Xtina of Musings... arguably the most high fashion fat girl around.

I tend to steer away from body politics or the wider FA community on this blog, just because I’m not particularly great at getting my message across because I get too passionate about it all and just write something like “ASKDHDLASKHLADS!!!!” It’s also because this blog is strictly about plus sized fashion. I want it to be a place where people can leave their body politics, policing and hang ups at the door and just talk about pretty clothes that are available in larger sizes, should anyone want them. My modus operandi is that you should have the opportunity to wear what the hell you like, no matter what you’re like. Obviously I’m a cis-hetero-girly-girl so there is a lot of space taken by pretty dresses, but that’s about as blinkered as I get.

However, one particular statement regarding plus sized fashion keeps rearing its disdainful head on fashion blogs, Jezebel and Cut articles. The most recent variation appeared on Vanessa Reece’s latest blog entry:

I still love the fashion that [plus size retailers] provide, but in my opinion it should only be used as a stop gap through transition and NOT as fashion you would want to be in for the long term.

This is a recurring argument: plus sized clothes shouldn’t be of any kind of decent quality or follow trends at all because otherwise it takes away motivation to lose weight, you disgusting, greedy (albeit nicely dressed) fatty.

Hopefully the majority of you reading my blog realise such a statement is feeble, laughably self-absorbed and just utter, utter bullshit, on multiple levels. Even dispensing of the OMGbesity debate, the argument doesn’t hold up. A few pointers on why I believe it’s a flawed statement to make:

1. THIS IS WHY FATTIES CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS

The entire argument hinges on the idea that if people who are fat are not constantly monitored, shamed and denied privileges they will get even fatter, which would be The Worst Thing Ever. They believe that once a person interested in fashion can see the disparity between the quality of clothing available to them and the quality afforded to thinner people, it will encourage (read: shame, emotionally bully) them into losing weight.

Anyone with objectivity can see this logic is flawed – not even considering whether fat is healthy or a deathwish – merely by looking at trends of the past few decades. Since ready to wear became the norm as opposed to everyone sewing their own clothes, plus size options have been horrific, only recently making inroads: high price, extremely low quality, meant to hide and shame anyone who needs to wear it. And did the overweight population diminish as a result of everyone dieting to get down to a smaller size? No it fucking didn’t, did it? If anything, it prospered!

Do people really believe that the reason fat people are fat is because they’re not shamed or belittled or denied enough? Do they really feel that a couple of nice outfits are enough to block out the bombardment of anti-fat messages bludgeoned into their minds every waking minute? Get a grip.

2. Not all fatties are bothered about fashion

Pretty much speaks for itself: not all fat people give a toss about fashion, so clothes alone isn’t going to motivate them to lose weight, if they even want to be motivated to lose weight at all.

3. The project of reducing one’s body size =/= the pain of designers using a bit of extra fabric

I know that designers, buyers and journalists talk as though making clothes for anyone other than models is a nigh-on impossible task, and as a result dissenters should just pipe down, lock the cheeseburgers away and slim down to acceptable proportions. I’m sorry, but no way in hell is it that simple.

Anyone who has decided to reduce their weight by a significant amount knows that such a thing comes neither easily nor quickly. It’s an absolutely mammoth task, requires utmost dedication and awareness at all times, and a huge amount of time each day have to be dedicated to the cause over months and years to see any changes (ignoring the inevitable plateaus and likely regain of weight, but there are a million other essays that detail this shit better than I can). I’m not even going to go into the emotional and mental stress trying to reduce body weight creates on a person’s psyche.

On the other hand, for designers to create fashionable plus sized clothes they have to: use more fabric; invoke their ‘genius’; and spend a little more time with their fit models than they’re used to. Hard fucking times, I’m sure you’ll agree. It’s not an equal trade off by any means.

AND – although this kind of bleeds into my final point – apart from the majority of people in the FA movement, pretty much everyone is trying to lose weight, pretty much all the time anyway! So… your point?

4. As long as there are people, there will be fat ones

This is where the argument is its most short-sighted. For arguments sake, let’s say I agree. Fat is unequivocally bad and evil and anyone who finds themselves over a UK16 will only be so temporarily once they are starved of fashion. Why make fashionable, high quality clothing in plus sizes when no one will be fat for more than a specific amount of time?

