Can you be a fashionista at any size?

If a women is healthy and comfortable in her skin than I think the answer to the above question is YES! I maybe be a size __(no no I am not telling you yet) but I can work it! Smizing with my eyes Tyra Banks would not know what hit her, hell I use the hallway here at school to practice my runway walk! So than, if the women is the main character in this story the clothes are the supporting cast. Clothes can either accentuate the positive or negative in a women's shape and I have examples of both.

As you have read before shopping is my favorite pastime, or was I should say! So I put a lot of thought into what I buy and how it looks on me. Don't get me wrong there are days that I have a baseball hat on, jeans and a t-shirt as my students can attest to, but for the most time I think I look good! I think it is because I know my size and I know what is appropriate for my body type. There are so many stereotypes when it comes to larger women, that when you see a larger women put together some of the stereotypes can be broken.

On that same note when you see a larger women where something 4 times smaller than she should all these thoughts come rushing to your head or a least they do for me. I was at Disney World a few weeks ago and the last hour and a half I people watched. OMG it is amazing what you can see. Disney World is a place with all walks of life and I could not believe what some of the women were wearing. So OK I know Orlando is super hot and humid but I wore carpi's each day because there was no way anyone was going to see me in shorts. I guess some of these women did not give a damn because I saw things that unfortunately will be burned in my mind forever! I often wonder what goes through someones head: did you look in the mirror? Do you think that if you wear something that is way too small that you look thinner? I don't know and maybe they are happy with themselves that these women can put it all out there and feel good about it. I could not do it, if I feel uncomfortable with something that I am wearing you can see it all over my face. So I guess I should applaud them? Although I have to say I don't really want to see it.

OK so I know what you're saying: who am I to judge? and I don't think that I am(well maybe a little) but I wonder the difference between me and them. I have had to be conscious of my weight my entire life( I was a dancer in my former life) and even at my heaviest I still made sure I look good walking out my door maybe even more than I did when I was thin because I did not want someone like me to judge well me. So ponder away I will,but at the end of the day I still think to the question above: Can you be a fashionista at any size? the answer is yes!

Till tomorrow
H