With online retailers such as JD Williams providing fashions for women who can female marginalised elsewhere, it is perhaps not surprising that for many plus-size women the internet has become a place to explore and share their fashion experiences.
In fact, for those who often feel forgotten by the typical media and fashion industries, the online world has become a place to exchange outfit ideas, discuss designers and most of all, be proud of their own style.
In a recent article for the BBC, journalist Kate Dailey explored the ‘fatshion’ blogs that are operating outside of the mainstream and becoming a place for ladies of all shapes and sizes to express themselves and show why there is, or should be, a place for all within the fashion sphere. In these blogs, instead of discussing how men and women can dress to mask there shape, or become shrinking violets in a room, a burgeoning fashion community compare outfits and encourages innovation and bolsters confidence.
“I’ve gotten messages that say you’ve inspired me to wear what I want to wear no matter what people think,” Mandy Fierens, the author of the Curvy Model blog, told the BBC.