But not everyone gets fat/gets thin at the same point in time, do they? Contrary to popular belief, fat people aren’t some foreboding monolithic being, getting all obese and finally shaming themselves thin at the exact same point in time. We are all individuals with our own lives and stories. Even if every single person who finds themselves to be aesthetically displeasing to the masses decides to change, it will all be at different points in their lives – as a result, THERE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE FAT PEOPLE.

You know what that means? There will always be a demand for fashionable, good quality clothing in plus sizes, even if people are only fat temporarily. Shock bloody horror. The idea of plus sized clothing as a stop gap is a moot point. Because even if you don’t want or need it, someone else will.

Right, rant over. Tell me again why plus sized clothing shouldn’t be of a good quality or actually fashionable?

Hello all, apologies for having slacked off lately. I appear to have taken on a million and one different projects so have zero time for blogging, gah! Here is a simple outfit I can’t get enough of recently:

Dress & belt: Torrid
Shoes: Evans

The dress was very kindly sent to me by the folks at Torrid and it’s undoubtedly my favourite dress at the moment! You can probably tell by the creases that I’ve worn it quite a bit… Oops. What can I say, my blog is only a hobby, alright? I usually wear it with these lovely pumps from Evans – they have rubber soles, so it feels like I’m walking on air!

One of my biggest gripes about plus sized fashion is the lack of detailing, usually excused by explaining that not only does it take more time and more costly fabric to produce clothing for us gluttonous, lethargic fatties*, to add detail is just ridiculous. I do understand that it’s hard to produce extreme detail in mass production, but come on. So it was lovely to see a mass-produced, plus sized dress that had: a waistline; fairly structured darting around the bust and hips; a gorgeous and really quite difficult pleated neckline detail.

*I’m being sarcastic!

That’s all for today, kids. Hopefully I’ll be back soon, as there is SO MUCH I want to talk about!

The Big Bum Jumble took place on Saturday and was a massive success. It was so much fun, an amazing atmosphere and so many incredible clothes! I’m still on a bit of a comedown from it. Well done Kay, Bill, and everyone who helped them organise such an amazing event for us London fatties!

My friend Diana took gorgeous photos of the event including all the beautiful jumblers, and I believe most will be appearing on the BBJ blog very soon. But I just had to share pictures of the catwalk show featuring donated clothes and myself, Kat, Amy and Charlotte as models!

The show was styled by the lovely John from Pigeons and Peacocks, and all photos are copyrighted by Diana Thompson @ Fashion Loves Photos.

Bring on the next one!

So now I am going to discuss and review some pieces from the Gok Wan underwear line – hooray! Some of these pieces were kindly donated from Simply Yours, and some have been bought independently by me. Here’s a little bit of background info on my brassiere plight:

As I have mentioned in the past, my fatness has never managed to reach my bosoms. It’s my last remaining obstacle to accepting myself how I am, although I am slowly getting there. But as well as that, it is a complete nightmare trying to find bras! I’ve got the luxury of having the option to go without as I don’t neccessarily need the support. But I choose to because as a hetero, cis-gendered woman, I want be womanly. I suppose, in its own way, wearing a bra is like shapewear to me. (More on my opinions on shapewear further down.)

The last time I measured my bra size I came out as a 52AA. This was using the old method of  adding 4 inches to your under-bust measurement to get your back size, then choosing the cup size from your bust measurement, assuming your boobs are at least one inch bigger than that number. Well – my breasts weren’t! I dutifully ordered some bras in that size… and they practically fell off me. Back to the drawing board.

Since then, I’ve gone through various bras of all kinds of sizes and cups as a case of trial and error, adhering to the Bravissimo guide. For the past few years I made do with wearing M&S bras in a 38A, using back extenders. These little corkers are a godsend to the less endowed fat woman – you can hook as many as you like onto the back of the bra to find your perfect fit. The only problem with this was the side bands being far, far too narrow, to the point where they would curl up and dig into my sides.

Earlier this year I purchased a bra from Gok Wan’s range in a 40A, and to be pretty honest the fit was the most comfortable and supportive I’ve had. Which led to me getting more, and when I was asked if I wanted to do a review I jumped at the chance!

1. Gok Wan Balconette Banger Booster and matching Slicker Knicker

The Balconette Banger Booster and matching Slicker Knickers (such lovely names, but if you’ve ever watched one of Gok’s programs it comes as no surprise!) is a more recent edition to his roster of lingerie and shapewear.

