Designers like Liz Claiborne, Jones New York, Ellen Tracy, Adrienne Vittandini, Givenchy, and other top names are now making great clothes for plus sizes, giving women the best options ever for looking wonderful. But the real secret to looking attractive, well dressed, and confident - no matter what your size - is choosing the right styles and silhouettes for your body type, coloring, and personality. In Plus Style, Suzan Nanfeldt, a leading consultant in plus-size fashion, provides you with the know-how to look well dressed and self-assured. She takes you step-by-step through the essential process of analyzing your unique proportions, body type, and wardrobe needs. She gives you frank, unerring advice on every item in your wardrobe: bras, slips, dresses, suits, coats, jewelry, shoes, slacks, bathing suits - and more. You will learn the basics of image and body type; your best colors - and the trick to wearing any color well; how to choose the right accessories for that finishing touch; how to mistake-proof your shopping so that you get both quality and fit; to use face shape and makeup to enhance or dramatize your look; and where to find hundreds of plus-size designers, catalogs, outlets, and other shopping resources.

Style inspiration for everyone, no matter your size. Be inspired by 100 of the very best plus-size street style images from around the world. 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 acround the world. The online plus-size fashion community is loud, international and confident. Millions of #ootd photos are shared everyday, 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.

Design + knit sweaters that fit + flatter! Knitting Plus is the must-have manual for plus-sized sweater construction and knitwear design. With this helpful guide, you'll learn how to design wearable, tailor-made sweaters. With Knitting Plus, you'll explore basic pullover and cardigan sweater construction styles from raglans and set-in sleeves to drop shoulders, seamless yokes, and dolmans. Knitting Plus explains each specific sweater element and then offers key tips for plus-sized knitting. Included throughout are simple versions of each construction type as easy-to-reference templates so you can quickly adapt and alter each sweater for a custom fit. An invaluable reference about fit and shape, Knitting Plus includes 18 irresistible designs by a variety of designers including Mandy Moore, Lisa R. Myers, Lou Schiela, Katya Wilsher, and Kathy Zimmerman, as well as Lisa's designs. Each pattern offers a broad range of sizes and instructions for bust sizes from about 44 to 56 inches. Packed with design information and ready-to-knit patterns, Knitting Plus is your go-to technique and design reference for customizing patterns to fit all sizes.

In 2022, it was reported that plus-sizes accounted for nearly twenty percent of all women's apparel sales in the United States and was one of the industry's few growth sectors. For many, this news seemed to herald a remarkably inclusive turn for an industry that long bartered in exclusivity. Yet the recent success of plus-size fashion obscures a rather complicated history–one that can be traced back over a century, and which illuminates the fraught relationship between fashion, fat, and weight bias in American culture. Although many regard fat as a malady of the present, in the early twentieth century it was estimated that more than one-third of American women classified as “overweight.” While modern weight bias had yet to fully cement itself in the American imaginary, the limitations of mass garment manufacturing coupled with the ascendent slender beauty ideal had already relegated larger women to fashion's peripheries. By 1915, however, fashion forecasters predicted that so-called “stoutwear” was well positioned to become one of the most lucrative subsectors of the burgeoning ready-to-wear trade. In the years that followed, stoutwear manufacturers set out to create more space for the fat woman in fashion but, in doing so, revealed an ancillary motivation: that of how to design fat out of existence altogether. Fashion Before Plus-Size considers what came “before” plus-size fashion while also shedding new light on the ways that the fashion industry not only perpetuates but produces weight bias. By situating stoutwear at the confluence of mass manufacturing, beauty ideals, standardized sizing, health discourse, and consumer culture, this book exposes the flawed foundations upon which the contemporary plus-size fashion industry has been built.

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Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly designed chapters to discuss additional topics like cosplay, make up, hijabs, and hair, probing the connections between fashion and history, culture, politics, and social justice. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

The stunning true story of Bergdorf Goodman’s legendary personal shopper Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim’s repertoire. She has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women off the street. She has helped many find their true selves through fashion, frank advice, and her own brand of wisdom. She is trusted by the most discriminating persons—including Hollywood’s top stylists—to tell them what looks best. But Halbreich’s personal transformation from cosseted young girl to fearless truth teller is the greatest makeover of her career.

Written to the new CLAIT specifications for Windows XP, this easy to follow, step-by-step course book should help every student gain the knowledge, skills and competencies required for the brand new CLAIT qualification. The book is designed for home study as well as for a workshop environment, enabling a flexible approach to learning. It provides clear and accessible guidance on developing the key skills required for the New CLAIT qualification and assumes no prior knowledge.

The 4th guide in the CLAIT Plus 2006 series helps you to understand design briefs, house styles and the elements that compose them. You will learn the skills necessary to create, edit and print multiple page publications, including copyfitting techniques and the use of proof correction symbols. You will be able to prepare files for an outside printing service and to print composite and colour separated proofs. Endorsed by OCR.

Computer Science Textbook Designed for Joyful Learning KEY FEATURES ? National Education Policy 2020 ? Fun Zone: contains variety of exercises to reinforce the concepts. ? Let’s Plug-in: links back to previous knowledge before starting the lesson. ? Special Chapter: on Computational Thinking and Artificial Intelligence. ? QR Code: for digital interaction. ? Artificial Intelligence: Special Chapter on Artificial Intelligence ? Computational Thinking: Special Chapter on Computational Thinking DESCRIPTION Touchpad PLUS (Version 1.1) is based on Windows 7 and MS Office 2010. This series contains five sections: ? Digital World section introduces fundamental and application concepts to embrace computer science and integrate them with other subjects and skills. ? Cyber Word section covers Internet literacy and makes the students aware of cybercrime and cyber security, website development, etc. ? Computational Thinking section includes interesting and engaging activities on Reasoning, Visualization, Interpretation, Critical Thinking, Information Processing and Algorithmic Intelligence and there by making them smarter. ? Coding World section introduces students to the world of coding and thus developing their problem solving and logical skills. ? Artificial Intelligence (AI) section takes the students on a voyage to the world of latest trends like Robotics and AI along with an AI game, making them future ready. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN You will learn about: ? Digital World ? Cyber World ? Computational Thinking ? Coding ? Artificial Intelligence WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Grade - 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Computer Networking 2. Introduction to MS Access 2010 3. More on MS Access 2010 4. More on Photoshop CS6 5. Lists and Tables in HTML5 6. More on HTML5 7. Latest Technological Developments 8. Loops and Functions in Python 9. Artificial Intelligence 10. Robotics 11. Project Work 12. Explore More (Developing Mobile Apps) 13. OGO Cyber Sample Questions 14. Glossary