centimeters, respectively, for women and men’s clothing sold in Korean retail stores. Kim takes a size 88 (she says she wears an American size 8).

On the cover of the latest issue, Kim is clutching a chunk of fried pig’s feet with her manicured fingertips. The picture goes with the feature article, “Innocent Pleasure” — Kim writes that you shouldn’t feel guilty for eating what you like.

[house-rat]

No, you don’t need to pick clothes in shapes and colours and patterns that “flatter” you. You don’t need to have a haircut or wear makeup that “complements” your features. You don’t need to present yourself in ways that distract from some features and emphasize others.

These ideas are all deeply entrenched in fatphobic racist eurocentric beauty standards. Stop being unthinkingly complicit in upholding them.

[saturngalore]

i know that some people both on here and irl are tired of “y2k fashion” but it’s ALWAYS so nice to see fat people wear short skirts, crop tops, and other colorful gaudy trendy clothing pieces like we’re kinda free of looking like the local 42 year old librarian or a stressed out single mother of 3 kids at such a young age…sawry not sorry but im gonna ride this wave and enjoy this rebirth of fat fashion in all its rights and wrongs

[thedollhousediaries]

This isn’t an attack. Its a call for introspection and unpacking mentality issues so we can all live in a much better and equal place with one another.