The first thing that jumped out at me was the vintage inspired design and how well constructed the pieces are. It feels ultra luxurious and glamourous, owing to the gorgeous, re-inforced fabrics, well-placed boning and delicately sexy detailing. The ruched behind is a lovely little touch!

The bra itself fits very well around my back and doesn’t slip after a day’s wear, which is great. That said, like the M&S bras before it I would prefer wider side bands as it can pucker underneath my side fat. The boning at the side is a great idea, but it doesn’t seem to be quite enough, sadly. While the bra comes under the Banger Booster label, it gives a more natural and understated boost than the original (more on that later) so if you want to be less in your face but just as glamourous then I’d recommend this. One thing I am confused about though, is that according to the website this bra comes with an “internal sling” – I’ve looked, but I can’t seem to find anything? It’s a mystery.

I’m definitely one for the granny pants – I live in Sloggis that come up past my belly button – so this Slicker Knicker is like home from home to me. There is boning to the front and the material is a thick, swimwear material reinforced with leopard print mesh. It looks beautiful on and wearing both together I do feel rather sexy(!). Obviously any sort of shapewear is never going to make anyone look thin, but if you’re interested in its flattening potential under clothes, I did notice a slight difference in the belly area. But to be honest that’s not particularly important to me – as an underwear set, it looks really nice. The only downside to the knickers are that due to the fabric it does have a tendency to roll down at the waist. I think a sillicone grip around the waist would help it to stay in place.

2. Gok Wan’s Longerline Mesh Bra

This was my first Gok purchase earlier this year. There are matching knickers but I’ve not bought those yet.

I was initially disappointed with this bra as even though the side bands are long line, it includes a normal sized side band inside which can take some getting used to. But it is definitely a lovely feeling to have your back covered securely, well to me anyway. I find it quite comforting! I also love the colour and leopard print, which is my absolute favourite. This bra is not a booster bra, so if you’re looking for a push up then this is not the one for you, although all of Gok’s bras include flaps in which to hide booster aides.

I did find with this bra that it gave me a much better posture, but actually the cup was still slightly too big and puckered a little. Another slight fault was that despite the sillicone strip at the bottom the front of the bra had a tendency to ride up, which was a shame as otherwise I really like this bra!

3. Gok Wan original Banger Booster in black.

This is hands down my favourite Gok bra. I bought it shortly after the mesh bra. The first time I tried it on, I looked down and cried, “JESUS CHRIST, I HAVE BOOBS!”. This one really isn’t for the faint hearted – it is basically a Wonderbra in a much larger size range, complete with “Gok Cookies” to give you an extra boost. I absolutely love it, and am steadily buying one in every colour! I only have two slight hang ups with this bra – one is, again, the narrowness of the side bands. (wider bra sides = love and kittens!) The other is a slightly more embarrassing one, but perhaps I’ve just been unlucky – the fabric does tend to make some noise when you move. It’s not too bad… But there have been occasions where I’ve apologised and explained I’m not, despite the sounds, a balloon artist. It does seem to fade away after some washes, though!

Gok Wan Divine Outline

Ok, shapewear. I feel I have to discuss this first. (I originally wrote a long, eloquent essay on this subject then accidentally deleted it, wah!)

I’ve always been fairly ambiguous about shapewear such as slips, girdles, corsets etc. I know politically they are discouraged by the FA community and understandably so, because they are designed to alter your body into something smaller, smoother, more socially acceptable. Gok Wan’s whole persona is about helping women to love their bodies without resorting to plastic surgery – but then encourages them into shapewear, which does seem very hypocritical.

Having said that, I think there are definite similarities between this argument and the feminist argument against wearing make up or frivolous clothes because doing so buys into the system of women being judged on their looks instead of character, and being second class citizens. (This being a very, very base take on the subject! But you can find tons of great discussions about this and shapewear in the feminist blogosphere.) While I agree completely, I still choose to wear make up and feminine clothes, despite having educated myself otherwise – perhaps even because of that education, because I know that I am dressing/making up for no one else but myself and my own confidence.

Although I understand the marketing messages and ideals surrounding shapewear, I do think, in some circumstances, that they can be a positive tool for someone on the path to self-acceptance. For me it’s all about CONFIDENCE, and I will never discount anything that can help a person feel confident. If – IF – a person feels a hundred times more confident because they feel their belly is a little flatter, or their overall shape is a bit smoother, then I can’t knock what shapewear does for them.

