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    PLUS+: Style Inspiration for Everyone
    PLUS+: Style Inspiration for Everyone
    PLUS+: Style Inspiration for Everyone
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    PLUS+: Style Inspiration for Everyone

    By Bethany Rutter

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    Plus-size fashion is daring, experimental, and deeply personal. There's no longer any shame in not fitting the traditional ideals of beauty, as proven by Gabi Gregg, Tess Holliday, Beth Ditto, and thousands of bloggers and models around the world.

    The online plus-size fashion community is loud, international, and confident. Millions of #ootd photos are shared every day, showing off amazing style and beautiful people. Plus+ gathers together the very best, and celebrates all shapes, sizes, and aesthetics—a beautiful, sharply designed, glossy collection to inspire everyone, plus-size or otherwise.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781524852023
    PLUS+: Style Inspiration for Everyone
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    Bethany Rutter

    Bethany is a writer, podcaster and jewellery maker. She writes books about women, bodies and clothes. She lives in Southeast London.

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      PLUS+ - Bethany Rutter

      PLUS+ copyright © 2019 by Ebury Publishing. Introduction © Bethany Rutter. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.

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      First published by Ebury Publishing in 2018.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5248-5202-3

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018951478

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      For every fat babe who ever inspired me.

      Foreword by Nicolette Mason

      I’d love to pretend that I came out of the womb as this body positive, self-loving, confidently fat individual, but like most people who live in othered bodies, I was a self-conscious, self-doubting, chubby Middle Eastern girl who really wanted to be pretty. I was probably only 7-years-old when I became conscious of the fact that there was something wrong with the way I looked. I was desperate to fit into the mainstream norm of fashion and beauty, and so badly wanted to be cool, a universal feeling that felt even more exaggerated growing up in image-conscious LA. I spent my childhood and adolescence wanting to be thin, and literally squeezed my zaftig body into too-tight clothes just to play along.

      When I was 16, my desperation took me to an ultra-posh boutique in Beverly Hills that had become the fashion destination among young Hollywood. I scanned the store for jersey and stretchy seams and little hints that something might fit, and zeroed in on a pair of sleek, faded jeans with a nary-in-sight elastic waistband. I clutched them and ran to the fitting room: These jeans were my ticket to being inducted into fashion’s exclusive club. I called my mom over, feeling so proud and confident, knowing how much she’d love them too, only to be greeted by a hearty, belly-deep laugh. What? Don’t they look good? I implored, while turning around and showing them off. My mom kept laughing, and motioned for one of the sales girls to come look at me peacocking in the jeans. They’re maternity jeans, she giggled. Please, tell her they’re maternity jeans! The sales girl stood awkwardly, until she burst and joined my mom’s chorus of amusement. I scurried back into the fitting room, peeled off the jeans, and ran out of the boutique without looking up.

      Even though I felt rejected by fashion, I was still obsessed with it; it wasn’t just the maternity jeans incident — it was constant micro-aggressions and the absence of anyone like me gracing the glossies. The pages of Vogue were plastered on my walls, and I fawned over Marc Jacobs

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