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Questions for Erika!

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:27:00 +0000

I know, I know. We last posted in March, no one's reading any more (and we don't blame you - feel free to flee to more post-y blogs) and now we ask a favour... Plus-size lingerie specialist Simply Yours is filming an interview soon with the very beautiful Erika Elfwencrona, and they want questions from YOU! If there's anyone left out there who doesn't hate me and Miss J for selling out and concentrating on our mainstream fashion day-jobs (there's a crunch! We gotta pay rent!) and forgetting...

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Lame or Lane?

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:02:00 +0000

Miss J has talked before on this site about LB and its plus-sized selection, a post which generated a lot of comment. I have to say, I don't think the new spring/summer collection is half bad. Yes, there are some of the usual iffy suspects. But there are a few cute pieces to be had, and I think there's definitely been an improvement somewhere along the line. Though maybe I am just being swayed by better styling? It's been so long since I was a teenager I don't know whether teenage girls...

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Drive-by posting

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:49:00 +0000

As soon as London Fashion Week dies down a bit*, we'll do a round-up of Oscars fashion (Winners: Mickey Rourke's dead doggie necklace; Losers: Kate Winslet's helmet hair, Heidi Klum's gelled hair, Zac Ephron's gelled hair. Gel was a theme. And not a good one). In the meantime, Oscars fash coverage is obviously all over the web, but I'd be remiss not to salute my colleagues' sterling work and suggest you head to: In Style! Oh, and Nicholas Hoult from Skins = very tall, while Lydia Hearst =...

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Quick hits

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:08:00 +0000

The first issue of LOVE magazine, featuring TFFF-favourite Beth Ditto on the cover, is out today! For more, see Love Magazine or Love Magazine Blog. Thoughts? (Bear in mind the colours on the picture above seem to have gone somewhat awry. Click the links for a better vers.) I think she looks f***ing fantastic. EDIT: Links should be fixed now, sorry!!

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And ruffles have ridges

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:52:00 +0000

This spring, fashion's going GIRLIE! We've had quite a few autumn/winter seasons now with grey, navy and black as the predominant colours; with strong tailoring and ladylike chic the top trends. Which, sure, chic is as chic does. Who didn't love Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's Première Madame Dior ensembles on her state visit to England last year? But also... yawn. Just a little bit. Unless you - sans clothes and styling - are naturally chic and ladylike, ladylike chic tends to look a little, well,...

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Let's do it for our country, for the red, white and the blue!

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:49:00 +0000

Okay, so we're over a week late for an "Inauguration Fashion Fever!" post, but whatever. It takes a girl some time to recover from swooningly handsome men taking charge all sexy-like. But enough about my personal life, let's talk Obama! Ahahahaha. Let's celebrate with some patriotic accessories! (The Union Flag colour-scheme means this works for Brits too, though our PM is rather less debonair. Unless you like dour, nail-bitten Scots who look like they were born wearing an ill-fitting suit. It...

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untitled no. 1

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:35:00 +0000

O hai there! We're back! Let's blame... OMG, lookit over there! ::ducks and runs:: Anyhoo. Before we get into some trend predictions and credit-crunch-a-riffic fashion (and I mean thrifty - screw Vogue et al with their "a £2,000 shoe is an investment item! Buy two, stimulate the economy!" so-called thriftiness), let's have a quick post and run, and a call to arms for our little TFFF community. Every week in the G2 section of The Grauniad is a feature called Private Lives, which is essentially...

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Let's go hell for leather!

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:54:00 +0000

Hey you guys, sorry for the week-plus absence. Christmas deadlines are fast upon us! Thanks for all the great comments on our return and the response to the new posts. It's really cool to get comments, good or bad (we prefer the good, obvie) and the general discussion. You all rule. And a happy Thanksgiving to all our US readers! As a Thanksgiving treat, enjoy these Gok Wan videos. (Don't worry, we haven't become a schill for Gok or indeed any other product, brand or entity. TFFF remains...

