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It’s Not Your Body, It’s the Towel.

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

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The Future of Plus Size

There's a weird intersection to that of the vanity sizing, which is kind of training us all to think we wear smaller sizes than we do using air quotes. Extended sizing brands traditionally use like size medium or a median in their size range. And then they're going to grade the sizes up and expand the sizes into plus sizing - but it doesn't work for extended sizing bodies. So when you go in and buy something that you think is your size, whether it be a 2x3x, but it fits much smaller, it's because of that extended sizing. Whereas in plus size, we can hope that they are going to be fitting on a range of bodies, as well as plus

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