Personally? I genuinely do like this slip. Not because of any slimming properties – I think what I like about underwear, and tight underwear, is that I feel properly covered. You know? I like knowing if my dress falls down or my skirt blows up in the wind, I’m pretty well covered and secure. That might sound silly, but there you go!

The Divine Outline was generously sent to me by Simply Yours. It’s a multiway slip with detachable straps, and it comes down under your bust so you can wear bras with it. I’ve worn it in it’s basic design and as a halterneck. The straps are actually padded which is helpful as I did find they digged in a little after a few hours! It is made out of a thin but very springy material, with a reinforced leopard print mesh panel at the front. I put this on under my Curve wire riffle dress and while nothing can make me look un-fat, there was definitely a smoother silhouette, so if that’s what you’re going for I would recommend it.

The only slight issue I had was that because the fabric was slippery, the skirt tended to ride up somewhat after a while. But apart from that I do think it’s a nice treat if you feel shapewear will turn your confidence notch up to 11!

Phew! Hope that was a bit of an education for you all. Any other IBTC gals out there?

Thank you so, so much for all your gorgeous comments on my birthday post. It does mean such a lot to know you enjoy what I do! As you know, up to 5 prizes were available:

Three beautiful dresses from Torrid

Pop accessory kit

Romantic accessory kit

I tallied up everyone’s comments into a spreadsheet, like so:

Click for bigger version

So… on to the results!

Dress one:

Congratulations to JESSICA RAY!

Dress two:

Congrats to Sophie!

Dress three:

Congratulations to CRYSTAL!

Pop accessory kit:

Congrats to Steph!

And last but certainly not least (‘cos it was the most popular) – romantic accessory kit:

Congratulations to NikStar!

I’ll be emailing you all to get your addresses and will send off your goodies as soon as I can. Yay!

Thanks so much everyone for commenting and being lovely. I love you all. xxx

Woah, I’m really on a roll this week aren’t I? Two things first:

I’ll be drawing the competition winners tomorrow at 12pm sharp so if you haven’t yet entered, comment now!

The reigning queen of fatshion, Gabi, is in the final to become MTV’s 1st ever twitter jockey. Make sure you follow @gabifresh on twitter and tune in to MTV!

Thought I’d show off my newest purchase, teamed with shoes older than myself:

Dress: New Look (Inspire)
Platform sandals: Vintage

The Inspire dress has been a massive hit, and I’ve seen it all round the blogosphere. I’d given up hope of getting it but miraculously found one returned in my local New look, in my size and reduced to £8. ~FATE~, yo.

Here’s a close up of the sandals. Check these babies out:

These shoes have been sitting in my mum’s cupboard since before I was born. Bought in 1971, apparently. She was a barmaid in her twenties and used to wear them at work! These were the only ones she kept out of hundreds of platforms. I’ve pledged them to be a family heirloom now, going to my own daughters when I have them.

All my life we’ve brought them out as party pieces, and for me to dress up in when I was little. I wondered if they would ever come back in fashion – right on cue, occasional photos of similar shoes have popped up on fashion blogs and tumblrs. Admittedly these are a little war-torn, but still gorgeous! And unbelievably comfortable, as well – although I go get vertigo being up so high.

-There seems to be a problem with Bloglovin’, in that the new feed wasn’t pulling through. So if you use that, follow from this link instead-

Hey everyone! Two days on the trot, wow. Remember to enter my birthday giveaway!

I do feel like I neglect the blog far too much, so I’ve resolved to update more frequently – well, as frequent as I can, haha. As a result, here is the outfit I’m wearing today, my attempt at dressing casually and/or comfortably.

Top: H&M (BiB range)
Skirt: Yours Clothing
Belt: Very.co.uk
Necklace: Tatty Devine
Flats: Primark

What I’m wearing looks deceptively smart, but the fact is both the top and skirt are made of soft jersey, so are unbeliveably comfortable. The length of the skirt is perfect for me: not knee length, but not indecent either! Just a quickie about the belt: I can see in this photo and the one featuring it before that it looks as though I’m subscribed to the “boob under belt” phenomenon. I’m actually not – but I am so incredibly short-waisted that the belt covers my entire waist from straight under my boobs to the top of my bum! Just thought I would clear that up, in case you were wondering.

