I was drawn in by a brocade shirt for sale. I love brocades, and now that my wardrobe is nicely filled out with all the necessary basics, I’m looking for little bit of not-quite-vintage to go with my fusion of punk/menswear/flair (not quite frill, but OK with sequins and shine).
Then I saw this, and I [...]

Somehow, I always know a girl looking for a good corset. While most of the time, it’s for someone who wants to look hot at a club or seem a little saucier at a Rennaissance festival, every once in awhile, I’ll meet a girl who wants a corset for that reason. Remember that scene in [...]

Bloomers always give me pause. They’re so old-fashioned, yet so very, very subversive. I remember reading a story as a little girl about how bloomers were invented when one particularly sassy suffragette needed to crawl out onto a roof so out of sheer practicality cut her skirts in half. It makes me think of the [...]

Etsy can be a little 2.0, sometimes to the detriment of the people that they want shopping it. And while we plus shoppers, especially those of us who were in a position of enough privilege to hop on computers in the mid to late 90s, are versed enough in the language of modern computing and [...]

We’re happy to welcome back Rtisan to Etsy and to Fat Chic; after time out for a personal emergency, this lovely, plus-friendly jeweler is back and brings with her some shiny objects to enhance any ensemble.
At the moment, I’m particularly digging this stone necklace. It’s not quite chunky, but definitely not small, and has a [...]

OK, not really, but the one time a major publication has the power to misuse the “OMG Obesity!” tactic for good, it skips right over the opportunity.  The New York Times has a readable article about how reading books - the paper, offline kind - seems to collect a group of individuals who are more [...]

Interesting, useful, or useless obesity is our reality and the media’s favorite fnord/buzzword. Despite the sheer amount of crap that floats upward from the scrambling-for-a-sound-byte crowd, it’s good to track it in case those scamps do come across something useful and relevant to help us fat folks. I wonder if they’ll even notice when that [...]

I’m on a small vacation of late, thus the fewer posts. That said, I had to come out for this one:
Cyberonics has a high-tech “treatment” for obesity. Apparently, it’s a vagus nerve stimulator that will combat obesity. The report does not say how it will.  If it’s anything like other shock treatments, it may be [...]

I’ve had a lot going on, to the detriment of content here, and for that, I apologize deeply. You will see normal postings resume soon. In the meantime, I strongly recommend you add Fat Chic to your RSS feeds - fall and winter thus far have been rough, and it’s a lot of work to [...]

I was actually relatively willing to go along with Old Navy’s moving all plus clothing to online only. Yes, it was a crappy move that basically said “we just don’t want to see you in our stores,” but to me, I could tolerate it since in my opinion the new plus-only designs are WAY better [...]