HOT FRESH DAILY-- Online Purchase Disapointments, AREA 51 Sneak Peek and much more...The Plus Size Advocate

Posted by: Bobby G. Keith

FEATURE ARTICLE

Well It Looked Good In The Magazine…So I Bought It!

Have you ever purchased an awesome looking article of clothing online only to receive it and be utterly disappointed? Well your not alone, many high expectations are dashed on the rocks everyday. Fashion expert Sharon Haver explains what goes on behind the scenes of a fashion photo shoot to make that drab piece of fabric “POP” on film.

The truth is making minor adjustments to an outfit with tape and or clips to make it appear to fit perfectly on a model is quite common. In fact in our shop we lovingly call ours clips “magical ipits” (ipit means to pinch). Sharon’s final point is just as stylists use little tricks to make the outfit look good on camera, you can do things to make it “POP” on you too. Click here to find out how. [READ MORE...]

ROLE MODELS

TARA LYNN AND ZIZZI JEANS

Tara Lynn of Ford Model’s + Rocks her new Zizzi Jeans in Zizzi’s new Spring 2011 editorial Shoot. See more of her photo spread at Madison Plus

Aspiring Model Spotlight

JaeLanice

“After completing a degree in Marketing, Advertising, and Promotions in the Fashion Industry. This young lady has decided to put her natural talents and years of dance, and performance arts experience to use!” Please check out JaeLanices modeling page.

SNEAK PEEK

AREA 51 ZERO Tolerance

“The Plus Size Advocate” is getting set to launch it’s new segment called “AREA 51 ZERO TOLERANCE“. Area 51 has been on my mind for awhile as way to bring awareness to the abnormal size zero stick figure images of fashion and fame. I’m not interested in criticizing skinny people…hey if God gave you the body you have then Rock it, however if you are trying to meet some unhealthy and mostly unatainable size zero body measurement, then this segment is aimed at you.

I know a little bit about the problem as I have someone, shall we say, close to home who practices benge and purge precisely because of the presure she feels to maintain a certain body measurement. For the sake of privacy I will not tell you who it is, but she is an aspiring model with a known modeling agent. When she confessed to me that she had this problem my heart fell and I didn’t really know how to handle it. I encouraged her to just be herself and if she was plus size then she could get into plus size modeling and she just said “NO WAY!” Enough said…you can see the problem she faces and she’s not alone.

What I hope to acheive with this segment is to compare and contrast by way of dry humor, images and articles to show just how rediculous this whole notion of size zero REALLY IS… Basically illustrating the rediculous by being rediculous.