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Gok it goin' on

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:56:00 +0000

As the proud owner of Double D breasts, I loathe underwear shopping. Just awful. You ping into Agent Provocateur, or Myla, or even good ol' Marks & Sparkles, hoping for... silk! Satin! Pretty, frothy knickers! Little slips of delicate fabric, chiffon ribbons, gorgeous colours, yummy delicious girlie smalls. And yeah, you find them. In an A cup. As you progress through the racks, the frills 'n' froth disappear, to be replaced with inch-wide straps. Four-hook bras. Giant cups that cover...

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My massage brings all the boys to the yard

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:08:00 +0000

It's the first real post of our return and I'm going to be entirely selfish and talk about Neal's Yard, massages, and beauty products, rather than dive right into the nitty-gritty of plus fashion. (All that stuff to come, promise!) London's super-cool Neal's Yard, the tiniest, shoppiest courtyard in the capital Right, we've had Halloween (I came as the credit crunch, thinking I was all clever, then I read the Halloween post on Stuff White People Like and had my dreams once again kiboshed),...

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You go back to her, and I go back to blog

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:27:00 +0000

Hi, everyone! Yes, it's been a million years. No, we have no excuses. The dog did not, in fact, eat our homework. Mr Nobody didn't do it and run away. Your TFFF correspondents just got busy: Miss J and I both upgraded from semi-professional fashion hacks to the real deal, and goodness, but that was a shock to system. But hey, we're back now. I'm not promising that we can bring you thrice-daily updates, or anything, but then we never did. But a regularly scheduled dose of fat-friendly...

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Stardust Memories : Who Got It Right?

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:18:00 +0000

And were back! The red carpet doesn't stop for one second and in the past few weeks curvy stars have been front and center displaying their fashionable finest - but not every look is a hit. While its up to us to keep track of who is wearing what - its up to you to tell us just what you think about these looks. First up we have Jennifer Hudson at the MTV Movie awards in a crisp white number but what is up with the visible bra? Not just the straps but almost the entire bra is on display. Are you...

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Miss Piggy

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:17:00 +0000

We're not shallow, lipstick-and-shoe-obsessed girls here at TFFF Towers, y'know...well, we're not just shallow, lipstick-and-shoe-obsessed girls. Sometimes we expand our cultural horizons and watch the telly, read magazines, or, er, shop for homeware instead of fashion. How deep is that? On that note, let's talk Live Action Telly, or, as it's more commonly known, theatre. The papers here are currently full of news 'n' reviews for the latest Neil LaBute play to be staged in London. Fat Pig,...

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Barneys & Friends: Simon Doonan Does Plus Sizes?

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:07:00 +0000

And now for something a little bit unexpected, fashion week fixture and Barney's Creative Director, Simon Doonan has expressed interest in creating a plus sized line. If Simon Doonan designed a clothing line he'd focus on an oft-overlooked demographic. “I would love to do a plus-size line,” he told us at last night’s El Museo gala at Cipriani. "I think there’s a huge opportunity for doing clothes that are size 12 and up." Doonan noted it's ridiculously hard to become a somebody as a fashion...

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Gossip Girl: Beth Ditto In Nylon

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:23:00 +0000

Our girl Beth Ditto has got 8 pages in this month's Nylon, outlining what fashion means to her, the Gossip's plans for the future and how fame has changed her life. While I am not a fan of the no eyebrows look on Beth - or anyone of that matter - I think the pictures are quite fierce. Got to love that custom Jeremy Scott dress - very Beth if you ask me. Do you love it? Or are roadway sign dresses and glitter leggings not your thing?

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Oooooh Dramaz... : Whitney Wins Top Model

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:17:00 +0000

The internet has been buzzing about Whitney Thompson winning America's Next Top Model and becoming the first "plus-sized" (and I use the term lightly since Whitney is only a size 10 or so) model to win the competition. Now on the one hand you have the naysayers who feel this is a great big publicity stunt and on the other you have the overly optimistic news items acting like the results of a reality show are going to really change the tides of fashion. Since I didn't watch this cycle and...

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Barefoot in the park

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:57:00 +0000

'Twas in the spring, then spring became the summer, it got too hot to wear a cardigan... uh, I don't know where I'm going with that too-poor-to-be-a-parody, so let's just move right along to today's topic: skincare! I don't know about you, but I've been revelling in the recent warm weather: sunbathing every day, skipping to work in skirts, bare legs and sandals, getting my skin out... ...and of course, all that sun, combined with already dry skin that's been under wraps all winter, has taken...