The top is my first ever purchase from H&M’s BiB range. I tend to find it awfully dowdy and old. Even this top is fairly plain but it’s at least fairly versatile. While buying it I did try on a dress from the main range, in a size L:

I loved it! I really am brainwashed by this season’s colour scheme now, although I’ve only let myself buy one thing in a grungy colour. That’s being saved for another post, however.

And check out this awesome punk PU bodycon dress from River Island, size 18:

What do you reckon? It was too tight to be comfortable on me, alas. But some of you on the smaller end of plus should definitely give it a go.

Getting it on wasn’t any trouble at all – but you see how the sleeves are made of leather? Well it took me a long time to get those f*ckers off, haha! Actually it was only about 5 minutes, but felt more like 5 hours. After much huffing and puffing (and pausing to let out a massive guffaw at my situation) it did come off though. A happy ending, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Having read the recent ‘Plus Size Wars‘ article a few weeks ago, which focused on the difficulty of designing for plus sized people because of their eclectic measurements (as though slimmer people all exactly the same?!) it does make me think – there’s not THAT much going on with this dress. Sure, it has quilted PU, but they are only panels. The only vaguely difficult structuring is on the sleeves as they are also lined. I mean, is it really so inconceivable to create this in sizes larger than an 18? I don’t think it is. Perhaps the inconceivable thing is people’s attitudes to fat people wearing such daring clothes?

Hello you lovely, lovely people who read this little blog. I almost missed it, but it’s now been exactly one year since I first started blogging. I can’t believe I’ve kept it up this long as I usually quit everything after a week, but the fact that I’m still here is all down to you, who have read, commented, emailed, linked, added me and just been inspirational and supportive.

To celebrate I thought I’d host my first ever giveaway! Here’s what’s up for grabs:

These were some of the gorgeous dress that were sent to me by Torrid but unfortunately didn’t fit correctly, so I’ve held onto them to give them away to you – I know this way they’ll be going to a good home!

Dresses one and three are a Torrid size 2, dress two is a US18/UK22. You can enter for any of them that you like. In addition, I also have a couple of accessory kits:

Pop accessory kit

Romantic accessory kit

To enter you just have to leave a comment stating which ones you would like, so if you wanted everything it’d look like:

DRESS ONE
DRESS TWO
DRESS THREE
POP ACCESSORY KIT
ROMANTIC ACCESSORY KIT

I’ll be raffling off each item individually, so best of luck! I’ll draw the results on Monday morning, so you have all weekend to apply.

If this blog just isn’t enough of me for you (ha) then please do ‘like’ me on Facebook, or follow me on twitter or tumblr. I add everyone back, scounts honour.

Thank you all again for reading, I love you all!

I hope I’ve not bored you with talk of the forthcoming Big Bum Jumble (less than two weeks to go!) but if I have, well tough, because here’s another blog post about it!

As it’s drawing ever closer, this Sunday a few of us bandied together at Kay‘s house help sort and divide the clothes donated so far and settle on pricing. It was so much fun and really lovely to meet everyone – I was initially pretty star struck by everyone because they’ve all done and continue to do such inspirational and amazing work for fat, feminist and queer acceptance and activism, but they’re all so damned nice to boot.

I brought a suitcase full of clothes as donations – a lot of it was commandered by John for the fashion show or the ‘special rail’ for fancier clothes! The set up will be:

A “denim bar” especially for jeans – and believe me, there are lots! All are £4
A stall for high end, label or band t-shirts. All are £5
The aforementioned Special Rail for quality or on trend stuff. All individually priced

All other clothes will be sorted by size: Under 18, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30+ and everything is £1. I’ll repeat that: everything is a pound! We all figured that way it’s easier for everyone. There will also be a rough divide in measurements and X-XXXXLs, but you may still have to search about. But it is a jumble sale, after all – can’t make it too easy!

So many clothes! 18 through to 24 were the most popular sizes, but there are still bags and bags of higher sized stuff.

Sampling some of the accessories while sorting

Kay trying on a corset I donated! It’s back to front and the wrong way up though, oops.

John showcasing a cut off tee saying “ELVIS SURF”

Jackie modelling a potentially culturally appropriated kaftan

Me trying on a spangly top from the fashion bags

…And a Dynasty style homemade number

Making up labels for the special rail items. Team work in action!

