Merry Christmas everyone! I have some many ideas and tips and designs that I need to get together and so I have decided that I am going to take some time out first and foremost, and just spend it with my family Before I get back to my blog. I am also taking a break until after New Years and hopefully yours truly will have some ideas, fashion tips and some of my designs that I am in the process of completing that will be ready and posted for all to see! So yes there will be pictures! So stay tuned and until then Merry Christmas and Happy New Years and don't forget to stay absolutely fabulous!
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
plus sized clothing industry
Christmas is actually here and I can't believe how fast the year has gone by! Now I am not one to make new years resolutions but I do want to be a better healthier me and I always strive to be more fabulous than the year before! LOL. Which brings me to a question that I am constantly being asked and that is why doesn't plus sized clothing fit as well as regular size clothing? Its all about the fashion trends and what will sell!
According to recent data, retailers who do not adhere to the needs of the plus-size customer will miss out on a formidable chunk of market profits. The average dress size has increased since 1960, from size 8 to 14, creating a market for larger clothing and underwear that equals roughly $19.4 billion, or 18 percent of the $108 billion women's clothing market, according to statistics from the market research firm NPD Group Inc.
"We have outgrown the traditional definition of plus-size, old-(looking) muumuus and loose-fitting clothes," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst NPD Group.... I believe that we will see a huge change for the better for plus sized clothing. The fact that the plus sized clothing industry and the demand is growing and will continue to grow.I have a link at the bottom if anyone wants to read more about the information that I used in my article. I know some of you feel that the clothes that are offered are just too pricey or "we are not all just plus sized we have different measurements." This is so true and this also leaves two options for us all because once again being plus sized does have options as well!LOL. We can 1. buy the clothes and find a tailor to alter the clothes for us or 2. Learn to sew and Make our own! I know that last one is doosy for some but hey its an option! And while I am a seamstress and I can sew I don't expect anyone to do anything that is just not their thing. I will however let everyone know that I do plan on designing again and this time it will be either clothing that I already have and will revamp or it will be my own design. So I guess I kind of set a plan in motion for this new year without even saying it. LOL.
According to recent data, retailers who do not adhere to the needs of the plus-size customer will miss out on a formidable chunk of market profits. The average dress size has increased since 1960, from size 8 to 14, creating a market for larger clothing and underwear that equals roughly $19.4 billion, or 18 percent of the $108 billion women's clothing market, according to statistics from the market research firm NPD Group Inc.
"We have outgrown the traditional definition of plus-size, old-(looking) muumuus and loose-fitting clothes," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst NPD Group.... I believe that we will see a huge change for the better for plus sized clothing. The fact that the plus sized clothing industry and the demand is growing and will continue to grow.I have a link at the bottom if anyone wants to read more about the information that I used in my article. I know some of you feel that the clothes that are offered are just too pricey or "we are not all just plus sized we have different measurements." This is so true and this also leaves two options for us all because once again being plus sized does have options as well!LOL. We can 1. buy the clothes and find a tailor to alter the clothes for us or 2. Learn to sew and Make our own! I know that last one is doosy for some but hey its an option! And while I am a seamstress and I can sew I don't expect anyone to do anything that is just not their thing. I will however let everyone know that I do plan on designing again and this time it will be either clothing that I already have and will revamp or it will be my own design. So I guess I kind of set a plan in motion for this new year without even saying it. LOL.
The potential market is worth chasing because the average American woman is a
size 14, and plus-sizes, often classified as 14 to 34, account for 67 percent of
the population, according to Houston-based Plunkett Research.
Read more: Demand from plus-size women spawns new fashion category: 'Fatshion' - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/athome/ci_21572251/demand-from-plus-size-women-spawns-new-fashion#ixzz2FzLgo0xG
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Read more: Demand from plus-size women spawns new fashion category: 'Fatshion' - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/athome/ci_21572251/demand-from-plus-size-women-spawns-new-fashion#ixzz2FzLgo0xG
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
To eat or how not to eat? That is the question! and it's a choice
Me thinking

All around and about me
I have decided to start a new blog. Its time that I actually show who I am and what I am all about when it comes to the do's and don'ts of what I feel about fashion and my ideas of it as a plus sized model. I use the word "model" to describe all women of size because that is just what we all are uniquely designed models of beautifully created women that are full of wonderful attributes that are now being embellished in the modern society that we live in. Now whether it be in a good way or a bad is up to us to decide. So you see being plus sized does have its choices! That being said that is where I come in. Now I know some of you are asking the question that will probably be the most asked once you have gotten this far down in my blog... How do you think you can help? And that is the most challenging question as well; but I am here to learn just as the rest of you and to let you know that while I don't claim to be the know all to the fashion "fabulosity or fumbles" of the plus size universe I can assure you that I have been around enough fashion designers and fashion shows to know what is expected and what is not expected of us as far as being fashionably fabulous. So come on in and let me tell you something!
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