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Sweet Little Nothings: Bras for Bigger Busts

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:48:00 +0000

Once you pass a certain cup size finding a cute bra is a needle in a haystack search. Everything tends towards representing one of the three Bs - Blah, Beige or Boring. Its as though lingerie designers think aesthetic sensibility decreases as cup size increases. Past a C cup and the lingo becomes all about "support" possibly because after taking one look at the myriad of plain beige bras a girl really does need a group hug - as such were going to focus on three brands that provide some much...

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Color by Technicolor: Wearing Springs Neons

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:40:00 +0000

I don't know about anyone else but I'm all about color right now. Not just color but the brightest most saturated brights in existence. Weeks of bronchitis and all things drab have left me eager for the full Crayola box selection. Since it is spring - and the stores are full of the latest in almost florescent color - its the perfect time to explore all that is bright and punchy. Of course we know that color this vivid can be a bit tricky so we have a little guide to navigating the dos and donts...

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Illustrating a point

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:39:00 +0000

With illustration such a big trend this spring (check out UK Vogue's round-up of illustrated cosmetics' packaging, and, duh, Prada's drool-worthy Flower Faerie collection), I couldn't, Carrie "Now On the Big Screen and Thus Totally Relevant in 2008" Bradshaw-style, help but wonder: do fashion's illustrations influence the size debate? One of the most oft-cited idiotic excuses designers use to defend their choice of wafer-thin models on the catwalks, is some variation on the "curves – breasts...

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"Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be..."

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:49:00 +0000

Who wasn't in love with the star prints shown by The Kaiser at Chanel, and Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent, this season? So 1920s Americana, so patriotic, so red white and blue, so "let's do it for our country!" "Oh, Lewis!"...* The answer to this mostly rhetorical question is, of course, NOBODY. The world has gone star(k) staring mad. (See what I did?!) London's Oxford Street-Regent Street high-street hub has turned into the MGM of yesteryear: more stars than there are in the heavens....

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Independent Women

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:05:00 +0000

The Independent on Sunday yesterday carried a story in their news section on the new size acceptance, citing Adele, Marina Rinaldi, the size 16 winner of the Surrey heat of the Miss England competition, and the monthly online magazine Just As Beautiful. (Is it sour grapes to harumph about poor journalism by saying they totally should have mentioned Too Fat For Fashion...?) Have a read, and, as ever, let us know what you think.

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Adieu tristesse, bonjour tristesse...

noreply@blogger.com (Harriet Olivia) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:27:00 +0000

Many thanks to all of our readers who commented or emailed suggestions for my continental European shopping trip! Unfortunately in amongst all the walking and eating (oh my, the eating... if anybody can tell me where I can get pickled garlic cloves in the UK, I will be forever grateful), I didn't do an awful lot of shopping. But I did pick up a few vintage and flea market finds, which I shall share with you now, just for funsies. Mi amor & sic amor 10 & 20 rue du Pont...

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ZZ Tops...and Dresses: Salon Z's Latest Offerings

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:49:00 +0000

Maybe its just me but I've always felt like Saks' Salon Z was a little lacking. They've long been held up as one of the recommended plus sized high end outpost but lets face it things can be little (or alot) matronly. Which is fine if you're older or have a more conservative look but what if you want something a little younger or hipper? Contemporary wear is the largest gaping hole in the plus sized market as far as I'm concerned and Salon Z has been dragging behind its main competition...

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Keen On Boys : Elena Miro F/W 08

noreply@blogger.com (Miss J) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:10:00 +0000

Now I can't begin to talk about fashion weeks without taking a look at what Elena Miro has to offer. As the sole plus sized company to do a full fledged show during the major fashion weeks (and why is that - Marina Rinaldi and co please step up) its important to see just what they're doing each season. This wasn't my favorite Elena Miro collection ever - some of the styling seemed a little too "office" for my tastes - but there were elements of it that I really loved. This season the overall...

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