Ruth showcasing a lovely floor length dress

A tree clothes-rail. How’s that for ethical?

The adorable little Special Rail tags

Charlotte modelling the ‘mad art teacher’ jacket we all loved

…And an Etam top I donated. F-I-E-R-C-E.

My vest-necklace caused a bit of confusion. Here’s Kay modelling it as a spangly beard. Ruth also thought it was a thong.

But the absolute best find of the day… BEHOLD: TOTALLY F’N CRAZY ‘AUTUMNAL FOREST’ PRINT JOGGERS:

Unfortunately John just looks like a painter and decorator in this photo. But they have to be seen to be believed. They’ll probably be going on the catwalk, too!

For those of you wanting to come to the Jumble, here are the details:

When
Saturday 14 August 2010
12-5pm

Where
Stratford Circus
Theatre Square
London E15 1BX
UK

There is a Facebook event here, so please RSVP! Also donations and volunteers are still welcomed, so if you have anything that would help then get in touch by emailing bigbumjumble@gmail.com.

I’M SO EXCITED! Comment if you’re going to come along! x

Hey all, apologies for the absence. I know you’ve seen all the other round ups so this won’t be anything new, but I wanted to document it anyway. There are LOTS of pictures ahead!

I met everyone at Waterloo station at about 10 – or rather, Kat came and got me while I was wandering aimlessly looking for a big clock, haha.

The gang! From left to right: Kat, Devon, Louise, Ladell, Kerri, Wendy, Jo and Jo’s friend.

The fuller gang – l-r: Amanda, Jo, Jo’s friend, Wendy, Louise, Kat, Devon, Sophie, Steph, Ladell and Kerri.

Simply Be had provided us all with lovely little gift bags including a mini A-Z and a compact, bless them! We showed them off but I got my photo last, and I think everyone had given up.

(love this photo of Steph!)

We decided against going on the London Eye and opted for a sightseeing bus tour instead. It was strange to me because even though I live outside the city I work there and know it very well, and it was so interesting to hear all these tidbits and historic monuments I had no idea about! Unfortunately we got a little lost, but eventually stopped off at Aldwych to pick up Meryl and head to Somerset House for lunch.

Steph, Kat and Ladell. Sunglass porn.

Devon and Meryl comparing tattoos.

After lunch Devon gave us a pop quiz. Me, Ladell and Kerri were Team A(wesome)!

We came… last.

The winning team, Team B(eautiful)! The first prize was a Yours Clothing voucher for £75, which went to Meryl. Wendy won the second prize, which was any item from Simply Be for free, and Sophie won a necklace from Hannah Makes Things.

After lunch we played about in the fountain and avoided the naked kids, taking OOTD pictures. Here’s mine:

Dress and belt: Very.co.uk (a couple of years old now)
White shrug: Yours Clothing
Red mary-janes: Primark

More arsing about:

After lunch we bussed it up to Oxford Circus, where Meryl and I tried on silly headgear in Topshop:

(Meryl looks SO MUCH like my cousin it’s silly. Which is probably why I’m so over familiar with her in person – in my head I’ve known her my whole life. Sorry Meryl!)


Waterproof mascara fail!



Look at my sunburnt nose!

Then onto New Look and Inspire. I tried on the bird dress but the only size they had was 18, and while it looked okay it was a smidgen too tight to be comfortable. So sad. My mum says it’s the kind of dress she put me in when I was two, so there you go. My sense of style is apparently that of a toddler!

Our final stop before dispersing was the flagship Evans store where I tried a few bits on, though nothing really fit that well:

A lovely girl called Alexandra also popped in to say hi, having done her spending spree earlier. She was so beautiful and lovely!

I’ve got to say, although I really dislike the vitriol of the facebook commenters and their reasons, if I’m really honest I’ve not been that impressed with Evans‘ output the past two seasons either. A lot of us agreed it always fell just short of what we really wanted. It’s a shame because all of us understand the problem Evans has with catering to such a massive demographic and we want them to do well, but at the same time we can’t really deny our disappointment.

Wendy and Devon trying Evans‘ new maxi. Case in point – maxi is definitely in, and the print is really cool. But there’s so much bling along the neckline which to me just kills it. Sorry to be a party pooper!

All in all, I’m really happy to have met everyone and I can’t wait for the next one!