Marginalised by the style world they love, big women have fought back online with fashion blogs of such popularity and influence that even the industry is starting to take noticeHands on hips, shoulders back, head raised proudly, Christina Lewis poses for photos on her style blog. Here she is in a body-con miniskirt, with faux fur cape, and [...]
Why is there so much fuss about the flesh-coloured pants Venus Williams wore for the Australian Open?Stand aside Lady Gaga, for 2010 has a brand new ambassador for big pants. Here’s Venus Williams at the Australian Open wearing an acid yellow tennis dress complete with splits in the skirt that reveal her flesh-coloured knickers. [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Britney Spears will auction off a dress she wore in a 2008 comeback performance to benefit the Haiti earthquake relief efforts, one of her lawyers said on Friday.
Tens of thousands clumsily buried in mass graves, with many more abandoned in mounds left by trucksThe first warning of what lies ahead comes from grooves crisscrossing the rocky soil, the indents of trucks which climb these hills with heavy cargos.Further up the trail there is a green skirt mashed into the soil, then a [...]
More snow flurries are on the way, so Perri Lewis has devised a simple craft project to keep your hands warmA pile of old clothes next to my sewing machine is waiting to be cut up, dyed and stitched. There’s a T-shirt that is going to look much better with puffy sleeves, a white dress [...]
‘Needlework’ wasn’t a term in Mark Watson’s vocabulary … until we convinced him to turn his back on a throwaway culture and get fixingUntil yesterday I had never sewn a button on to a coat, or hemmed a dress, or mended a hole in a garment, and on the list of skills I planned to [...]