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I’ve just been laughing myself through the comments on this: Buying Plus Size Clothes: Expectations Vs Reality. Laughing because so much of it rings true and doubly so for those of us with ‘additional’ problems like, er, being in a wheelchair or having some other medical/physical issue which excludes even more possibilities when hunting for […]
MoreLooking at an FT How To Spend It style feature, Masterfully Monochrome, 1 August 2013, I was taken by the three looks above. They are so my-style-pre-illness-disability-wheelchair that seeing them brought a nostalgic tear to my eyes. Obviously, I was never quite so beautiful nor so slim as the model here but in (very) broad […]
MoreAbigail Ahern runs one of my favourite interiors blogs and her ‘style’ was featured in the latest edition of (digital only) Rue Magazine. I’ve mentioned before about my magazine junkie tendencies (see Another Thing) and was reading today about a blogger who’d gone cold turkey on her habit – centred on women’s magazines. I have […]
MoreCelebrating two decades of their own label, Viktor and Rolf made a return to couture after thirteen years of absence with a cerebral, beautiful, collection of garments, all in black, all in the same fabric, with reference to the Japanese art of zen in theme. They showed some gloriously wearable draping and styling along with […]
MoreLove this quote and it fits so well, right here on my Plus Black Blog … Fiercer Than You posts some beautiful things, go take a look for yourself.
MoreSo refreshing to see Charlotte Rampling in the latest (and last) series of Dexter. She appears to be ageing without surgical modifications and is looking mighty fine in all her natural glory. OK, I know it helps a bit to have had her genetically blessed beauty as a base but kudos to her – the […]
MoreHow do you respond to setbacks? Me? I dust myself down, review what’s happened and go back to the drawing board. And that’s where I find myself today. When I set up the +Black blog, I was hoping, and working in the background, to develop, and retail, products that I thought ‘my demographic’ of women […]
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